Activium Finance - Activium Finance

A trusted specialist of equity sponsors

Quality of execution

A fast pace environment calls for an adaptive and modern finance function.

Activium Finance implements financial infrastructure as follow:

  • Leveraging technology to support growth (ERP, EPM, P2P, O2C)
  • CFO as strategic partner to the CEO and shareholders
  • Creation of a best-in-class financial position
  • Committed to deliver outcomes with a team building mindset

These are the fundamental components to support PE backed businesses objectives.

Decision making skills, challenging the statu-quo and flexibity accelerate business transformation with any political nor incentive interest.

From accounting to finance

As the PE firms care about the short term value creation, we grasp urgency, stop spending time on anything that seems trivial, stay focus on the bottom line results, operate at a faster pace and challenge the conventional method.

Most of mid-market companies have no financial culture, but attached to a historical accounting function. The arrival of financial investors generates expectations in terms of :

  • Financial reporting
  • Liquidity management
  • Operational metrics and financial drivers (dashboard)
  • Investors and lenders relations

I support equity sponsors in this bridge gap, so as to provide their investments with a robust and reliable management team.

Lastest assignments

Group CFO – Modular Building – €70M – Staff : 400 – Business transformation (LBO)/ UK equity sponsor

Strategic repositionning, issuance of a new BP, additional funds raising, extension of private debt, liquidity management (WC and debt), financial system implementation (Tagetik), industrial cost control management

Group CFO- Telco infrastructure – €80M – Staff : 250- Rapid expansion (LBO)/ US equity sponsor

Optimization of group reporting (11 subsidiaries worlwide), professionalization of the Group CFO function, presention of financial assumptions and banking negotiations, coaching of Finance Director, assistance to financial system integration (Emasphere), monitoring of churn and retention rates, ARR

CFO- Energy – €11M – Staff: 28 – Liquidity crunch/ French VC sponsor

Business model restructuring, cash burn reduction, , monitoring of financial drivers for international  expansion (Ireland, Norway), cash culture implementation, funds raising through stock warrants, investment and R&D project management