Rodrigue KASSAVI

I am a young professional gabonese, leading finance, accounting, treasury, audit and controlling teams, to tell the story behind financial statements figures since sixteen years. That is how I strongly support the top management, to make proper and strategic business development decisions.

I have spent more than fithteen years working for international industrial and Logistic companies under very high standards requirements. I might be the piece of the puzzle you need to complete a dream team in order to drive the business toward more success.

• SAGE ACCOUNTING (ERP)
• MICROSOFT "AX 2009" (ERP)
• MICROSOFT "NAVISION 2016" (ERP)
• SUN VISION (ERP)
• SAP (ERP)
• SAGE PAYROLL
• SAP MAGNITUDE (for reporting)
• EXCEL ADVANCED
• OTHERS MICROSOFT PACKAGES
• GOOGLE SHEET / SLIDE / DOC

• Theophile BOUTAMBA, Country Manager, DHL Express
• Jean Félix MIVIESSINI, Country Manager, Erium Gabon (Ex Air Liquide)
• Alexandre DUFOUR, CEO Erium West & Central Africa (Ex Air Liquide)
• Adou ANO, Ex Cluster CEO, Air Liquide Congo, DRC, Angola
• Ghislain MOANDZA MBOLA,

Air Liquide (July 2020 to Dec 2022) I was:

• Area Ethic committee member
• Area Information Protection Coordinator

• Volley ball player
• Tennis table player

1. Reporting

• Perform periodic management reporting in Local and IFRS standards
• Ensure data reliability and consistency according to group reporting procedures
• Meet reporting deadlines with all headquarters: Ivory Coast, South Africa, Paris

2. Business control and forecasting

• Control and validate monthly margin variations
• Control quarterly profitability by customers and by products
• Monitor management specific KPIs to meets strategic targets
• Drive the budget forecasting process, quarterly reviews and gap analysis

3. Investments & Fixed assets

• Monitor the entire investment assessment and decision-making process
• Prepare, validate and follow up investment budgets
• Prepare and control annual fixed assets inventory

4. Cost saving

• Identify and implement profitable cost killing projects
• Ensure the relevance of management tools to monitor achievements.

5. Finance and Treasury

• Ensure permanent segregation of duties in cash and bank transactions
• Control and review bank reconciliation statements and cash forecast table

6. Accounting & Payroll

• Implement all the periodic accounting controls (Local and IFRS rules)
• Manage all tax-related issues and implement defined periodic tax audits.
• Validate the monthly and annual tax declaration according to local rules
• Prepare statutory financial statements according to OHADA and IFRS standards
• Control and validate monthly payroll run

7. Inventory management

• Control and improve landing cost for imported products
• Control and improve production cost for industrial gazes
• Prepare and drive periodic and annual inventory stock count

8. Internal control

• Conduct risk mapping process and monitor mitigation action plans
• Deploy and update procedures to strengthen internal control

9. Training and staff development

• Identify training needs for the team members and ensure their deployment
• Ensure transfer of my know-how to the team members

10. Internal and external relationship management

• Manage working relations with others internal process owners
• Manage the relation with external auditors, financial institutions and tax authorities
• Support Board meeting and General Assembly preparation

• Excel skills: I have developed a mini billing application by means of

  Microsoft Excel, allowing sales traceability, and ensure cash collection for a period of long unavailability of the ERP (Petro Gabon - 2013).

• Cost saving on tax control : Me and my team handled a notification of 1,6 billions by providing justification to reduce the final amount paid to 150 millions (Air Liquide Congo - 2019)
• Project Management: As project team Leader, I managed all the data cleaning and played super key user role to ensure successful deployment of a new ERP:

- Navision at Air Liquide Congo - 2018

- SAP at DHL Express - 2024.