Profession:
Auditor & Financial Consultant
IFRS instructor

Current position:
French coordinating Executive Director of the French Business Center of an International Audit Firm in Brazil.

Nationality: French & Spanish
Born in Paris in April 1971 (38 years)
Residence in Brazil (since 2003).

Languages:
1. French: native
2. Spanish: native
3. English: fluent
4. Portuguese: fluent
5. Italian: intermediate

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Main areas of expertise:

• Auditing according to French, International (IFRS) and Brazilian accounting practices
• IFRS conversion projects
• Financial risks management and hedge accounting implementation (IAS 39)
• Risk consulting, risks mapping, review of risk management processes and procedures
• Internal control projects (Sarbanes Oxley)
• Cross-borders Transactions and Due Diligence (sell side, buy side)
• Valuation of damages (international claims in UK, Spain and Argentina) and ADR (Alternative Dispute Resolution)
• Reviewing and auditing construction contracts
• Reviewing business plans, financial modelling and valuations
• Credit scoring (using discriminant analysis and neural networks)
• Project management and delay analysis (using MS project)
• Doing Business in Brazil

International working experience:

• Brazil (expatriated since 2003)
• UK (2 years of professional assignment in Birmingham from 2000 to 2001)
• Spain (around 1 year of professional assignment in Barcelona in 1999)
• Argentina (several months in San Miguel de Tucuman in 1997)
• France (past permanent residence in Paris from 1971 to 1997)

Past professional experience:

• 1997 - 2001: Arthur Andersen France, Audit (Paris, France).
• 1996: Service d’information et de relations publiques des armées SIRPA, Ministère de la Défense Nationale, Statistician (Paris, France).
• 1995: Crédit Lyonnais, Insurance products (Paris, France).
• 1995: Banco Exterior de España BEX-ARGENTARIA, Foreign currency transactions (Paris, France).
• 1994: L’Oréal - Gemey, Marketing (Paris, France).
• 1994: Fédération des Industries Electriques et Electroniques FIEE, Market studies, (Paris, France).
• 1993: Paz y Cooperación, Cooperation projetcs with Latin America (Madrid, Spain).
• 1991: Hotel Frantour Suffren, Night Auditor, (Paris, France).
• 1990: Matrixx marketing, Sales, (Paris, France).

Education:

• Master in business administration, Federal University of São Paulo (USP), "Mestre em administração", São Paulo, Brazil, 2009.
• Master in Corporate Finance and international capital markets, "Diplôme d'Etudes Supérieures Spécialisées (DESS) en Finance d'entreprise et marchés internationaux de capitaux", Sciences-Po Paris, Paris, France, 1997. Research: Application of Neural Networks to credit scoring, comparison with dicriminant analysis techniques.
• Graduated in Finance, "Diplôme de l'Institut d'études politiques de Paris, section Economique et Financière", Sciences Po Paris, Paris, France, 1996.
• Certificate in IFRS delivered by the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants, ACCA, UK, 2008.
• Portuguese Certification: “Certificado de proficiência em Língua portuguesa”, CELP-BRAS, Federal University of São Paulo (USP), Brazil, 2007.
• Spanish Certification: “Convalidación al titulo de Bachillerato”, INBAD, Madrid, Spain, 1990.

Other information:

• Member of the Board of the French Chamber of Commerce in Brazil (CCFB) and Leader of the Financial commission of the CCFB since March 2005.
• IFRS instructor in the Brazilian Institute of Auditors (IBRACON) in 2007 and 2008.
• IFRS instructor and speaker in the corporate university of an international audit firm.

Organizations / Clubs:

• Member of the board of the French Chamber of Commerce (CCFB).
• Director of the Yacht Club Paulista (YCP).
• IFRS instructor in the Brazilian Institute of Auditors (Ibracon).

Computer and Internet skills:

• Office: Excel (functions, macros, pivot tables), Word, Powerpoint, MS Visio, MS Project, Lotus Notes, Outlook,...
• Statistics: SPSS, Excel
• Artificial Intelligence: Neural connection
• Programming: HTML, PHP & MySql, CSS
• Webdesign and e-commerce: design, creation and databases implementation (PHP & MySql).
• E-learning implementation
• Video editing and compressing
• Audio editing
• Internet Security
• Backup and synchronization

Interests / Hobbies:

• Trading (stocks and derivatives)
• Photography
• Webdesign

Sports:

• Tennis: Organization of the First Tennis Tournament of the French Chamber of Commerce in Brazil (October 2007) at the Yacht Club Paulista.
• Waterski: More than 10 years of practice (tricks, slalom, wakebaord and barefoot)
• Karate: University Karate Championships
  • 1994: Ile de France (IDF) University Karate Championship individual -60kgs (gold), in teams “open” (bronze)
  • 1995: IDF University Karate Championship in teams “open” (silver)
  • 1996: Paris University Karate Cup (semi-finalist)
• Parachuting: several jumps (Le Blanc, Poitiers, France)
• Roller

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