Profile Experienced finance manager looking for new challenges in the development or humanitarian field.
Skills
Project Management skills: experience with schedule, budget and people management; solution oriented; performing well under pressure; organized and flexible.
Communication skills: excellent oral & written expression; French native speaker, fluent in both English and Spanish, bases in Arabic.
Technical skills: strong Excel financial modelling background; tax & accounting and legal optimization capacity; good knowledge of economics and geopolitics.
Experience
ACTED (Employees: 4000, Turnover: €140 M) 2014
ACTED Libya - Country Finance Manager
Cash and budget management:
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Overseeing the management of bank accounts, safes and cash and
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Developing budgets for project proposals and preparing financial reports.
Accountancy and control:
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Verifying and compiling monthly accounts from each base;
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Seting up and formalising procedures for the commitment of expenditure and
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Dealing with internal and external audits.
Supervizing human ressources and administration:
Egis Group (Employees: 12000, Turnover: €881 M) 2012-2014
Egis Projects - Project Manager
Working within an investment platform:
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Sourcing of new investors (building a new network, attending conferences in Europe and Asia, developing marketing tools and strategy);
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Performance analysis, reporting, audit and
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Due diligence and contractual documentation negotiation (Entry of one new strategic investor with a first investment of €15 m)
Analyzing new development opportunities:
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Risk analysis: country (Albania, Ghana, Indonesia…), projects (toll roads, airports, energy), counterparty (public and private clients)
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Sourcing of senior funds and guarantees (commercial banks and multilateral institutions).
Eiffage Group (Employees: 68000, Turnover: €14000 M) 2006-2010
PPP department - Financial Analyst
Managing bids:
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Financial structuring, analysis and modelling (more than 20 financial models audited, amended or built);
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Financial, tax & accounting advisers selection and management and Production and presentation of financial bid deliverables (more than 20 public tenders for toll roads, rail, telecom PPP projects).
Negotiating implementation of financings:
Assisting the group’s head office finance department:
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Growth opportunities study: acquisitions, non-solicited offers and
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Management of existing projects: analysis and reporting, waiver requests, claims (restructuring of the €1.2bn A65 project).
Other: Banco FIE (Microfinance, Bolivia, 2010, 3 months)
Vinci Concessions (Structured finance, Paris, 2006, 8 months)
Education
Paris X / École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées 2005-2006
DESS Financement de Projet / Financements Structurés
(Post-graduate diploma in Structured Finance)
Paris X / Universidad Autonoma de Madrid 2002-2004
Maîtrise de Science de Gestion
(Master’s degree in Business Management)
Other: Financial mathematics (2008, 3 days)
Interest
Sports: Climbing, tennis and basketball
Arts: music, photography and paintings
Travels: Middle east, South and North America (2010/2011) and Asia
References available upon request