Deputy Chief Financial Officer (Promoted From Controller In April 2019)
• I contributed critical financial expertise and insight (for our company with > 500 MM € in revenues) for management vital to the stability of the company during this period of growth and, at times, severe turbulences;• I developed, organized and provided daily cash flow projections (> 1.100 MM € transferred to suppliers) to management in times of enormous liquidity pressures resulting from both external (e.g., the war in Ukraine) as well as internal operational (e.g., huge swings in the volume of our energy output through renewable technologies as well as our energy supply businesses) sources;• I negotiated directly with financial and non-financial institutions and pursued other financing alternatives during this period in which our lines of credit were drastically reduced for reasons outside our companies’ control;• Annually, I provided management, auditors and tax inspectors with highly-detailed Transfer-Pricing analyses;• I prepared our companies’ annual income tax returns and supervised our monthly presentation of our multiple (more than 20) tax returns for our companies; additionally, I took the lead in responding directly to Spain’s Tax Inspectors for a complete tax inspection between year 2020 and 2022 which terminated with no fines or penalties imposed on our company;• I actively led my Finance Department’s 11 professionals to close our monthly accounting books and prepare our management reports, analyze and deliver the financial data requested by our external auditors, redact our annual report and footnotes together with the Management’s Annual Summary, and achieved important procedural and operational improvements while generating an extremely cohesive team, recognizing the talents and contributions of each team member.
