Jerome Elfassy

New York, NY, United States

Member since January 8, 2017

After working as a credit prop trader for 7 years, co-managing a $12 billion corporate bond portfolio, and co-founding Festicket, Jerome started freelancing, building financial models, consulting for capital raising and acting as an external CFO. He has extensive experience working closely with founders of US and European eCommerce and media companies, helping them develop the necessary tools to financially structure their growth.

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Career Highlights

Part-Time CFO
Keli Network Inc.
Co-Founder, Part-Time CFO
Festicket
Vice President
BNP Paribas

Education

Master's degree
New York University
Master's degree
École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées
Bachelor's degree
École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées

Case studies

eCommerce Series C Forecast Model & Reporting Tool
- Financial Modeling
- Fundraising
Analysis of a Retail eCommerce website Launch
- Financial Forecasting
- Financial Modeling
- eCommerce
- Retail & Wholesale
Media Group Forecast
- Financial Modeling
- Financial Forecasting
Media Group Financial Monitoring
- Financial Reporting
- Financial Reporting Dashboards
- Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)

Industry Expertise

eCommerce
Retail & Wholesale
Startups

Software Expertise

Microsoft Excel

Other Expertise

Europe
Financial Modeling
Media

Employment

Part-Time CFO
2016 - PRESENT
Keli Network Inc.
- Developed and frequently updated the forecast model.
- Advised and worked closely with CEO for multiple fundraising events for the company.
- Developed internal tools to automate investor reporting.
- Developed internal tools to automate month-end reporting.
- Developed internal tools to optimize the journalists' planning.
Focus areas: Financial Modeling, Financial Reporting, Growth Capital Raising, Business Plan Development
Co-Founder, Part-Time CFO
2012 - PRESENT
Festicket
- Worked closely with the CEO on the closing of a $6M Series B round.
- Developed tools to automate the month-end reports.
- Developed tools to automate the investor reports.
- Created the company from scratch with 2 co-founders, raising a seed round of $600K.
- Advised on the recruitment of finance employees.
Focus areas: Financial Modeling, Financial Reporting, Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A), Budgeting
Financial Consultant
2017 - 2017
Les Eclaireuses
- Built a tool for monthly monitoring/reporting.
- Analyzed the FY 2016 to help the CEO make investment decisions.
Focus areas: Financial Reporting, Financial Modeling
Consultant
2016 - 2017
Gelmart International
- Worked on analysing the cost, risk, and reward of launching a direct-to-consumer line of clothes, for a company which has been doing wholesale for the past 60 years.
- Built a financial model with multiple assumptions and scenarios.
- Worked closely with the management to explain the mechanics of direct-to-consumer online sales (customer acquisition cost, lifetime value, contribution margin, acquisition funnels, and more).
Focus areas: Financial Modeling
Portfolio Manager
2014 - 2015
Saiers Capital
- Developed the credit trading portfolio.
- Structured a $10M funding deal with an Israeli company; a payment solution enabling merchants to offer free monthly installment plans to their customers.
- Structured a deal with a logistics "last-mile" company, working with Amazon (for their Prime offer in NY) and with private companies.
Focus areas: Portfolio Analysis, Venture Funding
Vice President
2009 - 2014
BNP Paribas
- Co-managed a $12 billion portfolio of US corporate bonds.
- Started from scratch and built out a portfolio of long/short US credit derivative swaps.
Focus areas: Portfolio Analysis

Education

Master's degree in Mathematics in Finance
2007 - 2008
New York University - New York, NY, USA
Master's degree in Mathematics & Finance
2006 - 2008
École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées - Paris, France
Bachelor's degree in Mathematics & Finance
2004 - 2006
École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées - Paris, France