Executive summary
Frédéric Gernaij is a Senior Manager at BDO Belgium, being a dedicated team member since 2018. He holds an M.Sc. in Business Sciences from Louvain School of Management, an MBA from Mannheim Business School in Germany, and completed the Sustainable Finance Executive Programme at Oxford University in the UK.
At BDO Belgium, Frédéric specialises in financial modelling and advisory services for large projects, particularly in Public-Private Partnerships (PPP) and energy transition projects. He assists clients with financial structuring based on detailed financial projections and scenario analysis. Frédéric also supports start-ups by evaluating their business plans and improving the feasibility of their projects. His multilingual abilities in French, Dutch, English, and basic German, along with his certification as an F1F9 financial modelling expert, further enhance his advisory capabilities.
Frédéric's professional journey includes auditing roles at Mazars in Brussels, where he focused on internal procedures and accounting for financial institutions. He later joined Deutsche Bank in Berlin as Deputy Team Head of the Internal Rating hub, overseeing ratings for counterparties across various regions including Benelux, South Korea, China, Portugal, and the Nordics. His subsequent role at Avantage Reply in Brussels involved consulting on risk management for financial institutions.