Nora Achenani

- Consolidation and analysis of IT investment expenses for international entities, budget monitoring (Actuals, Pre-Close, Budget, 3-Year Plan) and validation of financial consistency with IT Strategic & Planning priorities.

- Production of consolidated reporting for governance bodies (COO–CIO Dialogues, Clearance Meetings) and support for preparing financial presentations for executive management.

- Participation in the BCG Benchmark exercise, comparing 8 international entities with their industry peers: preparation of the cost base for analysis (Run, Build, Infrastructure, Applications, Cloud, etc.), support for analytical review of variances, and identification of operational efficiency levers.

- Contribution to the evolution of the IT Cost Framework and improvement of monitoring processes in Anaplan and Power BI.

. Construction of Estimates and Budget for expense items managed by Budget Departments,

. Review of P&L expense items and variance analysis

• Monitoring of actual and prospective headcount (budget/Estimates) and analysis of general expenses by nature and project code,

• Monitoring correct allocation of expenses (in coordination with accounting) by nature and department,

• Production of dashboards for members of the General Management and key business managers, and improvement of existing ones,

• Providing methodological and functional business support for workshops related to the migration project to the Oracle tool: formalization of the needs statement regarding the future vision of the budget and Estimate process, and definition of expenditure commitment tracking from the Purchasing tool to accounting and Reporting.

• Management of local IT project budgets (France team of +30 FTEs) and Group IT projects (team based in London, +50 FTEs)

• Implementation of cost tracking for applications and infrastructure and analysis of their evolution,

• Construction of reporting for tracking RUN and Change project costs,

• Management of IT cost allocation keys to different legal entities of the group,

• Monitoring of capitalized IT projects and calculation of the impact of depreciation over several years.

• Positioning as a leader on group IT costs and representation of management control in various IT department instances.

• Monitoring of general expenses for the entire bank (Support and business functions),

• Implementation of new analysis reporting to improve cost tracking,

• Elaboration of the budget process and rolling forecast,

• Participation in accounting closing and implementation of allocations to support and business functions,

• Analysis and explanation of variances between actuals, budget, and forecast,

Paris, France

• Coordination between business and support function managers in activity steering meetings,

January 2018 to

July 2019

• Participation in the implementation of the IT tool migration project (Oracle Essbase Cube),

• Monitoring of transfer costs between legal entities of the group (GSA),

• Positioning as a key contact for better understanding group general expenses.