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Arnaud Alessandra is an expert comptable (the French equivalent of a chartered accountant) who, after graduating from Paris Dauphine University, gained his first professional experience at the audit firm Salustro Reydel, and then worked in management control at France Telecom. Arnaud subsequently spent four years at Ernst & Young’s Paris office where, as Senior Manager, he coordinated Consolidation Assistance in the Reporting & Consolidation service line.
Building on this experience, he spent six years with the Capgemini group, holding an array of operational responsibilities first as Group Consolidation Director, then as Accounting Director and Cash Officer for the France region.
In 2008, Arnaud founded Arcole, where he now leverages his 17 years’ experience to assist and advise company finance departments. In 2009 he was recognized nationally for his outstanding dissertation on chartered accounting practices in France .
Arnaud Alessandra is also a lecturer for the 2nd year Master’s programme in accounting, control and audit at Paris Descartes University.
Arnaud is particularly experienced in:
- Advising corporate accounting and consolidation departments
- French GAAP and IFRS (Essec – PwC certification in IFRS)
- The IT services industry
as well as :
- Go-live processes
- Project management
- Team management
- Providing technical and operations training
