Specialist consulting boutique for the Finance function — Luxembourg & France

Augmented consulting, human scale.

ThenewB engages directly — with no interposition of junior profiles — alongside Finance functions in financial services and public-sector organisations. Close to twenty years of experience, amplified by targeted artificial-intelligence capabilities, to accelerate analysis and secure your structural decisions.

Tailored support

A bespoke engagement, designed around your operational reality and strategic goals, close to your decision-makers and teams.

Close partnership

A human-scale structure — available, attentive and fully committed alongside your teams over the long run.

AI-augmented expertise

Artificial intelligence brought in to accelerate analysis and secure decisions — never a replacement for listening and judgement.

A collective of experts on demand

Direct engagement, extended as needed by a selective network of senior partners — assembled bespoke, according to the nature of your challenge.

19+ yrs of experience in financial consulting
2 core jurisdictions: France & Luxembourg
4 sectors: Insurance · Banking · Asset Management · Public
50+ consulting engagements delivered end-to-end
Our expertise

Areas of engagement

We operate with a demanding, pragmatic and tailored approach, shaped by the reality of each organisation and the complexity of its transformations.

Organisational transformation

Supporting evolutions in governance, operating models, performance management and change execution, with a strong focus on team adoption.

Technology transformation

Framing, structuring and embedding technology roadmaps that align with your operational and strategic priorities.

Regulatory & economic transformation

Securing regulatory shifts, assessing economic impacts and supporting structural decisions in constrained environments.

Our method

How we engage

A structured, readable trajectory — tailored to the specifics of each organisation, from initial understanding through to operational delivery.

  1. Understand

    Listening, diagnosis and mapping of the challenges specific to your organisation.

  2. Augment

    Targeted use of artificial intelligence to accelerate analysis and broaden the options.

  3. Decide

    Judgement calls made by our consultants, in direct dialogue with your decision-makers.

  4. Execute

    Concrete implementation and long-term support.

AI in support of our engagements

In practice, artificial intelligence comes in at the “Augment” step: it accelerates low-value-added tasks so that the energy of our consultants stays focused where it really matters — listening, judgement and decision-making.

Tests & scenarios

Expanding test coverage

Rapid generation of test data, edge cases and acceptance scenarios to strengthen the reliability of your tools, processes and regulatory models.

Formalisation

Accelerated deliverables and documentation

AI-assisted drafting of notes, minutes, procedures, policies and decision-support materials — freeing time for analysis and dialogue with your teams.

Analysis

Processing documents and volumes

Fast reading and synthesis of regulatory, contractual and document corpora, process mapping and first-pass impact assessments to support your decisions.

Who we are

About

ThenewB is an independent consulting boutique offering a tailored, human-scale engagement. We work alongside decision-makers and their teams to clarify the issues at stake, structure transformation trajectories and secure their execution.

Our positioning is built on proximity, quality of execution, active listening, and the ability to address organisational, technological, regulatory and economic challenges at once.

Artificial intelligence is fully part of the way we work. We use it day-to-day as a delivery tool: to formalise our deliverables faster, to expand test and scenario coverage, and to process large document corpora. AI does not replace our core business — close advisory remains the heart of our value — but it multiplies the capacity of our consultants in the service of your transformations.

Track record & references

The founder and his missions

Behind ThenewB, close to twenty years of experience alongside leading French and Luxembourg players on complex transformation, regulatory and programme-management topics.

Portrait of Steve Sérèmes, Managing Partner at ThenewB
Steve Sérèmes
Managing Partner, ThenewB
Other mandates Non-Executive Director — Aioi Nissay Dowa Europe (Toyota Insurance)
Education MSc in Strategy — EDHEC Business School
BSc Mechanical Engineering — Université de Rennes
ARM54 — Risk Management
Languages French, English

Close to 19 years of experience supporting leading French and Luxembourg organisations on European and local financial regulatory matters, as well as on their technology, organisational and strategic transformation programmes.

Before founding ThenewB in 2025, Steve led Insurance & Transformation consulting activities in Luxembourg and Paris across several specialist firms (insurance practice leadership, transformation business-unit management), following senior roles at Deloitte (Senior Manager, Financial Services Transformation), KPMG France (Insurance Manager) and Accenture (Risk & Financial Performance Consultant).

His focus areas: direction of complex transformation programmes, Finance and Risk function transformation, regulatory implementation, design of Target Operating Models, governance, PMO and stakeholder management.

ThenewB engagements

Insurer — France

Group treasury platform

Programme management for the roll-out of the Group treasury platform: framing, multi-team coordination, budget tracking and change management.

Asset Manager — France

Secondary-market transition — 2 real-estate funds

Support to the transition of two real-estate funds to the secondary market: impact analysis, stakeholder coordination and delivery assurance.

Research institute — Luxembourg

Finance ERP roll-out

Programme management for the Finance ERP roll-out in a dual-use and strategic R&D context: business requirements, configuration, security, compliance and data traceability.

Other missions by the founder

Finance transformation

Finance function redesign across 12 subsidiaries

Analysis and redesign of multi-domain processes (accounting, reinsurance, actuarial), design and roll-out of the Target Operating Model across 12 subsidiaries, optimisation of the multi-standard close (French GAAP / IFRS).

Risk management

Risk programmes — banking, insurance, AM

Programme management of risk initiatives: operational process audits, risk mapping and assessment (RCSA), configuration of monitoring tooling, definition of KPIs to steer strategic and operational risks.

ESG & compliance

ESG programmes and compliance key-function support

Regulatory flash audits, ESG roadmap design, compliance support and outsourcing, remediation campaigns to strengthen the reliability and security of processes.

IS & digital transformation

IT and information systems delivery

Delivery of IT and digital transformation projects (Finance ERP, GDPR, P2P, Private Equity): requirements gathering, technical steering, change management, strategic and operational alignment.

Let’s talk

Contact

Let’s discuss your transformation challenges and shape together a tailored engagement for your organisation.

ThenewB — direct, committed advisory on a human scale.

Email: Steve.seremes@thenewB.eu

Phone: +352 621 414 715

Address: 12 Val Fleuri, 1526 Luxembourg