Claudio Cardoso

Senior finance executive with over 25 years of experience leading Finance, Controllership, Accounting, and FP&A, with strong expertise in turnarounds, financial restructuring, and cash flow management, supporting medium and large-sized companies across the automotive, energy, logistics, and consumer goods sectors, both national and multinational. My career has been defined by the resolution of complex financial challenges, liquidity generation, and strengthening of governance, delivering direct and measurable impact on corporate results, including: Recovery of R$ 11.7 million in tax credits, converted into cash, with R$ 7.8 million recognized as revenue; Generation of R$ 18 million in additional cash (company historical record), eliminating the need for further shareholder capital injections; Increase of EBITDA by 5 percentage points, driven by financial discipline and operational efficiency; Reduction of the monthly close cycle from 7 to 3 days, enhancing predictability and management reporting quality; Renegotiation of R$ 136 million in debt, extending maturities, reducing financial costs, and improving the liquidity profile; Reduction of total debt by 34%, strengthening capital structure and lowering financial risk. Experience supporting M&A transactions, due diligence, and post-merger integration. These results were achieved through close collaboration with Boards, CEOs, and international headquarters, ensuring strict adherence to corporate policies, governance standards, deadlines, and high-quality financial, tax, and management consolidations. I have led significant initiatives in financial process modernization and automation, including the implementation of SAP B1 and Protheus ERPs, reducing manual effort by 40%, increasing data reliability, and improving forecast accuracy and decision support. I bring solid experience in leading multidisciplinary and multicultural teams, developing high-performance professionals and integrating FP&A, operations, governance, and capital structure, enabling fast, consistent, and strategy-aligned decision-making. I act as a strategic partner to Boards, investors, and executive leadership, translating complex financial data into clear decisions focused on sustainable growth, capital discipline, risk management, and corporate governance.