Loic Pierre
Finance Manager, Crown Bevcan France
2005 - 2008Crown Packaging UK Plc, a company of Crown Holdings.
- Provide management information and reports to support the Business in delivering its budget and assist in the management decision making process.
- Ensuring compliance with internal procedures in accordance with Group policies and procedures – including Sarbanes Oxley compliance.
- Financial support to the Manufacturing / Logistics / Purchasing Departments.
- Reporting in compliance with Group reporting requirements.
- Preparation of Financial Forecasting.
2002 - 2005Headquarters of the European division. (110 plants, 19.000 employees, $3.2 Billion turnover).
- Responsible for the control of the financial (USGAAP) and operational reporting for 22 sites in Europe and Africa.
- Active management of the reporting cycle: 3-years plan, Budget, Rolling Forecasts, Actuals.
- Analysis of the monthly results, identification of the variances, proposal of corrective actions, drawing up of sector business comments.
- Training of plant controllers.
1999 - 2001ABB Control. (Subsidiary of the ABB group, 450 employees, $60 Million turnover)
- Control of the production operations and of the raw material consumption.
- Responsible for the calculation of the direct labor costs and production costs.
- Implementation and control of internal procedures.
- Responsible for the implementation of an activity based costing system.
- Responsible for the preparation, management and validation of inventories.
- Creation and analysis of management indicators.
- Reporting to the holding company.
1998 - 1999CIBA SPECIALITY CHEMICALS. (Plant, 400 employees, $55 Million turnover)
- Specific projects, reporting directly to the company Finance Director :
- Processes analysis designed to optimize productivity
- Analysis of the direct and indirect costs of the company according to the Activity Based costing methodology.
- Analysis of investment projects.
- Optimization of financial procedures.