Romain Bourdon

Business Manager to the COO

Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland

About

Experience

  • Wells Fargo (Full-time · 3 yrs 11 mos)
    • Business Manager to the COO
      Sep 2025 - Present · 11 mos

      Member of the International Business Management team supporting the Chief Operating Officer of Wells Fargo Securities Europe (WFSE), the EU Broker dealer of Wells Fargo. My role focuses on Legal Entity Governance, regulatory coordination and executive committee support, ensuring that WFSE operates in line with internal governance standards and European regulatory expectation. My key responsabilities and achievements include: -Executive Committee governance: Act as Committee Secretary for the WFSE Executive Committee, responsible for planning and scheduling meeting, coordinating agenda items, revieving and challenging submissions, preparing meeting packs and speaker notes, drafting minutes, and tracking decisions and actions to completion -Governance, audit, and regulatory support: Lead and coordinate WFSE governance deliverables, including the annual internal control report (RACI), regulatory questionnaires and response to internal audit and regulatory reviews. -Strategic and regulatory initiatives: Support the WFSE COO on strategic initiatives, including business enablement and regulatory change programmes. This includes coordinating cross functional deliverables, tracking preconditions to go live, and ensuring executive and regulatory awareness of risks, controls and dependencies.

    • Business Execution Associate
      Sep 2024 - Sep 2025 · 1 yr 1 mo

      Member of the International Business Management Team. My key responsibilities include: -Committee Secretary for Wells Fargo Securities Europe Executive Committee -Support the internationalisation of Governance controls, procedures and playbooks -Key Contributor to business management issue resolutions

    • Program Analyst COO office
      Sep 2022 - Aug 2024 · 2 yrs

      2-year program within WFBI COO where I rotated and gained experience within the following functions: -Outsourcing: Enhanced KPI reporting on outsourcing to automate and improve the output. I worked on data analysis to align output with EMEA entities. -Operations: Assisted in managing settlement activity for the repo business. Assisted in oversight of the FX support activity -Business Management: Assisted in the production of Governance Reporting Packs. Assisted in reviewing Operational Resilience activities and realized System of Records updates -Project management: Provided support to a strategic regulatory implementation project and supported initiatives to increase company CRE product capabilities -Business & Technology control: Completion of Operational Risk Regulatory reports. Realization of data analysis to improve comprehension of the issues impacting the entity

  • External Consultant at LearnUpon
    May 2022 - Jul 2022 · 3 mos

    -Production with 5 other consultants of several deliverables (PowerPoint presentations, PowerPitch, Executive Report) to support LearnUpon in implementing its external growth strategy -Analysis of financial fundamentals of several start-ups in the e-learning industry to determine whether they can be considered credible targets for a potential acquisition by LearnUpon -Participation in creating a plan permitting LearnUpon to implement its M&A strategy

  • Business Intelligence Advisor at Séché Environnement
    Mar 2020 - Jul 2020 · 5 mos

    -Conducted several geopolitical and economic studies, briefing notes for board members to support potential development. -Drafted a 40-page report, on competitive landscape of hazardous waste market in several major global areas. -Analysed an Info-Memo to assess relevance for Séché Environnement to acquire a company with a revenue of more than 300 million €.

  • Research Officer at Artelia
    Jun 2019 - Jul 2019 · 2 mos

    -Drafted a guide of analysis and orientations of sensitive political and organizational situations encountered in context of missions to study electricity production, transmission, and distribution in Africa. -Described how lobbying and stakeholder interactions influence project management of studies of consulting engineers. -Identified critical questions to consider before projects to anticipate and improve answers to client's needs.

  • Junior Assistant at CNPA
    Jun 2018 - Jul 2018 · 2 mos

    Summer internship of 2 months in the communication department: -Crafted PowerPoint presentation and wrote speakers' various speeches for CNPA annual General Assembly. -Created a mapping to evaluate amount of information transmitted to movement members, and proposition of several recommendations to improve internal communication for coming years.