MATTHIEU RAJJOU
Director of Finance and Operations
FINANCE AND OPERATIONS DEPARTMENT
Various real estate projects, such as the Paris campus in Saint-Ouen, as well as projects related to finance, such as a switch to multi-capital accounting or support for the Token 4 Good platform, punctuated the Finance and Operations Department’s activities in 2022.
72,5
Audencia’s budget (in millions of euros) for 2022. A significant budget to serve the School’s ambitions.
How would you assess 2022?
2022 will have been a year of many issues related to the development of our school’s activities, starting with the search for and validation of a Parisian campus that will open its doors in the summer of 2023, in Saint Ouen to be exact. Located very near to the metro station, in a business district with strong partnership potential, it will welcome its first Bachelor, SM and apprenticeship students next September.
Still in terms of real estate, this year, has allowed us to modernise several of our venues, including renovation of the reception area, the lobby of the ECE building and the sports hall on our Atlantic Campus. In tandem, we continued the implementation of multi-capital accounting with integrated reporting with our current tools. This will allow us to swiftly benefit from reporting in terms of euros but also in carbon resources (expressed in CO2) for all the divisions. This is a strong choice which shows the importance of this dimension in our activities.
Finally, as regards the Token 4 Good project, we continued the exploratory phase and the implementation of the platform. We still need to work on a clear and precise business model that would serve the interests of all Audencia stakeholders.
What is your vision for 2023?
2023 is also shaping up to be a year of many strong and structural projects. The following are among the scheduled investments: a new fitness centre and music studio for the City Campus; the installation of several new Active Learning rooms on the Atlantic Campus to immerse students in a new and impactful teaching method, as well as an outdoor educational area dedicated to Gaïa where students will be able to enjoy a green amphitheatre.
Overall, the aim is to re-green external spaces. In tandem, we are also considering how best to support the new housing needs of our students, particularly in Paris with the emergence of the future campus. This is why we are going to establish structural partnerships with student housing organisations.
What are your goals for the completion of the strategic plan, within the scope of the ECOS plan?
By 2025, one of the major vectors of our strategy will be driven by the low-carbon approach for which we shared a roadmap at the beginning of 2023. We will be able to base this on our integrated reporting, per division and with clear reduction targets.
As part of a general sobriety plan, affecting all activities, the tertiary sector decree will also oblige us to reduce our energy consumption by 40% by 2030. In this respect, we will work on all our campuses to make them more energy efficient. This will lead us to renovate all our buildings.
As a result, we will have to rethink our buildings, our spaces and our flows for better general optimisation. Then, of course, we will also be supported by the new Paris campus and the development of its activities.
What are your CSR commitments?
All our activities include CSR dimensions: both in the construction and renovation of buildings and in all transversal activities.
In order to make serene progress on this matter, 2022 saw Audencia set up a purchasing department with the arrival of dedicated resources. The creation of this department goes hand in hand with the development of a purchasing strategy based on CSR and more generally on our ECOS 2025 strategic plan.
This entire approach must lead us towards more responsible sourcing for all the school’s activities. Our division must ensure that the guidelines shared among all of us are respected.
LAURE GASCHIGNARD
Founder of Cap2act – in charge of deploying multi-capital accounting at Audencia
Putting the environment on the same level as finance
In early 2023, Audencia is unveiling not only its low carbon strategy but also its multi-capital accounting management tool developed with the Lifts® methodology. This system enables the school to set out a roadmap for reductions in line with the Paris Agreements, with the support of WWF and SBTI, but also to operationalise these reductions by spreading the reduction objectives among the different divisions, like a carbon budget to be respected. Multi-capital accounting will allow the new budget to be compared with the actual emissions of each division. As a result, steering of activity aims at achieving a global performance, by placing the environment at the same level of importance as financial aspects. It makes it possible to make the players in companies aware of their responsibilities based on a budget system understood by all. The new challenge is for Audencia to incorporate social aspects into this tool!
