Marc-Philippe GARNAUD

Group of companies headquartered in Thailand for 36 years. 1,000 collaborators
The company was a local SME with US$ 20m upon my joining, and is now a US$ 200m revenue company with sales in 50 countries through 18 subsidiaries (Asia, Middle-East, Europe, US, Brazil)
. Design and manufacturing of construction products and equipment for civil works
. Industrial project freight-forwarding, trade


Corporate
. Led the corporate restructuring of the group under a single financial holding in Hong-Kong
. Leads all corporate, financial and HR aspects for the setup of various subsidiaries in India, U.A.E...
. Manages holding shared services for the Group (Treasury, Internal Audit, ITS, legal)

Finance and Banking
. Leads activities pertaining to banking, debt management, industrial project financing, working capital reduction and liquidity optimization
. Developed global banking network for the group with CITIBANK
. Set cash pooling in Thailand, and initiated Treasury Center for cross-borders cash pooling

Financial Reporting and Compliance
. Designed and implemented a fully automated monthly segment financial reporting using BI
. Leads the local statutory audit and group IRFS consolidation
. Created and manages the Internal Audit team

Taxation
. Successful local and cross-border tax optimization using both local and global mechanisms
. Creation of Transfer Pricing master file for the Group

Systems and BI
. Led the implementation of Microsoft AX 2012 ERP single template for 7 different companies in 3 countries
. Implemented Business Intelligence for budgeting, sales - financial forecasting and reporting
. In charge of ITS strategic planning with CIO (direct report)

Legal and insurance
. Set group umbrella insurance for Public and numerous Product and Professional Liability coverage
. Developed and manages the internal and public affairs legal team

Other
. Led the HR function for over 12 years prior to establishing a fully autonomous HR division
. Leads harmonization of product costing and cost control across 3 manufacturing entities of the group (Thailand, China, India)

Manufacturing and distribution of fertilizers and industrial chemicals

. Based at Europe-Asia-Africa H/O, overseeing financial planning and budgeting for 20 different subsidiaries
. Successful implementation of a segment and analytic reporting for the parent company in Santiago (Chile)
. Successful migration of the group ERP for EUR and Y2K with significant tailor-made added features
. Direct support to the VP Finance for financial and market analysis