Giovanni B.

CFO at Mazda Motor Europe

Leverkusen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

About

Experience

  • Mazda Motor Europe (20 yrs 2 mos)
    • CFO
      Feb 2019 - Present · 7 yrs 6 mos

    • Finance Director
      Oct 2015 - Jan 2019 · 3 yrs 4 mos

      Responsible for the European Financial Planning and Analysis.

    • Finance, Risk and Sales Planning Director
      Jun 2006 - Sep 2015 · 9 yrs 4 mos

      Responsible for Financial Planning and Control, Accounting, Tax and Internal Audit, leading a team of four employees. Since March 2012, also responsible for Vehicle Sales Planning, Sales Network Financing Risk and Marketing Incentive management leading a team of five employees. Major accomplishments: led management-organization changes assuming also managing director role during transition.

  • Ford Motor Credit Company (11 yrs 1 mo)
    • Finance Manager
      May 2002 - May 2006 · 4 yrs 1 mo

      Legal representative of the Italian branch. Responsible for Financial Planning and Control, Accounting, Tax and Internal Audit, leading a team of twentytwo employees. Also responsible for relations with Italian banks and surveillance authorities, Banca d’Italia and Ufficio Italiano Cambi. Major accomplishments: first Italian securitization of consumer credits for Ford Credit (Dec. 2002); long-term-rental business divestment through sale to ALD (May 2004); implementation of a new accounting system (PeopleSoft - Oct. 2004); revolving sale of receivables, originated from the sale of new vehicles to dealers, to Merrill Lynch for a value of EUR 1 billion (Jun. 2005).

    • Profit Analysis Supervisor
      Apr 2001 - Apr 2002 · 1 yr 1 mo

      Consolidation, analysis and presentation of monthly financial results of six business units to board of directors. Led business plan, budget and annual forecast processes for the US market.

    • Pricing Supervisor
      Apr 2000 - Mar 2001 · 1 yr

      Pricing of leasing. Participation to definition of quarterly marketing campaigns of Ford Motor Company for the US market as regard to lease programs.

  • Foreign Exchange Dealer at Banca Nazionale dell’Agricoltura
    Jan 1991 - Jul 1993 · 2 yrs 7 mos

    Pricing the Italian Lira against the US Dollar in the interbanking forward market. Liaising with the Italian Treasury for arbitrages between the domestic and the European market of the Italian Lira.