Benoit ROGER

Ares & Co is a strategy and management consulting firm dedicated to the financial services sector: Banks, Insurance Companies and Investment Funds. Our mission: to advise and support managers in the development and transformation of their company by speeding up decision-making and achieving results. Our clients value us for our Independence, the Impact of our services, the Excellence of our consultants, our strong industry expertise and our approach to new technologies to address their issues.

Master degree courses on credit risk – website: http://defaultrisk.free.fr One book on credit risk modelling (jointly with Vivien Brunel): https://www.economica.fr/livre-le-risque-de-credit-des-modeles-au-pilotage-de-la-banque-brunel-vivien-roger-benoit,fr,4,9782717867275.cfm or https://www.amazon.fr/Risque-Cr%C3%A9dit-Mod%C3%A8les-Pilotage-Banque/dp/2717867279E

Within the EURO and RUSS Business Line (Retail Banking and Consumer Finance europe and Russia), I am animating Data and A.I. Topics that are relevant for the consumer finance entities: inventoring current initiatives, building the Data & AI community, identifying common topics (models, fraud management, open credit, etc) and circulating best practices.

BDK -Nr. 2 non captive bank in Germany- has been awarded as Best independant Car financing bank by Autohaus BankenMonitor in 2017. BDK, with its parent company ALD Lease Finanz is a subsidiary of Société Générale. Prokurist. Expatriate position. CRM (80+ people) is in charge of credit underwriting (and relationship with main clients), asset recovery, floorchecking, statistical analysis and risk controlling, projects (cooperations). Also working for sister company ALD Germany. Working language: german.

Following Société Générale reorganization, head of retail risk on 50+ GEUR exposure with growth business plan. Same responsibilities as previous position on widened perimeter and follow-up of market risk at macro level. Member of the Management Committee of Euro Region Working language: french, english, and marginally italian

Member of the enlarged Direction Committee of the SG Risk Division Member of the Executive Committee of the SG Consumer Credit Holding (15 000+ people, Exposures above 20 GEUR). Management: Direct supervision of retail part (Consumer Credit) as CRO Project Director for delivery of new method for computation of provisions on retail (specific provisions, i.e. Stage 3 for IFRS 9). 100% dedicated on IFRS 9 in Q1 2013 so as to evaluate impacts for SG and initiate internal project.

In charge of bank risk appetite project (definition of the risk appetite norm at the bank level, measure of risk/reward profile). Risk cartography. Strong focus on quantitative methods (credit, risk, market). In charge of stress tests (intern, and EBA in collaboration with Finance Department Co-head of the CRD3 trading project (Incremental Risk Charge, Stress VaR) Other regulatory projects (including EEPE-stress testing, Operational Risk). Clients: Board, Financial Division, Supervisors.

Management of a team of 15. Strategy: Risk appetite, measure and validation of the risk/reward profile. Regulatory: Operational risk capital internal measure (AMA). Internal model for regulatory capital assessment on securitization transactions (conduits). Stress testing: ICAAP stress tests and specific stress tests. CEBS stress tests. Pillar 2: Economic capital (credit, market, operational risks). Support of business lines for the design and analysis of structured transactions

PhD studies in mathematics/finance.

Mathematics (Analysis, Probabilities and Stochastic Analysis, Optimisation) up to Masters' degree Agrégation de Mathématique (competitive exam to become teacher in France) Master in Finance (Ecole Polytechnique, France and Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland)