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Work Background

onepointPerf & Risk - Performance Improvement

Jun. 2021Paris, Île-de-France, France · Hybrid

BNP Paribas CIBProduct Management and Transformation

Aug. 2021 - Dec. 2022

Self-employedIndependent Consultant (Finance, Management & Strategy) & Angel Investor

Apr. 2012 - Jun. 2021International• Managed and supported the implementation of projects across various industries • Prepared financial models, feasibility studies, business plans and business valuations • Invested and provided investment strategy and strategic planning advice • Designed and implemented development, marketing, and partnership strategies • Enabled and facilitated numerous partnerships, and managed multiple event productions

Dedicated ProductionsCo-Founder & Strategy Consultant

Jun. 2017 - Jan. 2019Paris Area, FranceDedicated Productions was a Parisian event management company and talent management agency representing musicians on the European and Asian markets. As a co-founder of the company and a strategy consultant, I performed the following tasks: -Prepared simple intuitive and efficient feasibility studies and business plans, for different event concepts + prepared the fund-raising portfolio -Designed and implemented development, marketing and partnership strategies -Enabled multiple partnerships with collectives, publishing houses, online platforms and music festivals (contacting, networking, connecting stakeholders, organizing meetings, and negotiating terms) -Organized over 15 events productions and 5 artist tours (reservations, coordination, purchasing, etc.)

Groupe ESGLecturer

Oct. 2017 - May. 2018Paris Area, FranceLecturer, teaching intermediate and advanced Excel financial modelling to students in 3rd year Bachelor's cycle and 2nd year Master's cycle of the "Management of International Development" curriculum

ArpusConsulting Manager

Sep. 2017 - Jun. 2021International- Delivered several Public Sector projects and managed multiple large workstreams (teams of 3-5 consultants and several teams of sub-contractors), including strategy development, organizational design, and target operating model - Delivered several Digital Strategy projects, including user journeys and process optimization - Supported international consulting firms with Subject Matter expertise, including strategy office execution Clients include: THIQAH, SASO, ArRiyadh Development Authority, Modon + Several Ministries and Government Entities

Soufflet GroupFinancial Communication Manager

May. 2021 - Jun. 2021Nogent-sur-Seine, Grand Est, France

IMPACT GDPR / IMPACT RGPDSenior Consultant - Audit-Consulting-Training for EU GDPR Compliance

May. 2018 - Sep. 2018Paris Area, FranceAudit (data flows, storage, systems, and treatments), consulting, implementation support and certified trainings for compliance with the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation. Clients included: On Va Bosser, EFREI, Musée des Arts Décoratifs

AntalisJunior Product & Launch Manager - Services

Jan. 2017 - Sep. 2017Boulogne-Billancourt Area, FranceWithin the Services department at Antalis, largest paper distributor in Europe, my tasks were: Strategy and project management: - Preparing monthly performance review dashboards › Consolidating performance data from multiple ERPs in a unified format › Analyzing performance progression of the different services in each country › Identifying potential improvement opportunities › Producing dashboards aggregating the analyses and conclusions - Organizing the performance review workshops, coordinating between different stakeholders - Coordinating between different stakeholders and preparing process design and improvement workshops - Conducting competitive benchmarks Developing new products and services in close collaboration with the IT department, the various subsidiaries of the Group and the clients: - Supporting the management and the development of new products and services with the IT department. - Producing status update reports and organizing workshops › Testing the web application and proposing repairs and improvements (bug corrections, functional improvements, UX/UI optimizations) - Performing market studies (Competitive benchmarks and surveying the clients' operational needs) - Consolidating the demands of different countries/subsidiaries - Finalizing new elements of products/services and business processes - Supporting the production and monitoring business and launch plans. Preparing and executing a launch plan: - In collaboration with internal and external resources, in each target market and country, creating launch packs by country (potential identification, business plan, service elements, processes, trainings, and marketing and sales programs) - Controlling the consolidated launch plan, monitor results, and support the countries in their launch plans and eventual adjustments. Internal Communication: writing and publishing the Services department’s newsletters.

EYSenior Consultant - Capital & Infrastructure Advisory(C&IA)

Jun. 2014 - Jul. 2015I was part of C&IA, the Program Management team that works with clients to reduce the risk of program failure through independent assessments and help reducing unwanted surprises by identifying critical risks in time to make informed decisions and avoid costly overruns. Client tasks I was responsible for include : - Leading a team analyzing, mapping, and proposing improvement solutions to an oil & gas client’s project end-to-end delivery processes and governance (covering c. 30 years) - Analyzing and reorganizing client’s key documents (processes, procedures, accountabilities and responsibilities, etc.), complex and spread across several media - Remotely manage a team of 9 researching global practices on workforce nationalization, analyze their results, select 8 comparable examples and steer and refine the research - Writing reports on worldwide leading practices around workforce nationalization In addition to client work, my tasks at EY included: - Responding to Requests for Proposals (RFPs) › Estimating the need in human resources in terms of workdays by rank, deducing and optimizing the necessary budget › Verifying compliance: anti-money laundering › Managing risks: Conflicts of interests and human resources › Organizing the “go/no-go” analyses and decision panels › Writing proposal content. - Monitor and manage the performance of the C&IA team and the sales pipeline › Analyzing the number of hours invoiced against our project budgets › Analyzing the sales performance of the C&IA against the sales targets - Analyzing the future needs in human resources in terms of required profiles/competencies and projected man-hour/man-day needs, in order to anticipate eventual hires or cross-functional staffing from other EY teams. - Preparing weekly performance update reports - Organizing and managing weekly performance monitoring and management conference calls. Sectors: public sector, energy & utilities, transport, education

PricewaterhouseCoopersConsultant - Deals, Capital Projects & Infrastructure

Jan. 2011 - Mar. 2014While at PwC I worked on multiple assignments mainly in the areas of Transaction Services , Business Valuations and Capital Projects & Infrastructure services. Some of the tasks I handled include: - Designing the structure and architecture of financial models, presenting them to the client and acquiring their approval (ministers & board members), and: › Leading the team that developed the financial models › Writing the technical user guides of financial models - Investment strategy for sovereign wealth funds: Analyzing 6 target countries for the energy & utilities sector, as well as 6 target countries for airports › Analyzing the viability of these opportunities according to key performance indicators (KPIs) agreed with the client. In order to measure, among other things, profitability, and some risks (economic, legal, geopolitical, etc.) › Identifying the potential procurement and financing structures possible by country and by opportunity - Preparing country-specific and sector-specific profile sheets. - Preparing and writing-up the progress update reports In addition to client work my internal PwC tasks included : - Monitoring and managing project performance: comparing charged manhours agains des budgets - Preparing periodic performance reports - Proposals › Researching the market and future potential opportunities and requests for proposals, and writing proposals › Estimating needs in resources (man-hours by grade), and deducing and optimizing the corresponding budgets › Managing risks: Conflicts of interests and human resources requirements, compliance (anti-money laundering), organizing "go/no-go" analyses and decision panels › Coordinating with our technical and legal consulting partners to unify templates and formats, obtaining their contents and optimizing budgets to produce reasonable competitive bids › Writing content Sectors: Government, Energy & Utilities, Transport, Real Estate, Healthcare, Education

KPMG Saudi ArabiaAnalyst Intern - Global Infrastructure and Projects Group

Jul. 2010 - Sep. 2010- Researching and writing a whitepaper on the advantages of Public-Private Partnerships for Wastewater Treatment projects - Support developing the financial models for the feasibility study of 2 major real estate and « economic cities » PPP developments

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