Denis Soulard Nationality: french

(+971) 543797253 Spoken languages: english (fluent), spanish (fluent), french (native
Al Mushrif Gardens – Abu Dhabi language)
denis.soulard@gmail.com Master’s degree: Corporate Finance at Rouen Business School,
(ranked 7th in France)
Thesis: Valuation methods for listed companies in the context of IPO’s

I have a 12 years’ experience in banking and insurance sectors, especially for finance and IT departments.
I worked on issues of building decision-making processes (Finance and IT Master Plans and Target Operating Models), as well as
issues of digital transformation and operational supervision of Project Management or business teams.
In addition, I have a functional and technical skills acquired in a consulting firm and in Banking sector.

Professional skills 

2017 – 2021 BNP Paribas: Financial Department - International Retail Banking (IRB)
Management Control Department
• Project owner Manager for production
• Project Manager of the Digital Transformation Plan of the Finance department

2015 - 2017 TNP Consultants – Senior Consultant in Financial Services

Financial Services
• Project Manager Officer
• Risk Project Management
• Project Manager Finance Management Control
• Roadmap « Master plans »
• Development of tool choices
• Design of IS finance
• IT Digital Transformation: Monitoring of transformation programs

2015 COMPUTER SCIENCE CONSULTING (CSC)

Business Consulting
• Project Manager Officer
• Project Manager
• Roadmap « Master plans » for IT and finance departments

2009 - 2014 Crédit Foncier de France (market banking sector) - BPCE Group
Finance Business Department – Head of Project Management for management control
• Head of Project Management for management control
• Head of IT system merge between Crédit Foncier within BPCE’s IT Group
• Project management for management control projects
• Performance Management

Operational commercial and financial management control

• Implementation of financial margin calculator & Net Banking Income (NBI) calculator
• Performance Management
• Balance Sheet Management

IT skills 

 Accounting interpreter: AS400, ACA

 Data Science: Alteryx
 BI & Analytics: Essbase (Admin & User), Tagetik (Admin & User), Tableau Software
 Other skills: VBA, SQL, SQL Server SSIS, all Microsoft package (including Visio and MS Project)

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 Main missions in the Information Systems Departments and Business Finance Departments

2017 –2021. BNP Paribas: Financial Department - International Retail Banking (IRB)
Head of production management (Run) and digital transformation project manager for finance, risk and
liquidity departments (build): 4 years

▪ Head of production management team:

– Production management on the quarterly results, forecasts and budget cycles
– Administration of Performance Management application for central and local teams (100 users)
– Administration of the repository under BNP Paribas group platform
– Management of the evolutions set in Essbase application
– User support in production
– Management of data collection for Performance Management teams
– Monitoring of production in local currency and Euro consolidation currency (analysis)

▪ Digital transformation project manager for finance, risk and liquidity departments for Finance transformation
plan:
– Audit of the existing with business teams: Performance Management, Cost Management, Capital Management &
Liquidity
– Definition of the master plan including architecture and repository solution: 10 initiative projects
– Tool’s study and project planification
– Definition of datamodel rules with the integrator and BNP Paribas requirements
– Validation of the projects structure in coherence with the Group target solution
– Operational monitoring of the project sprints
– Administrator training for Tagetik platform
– Assistance in setting up ETL and Data Entry masks for data collection in Tagetik

2015 - 2017 TNP Consultants – Financial services

BNP Paribas Wealth Management, IT department: Definition of the 3 strategic transformation

programs of the IT (2020 Transformation plan)
Financial management of the IT transformation costs for BNP Paribas Wealth Management and definition of a
transformation program (7 months for audit)

▪ Budget monitoring on behalf of the Global IT program:

– Financial Management on the strategic Industrialization program of the IT sector
– Financial Management on the strategic Digitalization of the IT sector
– Financial Management on the strategic Sourcing of the IT sector
– Preparation of key indicators and feedback to Group finance
– Financial Consolidation

▪ Program manager for Industrialization strategic program conducted in 10 project coordination & follow up:
– Workshops with the different project managers on the perimeter of each of the projects, definition of the project content,
the cost of the project (monitoring of costs and budget allocation) and breakdown of the monitoring of projects
– Analytical follow up of costs and savings (Mandays, investment types…) by production center (Singapore, Paris) and
valuation in euro
– Identification of savings associated with costs of transformation projects
– Operational Cost Management and follow up
– Weekly call by project to review the work in progress
– Program coordination (roadmap, planning, management tools, planification)

Union Financière de France, Financial department: Management Control project manager for Finance
Performance Management project management (15 months)

▪ Project manager:
– Workshops and audit for Performance management
– Data dictionary for definition of the process
– Adequacy of the project schedule and the resulting projects on the implementation
– Project manager for the supply of an accountant interpreter
– Project manager for the repository definition in connection with data dictionary
– Participation in the definition of the intermediate and target architecture
– Implementation of the finance business repository
– Definition of Customs dimensions and specific dimensions in the Datawarehouse Finance

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 Société Générale, Financial Management – SIRIF Project
Change Management in SIRIF project: Support of the financial department in the use of the RWA Group
calculation tool (8 months)

▪ Support mission for all group users in the use of the modules allowing construction of the RWA Group:
– Participation in the definition of roles in the Group application
– User cartography
– Testing platform implementation for CIB users
– Assistance in Q3 and Q4 2015 closing for CIB users
– Follow up of defects identified for corrections between Q3 and Q4 closing
– User guidance writing in french and english and best practices

La Mutuelle Générale, Financial Management – audit study

Budget process: Diagnosis of the existing situation and qualification of the choice of the tools for Management
Control (1 month)

▪ Mission to formalize Management Control needs for their new financial planning tool:
– Audit of the process
– Recommendation of the target trajectory with the 2016 budget production constraint
– Drafting of the business requirement needs
– Comparative study of market solutions and implementation scenarios

Union Financière de France: Process audit and master plan of the finance function
Audit & process analysis for Management control, functional and application mapping of Management Control
process, implementation of recommendations in the context of tool change (5 months)

▪ Audit of finance department:

– Analysis of the existing situation and collection of business needs
– Diagnosis summary
– Target definition
– Identification and scope for project initiatives
– Roadmap of the initiatives
– Masterplan for global finance department

▪ Tools study and project planning:

– Specifications drafting
– Comparative summary of market solutions
– Description of target scenarios
– Choices of scenarios and trajectory hypothesis
– Roadmap setup
– Functional architecture and target application

2015 CSC Business Consulting – Finance Transformation

Société Générale: Target operating model for IT department (Risk and Finance department)
TOM FI – Management of the BSC finance project team (Group CIO) and coordination with business teams

▪ Roadmap mission for the Target Operating Model of the Group's Finance department:
– Workshops lead
– Identifying the initiatives in order to build the road map of the target operating model
– Roadmap from 2015 to 2017 to be implemented
– Consistency of the projects towards finance department

Société Générale
SURFI 2015 certification – Test plans and test cases for SURFI certification

▪ Coordination of SURFI implementation (regulatory implementation of reporting packages):

– Validation of the reporting packages on test environment
– Monitoring and reporting of daily bugs
– Reporting of the indicators for the steering committee (Group finance department)

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2009 - 2014 Crédit Foncier de France, BPCE Group (5 years)
Head of Business Studies and Transversal Projects Financial Department for the “MUT-SI” Program (IT
system pooling program) - Supervision of a team of 4 people

▪ Coordination of the Crédit Foncier Information systems integration project within the BPCE group Information
system on behalf of Management and Control:
– Head of Management Control projects and target management systems for the Front, Middle/Back Office, Budget and
Financial Management Control departments
– Head of the project to run specific business applications within the target Group application (margin calculator, NBI
fees calculator, ROE application)
– Adoption of target solutions for non-specific applications for the business lines
– Monitoring of the budget and project cost
– Organization of the business load plan for Management and Control FTE in terms of man-days (organization of the
team)

▪ Seconded on the implementation of the balance sheet data management system in the context of formal notice
from the French banking Regulator:
– Analysis of the formal notice
– Project management in two phases: Initialization and deployment phase for the balance sheet data management by
production year
– Organization of the compliance study of the Conformity department in July 2014: no recommendation identified

Management controller for Front Office Management Control department & cross functional studies for
General Management

▪ Control and analysis of the production of loans to Retail Sector on several levels:
– Monitoring of the credit cycle, calculation of the margin, analysis and monitoring of the NBI, Duration calculation and
ROE of new production for all retail products including commissions and accessories
– Implementation of reporting process and automation for General Management, including a merger of Individual and
Corporate entities
– Analysis run on refinancing methodology and by type of rates and products
– Implementation of a calculation algorithm on the eligibility for a refinancing vehicle (AAA) of our production on a monthly
basis
– Daily liquidity forecast on the production of retails loans according to the different categories of products, seasonality by
business lines, repayment rates and type of release of funds (daily basis reporting)

Financial and Commercial Management controler

▪ Profit calculation system by business lines setup:

– Business specification definition
– Tactical tool implementation on Excel
– Consolidation of outstandings, interest incomes and margins data for the implementation of Profit by business lines
– Accounting reconciliation, ALM reconciliation and Risk reconciliation for regulation implementation
– Stakeholder in the overhaul database for outstandings in order to have a mutualized system
– Analysis of business line result and communication with the business partners
– Additional analysis on zero rate interest loans, the breakdown of the net interest margin and refinancing by generation of
production

▪ Implementation of changes to the financial margin calculator and NBI calculator:

– Switch for the margin calculator from the internal rate method to the actualized cash flows method using discount factors)
– Implementation of test plan and test cases
– Setup of tactical tool calculation on Excel with the amortization methodology
– Monitoring and test plan execution
– Validation of business acceptante test
– Production of the tool

2007 - 2008 General Motors Europ – Francfort (trainee)

Finance Aftersales department (12 months)

▪ European management and Control – Sales and Cost analyst:

– Analysis of variances on sales and supply chain costs (mainly freight) for General Motors Europ
– Analysis of gross interest margins and net interest margins
– Consolidation and analysis of European supply chain for Opel, Saab and Chevrolet brands
– Presentation of variations, action plans comments on a monthly basis
– One-off analysis in order to improve margins (Return of parts to distribution centers in Europe)
– Implementation of reports and significant ratios on General Motors sales (Essbase reports)

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