Simon Brillouet

- Provide business units across Nestlé with insight & analysis needed to make best decisions regarding future operations:
• Member of a multi-disciplined team
• Perform range of in-depth analyses on market, operations, competitor & financial information
• Draw conclusions & provide actionable recommendations
• Present recommendations to senior management

820 hours of teaching:
- Master of International Business, Grenoble, France - 544 hours
- MBA, Chisinau, Moldova - 164 hours
- MBA, Academy of National Economy, Moscow, Russia - 68 hours
- MBA tailored for Mobias Banca (Societe Generale group), Moldova, Chisinau - 24 hours
- MBA tailored for Perusahaan Gas Negara, Indonesia - 12 hours
- MBA, Malta - 8 hours

Tutored 17 end-of-study theses

Course includes study of capital structure (debt, equity, hybrids), cost of capital (WACC, CAPM, Gordon Shapiro), business valuation (DCF, relative valuation), M&A, options,...

- Lead full financial & operational review of a country with a team of 3 over 4 weeks:
> Africa: South Africa
> Asia: Bangladesh, India & Indonesia
> Europe: Cyprus, Czech Republic, France, Italy, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Slovakia, Spain & Switzerland
> Latin America: Bolivia, Colombia & Peru
- Deployment of CCH TeamMate audit management system
- Preperation of certification of the Institute of Internal Auditors (IIA)

Headquarter financial planning & analysis functions:
- manage weekly & monthly reporting of worldwide operations with strong emerging markets presence (1 M pairs sold per day in network of 5,000 retail stores in 50+ countries)
- reengineered & migrated management reporting modules from Hyperion Enterprise to SAP BPC (formerly Outlooksoft) on time & in budget
- lead user training sessions (Mexico, Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Czech Republic, Italy, Switzerland) & used feedback for continuous tool optimization (input schedules & reports)
- lead group yearly budget & planning process
- preperation of quarterly board material
- on-demand analysis of operational & financial metrics (competitive benchmarking, trend line analysis,...)
- run country operations review / internal audit (Indonesia, Bangladesh, Switzerland)
- manage assistant & grow analysis skills
- reports to group CFO

- Yearly & on-demand financial performance analysis of Caterpillar dealers in Northern Europe (Hekla (Iceland), McCormick Macnaughton (Ireland), Finning (UK), Hewden (UK), Pon Equipment & Power Systems (Netherlands & Scandinavia), Witraktor Finland & Baltics, Cramo)
- Manage (tight) financial relationship
- Development & maintenance of financial database & reporting tools to manage dealer's financials

- Quarterly analysis of both P&L & balance sheet of the Middle-East & Africa sales division (yearly turnover of $ 120 M)
- complete account reconciliation & clean-up after one year job vacancy
- coaching of Financial Management Program (FMP) participants during their 6-month rotation in Middle-East & Africa region
- roll out of Oracle ERP for Middle-East & Africa

- Set up financial tools to monitor this new business (customer identifier & database, segregation of direct vs. indirect business,...)
- Monthly & on-demand financial reporting & analysis of the HP direct sales channel in Europe, Middle-East & Africa
- Analysis of business model profitability

Process review & new tool implemented to allow on-demand pricing changes vs. monthly process existing previously. Moved from Excel-based tool to Oracle database integrated in decision tool used for financial reporting.

Software & support division