Simon Brillouet

Support Technical Director & Operations Controller as trusted co-pilot on day-to-day basis & long-term strategy: - Provide visibility on technical & production costs with a Total Delivered Cost mindset - Active link between head office & factories concerning target setting, variance reporting, COGS forecast & cost savings - Ensure quality forecasts for year-end estimates & monthly landing - Prepare & coordinate budget with factories & technical management - Ensure evaluations of capital investment plans

Provide business units across Nestlé with analysis to make best decisions regarding future operations & industrial footprint: - Lead a multi-disciplined team (finance, consulting, engineering, supply chain & procurement) - Perform range of in-depth analyses on market, operations, competitor & financial information - Draw conclusions & provide actionable recommendations - Present recommendations to senior management

- Lead long-term capacity, manufacturing footprint & investment planning, managing tradeoff of scale & proximity - Define optimal type, size & location of manufacturing capacity & capability and ensure products are sourced based on optimized cost, quality & service - Develop global strategies for operations (procurement, key ingredients,...) - Support VP Operations in defining, agreeing & communicating operations strategy that functions & regions implement

Provide business units across Nestlé with insight & analysis needed to make best decisions regarding future operations: • Member of a multi-disciplined team • Perform range of in-depth analyses on market, operations, competitor & financial information • Draw conclusions & provide actionable recommendations • Present recommendations to senior management

820 hours of teaching: - Master of International Business, Grenoble, France - 544 hours - MBA, Chisinau, Moldova - 164 hours - MBA, Academy of National Economy, Moscow, Russia - 68 hours - MBA tailored for Mobias Banca (Societe Generale group), Moldova, Chisinau - 24 hours - MBA tailored for Perusahaan Gas Negara, Indonesia - 12 hours - MBA, Malta - 8 hours Tutored 17 end-of-study theses

- Lead full financial & operational review of a country with a team of 3 over 4 weeks: > Africa: South Africa > Asia: Bangladesh, India & Indonesia > Europe: Cyprus, Czech Republic, France, Italy, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Slovakia, Spain & Switzerland > Latin America: Bolivia, Colombia & Peru - Deployment of CCH TeamMate audit management system - Preperation of certification of the Institute of Internal Auditors (IIA)

HQ financial planning & analysis functions: - manage weekly & monthly reporting of worldwide operations with strong emerging markets presence (1 M pairs sold per day in network of 5,000 retail stores in 50+ countries) - reengineered & migrated management reporting from Hyperion to SAP BPC on time & in budget - lead user training sessions (Mexico, Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Czech, Italy, Switzerland) & used feedback for continuous tool optimization - lead group yearly budget process

- Financial point of contact for Amsterdam & Birmingham Area Offices, largest European sales region with 2004 sales of 2,4 B€ - Yearly & on-demand financial performance analysis of Caterpillar dealers - Presentation of financial diagnostic & benchmarking to dealer & caterpillar executives - Manage financial relationship (Sales & Service Agreement,...) - Set-up inventory support programs (extended payment terms, demo units,...) - Solve all outstanding financial issues (A/P, A/R,...) - Development & maintenan

- Quarterly production & analysis of both P&L & balance sheet of the Middle-East & Africa sales division (yearly turnover of $ 120 M) - complete account reconciliation & clean-up after one year job vacancy - coaching of team of interns & Financial Management Program (FMP) participants - roll out of Oracle ERP for Middle-East & Africa

- Set up financial tools to monitor this new rapidly-growing business (customer identifier & database, segregation of direct vs. indirect business,... with annual sales growing by a multiple of 5) - Monthly & on-demand financial reporting & analysis of the HP direct sales channel in Europe, Middle-East & Africa - Analysis of business model profitability - Training & managing of one-year intern (subsequently hired)

Process review & new tool (Oracle database) implemented to allow on-demand pricing changes vs. monthly process existing previously. Moved from Excel-based tool to Oracle database integrated in decision support tool used for financial reporting & analysis. Managed pricing analyst in charge of day-to-day update of database. Successful handover of function back to Marketing after just one year.

- monthly closing & reporting for several support product lines (P&L & KPIs) - budget & cost monitoring

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