Andrea Pini Email & Phone Number

New York, NY, US

Casellina Di Scandicci, Florence, IT

Casellina Di Scandicci, Florence, IT

Casellina Di Scandicci, Florence, IT

Casellina Di Scandicci, Florence, IT

• Leading the finance operations of a business with an overall sales turnover of 1 BLN USD at regional level and a total workforce of about 2000 employees.
• In charge of delivering monthly closing reporting packages (P&L, Balance Sheet and Cash Flow Statements), as well as review and approve Budget and Rolling Forecast projections.
• Re-organized and trained a team of 14 introducing a lean organization based on center of knowledge by process as opposite to a traditional accounting structure task-oriented.
• Continue developing accounting policies and procedures and ensure their appropriate implementation.
• Standardized processes and procedures for stock control resulting in shortening stocktaking count activities and improving overall store efficiency.
• Introduced innovative ways of remote working which allowed an improvement of work-life balance and entirely eliminated people turnover within the Finance team.

Casellina Di Scandicci, Florence, IT

• Directed all Finance and Accounting activities for Gucci brand in Middle East and India Region, prepared monthly and quarterly reporting packages and presented the financial performance of the company to Regional.
• Worked with local partners, Legal and tax consultants to incorporate local affiliates in UAE, Kuwait, Qatar and Bahrain and acted as point of reference of the Italian headquarters for the expansion of the market (from.
• Developed and provided financial analyses, interpretive reports, business metrics and budgets (operational and capital) and track progress against budgets.
• Led all accounting processes including Accounts Payables, Receivables, General Accounting and Treasury.
• Worked with Logistics and IT to implement EDI integration with main departments stores in Dubai (Neiman Marcus, Bloomingdale’s and Dubai Duty Free), reduced stock losses of over 60%.
• Developed standard policies and procedures, roll-out Corporate Accounting Software and implemented a system supported solution for the management of travel expenses.

Casellina Di Scandicci, Florence, IT

• Directed stock valuation decisions at Worldwide and Regional level based on margin productivity by Region and line of product.
• Guaranteed the proper accounting treatment of all the stock transactions from a financial and fiscal point of view across all regions and all markets. Direct responsibility of a Corporate team of 10 and indirect.
• Developed and implemented policies and procedures to be applied at Worldwide level aimed to share financial and operational best practices in retail and wholesale business units.
• Member of the Steering committee in charge of implementing a new ERP software in the Japan Region. Stream business leader for retail operations, stock valuation, store POS systems and integration with finance modules.

Casellina Di Scandicci, Florence, IT

Retail special projects manager.Responsible for the definition and control of the Gucci's European Retail Processes. Retail operations control, stock control, logistics and administrative coordination for all aspects of Gucci's European Retail networkDeveloping and executing plans for business development, new store openings and lease buy-backs..

Casellina Di Scandicci, Florence, IT

• Responsible for manufacturing and retail audit engagements at worldwide level.
• Managed audit engagements in Italy, France, UK, Switzerland USA and Japan reporting directly to the Group Chief Audit Executive.
• Full autonomy in the definition of the audit scope and in charge of junior auditors supporting the field work.

Milano, MI, IT

• Internal Audit engagements in the Tire, Cable and Real Estate business belonging to the Pirelli Group with strong international focus (successfully completed missions in: Italy, France, Spain, Turkey, Czech Republic.
• Participated to full scope audit reviews covering Financial Statement Closing processes, assessment of internal controls in Manufacturing and Operations and coordinated risk self-assessment campaigns.

Internship in the Italian stock Exchange new business division.Financial data analysis and internet site content management.Database developement in Access environment.