Global BBA, second year · Corporate Finance · SKEMA Business School

Reading the numbers,
and knowing what they are worth.

Second-year Global BBA student, majoring in corporate finance at SKEMA Business School. I am interested in how figures describe an activity, and in what they do or do not allow you to conclude.

€700k+in annual gross rental income across the portfolio
10prime properties in portfolio
3.70/4grade point average at SKEMA
30 hflight hours

01 — Interests

What keeps me busy outside lectures.

I come from physics and mathematics. I kept the habit of checking a figure before believing it, and of saying where it came from.

My interests range from how financial markets and real estate work to aviation and running concrete projects.

Finance and markets

Reading accounts, analysing performance and following markets, with a Bloomberg Market Concepts certification obtained in August 2026.

Real estate

Running a ten-property rental portfolio in Antibes, from pricing to owner reporting.

Aviation

Student pilot, flying solo since 2023.

02 — Case studies

Two cases, two exercises.

First case — running a portfolio

In the summer of 2025 I took responsibility for a rental portfolio of ten prime apartments in the old town of Antibes, on behalf of Absoluty. Here is how I worked, and what came of it.

The figures below are real. The properties are not identified and the detailed operating data is not published: it is commercial data, and it belongs to the business.

  1. Situation

    A mixed portfolio — ten properties of different sizes and locations — run by hand, with no common pricing grid and no consolidated view of occupancy. One property had just entered the portfolio, with no pricing history.

  2. Hypothesis

    In a short-let market at peak season, the opening price of a property with no history drives how fast it fills more than its absolute level does. Positioning too high at launch costs nights that cannot be recovered later.

  3. Decision

    Built a pricing grid for that property ahead of the high season, benchmarked against comparable properties in the portfolio and adjusted weekly against the observed booking pace.

  4. Outcome

    Occupancy rose over the season. Across the portfolio as a whole, nineteen viewings turned into fourteen firm bookings for the following season — close to three in four.

  5. Beyond

    Redesigned the tenant journey to make the whole thing manageable: centralised Keycafe key boxes across all ten properties, welcome documentation and correspondence templates rewritten. Fewer exceptions to handle, so more time on the part that creates value.

  • Viewings arranged
    19
  • Firm bookings
    14 · 73.7 %
Conversion of viewings into bookings for the following season, full portfolio, 2025 season. Source: Absoluty internal records.

Second case — launching an asset

In late 2025 I was asked to prepare a new property in the portfolio, Maison Soleiha, for launch ahead of its opening in early April 2026.

  1. Financing

    Contributed to the financing plan for the project: funding sources, schedule and break-even point.

  2. Market

    Comparative study of the short-let market in the old town of Antibes: competing properties, their price levels, capacity and amenities, so as to position the asset within the existing supply rather than in the abstract.

  3. Forecast

    Built the operating forecast: revenue projection, target occupancy month by month, and cost base. A property with no history has no trajectory — you have to assume one, and write down what it rests on.

  4. Pricing

    Set the launch pricing strategy, anchored on the benchmark and on the occupancy assumptions adopted. The opening price of a property coming to market drives how fast it fills more than its absolute level does: positioning too high costs nights that cannot be recovered later. The grid was adjusted weekly against the observed booking pace.

  5. Next

    The property went live in early April 2026. I tracked the effect of the grid on occupancy over the first months. The gap between forecast and outcome is the most instructive part of the exercise, and it is the one I want to learn to run on financed transactions.

What I take from these two exercises, and it holds well beyond seasonal lettings: an asset is not run on instinct. It needs a process that holds without permanent exceptions, a written assumption someone can read back, and a measure of the gap between what was expected and what happened. That is what I want to learn to do on larger deals, with debt on the other side.

Personal work on public data: I extended both exercises into a short-let financing model, interactive online, with its calculations laid out.

03 — Experience

Professional background.

Analyst — rental asset launch — Absoluty (family business) · Maison SoleihaProject alongside full-time study · Late 2025 – April 2026 · Antibes
  • Contributed to the financing plan for the project.
  • Comparative study of the Antibes old-town rental market: competitor benchmarking, analysis of local supply and positioning of the asset.
  • Built the operating forecast: revenue projection, target occupancy and cost base.
  • Set the launch pricing strategy and tracked its effect on occupancy over the first months.
  • The property went live in early April 2026.
Rental portfolio manager — Absoluty (family business)Internship · May – August 2025 · Antibes
  • Ran a portfolio of ten prime properties in the old town of Antibes, representing over €700,000 in annual gross rental income: pricing, marketing, operations monitoring and owner reporting.
  • Converted nineteen viewings into fourteen firm bookings for the following season.
  • Supported a property valuation expert on the component depreciation of the seven owned properties: breaking down cost items and setting the depreciation lives applied.
  • Redesigned the tenant journey: centralised Keycafe key boxes, welcome documentation and correspondence templates.
Sales assistant — Lin du SudStudent job, weekends · Since September 2026 · Antibes
  • Customer advice and in-store sales: 40 customers served across a Saturday, €150 average basket. Till management.
Waitress and bartender — Les Filles du MicocoulierSummer job · Summer 2023 · Antibes
  • Till management and daily reconciliation on a busy terrace.
Aeronautical maintenance — Union Aéronautique de la Côte d'AzurInternship · Summer 2022 · Cannes
  • Maintenance, assembly and conformity checks on five aircraft models, under strict safety standards.

04 — Education

Academic background.

Global BBA, Corporate Finance major — SKEMA Business SchoolJan. 2025 – June 2029 · Sophia Antipolis, then Raleigh
  • Two years completed by December 2026, then the third year at SKEMA's Raleigh campus, North Carolina, from September 2027 to May 2028. Grade point average: 3.70 / 4.
  • Coursework completed: Financial Analysis and Decision Making, Financial Markets and Institutions, Managerial Accounting, Macroeconomics, Microeconomics, Statistics, Calculus I.
Engineering preparatory programme — INSA LyonSept. – Dec. 2024
  • Mathematics, physics and computer science at a demanding level. A scientific grounding redirected towards corporate finance.
French Baccalauréat — Lycée Jacques AudibertiSept. 2021 – June 2024 · Antibes
  • 16.76 / 20, highest honours (mention Très Bien). Mathematics and Physics-Chemistry majors, Advanced Mathematics option.

05 — Skills and languages

Ready to be useful on day one.

Certification

Bloomberg Market Concepts — August 2026

Analysis and modelling

Excel — pivot tablesVBABloomberg TerminalPython

Languages

French — native · English — TOEFL ITP 623/677, C1 · Italian — B1

On the ground

Working relationships with demanding international clients, in French and English. Regular reporting to an owner.

06 — Flying

What flying taught me.

Student pilot, flying solo since 2023, with over thirty hours on a Robin DR400.

You do not take off without having prepared the flight: mass and balance, fuel, weather, diversion airfields. In the air, procedures are not up for debate, and when conditions change you decide quickly with the information you have — not the information you would have liked. I have not found a better school of rigour, and it is the skill that carries over most directly into a financing file.

07 — Contact

Let's talk.

To talk about my studies, my projects or my interests, you can reach me through the channels below.

alice.guyotscodeller@skema.edu +33 6 15 49 58 56 linkedin.com/in/alice-guyot-scodeller Antibes (Alpes-Maritimes — 06), France
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