Mastercard Data & Services

*BeLUX: Leading business development for Belgium & Luxemburg for Mastercard Data & Services (+25% YoY growth) focusing on:
                   1. Financial service players (issuers, processors, acquirers)
                   2. Merchants
                   3. Government & Public sector (incl. Transit)
                   4. New Payment Platforms

*Global: Responsible for BD in our Acquiring & Processing practice supporting the acquirers, processors in optimizing their (current) business, identifying new opportunities in partnership with Mastercard 

Global: ESG Practice stream lead for inorganic growth: scanning and identifying new potential targets for partnership, acquisition and/or JV

Director Business Development

BrightWolves

BrightWolves (empowered by the Quanteus Group) is a young management consulting firm that supports its clients by solving their most critical business transformation challenges, from strategy to implementation, on the following main topics:
* Strategy & Corporate Finance
* Sustainable Transformation
* Operations & Organizations
* Digital Transformation
* Data Strategy & Governance

Senior Manager

Responsible for:
* Growing the D&S footprint across BeLux at +30% CAGR
* Managing high performing delivery teams on strategy, data, marketing oriented assignments 
* Expanding the line of services across different industries (CIPS, FS)

Lead Strategic Business Development BeLux

PwC Belgium

* Large scale (supply chain) transformation projects 
* Optimize your cost side to create bottom and top line benefits
* Redesign your organisation aligned with your strategic objectives

Management Consulting - Manager Strategy & Operations

Within Risk Assurance & Advisory, I focus mainly on the following functional areas:
* Process optimization
* PMI
* Strategic Risk Management
* Framework implementation
* Business Process Optimization
* Internal Audit services (incl. SOx and J-SOx)
* Assisting in deal valuations from a risk & control perspective

Certifications:
- CIA part 1 & 2 obtained
- PRINCE II - Foundations

Risk Assurance Services - Manager Internal Audit, risk management & compliance

Senior Associate

Associate Analyst

PwC Deutschland

International short term assignment: 
During this assignment, I was placed on a client project regarding ICS update testing (Controls based on SOx-principles) for a company in the pharmaceutical sector. During this assignment, a Belgian colleague and I were responsible for testing the controls present for the accounts payable, accounts receivable and the internal accounting processes worldwide, based on the evidence provided by the client. After checking the design of the control we were able to determine if it was useful to proceed to operating effectiveness testing. In the operating effectiveness testing, we had to select a sample that on the one hand covered the period of under audit and on the other hand a sample containing items large enough to cover our materiality level. 
Acquired:
- Critical awareness of evidence received
- Leadership skills (overseeing a fellow colleague and assisting where he had questions)
- Relationship skills: building an international network
- Technical capabilities: Documenting the testing we did with high quality

Internal Audit Consultant

JooS Consulting

As a consultant for JooS Consulting, we were dispatched at the client to fill in a position in the Finance and Accounting department. We provided a service based on knowledge of accounting and finance and would try to help the client by applying our knowledge in this function and possibly make some processes more efficient there.

Consultant

KPMG Belgium

As auditor, I had to verify the figures in the statutory and consolidated accounts by performing substantive and control audit testwork on different business processes of the company and captions of the statutory accounts.
During my employment at KPMG, I increased my accounting knowledge, industry knowledge by working with clients from various industries as well as my computerskills. I was also given a seperate training on the audit of banks. This gave me extra competencies in the statutory accounts, processes, control objectives etc. of the banking industry.
Competencies enforced during my employment are: working in team, working long hours, precision, being flexible and communication skills.

Financial Auditor

RedFlowers cvba

Student job through the course of my academic carreer.
Experience & Competencies:
- Leading teams 
- Being proactive
- Tolerant
- Flexible
- Long hours
- Innovative

Waitor/Host

Toyota Material Handling Belgium

Student job: My main job was to support the maintenance department and from time to time help out the logistics department.

Administratief bediende

Indaver België

Student job: My main job was to prepare presentations for the key account managers and support the commercial department.

Experienced leader with a demonstrated history of working in the  payments industry (e.g. issuing, merchant acquiring, processing, multi-rail payments), with extensive experience in business development and business model design, ESG, data monetization, (digital) innovation, strategy, M&A. 

Prior to Mastercard, Nicolas enjoyed a tenure at various Consulting firms.

Skilled in Strategic Business Development, Growth & commercial strategy, data monetization, innovation, Business Process and cost optimization, Project Management and Operations.

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