Thierry Patte

Project Controller/Controller Business Unit - Cognitis France / Vanilla (SSII) IT Financial services / 500 employees – Turn-over 47 M€ 2009

Monthly Reporting by Business Market (BanK/ Insurance / Pension / Financial Market: Asset Management / Capital Market) Reporting by Offer MOE/MOA/ QSI/BI, Marge Analyses by project, Forecast, Budget, KPI Analyses, Inter contract, Scoreboard

• Implementation of the weekly and Montky scoreboard Commitments / Weekly and Monthy analyses by BU

• Improvement of the internal process for commitments on Turn-over and Gross Margin /headcount/ recruitment commitments by Business line

Aug 2007- Apr 2008: Project Controller/ Controller Business Unit – LGM & LGM Engineering (Project Management activities) - 400 employees-Turn-over 30 M€

• Implementation of the Monthly reporting covering 5 Business units - Budget 2008 – Forecast - Gross Margin analyses by project - Profit and Loss analyses by Business Unit - Taxes

Apr- Nov-2008: Project Controller/Controller Business Unit – Efront (SSII) - Financial software Editor in Private Equity/Assurance - 120 employees - Turn-over 19 M€

• Monthly reporting of France / UK / Middle-East area - Gross Margin analyses by project - Actual vs Budget-


• Implementation of the revenue process automation

Since June 2005:
Project Controller - Getronics - Decan (SSII) - Turn-over France 75 M€ - Worldwide 2,6 Bn€

Monthly Reporting to Amsterdam Headquarters - Reporting of 5 Business Units (Workspace Management Service activities) – Gross Margin analyses by project - Profit and Loss analyses by Business Unit – Balance Sheet – Forecast – Budget – Job costing calculation – Risks Evaluations and improvement of the gross margin by project

• Reporting of the Dell/AXA program (CA 12,5 M€) to Headquarters : Implementation of monthly financial Reporting and monthly preparation of management accounts : 5 % Improvement of the Dell/AXA margin over 6 months

• Implementation of the France Logistic Reporting process to headquarters. (Maintenance & products deployment): Variances analyses versus forecast and budget

2005 Feb-May:
Auditor SOX – AstraZeneca – Turn-over 1280 M€ - Procedures in compliance with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act
• Remediation plan : Risks evaluations and controls - Assessments of the effectiveness of internal control systems and writing procedures

2004 Sept:
Auditor SOX - Computer Associates – Turn-over 110 M€ - Risks Controls evaluations - Tests
(Temporary mission)

2004 Oct-Déc:
Cost/Management Accountant – Otis France – Turn-over 760 M€ - Forecast/Plan Analyses
(Temporary Mission)

France

2003: Cost/Management Accountant - Chubb CSS - SGA - Turn-over 45M€ - Paris (Temp)

Reporting UK GAAP: P&L analysis – GM – Overheads - Balance Sheet – Cashflow – Midmonth – Flash – Forecast – Budget - Business Plan
Sales margin analysis - variance analysis and standard costing for 14 agencies

• Implementation of subcontractors management board: suppression of monthly deviations from 45 to 90 K€

• Improvement of the budget construction phase: Cutting down 50 % of the transmission time to meet deadlines and improvement of information flow between agencies and headquarters
London

London

2002: Cost Accountant - E-Consulting - Bow road – London - IT Institute and software development

Team-based JAVA projects covering accountancy and management applications

• Implementation of a client database on Access software: Improvement of clients accounts - follow up of the time consumption on data entries and gain of 80 %

2000 - 2002: Cost/Management Accountant - AFP ( Agence France Presse) Hong Kong Asia-Pacific - Regional headquarters - Regional Turn-over: 19M€

Reporting on all Asian regional offices to Paris headquarters:

Production of financial and accounting statements: Variance analysis - P&L - Balance Sheet – Budget – Audit of regional offices

• Audit on operating costs: cost savings in telecommunications and other regional office expenditures

• Team-based deployment for the implementation of an accounting system: Verification of work processes and technical support for the accounting system implementation throughout all Asian branches

Hong Kong

Auditor - Delmas - Shipping, Hong Kong

Audit account and IT support in order to reconcile year-end accounts and identify discrepancies and inconsistencies

• Accounting reconciliation - general ledger / database: extraction simplification of accounts and improvement of the work processes to verify accounting data integrity

Homg Kong

1999 - 2000: Regional Auditor - Mostacci Consulting & Associates - Hong Kong

Audit Mission in China PRC - Yung Shue - Canton: Project Manager - Audit on manufacturing and distribution network

• Audit on manufacturing operating costs and rationalization of stocks: annual cost savings of
85 K€

• Logistic and export optimization: gain of 3 days – production and freight
Hong Kong

HONG KONG

1997 - 1999: Financial Accountant Officer - Credit Agricole – Indosuez Bank - Hong Kong

Production and verification of financial and accounting statements - Balance-Sheet simplified by major currencies – analysis – counterpart risk - liquidity report sorted by maturity date

P&L for the local management and miscellaneous tasks dictated by Paris

• Automation of departmental work processes - improving various routine reporting and financial statement processes - (Manual activity reduced on average by 85 %)

Paris

1994 - 1996: Accounts Assistant Manager - Carrefour - headquarters - Evry- France - Discount retail chain 19 MDS€

Production and analysis of monthly P&L statements of 12 sectors – Verification of variances versus budget

• Implementation of a verification process with each sector - resulting in operating costs savings - 20% time-saving between accounting closures and reporting