Kevin Decaux
Risk Manager, Barclays Bank
Kevin has experience in consulting and analysis. He has worked in investment banking and Insurance.He has gained international experience by working for major companies such as Amundi or Aviva.
Acting to Aviva as a Risk Analyst in Front Office, his role is to implement, roll-out and embed Solvency II at the European Level and ensure local markets (European Countries) reach objectives fixed by the group.
His expertise helped CARMA International to develop and implement new processes focused on business intelligence to manage and analyse data.
Working with clients like Axa, Deloitte, PWC, SAP and Shell, has given him strong consulting skills.
Proven ability to make detailed assessments of industry, products, markets, competitors and customers to identify risks and opportunities.
Excellent problem solving, project management, facilitation and interpersonal skills coupled with ability to work successfully under pressure in a stressful environment.
Highly motivated individual with strong analytical skills as well as influencing skills.
*Interests:*
Interested in challenging roles in business development activities (strategy, analysis of opportunities, M&A, negotiation, and consulting) or project and operating activities (involving economic evaluation, analysis and decision making). He is also interested in Corporate Finance and Strategy roles, and has strong knowledge of Competitive Intelligence Business.
Furthermore, Kevin is really passionated about Stock Exchange news, deals and Technical Analysis.
*Education:*
Kevin holds a European MBA, acquired through a trilingual program (held in english, french and spanish) specializing in Finance (M&A, Capital Markets and Investment Managment or International Competitiveness). He studied in Spain, (Universidad de Deusto; la Comercial), in France (Audencia School of Management and Paris 1 La Sorbonne) and in the United Kingdom (Bradford University School of Management).
*Specialties:*
Financial Analysis, Financial Valuation, Mergers and Acquisitions, Corporate Finance, Risk, Strategy, Consultant, Analyst,Project Manager, Budget, P&L, Income Statement, bond, equity, commodities, options, futures, hedge fund, swaps, Competitive Intelligence,Reporting, stock, Web 2.0, Semantics...
175 contacts- Operational Risk Framework Development
- Solvency II - development of risk reporting to meet directives (operational, capital and insurance) with contribution to draft ORSA and SFCR
- Risk Quantification Assessment / Analysis
- Life Insurance expertise
- Regulatory & Compliance monitoring
2011 - 2011With 300 years of insight. Aviva is the world's sixth-largest insurance group and the biggest in UK, with 45,000 employees serving around 53.4 million customers worldwide.
As a Risk Analyst in Front Office, my mission is to help to implement, roll-out and embed Solvency II at the European Level and ensure local markets (Czech Republic, France, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, Russia, Spain, Turkey, Middle East) reach objectives fixed by the group.
The ability to articulate risk appetite in the business strategy is very complex due to the lack of guidance. So one of the role of my team is to ensure objectives are consistent with its risk appetite.
- Development of Solvency II and Enterprise Risk Management Framework
- Operating and driving 13 very different markets across Europe in order to supervise work at the European level (Top Down Risk)
- Enhanced Loss/Risk Events process (Bottom Up Risk)
- Ensuring objectives are consistent with its Risk Appetite
- Secretary of the Operational Risk Committee
- Operational Risk, Regulatory & Compliance and Risk Assessment & Tools expertise
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2008 - 2011Carma International is an american management consultancy specialised in media. I am currently working in the competitive intelligence department.
I lead projects covering the UK, continental Europe as well as other markets. I work in consulting in the fields of communication, strategy and finance.
In addition, I hold regular workshops on competitive intelligence and semantic software. I do believe that sharing information within a team greatly enhances efficiency and optimises knowledge.
During my spare time, I nurtured skills to develop business plans and build budgets, P&L. I consider learning by myself an essential part of my ability to grow and rise to challenges.
2005 - 2006Fortuneo is a french online bank. The majority of the shares are held by the leading bank Crédit Mutuel
My main mission was to sell financial products and assist customers on the stock market. I have not only practice interpersonal communication (both written and oral), but I also build relationship skills and practices with my clients. Selling and facing clients are some ways to enhance communication skills.
An ongoing challenge was to increase sales and hitting the sales target of the managing director. The second quest was to be very well informed about Tax and law, financial products, commodities, hedge fund, indexes on a daily basis.
During the mission, I performed financial analysis and learned technical analyis with trading software (Trader Level Pro and Prorealtime).
2005 - 2005Amundi is one of the world market leaders in asset management. Amundi was formed by combining the asset management expertise of two major banking groups: Crédit Agricole and Société Générale.
I was in charge of the 2006/2007 budget of IDEAM which is the Sustainable Responsible Investment skillcentre at the asset management division of Amundi.
Responsible for consolidating monthly or quarterly forecasts, annual budget and produce good analysis of respective financial results/scenarios. Moreover, I prepared Consolidated Group P&L, Cash Flow and Balance Sheet. Then I assisted my Manager in adhoc/special projects when the need arised.