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Montreal, Qc, Ca

General Manager for Valnet's Movie & Entertainment Portfolio, responsible for overseeing a diverse team of high-level industry professionals, and shaping the direction of the world biggest entertainment publishing sites:• Leadership: Managing the operations of www.screenrant.com, www.movieweb.com, www.cbr.com, and www.collider.com, lead a team of over 20 employees while indirectly managing 2000 freelancers worldwide.• Global Impact: Achieving 229 million monthly pageviews, with a significant 60% North American traffic share. These platforms also boast a substantial social media presence, with 15 million YouTube subscribers, 9 million Facebook followers, and 800 thousand TikTok followers.• Strategic Vision: Playing a pivotal role in crafting investment theses to shape content strategies, with a primary focus on enhancing brand equity and audience engagement.• Financial Growth: Growing the portfolio's revenues by over 30% YoY.• Cost Optimization: Optimizing profitability, resulting in a 10% EBITDA margin increase through agressive restructuring plans.• Acquisitions and Integration: Participating in the closing process of acquired competitors and overseeing integration.• Digital Excellence: Ensuring optimal website performance, maintaining healthy website vitals through meticulous user behavior analysis and the optimization of SEO, UX, and content.

Greater Montreal Metropolitan Area

In charge of finance, accounting, administration, external development, post-merger integration and growth strategy:• Built and managed three departments composed of seven professionals in Canada and Brazil.• Revamped the accounting close process including reducing the close to five days from close to one month• Improved the forecasting process to support top management decision-making.• Focused on improving cash flow through working capital and debt structure which led to cut by half interest costs in one year.• Structured the external growth strategy through extensive sourcing, market studying, financial analysis, and modeling.• Successfully managed two acquisitions in 2020 and 2021 and orchestrated the post-merger integrations.• Consolidated international entities under IFRS

Paris Area, France

Cross-border M&A/Business Development activities for ALTEN Group. In coordination with Senior Management:• Performed Market study analysis;• Sourced and evaluated potential acquisition targets;• Valuated and analyzed (technical, commercial, and financial) acquisition files; and• Coordinated legal and financial due diligence during the acquisition process.

Lille, Nord-Pas-De-Calais, France

• Completed regulatory, pre-implementation, and risk-based audits to verify financial accounts,• Systematically reviewed financial statements through analysis and testing;• Reviewed and re-performed internal processes to verify their effectiveness; and• Worked mainly for clients in manufacturing and retail under IFRS and US GAAP.

Lesquin, France

• Provided weekly analysis of Boulanger's KPIs;• Developed a strong understanding of UX, Category management, SEO/SEA analyst's missions;• Analyzed daily, weekly, and monthly results from www.boulanger.com’s sales; and• Created analytical tools through SAP Business Objects.

Master'S Degree - Pge, Banking, Corporate, Finance, And Securities Law, Gpa: 3.6/4

Completed the following courses: Corporate finance, strategic management, financial reporting, problem solving, design thinking.

L3 - Pge | Bachelor'S Degree, Business, Management, Marketing, And Related Support Services

Completed undergraduate courses covering subjects such as macroeconomics, cultural management, corporate finance, marketing.

Bachelor'S Degree, College/University Preparatory And Advanced High School/Secondary Diploma Program

CPGE economy and science

High School Diploma, High School/Secondary Diploma Programs, Honorable Mention

English focused degree (european class)