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🎯I make performance measurable, fast, and reliable by integrating automation into your financial and operational processes. Result: informed decisions, time saved, and friction-free growth management.
🛠️Support formats:
- One-off mission: Audit, replacement, onboarding of less experienced profiles, financial modeling, analysis, P&L construction, Budget, Dashboard, RACI
- Part-time: 1-4 days/week for 6-18 months OR full-time
- Transformation project (ERP, fundraising, LBO...): Intensive support for 1-12 months
- Strategic consulting for executives on AI automation
🔍What sets me apart?
- Dual expertise 🎓 Engineering (Arts et Métiers) / 🏦 FINANCE and the ability to navigate with different business lines (increase revenue? scale the company operationally? measure KPIs? )
- 14 years of experience and 7 sectors supported
🏆Results achieved:
Reduced closing process by 3 weeks (near real-time closing – Wakam)
+15% product profitability and –20% obsolete stock (ST Dupont Luxe)
€2M annual savings on stock, transport, and customer returns (Oscaro, e-commerce)
€100M/year savings on logistics costs through industrial transformation (La Poste)
Major contribution to fundraising rounds and international subsidiary openings
🚀 **Multi-sector experience**: Insurance, Tech/Scale-up, Luxury, E-commerce, Logistics/Transport, Industry, Education, and Mass Retail.
French
Native or bilingual
English
Fluent
Spanish
Conversational
Can work on-site
Paris (up to 50km)
Experience
- BPCEFinance Transition ManagerBANKING AND INSURANCESeptember 2025 - Today (11 months)Paris, FranceClient Context and Challenges– In a context of financial and regulatory transformation (IFRS17), I am involved in ensuring the reliability of financial management, automating reporting, and implementing integrated decision-making tools.– The Life and Health Insurance segment required robust financial process framing, reliable consolidated reporting, and enhanced analysis for the COMEX.– Objective: Industrialize forecasts, ensure reliable closing, improve FTE (Full-Time Equivalent) visibility, and accelerate decision-making.Approach and Method– Building a comprehensive Power BI Finance ecosystem connected to DALI, NetDecision (Matisse), Rembrandt, and AXEL (commitments).– Developing data models, DAX measures, and dashboards: P&L, costs, payroll, headcount (FTE), closings/forecasts, and executive analyses.– Redesigning processes to align Group vs. Division views and secure consolidation data.– Cross-functional coordination with Management Control, HR, Actuarial, and Accounting teams.– Structuring FTE reporting (active/inactive, departures/arrivals, departments, projects) and ensuring HR status reliability with ETPics.– Implementing automated consistency checks.Results and Impact– 40% reduction in time spent producing key FP&A reports.– 100% increase in reliability for FTE, cost, and Group alignment data.– Consolidated and actionable financial view for management.– Scalable and maintainable reporting, reusable for future periods.– Increased clarity on forecast variances, improved forecasting, and better anticipation of expenses.Skills Utilized– Management Control & FP&A– Power BI (DAX, Data Model, Dashboarding)– NetDecision, Matisse, DALI, Rembrandt, AXEL– Forecast, Closing, P&L, Landing– FTE Management, Data Governance, Automation– Finance / HR / Actuarial Coordination– IFRS17 · Life / Savings / Health Insurance
- WAKAM-InsurTECHFP&A ManagerBANKING AND INSURANCEMay 2021 - June 2025 (4 years and 1 month)Paris, FranceClient Context and Challenge- For 4 years at Wakam (a fast-growing French insurtech company with international reach), I held a central role in management control, financial management, and strategic support to the COMEX.- The company tripled its revenue in 3 years, leading to major challenges in scalability, digitalization of financial processes, and structuring performance management in a scale-up environment.Approach and Method- Team management and creation of all financial management tools.- Implementation of robust processes: real-time cost accounting, purchasing policy, expense tracking, automation via YOOZ.- Deployment of EPM solutions (Anaplan / Pigment) and Power BI dashboards for real-time financial reporting.- Coordination of strategic investments (HR, CAPEX).- COMEX Business Partner, supporting strategic decisions (budget, forecast, fundraising, investments).Results and Impact- General expenses controlled despite a 3x increase in revenue, thanks to process scalability and digitalization.- Reduced closing process by 3 weeks: moved to a near real-time closing.- Major contribution to the fundraising project.- Implementation of monthly product/partner tracking (MPR), a key strategic decision-making tool.- Successful deployment of EPM and Power BI tools, improving productivity and reporting quality.- Opening and structuring of the British subsidiary, securing a market representing over 50% of the business.Skills Utilized- Management Control & FP&A (Financial Planning & Analysis)- COMEX Business Partner- Management & Digitalization of the Finance Function- EPM (Anaplan, Pigment), Power BI- Scale-up Business Plan & Forecast- Budgetary Control & Automated Closing- Financial Scalability & Cost Control- Tech Scale-up / Insurance / SaaS
- OMNES EDUCATIONFinance ManagerEDUCATION AND E-LEARNINGApril 2021 - May 2021 (1 month)Paris, FranceClient Context and Challenge- OMNES Education (formerly INSEEC U), a group comprising over 30 subsidiaries and schools across several cities, had to meet a strict regulatory requirement: declare margins per program (MBA, Master, BBA, Grande École) annually to ensure state funding for apprenticeships.- The difficulty lay in the complexity of student pathways: each student had a unique, customizable curriculum, making margin calculations particularly complex. The challenge was therefore to produce reliable, consolidated, and replicable reporting within a very short timeframe.Approach and MethodI led the project from start to finish in just over a month:- Collection and consolidation of data from over 30 subsidiaries.- Financial modeling of costs and revenues per student and per program, despite the granularity of personalized pathways.- Implementation of an automated model to recalculate margins annually.- Development of interactive reporting in Power BI, providing clear and immediate visualization of margins by program and by subsidiary.Results and Impact- Regulatory compliance ensured within the deadlines set by the state.- Significant time savings for financial teams, who previously had scattered and difficult-to-use data.- Clear and strategic view of margins per program, allowing the group to manage training profitability more effectively.- Sustainable tool, reusable each year and adaptable to program evolution.Skills Utilized- Multi-subsidiary Management Control- Financial Modeling and Margin Calculation- Regulatory Data Consolidation- Power BI & Interactive Reporting- Project Management under tight deadlines
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Education
- Arts et Métiers ParisTech EngineerArts et Métiers ParisTech2010Ingénieur Arts et Métiers ParisTech Résultat : 59 ème /7800 · juil. 2008
- Master of ManagementIAE Aix-en-Provence2011Master Spé Management General Finance/Stratégie
Certifications
- Power BI - AdvancedCegos France2024
- 🔹 Technical Hard Skills (tools, software, methods) Advanced Excel (VBA, macros, modeling) Power BI (reporting & data visualization) ERP SAP FICO / BFC / AX / JDE EPM Tools (Anaplan, Pigment, Magnitude, Tidemark) Sage (accounting & financial management) Cegid (accounting & budget management) Workday Finance Pennylane (reporting & treasury) Automation of Financial Reporting Data visualization & financial storytelling Fast close methods Automated Budget & Forecast Business Intelligence Applied to Finance KPI Design & Real-time Monitoring Product / Market Profitability Analysis Pricing & Pricing Policy Working Capital Management (inventory, receivables, payables) Cash Flow Management & Treasury Planning Multi-subsidiary Consolidation Lean Finance Methodologies / Process Optimization 🔹 Functional / Business Skills Management Control (FP&A) Cost Accounting COMEX / Executive Business Partnering Consolidated Business Plan & P&L Financial Forecasting & Long-term Modeling Multi-subsidiary / International Reporting Fundraising & Investor Preparation Financial Management of LBOs & External Growth Finance PMO (ERP, EPM, transformation) Restructuring & Financial Process Reliability Medium/Long-term Strategic Plan Digital Transformation of the Finance Function Budgetary Control & Expense Tracking Financial Audit & Feasibility Analysis CAPEX & OPEX Project Management Supply Chain & Logistics Optimization Regulatory Management & Compliance (Insurance, ARCEP) Multi-sector Management (Luxury, E-commerce, Insurance, Industry, Logistics, Tech, Retail) Support for Scale-ups & Mid-sized Companies in Hypergrowth 🔹 Soft Skills (management, communication, leadership) Management of Finance & Transversal Teams Change Management & Organizational Transformation Financial Communication & KPI Simplification Negotiation with Partners & Institutions Leadership in Complex Environments (Scale-ups, Large Groups) Cross-functional Project Management Steering Committee / COMEX Meetings Executive Coaching & Finance Coaching Analytical Rigor & Quick Decision-making Strategic Vision & Business OrientationFinance2020