Renaud Flabat

Renaud is a Data Governance and Project Manager with more than 20 years of experience in the finance sector, covering areas such as Customers & Accounts, Finance & Risk, Corporate & Investment Banking but also OPC (Operational Permanent Control).

In addition to his participation to the creation of a Data Department for a Belgian Leading Bank, he has supported Finance & Risk Reporting, CSR (Corporate Social Responsibility), KYC (Know Your Customer) & Client Referential Mid Offices and worked on many complex and regulatory projects (FATCA & AEOI/CRS, BCBS239, AnaCredit, SRB, Loan Tapes…) involving business and technical stakeholders. He is a subject matter expert re economic activity codes (NACE) and related topics (EWRA/sensitive sectors and ESG/EU Taxonomy). He focuses also his attention on the standardization and normalisation process ongoing with Bird and IReF initiatives led by the ECB and EBA.

Renaud is analytic with a “sharp eye for details” but has also the “helicopter view” and the end2end vision. He is client-driven, gets the (data) quality and process improvement mindset but also excellent inter-personal, communication and coaching skills. Renaud holds a master’s degree in Economics Management and he has recently increased even more his Data Governance skills on how to assess data maturity and build an effective data strategy by attending to the Data Leaders ‘24 Summer School training program by Carruthers & Jackson.