New York City Metropolitan Area
Group Executive with wide experience in leading Business, Strategy, Transformation, M&A, CFO roles & Consulting. Specialized in Taste, food/beverage, with deep experience in M&A (acquisition and Integration). Strong leadership, team building capabilities with broad international experience. Author of several publications on M&A and tax planning. Certified Tax lawyer, CPA and auditor.
Member of the executive Committee
In this position, I am leading for the Flavors Division the Global Strategy and the M&A processes, in alignment and coordination with the M&A corporate team. I manage the global Global business units teams for Beverages, Sweet & Savory, Consumer insights, Delivery Systems, Distribution, Pricing, Digitalization and Systems. I am also responsible for Campus Srl and the development of its global functional ingredients Incubator. In addition I lead the Flavor business transformation and project management team with the objective to ensure the success of key strategic initiatives and support the growth of our business.
Co-pilot, with the president of the division, of a complete turnaround of the divisional organization and P&L with substantial margin and cash flow improvement. Responsible for controlling Flavors division business and P&L worldwide (split into 6 commercial regions: North America, Latin America, Europe, IMA, SEA, North Asia). Lead the finance transformational process for the Flavor division which covered the team reorganization, the implementation of new reporting systems, controlling and finance processes, and redefinition of AR, overdue and cash collection activities. Played a Key role in implementing the new Pricing model and set up of the Pricing office. Close collaboration with the corporate team to lead the company transformational projects in internal control systems and cash pooling.
• Direct report to the Managing Director and to HQ A&F VP, Local Board member. • T/O more than 2 billion Euros, Budget management up to: VME 230 - FME 100 – G&A 30 millions Euros. • Lead of 36 team members in France +10 employees & contractors in the other 3 Countries plus service center in Chennai. • Responsible for Administration & Finance dept. for Controlling, Accounting, Tax, Treasury, Purchasing, dealer risk management. • Responsible for Annual Statutory Financial statements and disclosures, consolidated reporting pack, import & custom relationship, vehicles and parts inventory control. • Support Central Controller Team with information and reporting (annual Budget, monthly reporting and ROY forecast on product profitability, marketing expenses, G&A & Cash Flow). • Project leader for West on AR, AP and GL processes outsourcing to Chennai Service center in India. • Responsible for the Belgium entity post acquisition integration project for Finance. • European Cross Functional Team Pilot for Finance function (direct report to SVP Finance)
responsible for Internal Audit Dept. and risk control in Europe, located c/o the Head offices in Paris, directly reporting to the Administration & Finance SVP in Europe and functionally reporting to the Chief Internal Audit in Japan. Cooperating with Renault IA, responsible for auditing all departments and entities in Europe (more than 36) with the main responsibility to perform risk assessment, review of internal control procedures, budget and financial analysis, Corporate governance and DOA, business processes review and improvement, CSA approach implementation. In addition to the previous responsibilities I was also member of the main executives committee (BOD, Risk committee, etc) and responsible of the implementation of J-SOX project in Europe
Hear of Accounting & Tax, Treasury, Legal (6 months).
Following the spin-off performed by several tax and legal partners and associates from KPMG to C&B, I provided tax and Corporate consultancy to important public corporations and private ones, as well as venture capital firms and other companies in numerous sectors. For the same companies I have also performed tax planning, several re-organization projects in Finance area and M&A operations.
• Responsible for 20 large clients in Italy, UK and Europe • Managed up to 6 working teams in Europe • Close collaboration with the headquarters in UK and US • M&A o Group reorganization projects and M&A activities for more then 30 clients o Managed more than 50 Due diligences • Tax consultancy o Consultancy on Italian taxes as well as international tax planning, o Tax assessment, accounting and tax consultancy on financial statement, tax litigation and corporate governance.