Bids & profitability
Build a defensible price by connecting inflation, margin, risk, cash and billing plans.
- Pricing
- Cash
- IFRS 15
Bids & Projects Financial Controller
Matthieu Saragoza, financial controller in Valence, France
Based in Valence, France, I support bids and projects with robust assumptions, clear variance analysis and decision-ready financial insight.
Valence · France
01 · Profile
From bid framing to project financial control.
I challenge assumptions, explain variances and create a shared view across finance, sales and operations.
Performance & data
Make budgets, forecasts and month-end closes reliable, then surface the variances that require a decision.
- ETC / EAC
- Power BI
- KPI
Coordination & decisions
Align finance, sales and operations around a shared view and turn variances into action.
- Gate reviews
- Reporting
- Variances
Manifesto
A figure is only worth the decision it informs. I challenge assumptions, make variances readable and give finance, sales and operations one shared reading.
Matthieu Saragoza · Valence
02 · Case studies
Three situations. One method.
Representative situations showing how I frame risk, make information reliable and prepare decisions.
Bids
De-risk a bid before commitment
- Situation
- A bid commits margin, cash and revenue-recognition conditions for the long term.
- Approach
- Challenge inflation and price-escalation assumptions, consolidate the billing plan and prepare Gate reviews.
Scope
- Price
- Margin
- Cash
- IFRS 15
Performance
Turn reporting into a decision tool
- Situation
- Fragmented analyses make industrial performance harder to read.
- Approach
- Structure data, replace selected Excel analyses and support teams as they adopt a Power BI tool.
Scope
- Power BI
- KPI
- Variances
- Adoption
Portfolio
Control a complex project portfolio
- Situation
- More than 40 development and production projects require a consistent view of cost, cash and progress.
- Approach
- Consolidate ETC / EAC, budgets, forecasts and cash while structuring order-intake reporting on a P&L line covering €400m across two profit centres.
Scope
- 40+ projects
- €400m · order intake
- Forecast
- Cash
03 · Experience
A career built around projects.
From industrial analysis to bids and project financial control, I have progressively brought data, finance and operations closer together. I have also recently started lecturing on performance indicators at IUT de Valence.
IUT de Valence
TeachingVisiting Lecturer · Performance Indicators (KPIs)
- Teaching a method to find and isolate the KPIs that matter for a given audience and the decision they must inform.
Thales
PermanentBids & Projects Financial Controller
- Securing bid financial parameters: inflation, price escalation, margin, cash and billing plans.
- Ensuring IFRS 15 compliance, revenue recognition and validation of assumptions during Gate reviews.
- Managing ETC / EAC, budgets, forecasts, month-end close and cash across a portfolio of 40+ projects.
- Managing order-intake reporting on a P&L line covering €400m across two profit centres.
Thales
Fixed-termBusiness Controller · Budgeting & Commercial
- Monitoring overheads, the Multi Year Budget, productive-hour rates, allocations and variances.
- Setting up and tracking projects, costs and project revenue under IFRS 15.
- Contributing to a Power BI tool for industrial performance reporting.
Thales
ApprenticeshipProject Financial Controller
- Building and analysing the RESAN management report for the Radiology and IriX business areas.
- Monitoring provisions, time-and-material services and project commitments.
- Implementing Power BI to replace selected Excel analyses.
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- Accounting entry and review of suspense account 471.
Education
Academic foundations
DUT GEA
Business and Administrative Management
Erasmus · Estonia
Academic and intercultural experience
Master 2 CGAO
Management Control and Organisational Auditing
Two worlds. The same exacting approach.Fletchy / RoomShift
Atmosphere illustration · conceptual vision, not a photograph of the venue
04 · Entrepreneurial venture
Fletchy — hospitality, from idea to operations.
Based in Montélimar, Fletchy offers apartments for short stays and develops distinctive guest experiences. As Managing Director, I oversee the support functions and systems behind the operation.
A Fletchy concept
RoomShift — The Verlac Protocol
RoomShift is an immersive experience set inside an apartment offered for short stays by Fletchy. I designed its local Home Assistant orchestration for two people, with no actor or operator during the session.
- people
- 2
- session
- 9–11 pm
- on site
- 1 night
- Drôme
- Montélimar
Local orchestration
I designed the Home Assistant architecture that synchronises the space and triggers its responses to player actions, without an operator during the session.
Reactive scenography
I orchestrated the lighting and sound environments, scenarios and transitions that support the journey without revealing its mechanics.
Controlled operation
Pre-session checks, equipment tests, preparation, launch and reset frame every playthrough.
Resilience & safety
Graceful fallbacks, consistency checks, an emergency stop and the ability to leave at any time help keep the experience safe.
05 · Contact
Your move. Our next chapter.
To discuss financial control, industrial projects or the work behind Fletchy and RoomShift, contact me directly.