Nicolas Manuel, Financial Director

Nicolas Manuel

Financial Director

Dynamics Films Library SA

Location
France - Abbeville
Education
Bachelor's degree, Marketing and Economics
Experience
13 years, 4 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :13 years, 4 Months

Financial Director at Dynamics Films Library SA
  • Luxembourg
  • July 2016 to October 2016

- Recruit new employees and restructure the company in Luxembourg
- Manage and re-negotiate cash lines
- Launched a round table to rise EUR3-4mln
- Support ongoing take over of Les Editions Montparnasse, co-production and video distribution company

Risk Compliance Officer at Nizi International SA
  • Luxembourg
  • November 2012 to January 2016

- Risk: Complete restructuring of the department

*New assessment methodologies, creation of a rating tool and reporting processes
* Analysis and reporting of countries and counterparties risks, markets changes, systemic issues
* Write and implement all policies and procedures, and insure their applications
* Select a new information and credit insurance providers and implementation of IT system

- Compliance: Creation of the department

* Define the scope, set objectives and path forward, train the new team
* Select the information provider and implement new IT management tools

- Collection: Restructuring of the department

* Reshape the activity, create daily, quarterly and yearly processes and reporting
* Enhance cash circle and interconnect with risk and compliance activities
* Information management: switch from all paper to worldwide access to e-documents and reports

Credit Risk & Collection Manager Group at Nidera Handelscompagnie BV
  • Netherlands
  • January 2007 to October 2012

- Credit Risk: Create the department
* Design and implement risk assessment and monitoring tools for countries and counterparties, calculation of the Probability of Default (PD), and analysis of the Loss Given Default (LGD)
* Create and implement a rating tool returning limits recommendations
* Write and implement supporting policies and procedures

- Legal
* Sole negotiator of the master agreements and management of active contracts
* Set-up collateral management for power with daily monitoring and exchanges (avg USD40-60mln)
* International sanctions management (USD600mln turn over with Iran in 2012)

- Collection: create the department
* Audit cash circle, streamline new daily operations, clean-up overdues
* Create new reports and monitoring tools set-up of dashboards and KPI's

Risk Analyst at Lyondell Chemical Company BV
  • Netherlands
  • February 2003 to December 2006
Raw Materials Buyer at Lyondell Chemical Company BV
  • Netherlands
  • January 2006 to July 2006

- Manage supplies and stocks to ensure a continuous production of ETBE and MTBE, through contracts, spots and swap deals. Largest buyer of alcohol in Europe at the time
- Co-write and co-negotiate long-term agreements with ethanol suppliers
- Develop analytical tools to forecast and optimise the planning, the production licenses, the financial strategy
- Develop and ease the overall new growing biofuel market in Europe and particularly in France

Education

Bachelor's degree, Marketing and Economics
  • at École Supérieure de Gestion et de Commerce (ESGC)
  • October 1997

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Specialties & Skills

Compliance
Commodities
Commodity Risk Management
Change Management
ANALYSIS
CREDIT RISK
ENERGY TRADING
NEGOTIATION
Compliance
Change management
Commodity trading
Purchaser
Credit Risk

Languages

Dutch
Beginner
English
Expert
French
Expert
German
Beginner

Training and Certifications

Certified International Credit professional (Certificate)
Date Attended:
April 2004

Hobbies

  • judo
    Black belt (1st dan) French Championship per team in 1992
  • Scuba diving
    CMAS 1st degree 25 dives
  • Sky diving
    10 free fall jumps certified (4000m)
  • Reading
    personal library of +/- 700 books
  • Improvisation theater
    beginner