Hervé Gallot
Finance Global Shared Services - Program Manager, Cisco Systems - Paris, France
+20 years international experience, with competency in both program management & finance controllership
Responsible for budget, metrics and PMO support for global process standardization and organization centralization.
Achievements: Participated in preparation activities that lead to organization change announced mid-February 2011 and full implementation early May 2011.
Emerging Markets theater - Field Controller - Annual sales revenue of $1.2B, Cisco Systems - Paris, France
2005 - 2009Responsible, with a virtual team, for financial support to the Commercial, Enterprise, Global Accounts and Advanced Technologies sales leadership teams.
Achievements: Built a new overlay financial support model in +25% annual growth environment. Implemented SoX for Channel Finance in Emerging Markets.
2000 - 2005Cross-functional business partner, responsible for business process reengineering, change management and systems automation with a strong focus on field operations, sales organizations & sales processes.
Achievements: Designed the organizational model & implemented a suite of information systems for sales crediting.
1998 - 2000Responsible for on-going management of the forecasting / contact management solution (customized Siebel package) used at Cisco.
Achievements: Two significant system upgrades throughout the EMEA sales force.
1996 - 1998Responsible for creation and development of the French branch of a US supply chain management software company, coordinating sales and pre-sales activities, back-office management and strategic product and services development activities.
Achievements: Built and ran a small foreign subsidiary, from a greenfield landscape.
1985 - 1996Multiple roles as IT Analyst, Project Manager, Business Analyst and Consultant in software and high-tech companies based in France, the UK, Italy and Switzerland: O.P.S.I., Calidus Systems, Apple Computer & Silicon Graphics.
