Controlling
Primexis consultants, specializing in controlling, provide assistance and operational consulting in all sectors of activity. They are involved in many key aspects of performance management: closings, activity reporting, consolidated reporting, and forecast or budgeting phases.
Flexible and immediately operational, our consultants can quickly integrate into your teams, take ownership of your organization’s activity and tools, and assist you with your transformation questions.
Your challenges
Do you need to strengthen or manage your team in the short term? Are you facing a particular issue: absence of employees or surge in activity related to the context of your group, growth, or restructuring? Are you looking for business skills to help your FP&A team? Support Function? Operational Management? Have you identified a transformation project? Do you need assistance to meet the challenges of performance and cash management? Are you looking for an effective and flexible solution that is quick to implement?
More than 50 Controlling consultants are available to provide you with their cutting-edge technical expertise and a high level of performance.
Financial Planning & Analysis / FP&A
Our FP&A consultants play a central role in performance management within Group Finance departments. They participate in defining financial and operational objectives, producing consolidated reports and cross-functional analyses to help with strategic decision-making.
Their engagements involve constant collaboration with the organization’s various subsidiaries and activities and close coordination with consolidation, financial communication, and treasury teams.
Our area of expertise
- Management reporting and analysis
- Budgeting, forecasting, and strategic planning
- Performance analysis on a like-for-like basis
- Cash flow analysis
- Providing assistance in rolling out new consolidation reporting tools
Performance Management
Efficient management is a strategic challenge for every finance department. This is why Primexis offers a personalized approach, designed to boost the efficiency of your organization, roll out high-performing tools, and optimize your processes.
Our teams, made up of data and functional experts, assist you with every stage of your project, from the initial diagnostic to rolling out recommended solutions.
We also help with specific Cash Management issues: cash flow analysis, modelling, and efficient management.
Our areas of expertise
- Defining steering models and related KPIs
- Structuring data and analytical overhaul
- Reviewing methods and processes
- Rolling out Data Visualization / Power BI solutions
- Designing Cash Management tools
IT Controlling
Our IT Controllers work within Information Systems departments to ensure effective management of IT projects and measure the performance of information systems. Our expert consultants ensure that IT and digital investments are properly managed and aligned with business needs.
Acting as the interface between finance and IT, our experts interact with technical profiles (project managers, architects, and accountants) on a daily basis.
Our areas of expertise
- Producing financial reporting and IT KIPs
- IT project management
- Optimizing processes
- Innovative management solutions
Support Functions
Support functions are vital to the smooth functioning of a company. Primexis employees act as Business partners to ensure that these functions use their resources optimally by analyzing and monitoring their performance.
Our controllers work with the heads of various departments (Finance, Human Resources, Legal, Communications & Marketing, Purchasing, etc.), assisting them in planning and optimizing their expenses in line with the group’s guidelines.
Our areas of expertise
- Analyses and Reporting
- Closing operations
- Budgeting and forecasting
- Process optimization
Operational Management
Within operational departments (Sales, Manufacturing, Logistics, CSR, etc.) Primexis’ controllers are involved in monitoring operational performance to help you make informed decisions. They monitor your organization’s specific financial and extra-financial indicators.
As true business partners, our specialists are in close contact with your operational teams and are able to make the link between financial and extra-financial logic and operational issues.
Our areas of expertise
- Performance analysis based on business KPIs
- Operational reporting
- Action plans & performance optimization drivers
- Decision-making assistance
- Process reviews
Sector of activity
Asset Management
Engagement objectives
As part of a carve out, implementing a Finance set up, including accounting and controlling.
Our involvement
– Assisted with general secretariat in setting up a Finance organization
– Defined Finance processes specific to closing and forecasting
– Provided project management support for rolling out the SAP FI/CO solution: functional specifications relating to various data masters
– Defined and implemented a Power BI reporting tool to monitor the organization’s performance
Sector of activity
Insurance
Engagement objectives
In the Group IT department, rolling out BI tools to address IT reinvoicing and reporting issues
Our involvement
– Secured and standardized the Group’s IT cost reinvoicing process
– Built data models to reinvoice and monitor IT costs
– Provided support during the different phases of the project: from function scoping to implementation
– Rolled out Power BI and Azure Platform solutions
Sector of activity
Agri-food industry
Engagement objectives
Controlling diagnosis and reorganization
Our involvement
– Analyzed the existing situation based on interviews and studied existing documentation
– Provided support in reviewing the organizational and methodological aspects of the controlling team
– Presented action plans to the finance department
– Rolled out recommendations presented at the time of the diagnosis: costing model optimization / increased reliability and digitized inventory reporting (reviewed valuation method, data quality work, defined and supported the reporting system roll out enabling shared analysis between the Finance and Operation teams)
Sector of activity
Agri-food industry
Engagement objectives
Construct a “managerial” cash flow projection, in line with analytical management, to separate cash flow by Business Units (production, distribution & support functions)
Our involvement
– Defined Cash Managerial components
– -Drafted functional specifications
– Provided support when implementing a Cash Management tool under BPC
– Produced specific models for WCR
– Acceptance and change management operations
Sector of activity
Cleaning and energy services
Engagement objectives
As part of a merger, implement IT management tool to provide a better understanding of the various activities
Our involvement
– Provided support for domain managers in adapting to financial challenges
– Designed and rolled out Power BI reports offering a distinction between Run and Build operations, and an analysis by nature, by project or supplier
– Reduced reporting times, improved data quality, and proposed a projection tool
Sector of activity
Music
Engagement objectives
As part of an initial public offering, set up a task force to meet the challenges of publication deadlines
Our involvement
– Provide back-up controlling teams and participate in various production operations
– Participate in reviewing closing schedules and related processes
– Defined and implement statistical methods enabling accelerated recognition of the sales cycle
Feedback from our Clients
Groupe Bel & Primexis on a Cash Management project
Learn about Bel Group and Primexis’ successful collaboration on a complex cash flow management project through an interview between Romain Mourot, Bel Group VP of Corporate Finance, Guillaume Hubert, Director of Controlling, and Victor Arnaud, Senior Manager in Consolidation at Primexis.
This cross-over interview from the experts provides a detailed overview of the methods, tools, and strategies put into place to achieve the Cash Management project’s ambitious objectives, the major steps in implementing it, and the factors that contributed to its success.
Romain Mourot also explains how Primexis’ technical expertise in accounting, consolidation, and controlling was a decisive factor in Bel Group’s decision to work with our firm.
Our teams
our skills
Our team of 50 consultants has a variety of levels of experience from junior to expert.
- Our consultants graduated from business schools or universities with a master’s in Finance, Controlling, or Information System Management
- They are experts in the main databases on the market (Essbase, BW, etc.) and work on ERPs (SAP FI/CO, People Soft, Microsoft Dynamics, Sage, etc.), EPM solutions (SAP BFC, SAP BPC, Tagetik, Anaplan, Onestream, Board, etc.), and BI solutions (Power BI, Tableau, etc.)
- The 10-person managerial team, with more than 10 years of experience, regularly trains our consultants and assists them with their daily assignments
They have placed their trust in us
Our firm offers multi-sector assistance
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