KEYSTONE
Who leads

Jean-Christophe Vermeersch

Finance & Transformation Director · Founder and President of Keystone

Finance & Transformation executive. Improving operational performance and structuring organisations through transformation and international growth.

Working at the interface between Executive Management, business teams and information systems, to align financial steering, organisations and tools in the service of value creation.

Location
Bordeaux / Paris
International mobility
Languages
French · Fluent English
Italian
Education
ICH Lille (2005)
ESC Dijon (1992)
Contact
jcvermeersch@key-stone.fr
+33 6 80 34 66 50
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Skills & expertise

Key skills

  • Financial leadership
  • Transformation & performance
  • Economic steering
  • ERP programmes
  • Business-tools governance
  • Change management
  • Project portfolio steering
  • Business · IT · Management interface

Areas of expertise

  • Finance & management control
  • ERP & business systems
  • Organisation & processes
  • Operational transformation
  • PMO & project governance
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Professional experience

April 2023 - Present
ICM
France · Italy
Finance, Transformation & Business Tools Director

Financial leadership and operational transformation, with responsibility for business-tools governance in an international industrial environment.

  • Structuring financial steering and improving forecast reliability
  • Harmonising Finance and Project processes
  • Steering the evolution of the business ERP
  • Setting up business-tools governance
  • Strategic interface between Executive Management, business and IT
2022 - 2023
Ferroglobe
Grande-Synthe
Consultant · Industrial ERP deployment

Supporting the deployment of an ERP covering Production, Logistics, Sales and Finance in an international industrial environment.

  • Leading industrial ERP change management
  • Functional configuration, test management and data migration
  • Coordination with the international group IT department
2022
Mobilis / AFM
Roubaix
Consultant · Finance IS transformation

Audit of the Finance information system and definition of a transformation roadmap.

  • Diagnostic of the Finance IS functional coverage
  • Analysis of business processes and tools
  • Definition of the transformation roadmap
2020 - 2022
Nhood / Ceetrus
Croix
Finance Director · Property & Services division

Transformation of the France Finance function amid operational reorganisation and information-system change.

  • Reorganising the Finance teams
  • Creating steering functions (internal control, assets, projects)
  • Leading the real-estate ERP migration
  • Digitising budget processes and operational workflows
  • Setting up decision reporting and steering indicators
2018 - 2019
Ceetrus
Croix
Real-estate ERP Programme Manager

Leading the stabilisation and transformation programme for the real-estate management information system following a critical ERP change.

  • Operational stabilisation of the real-estate IS
  • Interface between business and IT in crisis management
  • Leading the replacement of leasing and accounting ERPs
  • Structuring business processes
2008 - 2016
AG2R La Mondiale
France
Information Systems Governance Director

Leading project governance and the cross-functional units of the IT department in a large-group environment.

  • Steering a portfolio of 200 IT projects
  • Setting up project governance and the PMO
  • Resource allocation and IT budget steering
  • Integrating project risk management
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Earlier experience

  • 2001 - 2008
    AG2R La Mondiale
    Real-estate Administration Director
  • 1999 - 2001
    AG2R La Mondiale
    Organisation Officer
  • 1997 - 1999
    Federal Express
    Senior Analyst Europe
  • 1995 - 1997
    Decathlon
    Financial Organiser / Accountant