FRIDRICH Arnaud

Birth date: **/**/**, ** years old

Nationality: French

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SENIOR FINANCE CONTROLLER

Executive summary: Hands-on, driven and dynamic finance professional with 15 years of management experience in engineering, construction and oil & gas industry at international level

Proficiency in: managing team in different locations / SOX audit / IFRS / project control and reporting / treasury management / Project Financing / Forex operations and accounting / Tax & legal set-up / company secretarial matters / process & system improvement / budget establishment and roll-over

February 2017 - To date: Consultant in Accounting & Finance – Singapore, UAE & Philippines

-Claims assistance for private company in Oil & Gas EPC business

-Review of accounting & finance processes for Australian IT company

-Consultant CFO for F&B group

November 2011- January 2017: Private international company proposing oil & gas services in frontier markets

EPC Division Finance Controller, Dubai, UAE with projects in Iraq, Algeria, UAE, Ghana

Responsibilities include:

Full Business Unit Financial responsibility

Monthly report to BU Board & management

Develop & maintain budget control procedures

Develop & maintain approval matrix

Maintain financial model / reporting in relation to external financing

Tax management

Establishment of yearly Financial Statements

Main interlocutor for Internal / External audit

Achievements include:

Successfully implement financial & accounting procedures

Establish first audited Financial Statements for the Division

Set-up project control procedure

Implement Budget versus Actuals process

Set-up Business Unit authority matrix

August 2010- Sept 2011: ALSTOM Transport, world leader in railways transport solutions

Senior Financial Controller, Algiers, Algeria: responsible for the financial management (cost & revenue forecast, analysis of trends, cash flow forecast; management of receivables) of several transportation turn-key projects

October 2000- July 2010: TECHNIP, European leader of engineering, technologies and construction services to oil and gas industries.

September 2005 – Jul 2010: Finance controller of 2 projects in Joint-venture with Chiyoda in Japan / Qatar in relation with a Engineering, Procurement & Construction contract with Rasgas for 2 of the world’s largest LNG trains (USD 4 billions) & with a gas processing train contract with Exxon Middle East (USD 1.6 billions) & Finance manager of Technip Japan.

Responsibilities include:

Management of Financial team located in Japan, France, Dubai, Qatar & Philippines

Setting-up & implementation of Financial procedures

Tax & financial planning

Cash-flow management & project control

Production of Financial Statements & reporting to Financial and Steering committee

Achievements include:

Strict cash-flow management that leads to a substantial increase of financial interests

Successfully implement SOX procedures

Improve partner’s accounting system in order to better control financial reporting production & quality

Promote finance management as integral part of the project management

October 2000 – August 2005: Finance controller for the group in the Middle East area & Finance manager of Technip Middle East, Dubai, UAE (100 MUSD yearly revenue with projects in UAE, Qatar and Iran)

Responsibilities include:

Set-up new company, create & implement administrative & financial procedures

Coordinating and managing all financial internal & external interfaces between the projects and the participating units and/or partners

Consolidation of Middle East area local entities into Group accounts

Achievements include:

Creation of a pool of financial professionals in the middle east area

Creation of banking relations with regional banks

Successfully manage company growth from a financial point of view

Consolidate tax declarations of different Qatar entities into one in order to have better efficiency in regard to the profit declared

Sept. 1997 - Sept. 2000: VINCI, world leader in concessions, construction and related services.

Muller Freres (France) as Financial controller of Optic Fibre Department (site in France, Belgium and Spain)

Campenon Bernard SGE as Project Cost controller in Abu Dhabi, UAE: construction of a bridge (EUR 20 millions)

Other Skills

Advanced Excel (Pivot table / Vlookup)

PowerPoint

Accounting software

ERP & reporting software (SAP Fi, Hyperion)

Education

Graduate in Finance and accounting (MSTCF- French equivalent to CMA) at Institut Commercial de Nancy, one the leading Business School in France (June 1997)

Language: French (mother tongue) / English (fluent) / Tagalog (beginner)

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