Nassim DERRAS

Senior Finance Manager

Salary / Daily rate

Brussels, Belgium

Mobility: Brussels

Freelance

Can come onsite

Skills

Finance

Languages

French (Native)English (Fluent)Dutch

About me

Intro

Finance Manager with 10+ years of expertise in financial reporting, regulatory compliance (Solvency II, IFRS17, UK/EU GAAP), and project management. Led insurance license applications including NBB authorization, delivered IFRS17 solutions for major clients, and optimized financial processes across European subsidiaries. Specialized in financial systems implementation, risk modeling, and strategic planning to drive accuracy and efficiency.

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Work experience

Finance Manager

SquareTrade Europe

Sep 2024 - Present

2 years 2 months

Brussels, Belgium

- Oversee the monthly closings for each subsidiary and prepare the main reports for management : P&L, margins, expenses, balance sheet movements. - Make sure all accounts are correct and follow the local rules (UK GAAP, EU local GAAP) plus group standards. - Handle balance-sheet reconciliations and intercompany reconciliations, especially for cross-border items. - Follow treasury movements and prepare cash-flow forecasts, comparing actual vs budget to explain variances. - Support the long-term planning cycle for the group, including reforecasts and cash-flow projections. - Take an active role in the licence application for the new insurance entity in Belgium (autorisation NBB), including 5-year Solvency Capital Requirement projections and financial parts of the business plan

Regnology

Aug 2021 - Oct 2024

3 years 3 months

Brussels, Belgium

Project Manager

Oct 2022 - Oct 2024

2 years 1 month

Brussels, Belgium

- Create comprehensive project plans outlining scope, objectives, deliverables, schedules, and resources. - Monitor project budgets, ensuring costs are controlled and financial resources are utilized effectively. - Provide regular communication, including weekly updates, to stakeholders and team members. - Engage in commercial activities, understanding client needs, and exploring opportunities for business growth. - Participate in sales activities by understanding client needs and exploring ways to enhance value. - Manage expectations both internally and externally

Senior Functional Consultant

Aug 2021 - Oct 2022

1 year 3 months

Brussels Metropolitan Area

- Analyse, capture, and translate business needs (e.g., regulatory reporting changes, user experience improvements, process automation, or data visualisation requirements) into clear technical specifications. - Process data from various Client models into clear and structured reports for frameworks such as Solvency II. - Actively contribute to the design and optimisation of the central reporting database, define functional requirements, and participate in challenging and testing implemented solutions. - Develop and maintain tools to support the use of the central database, including reports and dashboards created with business intelligence (BI) tools. - Maintain ongoing alignment with stakeholders regarding evolving reporting requirements. - Provide support during User Acceptance Testing (UAT) and official financial closing activities. - Prepare, review, and present UAT instructions; coordinate and monitor UAT execution. - Contribute to the design, development, and documentation of risk valuation and analytics solutions.

Accenture Belgium

Apr 2018 - Aug 2021

3 years 5 months

Brussels Region, Belgium

Management Consultant - IFRS17 Solution development

Mar 2020 - Aug 2021

1 year 6 months

Brussels Region, Belgium

Actively contribute to the construction of a software solution covering the new IFRS17 standard, by - implementing the new calculations and estimation process of provisions (Best Estimate, Risk Adjusment, Loss Component, etc.) - contributing to joint discussions with the Actuaries and Accountants. - conduct analyses on accounting and regulatory reporting fact patterns. - carrying out tests guaranteeing the quality of the implementation and preparing for official delivery. - setting up and industrializing the production of new reports (granularity, multinorms on liabilities, controls) Participate on follow-up meetings and share with all the parties concerned on the progress of the IFRS17 solution.

Senior Business Analyst - Portfolio Accounting System implementation

Apr 2018 - Mar 2020

2 years

Brussels Area, Belgium

- Perform detailed analysis of the accounting related to the client's business. Interact with the Software vendor to set up the tool with the client requirements. - optimize the accounting tool and process in cooperation with the client in order to enable an efficient, quick and clear accounting treatment and thus optimize the services delivered. Being the contact person in projects as far as accounting is concerned (local GAAP, IFRS9 Financial Instruments, IFRS10 Consolidated Financial Statements) and bringing technical expertise to the table. - contribute to the definition of the accounting policies together with the client based on IFRS9 and IFRS10, and identifying the differences with local Belgian accounting regulations (casu quo BE GAAP). - provide trainings and support to the client at the Belgian and foreign offices in order to guarantee efficiency in the work processes as well as an optimal output.

Risk Officer Asset & Liability Management

AG Insurance

Oct 2016 - Mar 2017

6 months

Brussels Area, Belgium

- Develop and modelise an internal Mortgage Loan Pricing Model. - evaluate the Net Present Value and the Duration of mortgage loans considering Pipeline risk, Interest and Forward risks, Prepayment risk, Credit risk and Collateral risk. - provide follow up and implement the required modifications due to business internal decisions. For instance, the options pricing in a negative rate environment. - test the performances of the model through creation of alternative approaches, back testing, stress and sensitivity testing. - support in the development of a Mortgage Loan Valuation Tool. - produce complete technical notes and technical communication documents.

Risk Officer Modelisation & Valuation in Life Insurance

AG Insurance

Sep 2015 - Jul 2016

11 months

Brussels Area, Belgium

- Actively participate in the drafting and implementation of regulations, especially in the field of reporting, such as: suitability notes, ORSA, the internal model validation report. - support financial reporting and analysis, on Solvency II. - analyse a cash-flow model to clearly separate input data and assumptions from the model. -- understand the assumptions to enhance control, governance and auditability. -- update the model in order to split the portfolio into different data sets. - produce reports for auditability purpose dealing with model assumptions, limitations, certification process and documentation.

Life Department Public and Corporate Insurance

Belfius Insurance

Feb 2015 - May 2015

4 months

Brussels Area, Belgium

- Understand Belfius’ vision on managing risk models and contribute to their culture to achieve best practices on model development. - Support the integration and the data migration in an updated Cash-Flow model (Prophet Enterprise). Support the team with developing a test plan, test preparation and execution of these tests. - Communicate with model validators, senior model risk manager, and other team members to strike opportunities for improvement that may be achieved through the model enhancements. - Assist the team in the writing of user documentation, instructions and procedures.

Calculation, technical and production of particle accelerators

CERN

Jan 2014 - Mar 2014

3 months

Lausanne Area, Switzerland

The main topics of this trainee were : - the overview of the various types of accelerators currently in use (more particularly those used by physicists for knowledge of matter), - the experimental study of fundamental interactions at large accelerators like the LHC at CERN, Geneva.


Education

Université libre de Bruxelles

Master’s Degree, Actuarial Sciences

2014 - 2016

3 years

Université libre de Bruxelles

Master’s Degree, Engineering Physics/Applied Physics

2012 - 2015

4 years


Licenses & certifications

PRINCE2® Foundation and Practitioner Certification Training

Issued: Mar 2024

Certified by ILX Group

Bloomberg Market Concepts

Issued: Jan 2017

Certified by Bloomberg

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