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I specialize in strategic management, IT governance, and coordinating complex transformations in the banking and financial sector. My experience includes audit missions, mergers & acquisitions, program management, project leadership, and supporting IT departments on high-stakes issues.
I have developed solid expertise in demanding environments, requiring the structuring of governance, ensuring execution, coordinating multiple stakeholders, and providing visibility to management. I primarily operate at the interface between management, IT, business units, operations, and control functions.
Throughout my career, I have managed or supported transformation programs, business integrations, technical modernization projects, as well as governance, executive reporting, and budget and capacity tracking. Currently, I hold a role close to management, with a strong focus on cross-functional coordination, decision support, and priority management.
My approach combines analysis, structuring, synthesis, and execution skills, with a constant goal: to make complex subjects more readable, manageable, and actionable.
French
Native or bilingual
English
Fluent
Can work on-site
Paris (up to 50km)
Experience
- Inelys Conseil,FounderBANKING AND INSURANCEApril 2025 - Today (1 year and 4 months)Paris, FranceChief of Staff / IT General Secretariat Lead – Governance, Strategic Management, and IT Transformation
- Direct support to IT management on governance, strategic management, and cross-functional transformation issues;
- Structuring and leading the IT General Secretariat as a central function for coordination, visibility, and decision support;
- Management of the initiative portfolio, strategic action plans, and IT department priorities;
- Preparation of governance meetings, formalization of decisions, and production of executive materials for top management;
- Design and implementation of reporting and dashboards for objective tracking of progress, deviations, and tension points;
- Monitoring of budget, capacity, and organizational issues, contributing to resource and priority arbitration;
- Coordination of high-visibility cross-functional topics, related to operational performance, suppliers, contracts, IT risks, and major transformations;
- Interface role between management, teams, and stakeholders, with a strong emphasis on clarity, reliability, and execution;
- Contribution to strengthening the IT department's operating methods and aligning strategic ambitions with actual capabilities and delivery trajectories.
- Beam Advisory,Partner & Co-founder @ Beam AdvisoryBANKING AND INSURANCENovember 2016 - March 2025 (8 years and 4 months)Paris, FranceProgram and Transformation Project Management in Banking, Asset Servicing, and Financial Infrastructures
- Support for strategic transformation programs in complex, international, and highly governed banking and financial environments;
- Involvement in several post-acquisition integration programs, with cross-functional management of IT, business, organizational, and operational aspects;
- Contribution to the integration, by a leading French bank, of activities acquired from foreign banking institutions, in contexts with high execution stakes;
- Management of an international payments transformation project aimed at deploying a standardized platform and rationalizing existing systems;
- Leadership of a major technical migration project involving the switch from a database management system to a more robust and sustainable target environment;
- Support for an activity onboarding project with significant operational, regulatory, and organizational implications in the financial markets sector;
- Structuring of global management, ensuring alignment of schedules, securing milestones, managing dependencies, and tracking action plans;
- Preparation of steering committees and governance bodies, formalizing alerts, consolidating executive reporting, and supporting decision-making;
- Close coordination of IT, business, operations, support functions, and control functions in sensitive transformation contexts;
- Contribution to securing delivery trajectories, improving managerial visibility, and controlling execution risks;
- Positioning as a strategic PMO / Project Director, at the intersection of governance, cross-functional orchestration, and operational efficiency.
- Aurexia ConsultingManagerBANKING AND INSURANCEMay 2013 - October 2016 (3 years and 5 months)Paris, FranceGlobal PMO on a Major Pan-European Post-Trade Transformation Program
- Support for a structuring transformation program of post-trade infrastructures in an international banking environment;
- Organization and leadership of the program's overall management, establishing governance suited to the complexity of the setup;
- Coordination of multiple workstreams and consolidation of a cross-functional view of progress;
- Monitoring of milestones, risks, critical dependencies, and mitigation actions;
- Preparation of committees, formalization of management elements, and production of reporting for management;
- Support for arbitration and prioritization of sensitive topics in a context of high operational exposure;
- Contribution to the control of a complex program involving numerous stakeholders and major transformation challenges.
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Education
- EXECUTIVE CERTIFICATE IN LEAN SIX SIGMAGREEN BELTEXECUTIVE CERTIFICATE IN LEAN SIX SIGMA
- Msc. in managementReims Management School / ESC Reims2007Msc. in management