Senior associate - Strategy Group - Sustainable Business Solutions Department
PwC Advisory
Total years of experience :5 years, 6 Months
Role
Engagement supervisor of a wide range of sustainable development projects aimed at helping clients address the key risks and leverage on opportunities when implementing sustainable development strategies.
Projects undertaken cover a wide range of sectors including Real Estate and Insurance (AXA Group, SIIC de Paris), Oil & Gas
(SCHLUMBERGER), Household equipments (Group SEB), Information Technology (CAPGEMINI), Food products company
(DANONE Group and a confidential Tunisian Group)
Summary experience
• Deployment of the Corporate and Social Responsibility (CSR) strategy of French Real Estate groups which mainly covers
governance, social and environmental performance and supply chain management: o Benchmarking peer companies' CSR strategies through interviews with internal and external stakeholders
o Conducting diagnosis of the company's current CSR strategy with a focus on environmental, governance and social
performance
o Designing the CSR strategy and providing action plan to senior management
• Audit of CSR disclosures on financial statements: o Assessment of the environmental, governance and supply chain practices compliance with the internal corporate policy through internal processes testing data from corporate level (France and UK) to business unit levels (USA, Brazil and India)
o Audit of Greenhouse Gases (GhG) emissions in compliance with International standards: Review of energy consumptions and GhG emissions associated, supply chain carbon footprint and utilities management impact
• Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) of chemical products according: o Identification of main origins of the product's environmental impacts and analysis of these impacts throughout their
lifecycle, from cradle to grave
o Proposition of scenarii and solutions to reduce the environmental impacts of the industrial process
• Deployment of the corporate business strategy for the food processing industry: o Conducting diagnosis and business risk assessment through interviews with senior management, local organizations,
suppliers and clients
o Designing a business model to assess economic cost benefits
o Implementing an operational strategy and action plan
• Business development: o Developing PwC technical new opportunities in the area of sustainable building construction and smart cities: led a market
research project focused on urban investment from Real Estate hedge funds and property investment companies
o Responsible for approaching potential clients: Real Estate, building construction and chemistry sectors
Key skills
• Project Management: Led risk management procedures, in charge of the budget elaboration and monitoring, involved in clearing
retain conflicts
• Proposals: Successfully led various proposals and was involved in pitches for clients
• Wins: Was the opportunity driver for a 100 k$ business strategy project in Tunisia
• Brochures: Contributed to the Business Unit brochure for building construction and chemical industries
Role
Senior associate leading a portfolio of prestigious Real Estate audit clients such as listed property investment companies (AXA Real
Estate, GROUPAMA Real Estate, GENERALI Real Estate) and Real Estate Hedge Funds (Industrial Securities Group, Oppenheim)
Summary experience
• Conducting statutory audits in IFRS and French Gaap: o Performing preliminary risk assessments in order to sample size the audit procedures through the: - Evaluation of internal control processes to identify high-risk areas
- Analysis of client's historical and projected results
o Validation of consolidation package in IFRS, reporting to the Luxembourg and USA firms
o Delivering the annual reports and preparing the annual close-out meeting with clients
• Conducting various detailed financial reviews for audit-related projects: o Net Asset valuation campaign leading to a value per share of each Real Estate company through the: - Analysis of asset valuation reports from Real Estate experts and validation of key assumptions (office properties,
shopping center, logistic building and housing structures)
- Review of profit and loss projections
- Extensive review of the asset's planned capital expenditures to measure potential over or under estimates
o Covenant analysis of loan agreements (loan to value ratio, completion date and undercapitalization risk checks)
o Analysis of legal documents for asset disposals or acquisitions: analysis and summary of relevant clauses highlighting the accounting impacts on the financial statements
o Financial review of transactions between two subsidiaries from the same parent company (liquidation, total transmission of assets and liabilities) and evaluation of the accounting impact on financial statements
o Review of claims between owners and tenants to evaluate the provision for liabilities, risks and charges
Key skills
• Accounting: Good knowledge of IFRS and French Gaap accounting standards
• Finance: Good understanding of asset valuation methods, cost and forecasting cost models
• Internal controls: Good understanding of the corporate processes for various financial statements' functional areas focusing on revenue recognition and capital expenditures
• Project Management: Regularly led a team of 9 people for high profile engagements, project manager of one of the most iconic
engagement in Paris (AXA Real Estate)
• Contracts: Good understanding of contractual mechanisms of asset disposal and acquisition transactions
Role
Field manager assistant on the construction site of a very challenging rehabilitation project: from a centenary warehouse to a major
cultural and fashion site in Paris. Being part of the main contractor's team, I was in charge of supervising the concrete restructuring
works undertaken internally, and coordinating various subcontractor tasks.
Responsibilities
• Assisting the building site manager on the concrete restructuring works: o Managing a team of workers facing complex, technical and operational issues
o Scheduling weekly activities with respect to the deadlines forecasted by the planner
o Supporting the quantity surveyor in evaluating the volume of cast concrete and ensuring its alignment with the price study
data
• Coordinating and adjusting the subcontractors works by: o Challenging the measurement of the daily physical progress on site reported by the subcontractors
o Setting up of operational solutions to decrease some subcontractors delay (works rescheduled)
o Renegotiating the prolongation costs with the owner
ESTP Engineering school, Paris, France One of the French leading civil engineering schools Master's degree in Civil Engineering, Major in Building construction, project management and sustainable development Research program with Eurovia, Vinci subsidiary: Formulation methodology of bituminous mix with reclaimed asphalt
French Baccalaureate of Science with honors, ten assignments with a focus on mathematics and physics
College Hoche, Versailles, France Preparatory class for taking the engineering school's competitive exam