Senior finance leadership

Your brand is growing faster than your finance.

I diagnose the real problem in days, hand you the plan, and drive the change.

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Donatien Faucheur
Donatien Faucheur
Board Advisory · Consumer Finance
€1.2bn
Global, multi-brand consumer operations overseen in finance leadership.
€100k  €7m
Revenue scaled while leading finance for a founder-led consumer brand.
16+ years
Leading finance across France, Singapore and the United States.
About

I have spent my career leading finance inside consumer businesses, from global, multi-brand operations to founder-led companies scaling at speed, across Europe, Asia and the Gulf.

What I have learned is that financial problems rarely start in finance. Cash pressure can begin in demand planning. Margin erosion in pricing or product mix. An unreliable forecast can expose a deeper disconnect between teams, data and decisions.

I have worked through growth, fundraising and turnaround situations, including leading finance at global scale and rebuilding performance in businesses under pressure. Today, I bring that operating experience to CEOs, CFOs and management teams facing a specific finance challenge.

My role is to find where the problem really starts, make it clear, and work alongside the team to fix it.

Experience across
LVMH Danone fresh
Methodology

Surgical, by design.

One precise problem. A short intervention. A measurable exit. You buy outcomes, not headcount.

01

Diagnose fast

You arrive with a fuzzy problem: "we burn cash", "we can't price". We audit quickly and name the real root cause, which usually sits one step upstream of where it hurts.

02

Recommend precisely

A short, prioritized action plan. What to fix, in what order, and what each fix is worth. No hundred-page report.

03

Drive the change

I set the cadence, name who executes, and follow the plan through, especially when you don't have the time or the team to carry it alone.

CASH SYMPTOM PURCHASING FORECAST DEMAND ROOT CAUSE

The problem is rarely where it hurts.

Sectors
Consumer goods Beauty Food & FMCG Fragrance Luxury Premium beauty Retail DtC Export Marketplaces Family companies
Situations
Cash & working capital Pricing Demand & stock Fundraising Pre-sale readiness Turnaround Digital transformation Finance continuous improvement
France · Singapore · United States
Selected work

Situation, intervention, outcome.

Skincare brand

Skincare · Singapore
Situation

Scaling €100k → €7M in five years; cash leaving faster than sales brought it in, with working-capital financing tightening.

Intervention

Traced the burn upstream. Vials and glass were purchased against a demand estimate with no method. Rebuilt the chain: demand read → production forecast → purchase plan.

Outcome

Purchasing slowed to match real demand; burn came down. Later missions recruited and onboarded their finance director and supported two successive fundraises.

Full-time turnaround mandate

Consumer goods · France
Situation

A consumer-goods company in structural decline. Sixteen consecutive loss-making quarters.

Intervention

Rapid diagnosis, then an 18-action plan, priced, sequenced and owned, executed at fixed cadence with the management team.

Outcome

Two consecutive profitable quarters within eighteen months; full-year trend upward.

Marketing agency

Services · France
Situation

No method to price engagements; the same work made or lost money deal by deal, unpredictably.

Intervention

Built a pricing method anchored to the value delivered per engagement.

Outcome

Pricing became a decision instead of a guess.

Engagement

Start focused. Scale what works.

01

Diagnostic call

Thirty minutes on your numbers and your symptom. You leave with a first read on where the real problem sits, whether or not we work together.

30 min · Video · No preparation needed
02

Surgical mission

One precise problem: cash burn, pricing, stock, a deal you can't judge alone. Diagnosis, action plan, and execution support until it's fixed.

Scoped & time-based · Weeks, not months
03

Advisory board seat

For brands in take-off. Ten hours a month of finance judgment at the board level, and the hard questions your cap table isn't asking.

10 h/month · Equity-aligned · Milestone-vested
Next step

Tell me what's eating your cash.

A focused conversation. No pitch deck. Thirty minutes to understand fit, and you'll leave with a first read either way.

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