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Chief Financial Officer

ROQUETTE "Improving well-being by offering the best of nature" \r\n \r\n \r\nA family-owned Group serving customers globally, Roquette is a leader in specialty food ingredients and pharmaceutical excipients. The products and solutions developed by the Group deliver proven technological, nutritional and health benefits precisely tailored to the pharma, nutrition, food and selected industry markets. Roquette's offer is produced from plant-based raw materials such as corn, wheat, potatoes and peas.\r\n \r\nSince its foundation over 80 years ago, the Group's growth has been based on innovation, a passion for the job and a commitment to achieve. \r\nRoquette operates in over 100 countries, has a turnover of around 3.3 billion euros and currently employs more than 8,000 people worldwide.\r\n \r\n \r\nRoquette offers many career opportunities thanks to the diversity of its jobs and its international scope.\r\nJoining Roquette means joining a dynamic team working together towards a common purpose.\r\n \r\n \r\nJoin Roquette's Team Today!\r\n\r\n\r\nSee us on Internet:\r\nhttp://www.roquette.com/\r\nhttp://www.recrutement.roquette.com/

As Chief Financial Officer and Vice President Finance with global experience, I drive results in changing environments •Known for driving operational excellence through organizational optimization, change management / business transformation and business growth support, including M&A •As the trusted business partner, I help develop existing and new business to create a competitive advantage •Fluent in French, Spanish and German, I successfully worked in 3 countries leveraging my cultural awareness in global roles where I led teams across multiple countries CONTRIBUTIONS •Developed and implemented streamlining, outsourcing and process improvement initiatives, generating significant finance team cost synergies in 3 countries •Cross functional leadership in non P&L general management role practicing negotiation skills •Build and develop teams for high performance •Set up / launched Shared Service Centers in Asia and Mexico, leading to cost reductions and improved process / control environment •Launched initiatives to improve cash via working capital optimization, operating cost reduction and the support of direct sales initiatives in new geographies EXPERTISE •Acting as both operational 'hands on' and strategic business partner •Leveraging global experience (worked in 3 countries, global responsibilities and fluent in 4 languages) •Contributing to M&A activities in various countries in the key areas of valuation, negotiation, due diligence and mostly integration. Worked on spin-off and reverse merger. •Executing global finance transformations / established shared service center / offshoring of operations •Leading multi-site / multi-country teams in manufacturing sectors – food ingredients more recently and agrichemicals •Providing expertise relative to implementation of financial systems and data analytics (SAP, SAP BI, Tableau, Qlik) •Overseeing treasury, risk management, taxes, IT, insurance and HR / benefits functions •Serving on the Boards of foreign Joint Ventures and Industry Association (CRA) to support business •Worked for multi-site / plant and multi-country public and private international companies, mostly manufacturing in union and non-union environments •Digital tools such as SAP, Blackline, Concur in US GAAP and IFRS environments OTHER •Citizenship include US, French and German •2 expat / expatriate assignments