Younes Rharbaoui
Fractional CFO/COO / Strategy Consultant
Salary / Daily rate
Paris, France
Freelance
Can come onsite
Skills
Languages
About me
Intro
CFO and strategic advisor with deep experience in helping startups navigate financial growth, strategic challenges and operational scaling. I offer additional strengths in fundraising, international expansion, and strategy, allowing me to bring holistic solutions to early-and-growth-stage companies. I am also investing in and supporting ambitious entrepreneurs across Europe as a co-founder of the investment fund OPRTRS.
Work experience
Co-Founder & CFO/COO
OPRTRS CLUB
Feb 2023 - Present
3 years 9 months
Paris, France
OPRTRS is a community-led investment platform dedicated to tech Operators. We give the most talented startup employees a platform to share, grow and financial leverage to deploy capital into the most promising deals launched by former operators turned founders • Building and leading a community-based investment platform for tech operators. • Raising €8 million to invest in promising early-stage startups. • Fostered a community of 50+ talented startup employees.
Business Angel
Freelance
Jul 2016 - Present
10 years 4 months
• Angel invested into PayFit, Jow, Dark, Unison, Glovy, Shipfix (exited), Side.co (exited), Spacefill (partly exited) Prometheus Fuels, Nabis, Totem, Clarisights, Fairmint and various others.
CFO
Nocturne GamesFreelance
Aug 2023 - Dec 2024
1 year 5 months
Paris, France
Nocturne is a leading gaming fund based on revenue-sharing. We support indie developers worldwide with funding, fair terms, and expert self-publishing assistance. • Built and managed a pioneering gaming fund based on revenue-sharing. • Managed regulatory (AMF), tax and compliance hurdles to launch an investment fund in a brand new asset class • Modelized returns for a new type of asset and fund with high liquidity and IRR potential • Supported indie developers worldwide with funding, fair terms, and expert self-publishing assistance. • Developed and implemented financial strategies, investor relations, and fund management processes.
Part-Time CFO
ChooseFreelance
Aug 2023 - Apr 2024
9 months
Paris, France
• Provided financial leadership and strategic guidance for financial operations (90+ FTEs, high 8-figures annual turnover) and international expansion to the US • Built a pathway to profitability for the group • Overhaul of the FP&A, budgeting and business plan
The Family
Mar 2015 - Dec 2022
7 years 10 months
Paris, France
Partner
Feb 2020 - Dec 2022
2 years 11 months
Paris, France
Partner in charge of finance, portfolio and restructuring. Pan-European investment firm invested in 250+ startups including Trainline, Algolia, PayFit, Alma, Jow, WeMaintain, Unai, Spacefill, Rows, Shipfix, Luko etc. • Management: led and managed a team of 4 people overseeing legal and accounting. • Group Financial Management: 10 subsidiaries, 80+ controlled entities (SPVs) and 250+ portfolio companies. • Portfolio Management: liquidity strategy, exits, secondaries, M&A, etc. ( > €20m of exits completed). • Crisis Management: led and executed group legal and financial strategy for recovery procedures and stakeholders protection after uncovering prior internal deceit. • Restructuring: completed the strategy and execution of a complete group overhaul. • Day-to-day CFO: audits, reporting, balance sheet management, management control, budgeting, resource planning, funding, investor relations, accounting deadlines, processes.
Venture Builder / Head of Operations
Apr 2018 - Feb 2020
1 year 11 months
Paris, France
• Built educational operations for The Family's training organization (Lion, Maria Schools): strategy, content, experts. • Wrote le Livre de La Jungle: best-selling book dedicated to startup employees. • 100+ talks at HEC, Sciences Po, LSE, Oxford, Warwick, European Commission, Ecole des Mines, etc.
Portfolio Manager
Sep 2015 - Apr 2018
2 years 8 months
London, UK
• Dealflow Management: sourcing, applications, information seeking and due diligence. • Portfolio Management: office hours, fundraising rounds preparation, pitch decks, info memos, business plans, expert network intros.
Lobbyist
Aug 2017 - Dec 2017
5 months
• Reported on French corporate financing landscape for the French Minister of Economy together with MP Jean-Noël Barrot (now Minister for Tech).
Strategy Consultant
Mar 2015 - Sep 2015
7 months
Paris, France
Associate Professor
Sciences Po
Sep 2017 - Sep 2022
5 years 1 month
Région de Paris, France
• Transition numérique : startups et stratégie d’entreprise (in French, Finance & Strategy major). • Digital Transformation of Organizations (in English, Ecole d’Affaires Publiques).
Private Equity Analyst Intern
Ardian
Sep 2014 - Feb 2015
6 months
Région de Paris, France
• Co-Investment team investing in Large Cap LBOs along leading GPs including Carlyle, KKR, Blackstone, etc. • Analyzed and modelled investment opportunities, conducted due diligence and wrote investment memos (3 investments of > €8 bn cumulative EV)
Education
CEMS - The Global Alliance in Management Education
CEMS MIMT Msc in International Management
2015 - 2016
2 years
Fall term abroad : EAESP - Fundaçao Getulio Vargas (Sao Paulo, Brazil) Spring term home : HEC Paris (Paris, France)
HEC Paris
Master's degree, Major in International Management
2012 - 2016
5 years
Grade: ranked 16th at entrance examination ; Dean's List
Activities and societies: Bureau des Eleves (2013-2014), Basketball Club HEC
Ranking 2d in FT's Master in Management worldwide
FGV - Fundação Getulio Vargas
CEMS MIMT at EAESP-FGV, CEMS MIMT Msc in Management
2015 - 2015
1 year
Based in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Comprehensive management coursework with an emphasis on emerging countries (BRICS) and LatAm countries, including strategy, corporate finance and entrepreneurship.
University of Paris I: Panthéon-Sorbonne
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Applied Mathematics
2012 - 2013
2 years
Grade: With honors
Double degree with HEC Paris Coursework : probability and statistics, algebra, fundamental analysis
Lycée du Parc
Classe Préparatoire (ECS)
2010 - 2012
3 years
An intensive two-year course with an emphasis on Mathematics for competitive entrance exam to top French Business Schools. Subjects taught: Mathematics, History, Geography, Geopolitics, Philosophy, English and German
Lycée Condorcet
Baccalauréat 2010 (Mention TB), Filière S, double option SI et Mathématiques, Européenne Anglais
2007 - 2010
4 years
Licenses & certifications
Digital Transformation Certificate - HEC Paris
Issued: May 2025
Portfolio
Launching a Pioneering Investment Fund in Gaming Through Revenue-Sharing
