Pauline CROS-MAYREVIEILLE

Finance Director – Oro Vivo Group (150 Stores - 62 M€ T/O) – Geneva (Retail Jewellery chain of Christian Bernard Group).

Supervision of the Finance function of the Oro Vivo Group:
- Financial resources management (banking relationships, group financing, treasury, financial strategy).
- General and cost accounting.
- Tax and legal monitoring.
- Relationships with financial third parties (auditors, lawyers, banks).
- Management and supervision of Oro Vivo local financial teams in Spain, Portugal, Germany and Switzerland.
- Yearly Oro Vivo Group consolidation.

Direct relationship with Christian Bernard Group CFO and close collaboration with Oro Vivo Group CEO.

- Yearly Budget, Monthly reports (Sales and Margins reports, Cash Flow, P&L, Stocks statements) and Yearly closing.
- Administrative part (HR Swiss Headquarter, services and rent contracts, tax declarations, legal issues, etc).
- Control and follow up of Capex and costs.
- Management of external relationships (banks, auditors, lawyers).
- Management of 3 people: 1 HR manager, 1 senior accountant and 1 junior accountant.

International Business Controller – Christian Bernard Group – Geneva (Jewellery group).

Operating & functional missions for the group:
• Group’s budget, forecasts and monthly reportings (coordination and consolidation of entities data). Set up of indicators, risks’ analysis.
• Group and local internal procedures,
• Group’s projects

Business support to Hong Kong wholesale entity and Retail entities in United States, Spain, Portugal, Germany and Switzerland. Mains tasks include, along with Local General Managers:

• Define, set up and maintain Internal Operations Control,
• Cost/price analyses, activity-costing,
• Financial and Operations strategies to improve long-term profitability; monthly and financial plans and forecasts, business projection and asset management plans,
• Compliance with group policy and strategy;
• Solution provider to Local Managers concerning improvement of business units' efficiciency,
• Internal projects.

Financial Controller - McGregor France SA (Menswear, subsidiary of Dutch company).

- Making of annual budget.
- Making of monthly reporting and explanations of differences with budget for the Dutch head office.
- Management of one person in charge of customers’accounts follow up: credit insurances, prefinancing of the invoices, granted plans of financing, clients’ payments follow up and monthly reporting of customers’position.
- Set up of internal procedures (vacation process, recruitment process, travel expenses procedure, creation of clients’account procedure…).
- Control of all expenditures’commitments and co-signature of the means of payment with general manager (transfers and cheques).· Gestion of relations with ouside contributors (auditors, banks…).
- Work in close cooperation with the bookkeeper and interaction with all the services of the company allowing global vision of the business.

Internal auditor – Marc Laurent SA / CELIO (Menswear).

- Writing, diffusion and review of head office procedures (Professional travel expenses, recruitment…).
- Writing of the new internal control report in appliance with the 2003 new financial security law.
- Audits of Celio shops (control of procedures’ correct application in France, Italy and Spain).
- Audits of italian and tunisian subsidiaries.· Specific audits (Review of warehouse delivery process, business cards use, cars use...).

Auditor - Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu (Big 4, multinational firms’ branch). Main companies audited:

- Vinci Park (VINCI group), audit of consolidated and social financial statements.· Turbomeca, Microturbo, Messier Dowty International et Messier Dowty SA (SNECMA group).
- Alstom T&D, Giat Industries and Timberland.· France Telecom et Equant (France Telecom group).
Other missions:
- Consolidation assistant at Carlson Wagon Lit (Leisure activities of ACCOR group).
- Recovery assistant at Eurofactor (Crédit Lyonnais group).