United States
Finance Director at Stellantis Group with a Master's Degree in Business Administration. Fluent in English with interesting working experiences gained abroad: Poland, France, China and India. I'm a senior-level professional interested in rapid growth, willing to take on new challenges and eager to learn and develop myself in the area of controlling and reporting.
• Actual, Budget, Forecast and Plan Management Accounting - Region/Sector P&L and variance analysis vs budget, forecast and prior reporting periods - Preparation of Group Executive Summary Financial Presentation for the FCA Group Exective Board (GEC) - Collection and consolidation of shipment/sales/stock data • Assist and coordinate FCA Group Regions and Sectors to complete month-end reporting activities and forecast requirements • Support the preparation of FCA Group Press Releases and Analyst Decks on a quarterly basis • Responsible for setting the monthly Group Reporting Timetable and communication with key stakeholders, including the development of the FCA Group templates for the reporting packages • Perform ad-hoc analysis requested by senior management to find opportunities and business risks in collaboration with other members of the Finance Team • Special Projects (competitors benchmarking, internal reporting data quality improvement)
Responsible to ensure compliance with external and internal reporting requirements of a Joint Venture Company between FCA and Tata Groups due to the localization of Jeep Compass production in India: • formed project team and coordinated 8 integrated functional work streams involving around 20 resources within the organization, • set up clear objectives and targets with detailed project schedule, • monitored, tracked and reported project status, issues and risks to Project Sponsors (APAC CFO, APAC CAO and APAC FP&A Lead) and FCA Group Project Steering Committee Members (Corporate Controller, Group CAO, Group FP&A), • identified and implemented change management actions • supported APAC Accounting and JV Finance Team in develop a methodology to separate Jeep Financial Statement from the common operation to allow 100% segment consolidation in FCA Group, • actively worked with APAC FP&A Team to implement a cross-regional allocation model and designed new processes/procedures in the financial closing process
Global responsible for the implementation of the Oracle Hyperion Financial Data Quality Management Enterprise Edition (FDMEE) tool to integrate SAP ERP data with HFM Reporting System in 24 legal entities within the Group (LATAM: 3, APAC: 8, EMEA: 13): • Direct set up and performed maintenance of FDMEE mapping rules, achieving regional alignments across different business entities, • Acted as a business process advisor to business users for SAP in the area of general ledger and major areas of controlling including cost center accounting, CO-Internal Order and CO-PA, • Managed the improvement of accounting flows and system governance in local ERP systems based on HFM Data Model, • Established on-going governance model, streamlined the closing and reporting process, eliminated redundancies and unnecessary activities, achieving a reduction in the closing period of one working day, • Supported the transition to a legal entities driven data load in HFM, re-defining roles and responsibilities to ensure a proper level of Financial and SOX controls according to the Group guidelines, • Responsible for coordinating the monthly submission of data in HFM for all locations and supporting the final validation, • Actively Involved with Group FP&A to improve the Internal Reporting on HFM System. Achieved a fully comparability of P&L actuals among CMM sectors on HFM with Q2 (target set up by Group CFO), • Responsible for knowledge transfer, end-user training and delivering workshops. Presented to APAC CFO, APAC CAO, APAC FP&A Head and Group management regularly Daily working in English and Italian. Knowledge of systems: FDMEE, SAP R/3, HFM
Relocated in Shanghai (China) – expatriate reporting directly to APAC CAO leading 2 large-scale initiatives that involved 15 entities within the Region: • Roll-out of the global manual input system (ART&MIS) for posting all manual journal entries: - Defined project timeline, project plan and reviewed project status with project leaders regularly, - Worked closely with all APAC markets finance team and collected information required, - Achieved standardization of UDA for MJE approval in APAC and formalization of MJE checklist, - Set up APAC MJE policy, to align with Group instruction and internal audit guideline, - Developed and delivered project documentation and end-user training. • Implementation of the Expense Reimbursement System (Concur Premier Solution): - Coordinated with HR to review and update APAC travel policy, - Managed the System Configuration according to UDA level, travel policies and other business requirements (workflow, audit rules, expense report form, SAP interface, AMEX Credit Card), - Led the discussion involving multiple functions (Accounting, Treasury, HR, ICT, China bank, external vendor) to allocate tasks and solve issues, - Defined a RASIC table for expense reimbursement process and removed inefficiencies, reducing lead times with an increased satisfaction of the employees, - Prepared the presentation and reported on APAC project committee (APAC CFO, APAC CAO, APAC Head of HR, APAC Head of Treasury, APAC Head of ICT) meeting to senior management independently, - Achieved alignment on Expense Types, Accounts and approval workflow among APAC Region - Coached and motivated 3 team resources in achieving common goals Daily working in English and Italian. Knowledge of systems: SAP; IBM Cognos, Concur
Support the Headquarter with logistic and administrative activities performed in Turin Offices. My main tasks were to release Purchase Request in CEOS System for management approval, the sourcing of suppliers and the creation of Purchase Order in SAP System. In addition, I was responsible for the shipping process and the arrangement of the Innovation Days with FCA Group. Finally, I took the responsibility of the expansion and renovation project for Turin Offices.