Olivia Chenal

CARGILL Flavour Systems(UK) Manchester, UK 11/2006-03/2007 and 06/2007 -11/2007
Management Account Trainee
· Produced monthly financial reports from S.A.P for the leadership team regarding sales, expenses, credits and profitability. Ex: Cost centre reports, Purchase Price variation
· Prepared the budget 2007/2008 concentrating on cost centre overheads and attended to budget meetings
· Assisted to a “Cost to Serve” project to breakdown the budget into categories and product lines
· Posted payment dates of account payable on S.A.P.
· Monitored and followed up purchase orders matching with invoices and proof of deliveries
· Archived invoices due to the move of the company

Toshoku Ltd (Japanese Trading House owned by CARGILL) London, UK 10/2006
Trainee
· Researched French products for the Japanese customers
· Participated to food exhibitions to investigate and introduce some potential suppliers according to the products the Japanese office needed for their customers
SIAL: The Global Food Market place. Prospected for providers of grape seed oil, chocolates and marrons glacés. Explored new food trends.
Salon du Chocolat: Prospected and scheduled meetings with French chocolate makers for Japanese customers looking for a partnership in Japan. Translator French/English
· Scheduled some visits of supermarkets in Paris for Japanese customers to discover French products
· Collected and recorded transport documentations and commercial contract
· Followed up outstanding businesses of a colleague during his break.

Sector: Agribusiness and agriculture