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Amine G.AG

Amine G.

Financial & Operational Performance

€780/day
Paris, FR
8-15 years

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About Amine

Interim Manager | Financial & Operational Performance | Value Creation
Engineer | Executive MBA -ESCP Business School

Professional Summary

I improve EBITDA and operational performance for departments and companies - CEO, CFO, COO, Purchasing Directors - by leveraging cost optimization levers, challenging investment decisions, and managing high-impact transformation programs.
10+ years in PE-backed and corporate mandates - banking, telecom infrastructure, retail, construction. Over €3M in quantified and delivered financial impact.
End-to-end model: financial and operational diagnosis → business case (ROI, TCO, NPV, scenario modeling) → implementation → measurable results.

Core Competencies

Transformation Program Management & Executive PMO: Managing strategic programs focused on financial and operational performance.
Financial Performance & EBITDA Improvement: P&L analysis, margin optimization, cost structure diagnosis, vendor & contract optimization, budget/forecast/actual, variance analysis. Direct EBITDA impact on mandates from €25M to €270M.
Finance & Process Transformation: E2E mapping, FTE sizing, governance redesign, automation.
Business Case & Strategic Analysis: ROI, Payback, NPV, scenario modeling & simulations.
Offshoring & Outsourcing RFP: Structuring and managing offshoring initiatives and outsourcing RFPs as levers for sustainable cost optimization.
AI & Agentic AI: Use case design, roadmaps, build vs buy, data readiness, AI governance.
Supplier & Contract Optimization: Creation of contractual services, Vendor Management, spend optimization.
Tools: SAP S/4HANA, SAP Ariba, Apptio TBM, Power BI, Advanced Excel.
  • Arabic

    Native or bilingual

  • English

    Fluent

  • French

    Native or bilingual

Can work on-site
Paris (up to 50km)

Experience

  • Société Générale
    Finance & Cost Transformation Lead – €270M Capex/Opex | 4 days/Week
    BANKING AND INSURANCE
    September 2024 - Today (1 year and 9 months)
    Paris, France
    McKinsey transformation program. Embedded execution mandate within the IT Finance team - Costing, Billing, Offshoring, AI - €270M envelope. Direct reporting to IT Finance management.

    • Diagnosis and identification of savings levers (Telecom, Security, Mainframe, Cloud) - 5% OPEX identified, McKinsey recommendations aligned.
    • Executes the construction of IT business cases (ROI, TCO, scenarios).
    • Deploys the high-impact offshoring program in India - cost reduction, process optimization, and enhanced governance.
    • Defines AI use cases and functional specifications (NLP classification, clustering, regression) to improve cost allocation and forecast accuracy.
    • Transforms the Costing & Pricing process - saving 2 FTEs through automation - variance <1% between costing, forecasting, and billing.
    • Manages executive committees with operations and internal clients - budget performance, cost analysis, and pricing variances.
    • Provides support for Budget / Forecast / Actual cycles.

    Results: 5% OPEX savings identified - <1% costing/billing variance - 2 FTE productivity gain - McKinsey methodology aligned.
    Organizational Transformation Cost Optimization Finance Strategic PMO Artificial Intelligence
  • AFG Bank
    Engagement Manager & CEO Deputy Advisor – AI Driven Cost Transformation | Fixed-Price Engagement|Mali
    BANKING AND INSURANCE
    June 2025 - January 2026 (7 months)
    Bamako, Mali
    Pan-African bank with entirely manual Finance and Procurement processes. FTE overload, lack of cost visibility, absence of RFP and Contract Management framework. Full transformation mandate - agentic AI roadmap, business case validated by Deputy CEO & Prototype presented to the CFO and Purchasing Director.

    • Defines the scope of cost optimization through AI for Finance (quarterly process execution) and Procurement (RFP and Contract Management).
    • Executes stakeholder interviews (Finance, Procurement, IT) - E2E mapping of Opex, Budget, RFP, Contract Management processes - FTE sizing per process.
    • Identifies and prioritizes high ROI AI use cases (Opex, headcount, procurement) - solutions benchmark, RFI, build vs buy.
    • Constructs the complete Business Case: ROI, TCO, implementation costs, financial modeling by scenarios (base, conservative, stress-test) - €326K/year savings in the medium scenario.
    • Designs the agentic AI roadmap, governance model, and implementation plan.
    • Manages two senior consultants for the duration of the mandate.

    Results: €326K projected savings/year - €41K productivity gain/year - 3 scenarios modeled - Business case validated by Deputy CEO.
    Business Model Finance Corporate Strategy Organizational Transformation Agentic AI
  • CARREFOUR
    Transformation Manager for Contract & Supplier Spend Department – €60M Capex/Opex | 18 months
    RETAIL (LARGE RETAILERS)
    June 2023 - December 2024 (1 year and 6 months)
    Massy, France
    Complete overhaul of the Contract & Supplier Spend function. Operational management of the department - budget monitoring, supplier relations, contractual compliance.

    • Rebuilt the Contract & Supplier Spend function from scratch.
    • Delivered €650K/year in savings through billing optimization and automation.
    • Recovered €350K/year due to supplier non-compliance.
    • Improved the Order-to-Pay process - rejection rate dropped from 30% to 5%.
    • Managed supplier performance reviews and contract renewals.
    • Managed two consultants for the duration of the mandate.

    Results: €650K/year savings on billing - €350K recovered from non-compliance - PO rejection rate 30% -> 5%.
    Contract Management Spend Analysis Vendor Management Billing Process Facilitation

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Education

  • Master of Business Administration
    ESCP Business School
    2025
    Executive MBA,
  • EMBA Exchange Program
    McCombs School of Business, University of Texas at Austin
    2026

Certifications

  • Lean Management
    Centrale Lyon
    2021
  • Change Management
    ESSEC
    2021

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