Florent PRIME

In charge of all financial related matters (reporting, controlling, budget, administration, insurances, treasury...)

I realize Buy-side and Sell-side due diligences mainly in the IT and services sectors, helping investors to validate or modify investments assumptions and ensure an organized and efficient sales process.

Management skills
- Managed a due diligence team (defined objectives and task, monitored activity, reviewed team work) ;
- Managed financial due diligence projects (developed business proposals, monitored budget, controlled reports’ quality and participated in Q&A with potential investors) ;

Technical skills
- Business overview and identification of likely risks and opportunities (Business Model, competitive positioning, strategies and levers of growth, sector analysis) ;
- Analyzed historical financial performance (change in profitability, cost structure, changes in cash flows, net debt and working capital requirement, historical capex analysis) ;
- Improved forecasts and business plan analysis (consistency of the hypothesis and clerical accuracy, sensitivity analysis, comparison with historical performance) ;

Example of credentials :
- Ingenico: Payzone acquisition (mobile top up), from dataroom to SPA negotiation;
- CIC Finance: OBO on Joryf Group (building of individual and collective houses)
- CDC: Financing (convertible bonds) of Européenne de Marbre & TRSB ;
- TCR Capital: Primary LBO on Oberthur (calendars & licenses management) and disposal of Thermocoax (Vendor Due Diligence).
- Pernod Ricard: Help in PPA issues associated with V&S Group acquisition ;
- Edmond de Rotchild: Equity participation in Smile (IT professional services) ;
- Alten: Carve out and acquisition of Calsoft group (India & USA) ;
- Gimv: Equity participation in Madeindesign and PrivateOutlet ;
- EPF Partners: Equity participation in Bazarchic ;
- Accel Partners: Equity participation in Showroomprivé ;
- NTT Docomo: Equity participation in GoFluent (English courses over phone) ;

I conducted financial audits, as a Senior Auditor, mainly in the services sector.

Main customers: Sun Microsystems (turnover> €500m – for 3 years), French national TV broadcaster (turnover> €250m – for 3 years), La Croissanterie (200 bakery corners - for 2 years), Mahle (automotive supplier, for 2 years).

Management skills
- Supervised audit team and audit engagement organization ;
- Managed customer relationship and reports to Partners in charge ;

Technical skills
- Consolidation & reporting audit (Sun, La Croissanterie, RFO) ;
- US GAAP : Revenue recognition analysis (SOP97.2 / EITF 00.21) ;
- IFRS reporting (Mahle, Washtec) ;
- SOX audit (Sun.

I conducted International audit engagements (financial and organizational audit), mainly focused in the telecom sector.

- OHADA environment ;
- Main customers: Orange Cameroun (France Télécom Groupe), Celtel (Chad telecom operator), AES Sonel (electricity production and distribution), PHP (Compagnie Fruitière), Total, Maersk, Cimencam (Lafarge Group).

6 months intern in the Stratey and Partnerhip department
- Managed the role and business model coordination group for the European project "Maestro" (Mobile television)
- Built role model and business model with GFI consulting, Motorola, Alcatel and BT
- Participated in various working group on Bouygues Télécom strategic opportunities (Fixed/mobile convergence mainly)
- Wrote various studies on mobile television

=> 6 months in Lannion and 6 months in Paris :

With the ADSL R&D Depratment (Paris)
-Managed an IPv6 ADSL project in coordination with Hitachi
-Implemented and improved an IPv6 ADSL access test-bed, in coordination with Hitachi Japan.

With the Artificial Inteligence & Human dialog Department (Lannion)
-Designed uses case and implement intelligent agent running on PDA (Mobility and Artificial Intelligence)