Florian Doux, Cfa, Meng Email & Phone Number

Melbourne, Vic, Au

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

IRESS is a technology company providing financial software and financial market data solutions to the financial services industry.KEY RESPONSIBILITIES• Leading changes in Adaptive with a continuous improvement mindset• Working with finance business partners to understand their forecasting and reporting needs to implement new modeling and reporting capabilities in Adaptive Insights• Supporting and educating stakeholders on how to use Adaptive and other tools for month-end process and planning purposesKEY ACHIEVEMENTS• Implemented multiple automated data audits of actual and plan data in Workday Adaptive Insights that trigger alerts on Slack in addition to being self-served in Adaptive via custom sheets fed by integration• Increased data quality, insights, and forecasting accuracy by highlighting missing or inconsistent data model inputs/outputs or accounting errors (e.g., unbalanced intercompany accounts)• Avoided incremental software license costs when implementing these automated audits by leveraging existing integration licenses and cloud-based solutions.• Freed up several weeks per year of recommended due diligence, usually done manually by checking reports or spreadsheet exports of model inputs/outputs• Set up a semi-automated process to ensure actual data integrity between Netsuite and Adaptive within the key dimensions used for financial reporting, thus avoiding using a manual, time-consuming, and prone-to-error spreadsheet-based verification process.•Set up a self-service and automated comparison in Adaptive of forecast employee data between plan versions for a quicker and better understanding of the staff movements

Melbourne, Australia

• Adaptive Insights administration: maintenance/creation of dimensions, attributes, and GL accounts, integrating external data from Netsuite, Workday, or spreadsheets into Adaptive Insights. Perform data cleaning, preparation, and integrity checks using internal Adaptive Integration and/or externally via Excel PowerQuery or VBA.• Adaptive-related month-end processes were reduced from 4 days to 10 minutes via automation, essentially using Adaptive integration to pull and manipulate data from external sources and Zapier to communicate on the relevant Slack channels.• SQL/VBA automation for accounting processes and analytics reports using external sources (Workday, Preeceda, Adaptive Insights): Australian Payroll Salary Journal, Wage Analysis reports• Portfolio of Internal Finance Process Improvement projects: implementation of a Google Data Studio Dashboard to give a holistic view of the status of the projects to top management

Melbourne, Australia

As a Finance Analyst working in Product Development Finance for the Ford Ranger & Everest global product lines, my primary role is designing and maintaining the data collection and reporting systems required for the finance change management process. Essentially, this role involves tracking large amounts of financial data in a robust and error proof fashion and then consolidating it into readable and usable financial reports that call attention to major issues for visibility. This provides upper management with insight into the financial status of the vehicle development program and enables them to make strategic decisions for the business.KEY RESPONSIBILITIES• Improving Finance Processes and Reporting via Excel/Outlook VBA Automation• Controlling data integrity and completeness of data inputs used in the processes• Monitoring costs of ~20k vehicle’s parts: variance analysis by model, region and category.• Developing Excel tools and performing ad-hoc financial analysis (cost/revenues analysis) on request• Automating the generation of financial reports that consolidate data from ~ 1800 Excel files into meaningful financial reports (Material Costs, Investments and Finance BOM) for Management ReportingKEY ACHIEVEMENTS• Built from scratch a user-friendly EXCEL VBA tool generating automatically EXCEL reports in 3 clicks• Reduced a financial report generation process from ~2 days to ~20 minutes via proper VBA automation• Designed and implemented the email automation process required for data completeness checks• Designed and implemented the automation process selecting, highlighting and gathering the most important project's cost variances per category and region into the financial reports• Created, maintained and run the systems that use the historical data in the database to produce financial reports that slice the data by reporting function, change type, vehicle control models and average region cost impacts

Paris Area, France

Providing Real-Estate Asset Management services for Peugeot holding and its subsidiaries, establishing project schedules & budgets, making real-estate related deals, interacting with notaries, lawyers and accounting/finance/legal/tax departments’ teams, designing a tool to track projects in portfolio and financial metrics.KEY RESPONSIBILITIES• Identifying and managing legal, financial and operational risks• Writing real-estate contracts, tender processes and other legal documents• Designing and updating a tool with EXCEL/VBA to track projects in portfolio• Establishing financial forecasts, budgets, and other real-estate project planning• Modelling and presenting business plans to create value and enhance financial metrics• Planning, organizing, and coordinating different stakeholders for the real-estate projectsKEY ACHIEVEMENTS• Contributed to 29 projects among which 9 asset disposals, 12 leases projects and 8 miscellaneous projects (20 projects completed)• Set up the organization of a 200 M€ corporate project: breaking down into sub-projects such as leases projects, set-up of the tender process for the on-sale property, preliminary legal transactions, creating and following ad-hoc working groups• Modelled exit scenarios for underperforming retail business subjected to non-breakable lease-contracts• Established strategies for asset disposals: DCF analysis and accounting impacts depending on different hypotheses of sales agreements terms• Built Excel VBA tools to manage projects in the portfolio with financial KPIs: - Automation of reporting dashboards, data management of the projects - Allocation of tasks to appropriate teams, consolidation by team and planning, following-up actions - Sorting projects by criteria such as project's NPV/EAA, Cash-Flows and Income statements forecasts - Tool allowing efficient monitoring of projects in portfolio with the ability to get into the details, while also keeping visualizations of the big picture

Paris Area, France

From my beginnings as a junior engineer to my last role, I have always been involved in hybrid powertrain projects and mainly on Hybrid4 which is a large-scale, innovative and complex project being the first mass-produced Diesel Hybrid powertrain in the world. Specialist designer in the field of starting/stopping the hybrid powertrain and its Internal Combustion Engine, I was in charge to design key parts of Hybrid4 control command from scratch. I've been afterward consulted for other hybrid projects (PHEV etc) or other improvements on the product.# January 2012 to October 2014: pursuing continuous improvements and consulting for others projectsKEY RESPONSIBILITIES • Communicating on current strategies, forecasting their influence on future projects • Improving and updating existing strategies depending on customers' feedback • Providing in-depth training to an intern engineer in my areaKEY ACHIEVEMENT • 35 patents published out of which 6 are currently in mass-production# January 2008 - December 2011: designing part of Hybrid4's powertrain control from drafts to seriesKEY RESPONSIBILITIES • Management of 1 subcontractor engineer • Collaboration with safety engineers for FTA etc. • Responsible for the design of control strategies in my field • Interacting with other experts from various internal technical departments • Continuous support and pro-active participation in many trouble shooting technical task-forces • Reporting and presentations to executive staff: - Design control work progress with KPIs - Explanations & solution proposals with Quality/Cost/ Time/Benefits criteriaKEY ACHIEVEMENTS• 3 embedded software modules• Successful design of functional architecture of starting/stopping powertrain and its matching algorithms• MATLAB environment for modelling functions and processes, identifying weaknesses in strategies, improving algorithms’ robustness, thus lowering SW patches and development costs

Paris Area, France

As an engineer sponsored by PSA Group for a post-graduate program (8 months at PSA Group / 8 months at IFP School), I have been working during this period on Internal Combustion Engine issues in hybrid context.KEY RESPONSIBILITIES• Hybrid vehicle depollution and Internal Combustion Engine Diesel Particulate Filter (DPF) :Analyzing key issues with the DPF in hybrid context and identifying solutions• Reducing friction wear at each start and stop of the Internal Combustion Engine (ICE) :Developed an anticipation strategy of starting the ICE on a hybrid vehicle to activate an electric oil pump in advance, thus reducing friction wear- responsible for the development, simulation and performance analysis (basic statistics).KEY ACHIEVEMENT• Patent registration for the anticipation strategy of starting the ICE (FR2931119)

Stuttgart – Germany

Bosch is a leading global supplier of technology and services, especially for the automotive industry where Bosch is the world's largest independent parts supplier. Being a member of the Diesel Sales team responsible for PSA group account, I worked in an international team where three languages were being spoken simultaneously. I designed and developed a tool for the high pressure rail regulation loop, resulting in cost savings.KEY RESPONSIBILITIES• Development, test, and validation of a tool and its user-guide using MATLAB, INCA, EXCEL, and APIs• Tool performing automated real-time analysis of data acquisitions and changing control parameters automatically in the engine’s electronic control unit to find the optimal settings for a PID controllerKEY ACHIEVEMENTS • Reducing engineering costs: fine-tuning of PID controller automatically in less than ten minutes by the tool instead of several hours when performed manually. • Learnt and mastered a new programming language (Matlab language) in very short time • Development and validation of the tool and its user-guide accomplished in 5 months instead of the initial deadline of 6 monthsREASON FOR LEAVING • Although BOSCH offered to extend my contract as an application engineer at the end of my mandatory training, I chose to join a post-graduate program sponsored by Groupe PSA at the IFP School in France.

Paris Area, France

Valeo is a major car supplier which operates in 29 countries and provides its customers with innovative and global solutions focused on C02 emissions reduction.KEY RESPONSIBILITIES • Prototyping, testing and validation of electronic boards using PLC transceivers • Performing reverse engineering on the electronic boardsKEY ACHIEVEMENTS • Writing technical reports explaining the design choices made by an external entityREASON FOR LEAVING • It was only a mandatory training for my studies at ESME Sudria

Montélier – France

COVAL is a European leader in vacuum handling for industrial applications.Website: www.coval.comKEY RESPONSIBILITIES • Develop a VBA tool to help design industrial vacuum networks and produce quick price estimates • Design and development of a reliability benchmark for vacuum switchesKEY ACHIEVEMENTS • Learnt VBA language within a short timeframe • Developed a tool to quickly estimate costs based on specifications entered:ideal for sales engineers to produce reliable quotes in a short manner while in front of prospects instead of waiting for several days to have a feedback from the R&D due to complex calculations involved in the designREASON FOR LEAVING • It was only a mandatory training for my studies at ESME Sudria

Passed Cfa Level Iii, Accounting And Finance

The Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) Program is a professional credential offered internationally by the American-based CFA Institute.

Master'S Degree In Engineering

Formerly known as "Ecole du Pétrole et des Moteurs", IFP School offers post-graduated programs that meet the needs of industry.

Master'S Degree In Engineering

ESME Sudria trains engineers in the fields of Automation & Controls, Computing, Electronics, Telecommunications, Power Conversion Website.