Company CFO

Statutory Director at Neoenergia Group Companies from Sep 2020 - Energy Distribution Cos. Responsible for all group companies treasury. Manage a gross debt of over BRL 20 Bn through DCM operations and bilateral funding contracts, including multilateral and development banks relation and negotiation worldwide. Resposnible for all Front, Middle and Back office treasury activities, as well as project finance.

Contributed to avoid breach of financial covenants by meeting six-month deadline to reduce leverage through asset sale by researching assets, engaging team, and creating sales pitch to secure R$700M enterprise value sale.

Reporting to the Executive Director of Base Metals, leading a team of 15 collaborators to the implementation of a Continuous Improvement Business Model, enhancing internal governance practices and compliance standards and optimizing the allocation of production worldwide to the whole Base Metals division, Vale’s second largest.

Responsible for origination, structuring, and negotiations of acquisitions, divestments, and joint venture creation while reporting to global director of Vale Global Business Development department.• Drove completion of US$2B transaction by coordinating accelerated book building process resulting in sale of Vale’s stock in Norsk Hydro.• Surpassed expected price by 40 per cent in divestiture of non-core business by researching assets, overcoming resistance / motivating team to optimize sales pitch, and creating competitive tension.• Increased team capacity to handle simultaneous M&A transactions by providing formal and on-the-job training in M&A contract negotiation, and empowering team through increased hands-on exposure.• Focused assets by selling non-core assets totaling ~US$700M.• Coordinated key activities, including due diligence and contract negotiations for the acquisition of iron ore and fertilizer assets totaling US$7B.

Managed 50+ member team across Brazil, France, and Norway, with responsibility for cash management, treasury, IT, tax compliance / planning, governance, budgeting, business development, production planning and purchasing of strategic raw materials. Responsible for Controlling and Finance activities for the manganese business division, comprised by 4 different entities in Brasil, Norway and France, including Vale Managanese S/A, second best performance in Exame's 2008 selection in the metallurgy sector, with total turnover of more than 3 bi USD.

CFO at a Norwegian entity with a turnover of more than USD 200 million, acting in the ferroalloy industry. Main responsibilities, Finance, Administration, HR, Logistics, market relations. The company was shut down and one of the main roles was to resume operations, involving recruinting, union negotiatins, structuring and negotiating with suppliers, managing and controlling investments of more than USD 20 MM in 6 months.

Planning and Coordination of operational audits, involving contracts, cash management, procurement.