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Work Experience (references gladly provided upon request)

  • 2007 - ... : UBS (Regional Controlling & Accounting), Luxembourg (L)

    [11/2011 - ...] : Associate Director, Financial Analyst, Global Asset Management

    • Takeover and integration of acquired companies (LFG) finance into UBS Luxembourg

    • Regulatory reporting to the Commission de Surveillance du Secteur Financier (Luxembourg Regulator) : financial situation, ad hoc, risks concentration, own capital requirements, interest rate stress test, …

    • Internal & management reporting

    • Annual reports & liaison with auditors & conducting officers

    • Revenues & cash management, including counterparts and currencies exposure management, invoicing and accounting


    [06/2010 - 11/2011] : Associate Director, Liquidity Risk Controller, Wealth Management & Business Banking

    • Production and analysis of the weekly liquidity risk dashboard, including stress tests results

    • Production of the monthly liquidity report and minutes for the bank's Liquidity Management Committee and the CSSF

    • Stress tests scenarios review

    • Ad hoc analyses

    • Description of the liquidity situation and analysis methodology for internal and external risk reports (Annual Report, ICAAP, Risk handbook, ...)


    [01/2007 - 11/2011] : Associate Director, Reporting Expert, Wealth Management & Business Banking

    • Deputy Team Leader (GMIS)

    • Production, analysis and control of the monthly management reports (on assets, liabilities, flows, revenues, costs, ...) for Luxembourg (including Austrian and Irish branches), Belgium and the Netherlands

    • Plausibility checks, investigations, explanations and comments regarding deviatons

    • Production, analysis and control of the weekly sales reports for Luxembourg (including Austrian and Irish branches), and Belgium

    • Development and maintenance of databases (sales, costs, ...), data quality monitoring

    • Development projects for the annual new releases of reporting tools (including specifications and tests)

    • Revision and improvements to current work processes and methods

    • Writing of procedures


  • 2004 - 2007 : Clerical Medical, Strassen (L)

    Management Reporting & Planing Analyst

    • Production, interpretation and control of the financial information required for management reporting purposes

    • Production, interpretation and control of daily / weekly / monthly sales statistics

    • Production, interpretation and control of cost centre figures

    • Production, control and interpretation of development expenditure information

    • Production of quarterly forecasts for the business and the entities

    • Development and production of ad hoc reports and analyses for the company management officers

    • Integration of acquired companies and their products into Clerical Medical & HBOS' reporting standards

    • Elaboration and revision of multi-year budgets

    • Development and maintenance of databases (sales, costs, ...), data quality monitoring

    • Reconciliation of data coming from various sources

    • Writing of articles for the financial newsletters of Clerical Medical and of the HBOS Group


  • 2006 - ... : I.E.P.S.C.F., Athus (B)

    Expert Teacher

    • Lecturing the course of "Thorough Analytical Accounting" to bachelor students (evening classes)


  • 2004 : Neuberg S.A., Luxembourg (L)

    Mission in the accounting department

    • Reconciliation of all suppliers accounts


  • 2002 - 2003 : John Zink International, Dudelange (L)

    Project Accountant

    • Accounting, administration and reporting of all manufacturing projects in Europe

    • Monthly closings & reconciliations


  • 1998 - 2002 : Lombard International Assurance, Senningerberg (L)

    Computer Engineer

    • Various production projects (servers monitoring system, telecommunication costs analysis, backup system, year 2000, technological business continuity, ...)

    • Daily network & systems maintenance

    • Users' support & training

    • Continued training


  • 1997 - 1998 : Idelux, Arlon (B)

    Internship at the Information Technology Department

    • “Telematic Support Centre” project : analysis prior to the implementation of the town’s intranet


  • 1995 - 1996 : AC Arlon (B)

    Internship at the Management & Human Resources Department

    • Development of a tool to analyse the social situation of the company



Education

  • 2007 - ... : Institut de Formation Bancaire de Luxembourg

    Risk Management Specialist Certification (to be obtained in December 2014)

    • Market risk, credit / counterparty risk, operational risk, asset & liability management, liquidity risk


  • 2007 - ... : UBS Business University, Institut de Formation Bancaire de Luxembourg

    Vocational Certificates & Trainings

    • Ethics, risk & compliance skills, fraud awareness, anti-bribery & corruption, anti-money laundering & anti terrorism financing, information security fundamentals, information as an asset, trusted internal partner, social media specialist, ...


  • 2008 - 2009 : UBS Academy, Luxembourg

    Wealth Management Certificate

    • Financial training including bonds, money market, derivatives, structured products, funds, equities analysis, financial mathematics and statistics, portfolio theory, credit, ...


  • 2005 : Association of Certified Chartererd Accountants, Glasgow

    Certificate in International Financial Reporting

    • Learning of the international financial reporting standards (IAS - IFRS)


  • 2002 - 2005 : I.E.P.S.C.F., Athus

    Bachelor in Accounting

    • Thorough general & analytical accounting, financial analysis, fiscal law, financial mathematics, ...

    • Thesis : "Belgacom's IPO"


  • 1998 : Siemens Nixdorf, Brussels

    Microsoft Certified Professional (Windows NT4 Server, Internet Information Server 3)

  • 1996 - 1997 : Facultés Universitaires Notre-Dame de la Paix, Namur

    Post-graduate degree in Communication and Information Technology Law and Management

    • Multi-disciplinary approach of the new technologies (Economics, Law, Technique)


  • 1995 - 1996 : Université Catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve

    Post-graduate degree in Social Communication

    • Public relations, organisations’ communication, psychosociology, press & media, ...


  • 1991 - 1995 : Facultés Universitaires Notre-Dame de la Paix, Namur, & Université Catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve

    Graduate degree in Public and International Affairs, section “International Relations”

    • Economics, statistics (descriptive & inferential), law, mathematics, sociology, ...

    • Thesis : "The Electoral System of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg"


  • 1985 - 1991 : Collège Notre-Dame du Bonlieu, Virton

    Secondary School

    • Latin & Greek, foreign languages (Dutch, English)



Honours & other missions

  • Selected by the Foreign Office of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg to take part to an OSCE election observation mission in Albania [May 2011]

    • Control of polling stations

    • Observation of voting process, counting and tabulation

    • Reporting


  • Selected by the Rotary International to represent Belgium & the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg during a Group Study Exchange in the United States for young professionals [April 2001]

    • Visits to enterprises and vocational meetings (Spalding, ESPN, Travelers, …)


  • Commissioned an Honorary Citizen of the City of New Britain, Connecticut, [April 2001]


Languages

  • French : Mother Tongue

  • English : Fluent, spoken & written

  • Dutch : Good to fluent, spoken and written

    Several stays in Flemish families (language exchange) during secondary school

  • German : Good to fluent, spoken and written

    Stay in Vienna (Austria) to improve language in immersion

  • Luxemburgish : Notions; basic, passive understanding

  • Portuguese : Notions

  • Russian : Notions


Computer Technologies

  • Analysis : SQL, Relational databases design, implementation & maintenance, ODBC, Merise

  • Programming : HTML (static) & CSS, SQL, Pascal, Javascript & Visual Basic

  • Softwares :

    • Office suite : Excel, Access (including macros development and programming), Word, PowerPoint, ...

    • Financial softwares : Online Business Banking (OBS), SAP, Baan, Bloomberg, Fund Manager, Reuters, Popsy, ...

    • Reporting tools : Oracle (Discoverer, Browser), Essbase, Business Objects, Comshare, Stars, ...

    • Internet tools : browsers, email, Html authoring, ...

    • Picture editors : Photoshop, Fireworks, ...

    • Others : Visio, PL/SQL Developer, NS Transfert, Badas, Acrobat Reader & Writer, Ghost, ...


  • OSes : Windows XP, 2000, NT4, 98-95, 3.x, Dos, a bit AS400, Netware & Linux

  • System tools : NT tools, Netware Admin, SQL Enterprise, ArcServe, ManageX, Firewall 1, IEAK, …

  • Others : PC architecture, TCP/IP, basic IPX/SPX, cabling, peripherals, …


Interests & Hobbies

  • Finance & stocks markets

  • Reading, Writing, History, Drama

  • Traveling

  • Radio animation, music

  • Designing & creating web sites

  • Sport (tennis, football, cycling, ...)

  • Active volunteer in various non-profit associations

  • Lots of other things...


Others

  • Family name : Gerard

  • First name : Pierre

  • Marital status : single

  • Date of Birth : January 26th, 1973

  • Phone : +32 (0)63 / 67 63 65

  • Mobile (Bel.) : +32 (0)494 / 59 33 81

  • Mobile (Lux.) : +352 691 / 81 17 50

  • Email : this way

  • Nationality : Belgian

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