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Milan & Rome, Italy

Milan & Rome, Italy

• Successfully established partnership with key stakeholders across my portfolio, including the EMEA region (AOU, EOU, EMEOU, finance hub), Costa, Chi and Europe Sustainability team, focusing on governance advice.
• Served as the Key CPG partner for the Europe Sustainability workstream, leading the development of a compliance roadmap and delivering the initial draft of Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) process.
• Led and supported multiple initiatives, including the developing of a new global governance P2P training and the setup of the OU audit readiness model.

Rome, Latium, Italy

• Resourced and successfully developed a compliance team to successfully manage the internal audit control matrix and control implementation across the innocent group;
• Successfully implemented a control self-assessment process to monitor and improve control performance from 34% in March to 74% in September which included >700 controls;
• Performed a full analysis of control effectiveness and efficiency to identify > 50 control systemization opportunities that have been included in the innocent planning & prioritization agenda to be executed.

Rome, Italy

• Led data cleansing & validation efforts for all 14 innocent entities with finance & supply chain business, achieving a successful data migration to Microsoft Dynamics 365 in a project of > 100 program resources;
• Successfully managed the E&Y and innocent reviews of D365 implementation & data migration, meeting requirements.

London, UK

• Instrumental in supporting innocent on its journey of growth (from NSR £300m FY 2016 to ~ £ 440m FY 2019 > 45% growth) with critical contributions to the Finance team over the last 3 years. Initially reporting to the.
• Built a compliance team from scratch, enhancing innocent compliance and preparing the business for a successful internal financial audit in 2017 and IT audit in 2018;
• Established a strong partnership with Coca Cola Corporate and Western Europe Business Unit and played a key role in the creation of the new risk and control framework called Governance for growth;
• Led an overall team of up to 16 people with up to 5 direct reports, taking care of all aspects, from recruiting, to coaching and developing a team responsible of all internal / external reporting and compliance matters;
• Led the set-up of multiple legal entities (the group grew from 8 to 16 entities), expanding overseas in 2018 into Asia (first time outside Europe) & played a key role in several other projects, such as the approval.

Atlanta, Stati Uniti

• Led and coached international audit engagements of teams of up to 10 members with different experience and cultural background in conducting complex financial audits and global anti-bribery audits for Coca-Cola global.
• Received Exceptional Performance valuation from Management, as well as constant extremely positive feedback from Operation Senior Leadership;
• Obtained in-depth knowledge of business processes and leveraged an understanding of risk and control concepts to develop risk assessments, audit programs and testing procedures to appropriately address identified risks.
• Effectively communicated the results and findings of each audit assignment to Senior Finance Leadership of the company and Corporate Audit Directors, demonstrating the ability to draw appropriate conclusions regarding.
• Prepared written audit reports provided to client and senior management that incorporated the individual audit comments and summarized the scope, significant issues, and overall audit ranking.

Greater New York City Area

Ernst & Young Engagment (NYC)Chrysler Group LLC (Auburn Hills, Detroit, MI)

San Francisco Bay Area, Stati Uniti

• Graduated with distinction (top10% - GPA 3.6)
• Rotated to London, UK, May – Aug 2012
• Specialization in Finance and Company Valuation
• Finance and Entrepreneurship Club member

Rome, Italy

• Performed Audits, Financial Reporting Analysis, Reporting Packages to international headquarters, Sarbanes-Oxley Act activities, clients’ risk assessment, budgeting forecasts, ratio analysis, DCF models and calculated.
• Drafted more than 20 successful PwC fee proposals and assessed agreement for the AS Roma football team sale (approx. $400M) thereby obtaining two consecutive promotions for successful completion of tasks usually.
• Served as team leader of 3 to 6 auditors and financial consultants for several European clients, in energy (ENI group), online gaming (Gala Coral Group) and real estate industries (Italpetroli Group, owner of AS Roma).

Rome, Italy

• Supported and assisted the team in financial statements analysis and assigned by PwC managers as senior in charge for less riskier companies and projects.
• Improved team management and coordination operations across Italy (Rome, Gela, Turin, and Venice) for several branches of Eni Group, thereby strengthening customer relations and reducing overhead.

Brastislava, Slovakia

• Major Italian energy company, second largest utility company in Europe and rapidly expanding worldwide Intern - Regulating and Corporate Strategy sector
• Monitored and analyzed the regulating principles of the Slovakian energy system, to evaluate its impact on ENEL & Slovakia’s profit. Prepared and conducted Power Point presentations to assess and improve impact on.

Rome, Italy

• Summer Job - Ground Steward
• Check-in, boarding and passenger assistance for departures and arrivals. Learned how to deal and solve problems with passengers under stressful situations: flight cancellations, overbooking, long delays.
• One of the few to be given more than four flight boardings every shift and received a praise for successfully completing several problematic late night flights.
• Repeatedly requested to renew contract at the time when company was downsizing.

Master Of Business Administration (Mba), Finance, 3.62

Activities and Societies: Finance Club memberGraduated with distinction (top 10%)

Master'S Degree, Business Administration And Management, General, 3.8 Gpa (110/110)

Activities and Societies: • Obtained two consecutive fellowships

Erasmus Student

Activities and Societies: • Obtained scholarship for one year Erasmus Exchange Program