Jean-Raphaël Comte

Experience

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  LEA

  Jun 2014 - Aug 2014

  Financial Controller - Internship

  - Developed managing tools for the CEO / CFO - Developed P&L per product / per client / per sales representatives models - Investigated opportunities regarding the business digitalization of the firm

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  RSM France

  Jan 2015 - Jun 2015

  Junior auditor - Internship

  - Involved in the annual audit of 42 firms (including quoted companies Lactalis / Fleury Michon as well as family-owned companies)- Performed internal control reviews for other clients: mainly logistic and supply chain, purchasing and cash-in / cash-out processes

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  Sisley Paris

  Jul 2015 - Jul 2018

  Special projects: - Provided support to the SAP Go-Live on Finance & Operations for North America - Assisted the teams in the daily use of SAP Finance and Operations- Provided daily operational support to the sales team on the field to secure the sales figures- Helped in the move of the Warehouse- Provided support in the reintegration of e-commerce- Took part in the set up of a new point of sales systemOperations: - Helped develop strategic tools and processes such as price analysis, availability analysis, profitability analysis, retail shipping priorities- Provided operational support to the company-owned boutiques (NYC, Las Vegas and Miami)- Reviewed on a daily basis retail and e-commerce figures and trends of the firm- Performed the daily arbitration of the retail orders- Achieved numerous inventories at the warehouse and the boutiques to ensure a reasonable level of stock- Attended and provided support in the forecasting and planning meetings with US teams and HQ French teamsFinance: - Reviewed financial monthly reports to the headquarters- Developed and enhanced several Finance and Operations processed to improve the quality of customer service- Performed monthly financial reports and forecast for the headquarters- Attended the weekly business reviews with Sales, Marketing, e-commerce and Finance- Provided support to the finance team in the monthly/annual closings- Developed daily/monthly forecasting and sales reports for the VP of finance & operations and for the President - Reviewed daily retail and e-commerce figures and trends and reported the hot topics to the vice-president Show less Internal control: - Performed a risk mapping at group level: interviewed around 50 top managers from the headquarters - Built a report to the CEO of a consolidated evaluation of the Sisley Group health on several levels: operations, logistics, finance & marketing - Helped delivering a planning of actions to reduce the main operational risks the firm could be facing - Implemented operational & financial processes to improve the budget and forecasting at group level Financial controller: - Managed company secretary compliance at Group level: daily contacts with the CFOs and finance controllers of over 20 subsidiaries - Helped develop the budget and forecasting tools at Group level and at the subsidiaries level - Involved in year-end closing issues solving: worked on the spot on several issues related to operations and finance over 3 year-end closings - Involved in the financial audit at both Subsidiaries and Group levels Special project: - Developed and led a plan of actions to improve an American subsidiary ability to deliver more accurately and on schedule its customers and to better plan their inventory replenishments - Developed operational tools to help Sisley Americas teams manage their retail orders portfolio - Created tools to monitor and manage the inventory in the subsidiary: value calculations, - Trained Sisley Operations team to the new tools to make sure the new processes are under control - Developed financial and operational tools to improve the accounts payables processes of Group travel retail - Managed a Process Improvement project for a subsidiary : made sure the clients were back on track on the payment schedule, enhanced the management of the accounts payables, improved the relationship with the top suppliers of the subsidiary with a weekly call Show less

  • Internship Program - Finance and Operations

    Aug 2017 - Jul 2018

  • Group Internal and Financial Controller

    Jul 2015 - Jul 2017
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  EY

  Aug 2018 - Apr 2020

  Senior Consultant - Risk Advisory - Finance & Operations

  Contractual auditing: - Perform interviews and analysis (processes in finance and operations) of the third-parties for clients mainly in the luxury and cosmetics industry, review and validation of the sales reports and control of the financial statements - Review the financial and operational aspects of marketing plans for clients in the cosmetic industry - Identify enhancements for operational and financial processes to improve the relationship with the clients - Manage the EY teams during audit guarantying planning and improving their knowledge and technical skills on these tasks - Help secure strong relationships with several clients Process Improvement: - Lead 50 interviews for family-owned companies to improve and secure operations and finance processes - Helped secure a strong relationship with the clients - Manage the EY teams and client teams during the interviews leading to targeting rooms for improvement and developing efficient action plans Value Leakage: - Helped secure strong relationships with new clients - Develop methodologies to identify losses in the revenue, to enhance prices analysis and to monitor the budget for clients in the consumer goods and aeronautics industries - Create tools and reports to deliver several analyses of the year-end rebates, the supply chain, the inventory status and to provide consolidated sales reports - Implement dashboards and reports to help EY’s Managers in the strategic leading of the missions: revenue per client, budget analysis, revenue forecasting - Train the EY teams on the methodologies and technical topics and managed up to 6 junior and senior consultants on these missions Show less

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  Self-employed

  Apr 2020 - Jul 2020

  AI & Data Science Training

  Please refer to the certification section

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  Sisley Paris

  Aug 2020 - now

  • Regional Account Executive

    Feb 2023 - now

  • Sales & Operations Development Manager

    Jan 2022 - Jan 2023

  • Financial & Operations Forecasting and Planning Analyst

    Aug 2020 - Jan 2022