Neuilly-sur-Seine2010 - 2012Financial due diligence and valuation services in Lebanon and the MENA region on both corporate and private equity transactions.
Responsibilities encompassed:
- Leading teams of Consultants, Assistant Managers and Managers carrying out financial due diligence and valuation services and building financial models
- Conducting Management meetings (with CEOs and CFOs) to discuss the clients’ strategies and key areas of strength and to assess the investments’ returns and the valuation outcomes
- Developing an understanding of the target's business, its drivers and key performance indicators, company procedures and accounting policies
- Reviewing legal and tax issues in collaboration with dedicated advisors
- Leading internal training workshops to new joiners for financial due diligence competencies
Ernst & Young
- Manager - Transaction Services - Paris
Courbevoie2006 - 2010Financial due diligence on both corporate and private equity transactions on small and large companies.
Responsibilities encompassed:
- Reviewing and analyzing historical trading, cash flows, balance sheets and all relating items
- Normalizing profitability, net financial debt and working capital affecting cash forecasts
- Reviewing, analyzing or preparing business plans and underlying assumptions
- Developing an understanding of the target's business, its drivers and key performance indicators, company procedures and accounting policies
- Identifying key issues and risks affecting price considerations
- Analyzing carve-out issues and evaluating potential synergies
Ernst & Young
- Senior - Audit - Paris
Courbevoie2004 - 2006- Financial audit of the statutory and consolidated accounts of small and large companies in several sectors: Retail, industry and services
- Audit of control deficiencies, participating to the coordination of the Sarbanes-Oxley project related to description and control risks identification, providing assistance in managing the project, in the methodologies to be used and reviewing the output for final validation
