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Description

Senior finance professional with over 22 years of experience in management control, project finance, CAPEX steering, and ERP/IT systems management, within large international groups (RTE, Shell, Veolia, Engie) and French companies.

Solid expertise in infrastructure and renewable energy projects, multi-project and multi-country environments, and complex organizations. Recognized for the ability to structure financial processes, secure and improve the economic performance of the company and its projects, and manage large-scale ERP transformations (SAP, Cognos, Sage X3, Yooz, Odoo, custom solutions).

Confirmed manager, accustomed to working in demanding contexts, under high pressure, and with multiple stakeholders.

Languages

French
Native or bilingual
English
Fluent
Vietnamese
Native or bilingual

Workplace preferences

Can work on-site

Paris (up to 50km)

RTE – RESEAU DE TRANSPORT D'ELECTRICITE
Consultant – Major Project Management Control
May 2025 - February 2026 (9 months)
Paris, France
• Support to operational teams for the identification and analysis of financial risks impacting project performance and RTE's financial exposure.
• Analysis of contractual clauses and financial appendices (price indexing, penalties, claims mechanisms, bank guarantees, advances, payment schedules).
• Support to buyers and contract managers in clarifying and negotiating supplier contracts.
• Review of Estimate at Completion (EAC) assumptions, risk provisions, annual CAPEX allocations, and cash flow curves.
• Design and deployment of tools for calculating price revisions and reporting risks.
• Scope:
◦ - 9 projects under construction (connection cables): CAPEX €1.6 billion
◦ - 7 pre-construction projects (connection cables & offshore substation): CAPEX €13 billion
LES EOLIENNES EN MER SERVICES (LEMS)
EPCI Management Control Manager
October 2022 - May 2025 (2 years and 7 months)
• Steering project budgets for two offshore wind farms under construction (cumulative budget of €5.3 billion over 4 years).
• Implementation and management of cost tracking tools, procure-to-pay processes, and cash flows.
• Close collaboration with EPCI work package managers and the Purchasing Department to improve financial processes and economic performance.
• Management of annual closings, budgets, forecasts, and actuals for the EPCI scope.
• Production of monthly reports and validation of purchase orders, invoices, and payments.
• ERP Administrator and responsible for deploying financial tools.
• Management of the EPCI cost controllers team.
ROYAL DUTCH SHELL
Financial & IT Migration Manager
December 2019 - September 2022 (2 years and 9 months)
Corporate Management Control Manager:
• Operational reporting of financial data by entity, by project
• Supervision, control, and support of operations for various departments: accounting, treasury, contracts & procurement.
• Control, monitoring, and creation of purchase orders, validation for payment of invoices for all activities
• TimeWriting, WBS Administrator: system configuration, analysis and creation of data reporting (time tracking, internal cost by profile and activity)
Financial & IT Migration Manager
• Steering the migration of financial and technical data to Shell systems.
• Main interface with internal and external auditors; processing of findings and action plans.
• Definition of new WBS structures and alignment of processes according to Shell standards.
• Coordination of international teams (Netherlands, Poland, India, Philippines).
IT & ERP Manager
• Steering IT infrastructure evolutions (servers, networks, service providers, hardware, and software).
• Analysis, configuration, and deployment of SAP.
• SAP Administrator and Super User (PO, invoicing, time, WBS).