Assists Start Ups, Small and Medium sized companies with regard to
You have growth ambitions or your finance department is over-stretched?
You want to expand your market in an international and fast-moving environment?
Bee accompanies you to find the right balance and prepare the future!
Bi-cultural with extensive knowledge of France / Experience / Efficiency
Our Services
Finance by Bee offers international senior financial operational support to accompany companies with aggressive growth ambitions. This includes a wide variety of expertise.
Managing your Growth: from Start-Up to Scale-Up
- Audit of your accounts and diligence report with a view to initial or second stage fund raising in liaison with your auditors
- Preparation of your accounts and prospectus for an IPO
Monitoring your business
- Preparation of a forecast, and interpretation and anticipation of your profitability and cash flow needs
- Implementation of simple and practical dashboard reporting and KPIs and the implementation of forecasting tools
Optimizing the organization of your finance team
- Review and implementation of procedures, and recommendations to organize the workload and optimize interfaces for productivity gains
- Partnership and seamless team work with internal and external customers
Getting ready to go International
- Organization of your local accounting to comply with US GAAP, re-statement of historic quarters
- Rationalization of your French chart of accounts for international expansion
- Co-ordination of the opening of foreign legal entities
Project Management
- Management of multi-country ERP implementations
- Due diligence of target acquisitions and organization of post-acquisition accounts integration
- Implementation of share based remuneration schemes
Fund Raising and Flotation
- Business plan preparation
- Supervision of diligence reports
- Management presentations for private equity funding
Our Approach
Inspired by organized and hard-working Bees, with an effective team approach to problem solving, we provide practical solutions to accompany your growth strategy.
International
We have a wide knowledge of successful international organizations from a finance business partner point of view, and are able to communicate effectively with other administrative teams (such as HR and IT) to provide a true added value solution.
Independant & Agile
As an independent boutique firm, Finance by Bee has the experience of working with dynamic international companies and is extremely agile. We are quick to assess the business context and challenge and propose a high quality “value for money” approach with a pre-defined outcome for less than larger companies.
Pragmatic & Committed
We are results driven, creative and will provide you with a simple, but above all operational and scalable solution to your challenge. We advocate long term partnerships based on trust, are close to our clients and have a strong sense of liability for our work. Above all we care about your projects and want to ensure that they are a success.
Our Experience
Finance By Bee brings more than 20 years of senior finance experience in international High-growth and fast-moving environments with a strong focus on preparing for the US market.
Accompanying and Managing Growth
- Adding robustness to a monthly closing process
- Shortening reporting deadlines with a view to meeting US requirements
- Management of relationships with the auditors
- Integration into the consolidation of new international legal entity accounts
Financial Planning & Analysis
- Management of budget and quarterly review processes
- Organization of monthly reporting processes
- Management of detailed projects to improve and measure EBITDA margin evolution
- Analysis of capital expenditure requests: cash flow, calculation of ROCE and payback periods
Implementing & Enhancing Accounting Systems
- Implementation of SAP (FI / MM / AA) and reconciliation between different accounting principles
- Management of a “Smart Close” project to reduce reporting deadlines and transition from IFRS to US GAAP
Organizing an IPO in the United States
- Preparation of multi entity international accounts for the NASDAQ, prospectus and MD&A preparation
- Management of reporting cycles according to US GAAP
- Organization of Sarbanes Oxley documentation
Our Values
Creativity & Innovation
- We propose creative and innovative solutions that can be deployed quickly and exceed expectations.
- Our approach is proactive and initiates actions which will truly generate additional value.
Ethics & Quality
- We are primarily focused on the customer’s success and are committed to delivering results.
- We guarantee independence.
- We respect the accounting profession’s deontology and ensure confidentiality.
Contact Us
Finance by Bee SAS
2 boulevard de Courcelles 75017 Paris France
+33 6 38 81 78 01