Normalienne, an asset for the company

Charlotte Vandeputte (class of 1997, economics-management) developed a passion for numbers when she took the ENS Paris-Saclay entrance exam at the end of the 1990s. Today, she certifies the accounts of the largest international financial groups at Deloitte, where she has been a Partner for fourteen years and a member of the executive committee since 2021. After having profoundly transformed human resources, she has just been appointed Managing Partner of the Audit & Assurance activities for the financial sector, a major role that she approaches with enthusiasm.

Once she obtained the agrégation in economics-management in 2000 at ENS Paris-Saclay, Charlotte Vandeputte first considered a career in the public sector and passed various competitive exams, all with success. She initially chose a public administration before switching to financial auditing, a sector in which she was convinced she would thrive more. She joined Deloitte in 2001, where she has since built an exemplary career. Charlotte is a statutory auditor and certifies the accounts of major international banking groups, for which she also provides consulting services. "My job is a public interest job since it allows the economy to function," she explains. "Highly regulated, it consists in providing, in complete independence and objectivity, confidence to the markets in the quality of financial statements so that institutions can be listed and lend money."

Transforming human resources management

From 2021 to 2025, Charlotte Vandeputte was in charge of human resources management and training for teams in France. "At Deloitte, there are no other assets than women and men," she notes. Taking her mission to heart, in addition to managing her client portfolio, she led several transformations, whose tangible results now count towards her own track record. "Besides revaluing salaries and introducing new ways of evaluating team performance, I improved the training programs and diversified recruitment profiles." She also works hard for gender parity, advancing the presence of women at the highest level. All of these changes undoubtedly contributed to Deloitte being ranked fourth in 2025 among the “Great Place to Work” — a ranking where French and international companies are rated by their own employees.

Leading teams, a new challenge

In 2025, Charlotte Vandeputte was promoted to Managing Partner of the Audit & Assurance activities for the financial sector. A position she deliberately chose for its strategic and operational aspects and the scope of responsibilities, the culmination, according to her, of 24 years of career at Deloitte. Resulting from a merger between two departments, her scope includes audit and consulting activities for finance departments in companies across several sectors: banks, insurance and mutuals, real estate and asset management. The team she now leads has around 400 employees and about twenty partners. Far from intimidating her, Charlotte sees her new responsibilities — including team management, business portfolio strategy, quality management and innovation — as “an exceptional challenge.”

Developing the collective

Her roadmap is clear: beyond numerical targets, Charlotte Vandeputte's mission is to develop an even stronger collective by fostering trust among partners, cross-functionality and sharing of expertise. "After putting together a leadership team with the partners in charge of each sector, I organized collaborative workshops with them on all levels: strategy, budgets, investments, innovation, quality… We aim to improve both the quality of services for our clients to maintain a high level of excellence, and team well-being, by introducing for example new tools like data analysis and artificial intelligence to ease day-to-day work and automate tasks."

ENS Paris-Saclay: an asset for any professional path

Asking her teams to launch transformation projects from the very beginning of her term, Charlotte Vandeputte is aware of the high level of expectations. "Even if it implies changes in the organizational chart and roles, I like convincing and inspiring!"
In this, she no doubt draws on the foundations of her normalienne training. "ENS Paris-Saclay gave me intellectual rigor, quality of reasoning and self-confidence," confirms Charlotte. "Coming from a rather modest background, I deeply believe in meritocracy, which comes through education at a grande école like ENS Paris-Saclay, and then opens up great careers in business."
In addition to very advanced academic content on both theoretical and applied levels, she acquired there a general culture that covers all fields of economics and management, providing her with great intellectual versatility — essential in her job as an auditor. Indeed, not a year goes by at Deloitte without someone reminding her of her status. "Being a normalien gives you both the keys and the responsibility to help society progress," she concludes.