Brigitte Fontaine
Associate Director, Sidetrade
Associate Director at Sidetrade, in charge of BPO Services.
I started my career as a finance specialist and worked in Telco, finance services and hospitality sectors. After 6 years I joined Adecco, where I built the worldwide IT support center, and ran several ERP implementations. As Finance Applications Director, I was in charge of Group ERP Center of Excellence and sucessfully led a large deployment programme in Europe (UK, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Benelux, Switzerland), Japan and Australia.
Two years ago I joined Sidetrade as Associate Director in charge of BPO services, member of the Executive Committee. Sidetrade commits to the success of our clients cash flow generation, combining the best of breed of technology, together with our consultancy and our Finance Shared Service Centers - Receivables Management and 3rd Party Collections.
Specialties
client engagement, build and sell proposals, lead people, build effective relationships at C level, manage business operations, staffing industry expertise, broad knowledge of finance, back-office strategy experience, BPO, Saas business model, cloud computing, IT strategy, ERP deployment, core model, change management, AMS, shared service centers, outsourcing management.
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2006 - 2010Built and delivered group finance and hr erp rollout in Western Europe countries, Japan and Australia, with India based project delivery centers and production delivered from Eastern Europe, a 40 000+ man days program reported directly to Group CFO.
Responsible for Adecco Group ERP center of excellence, an international team of project managers, business process owners, functional consultants, technical architects and developers in charge of delivering AMS and new projects to group subsidiaries.
2004 - 2005Supervised PeopleSoft deployment in Mexico, delivered back-office application strategy, rolled out Finance cash collection platform in Benelux, Nordics, UK, Italy, France units, built Small Country Solution roadmap (MSNavision).