Senior Consultant / Project Manager

• 2012 - Present

Consulting contracts requiring a Finance/Audit background: Short/medium term Project Management engagements* for clients' Finance departments; Financial Controlling, Forecasting; FP&A; Preparation or analysis of business plans/cases/memoranda; Regulatory Reporting; ‘SOX Compliance’/ ICFR**. * Effective interface for clients’ Finance departments and liaison with IT teams, for the implementation & monitoring of ad hoc software solutions: - Analyzed and/or compiled business requirements, led workshops in order to finalize / validate them; - Assisted in the interpretation of business requirements into application and operational requirements, in collaboration with development teams (in-house IT department or third party software vendors); - Facilitated User Acceptance Testing and performed Quality Management (Pre-production environment); - Managed project teams, participated in early monitoring / Quality Management (Production environment); - Managed, assessed, and timely communicated project status, issues and risks to executive stakeholders; - Developed operational and transition documentation. Conducted knowledge transfer/training with end users. ** Sarbanes-Oxley Act, Section 404 / Internal Control over Financial Reporting: - Documentation & Design, following top-down approach from financial statements: Business Processes, Risk Mapping, Scope, Control Objectives, Key Controls – preventive & detective, Materiality thresholds, frequency of Effectiveness Testing. - Testing of Design Effectiveness: following inspection of documentation and observation of operations, performed walkthroughs (from transaction origination) and inquiries/interviews of key personnel; documented results and reported on recommendations – including possible alternative controls (risk mitigation), if applicable. - Testing of Operational Effectiveness: performed, supervised – and trained consultants for – quarterly/annual ‘substantive testing’; presented reporting to senior management. Show less

From Senior Consultant to Deputy Manager

• 2008 - 2011

CONSULTING Project Management / Change Management engagements, involving the following: - Assessment, problem-solving and recommendation. - Planning. - Implementation of new operational processes, from set-up to information consolidation and team coordination. Monitoring & Controlling. - Closing, including Knowledge Transfer. ADVISORY Transaction Advisory Services (buy-side advisory, small & lower middle market): - Participated in, or led, Financial Due Diligence and other transaction-related services, assisting both corporations and private equity firms; - Acquired skills in interviewing executive management, as well as experience assessing target companies' quality of earnings, net assets and cash flows. Experience debut in M&A services: analyzed offering memoranda, conducted acquisition target searches. AUDIT & ASSURANCE Led teams (or participated) in: Financial Reporting, Financial Audits. Major accounts / assignments: >> Transaction Advisory Services (TAS) Cross-border transactions for which I conducted TAS assignments in global partnership with internal teams involving BDO Chicago, BDO Boston and BDO London. >> CAPGEMINI Recurring Project Management / Change Management assignments, from October 2008 to June 2011; particularly, assisted with account approvals, within the framework of long-term projects' accruals (significant reduction of Balance Sheet WIP/BIA positions), in the context of limited knowledge transfer following important executive turnover streaks. Show less

From Junior Auditor to Senior Auditor

• 2004 - 2008

STATUTORY AUDITS and INTERNAL CONTROL AUDITS Performed legal and contractual auditing ­- including SOX (Sarbanes-Oxley compliance) audits - ­for French subsidiaries of international groups. CONSULTING Contributed to the development of the firm's consulting branch. Acquired initial experience in Project Management, Change Management and team supervision, including notably medium-term assignments in the banking and insurance industries. ADVISORY Experience debut in Transaction Services, by participating in Financial Due Diligence assignments. Major accounts / assignments: >> HELVETIA Assurances (insurance company) – Project Management / Change Management >> KADANT (global industrial equipment manufacturer, papermaking/recycling) – SOX Compliance >> IXIS Investor Services (now "CACEIS") – Regulatory Reporting, Treasury Management Show less

Assistant Financial Analyst / Journalist

• Jul 2002 - Oct 2002