www.schoolwiseitaly.comBoutique consultancy in the education field in Milan, Italy

Master's programme in Counselling and Leading in Organisations: psychodynamic and systemic approaches

Mentors4U is a non-for profit program with the mission to help young talented students to identify their professional career path most in line with their skills and aspirations as well as to enter successfully into the working world.

Advisory Performance Improvement consultancy division, which included the following projects:Business Process modeling of the Finance, Budget, Supply chain and HR functions of the Financial governmental department of an emerging market nation;Structuring of the business processes with specific focus on financial institutional clients; Mapping of business processes and reorganization of a client in the high-end fashion sector (Loro Piana);EMEIA area strategic coordinator, which included the following roles:Knowledge Manager supporting the Advisory leader of EMEIA region;Collaborating and exporting of the Italian model of IT Advisory in EMEIA regionTransaction Advisory Consultant, which included the following responsibilities: Market trend and budget analysis; Performing buy-side and sell-side due diligences on target companies and clients in the manufacturing, retail and financial services markets;Responsible for a team of juniors on the project;Presentation and negotiations on EBITDA directly with CFO and top management

Senior SupervisorResponsibilities included: Year-end audit of Reinsurance, Insurance, Banking, medical aid and provident fund clients according to IFRS and IAS reporting standards; Revising of budget and negotiations according to objectives of client;Internal Controls testing during interim audits on clients in the financial service sector;Supervising the performance of junior staff utilizing the KPMG global methodologies for evaluation; Directing a team of up to 8 people including coaching and training of newly-appointed staff .Secondment - consultant for ABSA (Barclays) Retail Bank, which included the following activities:Weekly revising of budget for the branches of the ABSA bank (one of Top 5 banks in South Africa);Daily cost reconciliations.Barclays Group Compliance and anti-money laundering project - Nairobi, Kenya, which included:Evaluation of the of the adherence of Barclays Kenya to group policy relating to procedures and anti-money laundering processes; Working closely and reporting directly to the Head of Compliance of Barclays, EMEIAAnalysis and creation of reports aimed at improving of processes, with direct reporting to CEO of Barclays, Kenya.