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Xavier Robitaille

Senior Advisory Uniting Insurance, Finance & Investment Expertise

A structurally rare profile: actuarial training, accounting qualification, and 25 years of insurance-specific experience, from regulatory accounting to investment reporting to programme governance. Latest delivery: an 18-month Clearwater Analytics implementation, live since January 2026.

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25+

Years Insurance Expertise

3×

ESCP · Actuarial · Accounting

FR/EN

Bilingual — International

PMP®

Certified — Programme Delivery

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Areas of Practice

Deep Expertise Across
the Full Finance Stack

From regulatory transformation to systems implementation — covering both the financial reporting side and the investment and asset management side.

01

IFRS 17, IFRS 9 & Solvency II

Full-cycle regulatory transformation — gap analysis, technical implementation, and reporting production for insurance and AM firms.

IFRS 17IFRS 9Solvency II
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02

Investment Reporting

Institutional investment reporting for insurers and asset managers — from portfolio data flows to regulatory and management output.

InvestmentAsset ManagementReporting
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03

Interim Management

Hands-on leadership of finance and accounting functions during transformation periods, regulatory deadlines, or organisational transition.

FinanceAccountingTransition
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04

PMO & Programme Delivery

Senior governance for complex multi-workstream transformations — steering committees, milestone tracking, risk management and reporting.

PMOGovernanceDelivery
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05

SimCorp Dimension & Clearwater Analytics

Implementation support and business analysis for investment management platforms — bridging the business and technical divide on complex deployments.

SimCorp DimensionClearwater AnalyticsImplementation
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06

Finance Transformation

End-to-end finance function redesign — target operating model, process optimisation, and change management for insurers and AM firms.

FinanceOperationsChange
Who I Work With

Three Complementary
Client Relationships

Vendors, institutions, and consulting firms. Each relationship strengthens the others: expertise gained with vendors builds credibility with insurers, and the reverse.

They’ve trusted me
01 — Vendor Side

Software & Consulting Vendors

Brought in to support client satisfaction, implementation quality, or technical escalations where deep domain expertise is needed on the ground.

  • Implementation Directors
  • Customer Satisfaction Leads
  • Pre-sales & Technical Teams
02 — End-Client Side

Insurers & Asset Managers

Embedded within the organisation — working alongside leadership to run finance transformation, regulatory change, or critical reporting programmes.

  • CFO & Chief Accounting Officer
  • Chief Investment Officer
  • Finance Transformation Manager
  • Programme Manager
03 — Consulting Firms

Strategy & Consulting Firms

Engaged as specialist subcontractor — providing the deep insurance and finance knowledge that generalist teams need to deliver credibly in this sector.

  • Practice Partners
  • Project & Workstream Leads
  • Specialist Subcontract
The Profile

A Positioning With
No Direct Equivalent

25 years in insurance, since the first job. Enough depth to read technical stakes at first glance, immediate credibility with actuarial and finance counterparts, and delivery without a learning phase.

The combination of ESCP, actuarial training, and accounting qualification is genuinely rare in the market. It translates into full coverage of both the financial reporting side and the investment and asset management side — without needing a second person in the room.

ESCP Business SchoolTop 2 French Grande École · European Tier 1
Actuarial StudiesInsurance-specific technical depth
Accounting QualificationIFRS · Regulatory Accounting · Reporting
Bilingual FR & ENOpen to French & international mandates
PMP® — Project Management InstituteCertified 2025 · Programme delivery
Generative AI CertificatesVanderbilt & Yale · 2026 · AI-assisted reporting
Xavier Robitaille
25Years Insurance Experience
3Top-Tier Qualifications
2Languages — FR & EN
Full Coverage
Insurance Accounting & Reporting Side

IFRS 17/9 · Solvency II · Statutory reporting (Insurance French GAAP) · Finance transformation · Interim management

Investment & Asset Management Side

Investment reporting · SimCorp · Clearwater Analytics · Portfolio operations · ALM · Front-to-back processes · AI-driven investment reporting

How I Work

Embedded, Accountable,
and Fully Remote-Capable

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A specialist creates value when genuinely inside the subject. Long engagements produce concrete outcomes; a few weeks produce recommendations.

01

Long-Term Engagements

Typical assignments run 12 to 24+ months. Enough time to earn trust, understand the organisation deeply, and deliver measurable results.

02

Fully Remote Capable

Structured for remote-first delivery. Open to simultaneous multi-client mandates, with the discipline to manage them without loss of quality or accountability.

03

Solo & Accountable

No team, no junior relay. You work directly with the specialist. That keeps coordination costs low and accountability high.

04

Hands-On or Strategic

Equally effective as the person doing the work or governing it. PMO leadership and interim management are not separate skill sets here.

Track Record
01

Clearwater Analytics — French reinsurer

2024–2026. 18-month implementation: investment accounting (Core), order management (OMS) and private equity modules. OMS live December 2025, Core live January 2026. Monthly C-suite sponsor committees, bilingual delivery.

02

IFRS 9 — Credit insurer

2020–2024. 4 years running the ECL programme: accounting schemes, closing integration, delivery coordinated with the custodian (CACEIS).

03

SimCorp Dimension — Life insurer

2013–2017. Interim head of financial production & Solvency II. SimCorp implementation and investment fast-close.

04

SimCorp Dimension — Global reinsurer

2006–2010. Full front-to-back implementation, €3M budget: middle and back office, Swift flows, Bloomberg, IFRS and US GAAP reporting.

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Available for
New Mandates

Available now

A CFO preparing a regulatory deadline, a consulting firm placing a specialist with a client, a vendor needing domain expertise on a deployment: let’s take 30 minutes.

Full remote, hybrid, or on-site across France and internationally. Just delivered: an 18-month Clearwater Analytics implementation — OMS live Dec 2025, Core live Jan 2026.

Available now

Open to long-term engagements in insurance, asset management, and finance transformation. Full remote capability. French and English.

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