Mario Bastos

Professional Profile: Senior Executive with more than 20 years of experience in Tax Advisory, Transfer Pricing, Compliance, Data Protection, Corporate Governance, and Strategic Business Management, with extensive expertise developed in Big 4 consulting firms and multinational environments. Strong experience supporting multinational companies in automotive, chemical, pharmaceutical, aviation, technology, commodities, manufacturing, and international trade sectors. Currently acting as Director of Tax & Transfer Pricing and Data Protection Officer (DPO), also serving as one of the leaders responsible for Compliance and Corporate Governance initiatives. Specialized in OECD Transfer Pricing standards, economic studies, benchmarking analysis, financial and operational restructuring, tax planning, international tax advisory, compliance frameworks, and privacy governance under LGPD/GDPR. Key Responsibilities & Expertise • Leadership of Tax, Transfer Pricing, Compliance, and Data Protection activities. • Development of Transfer Pricing studies under Brazilian legislation and OECD Guidelines. • Preparation of economic studies, benchmarking analysis, FAR analysis, comparability studies, and intercompany pricing documentation. • Support for multinational companies in international tax structures and transfer pricing compliance. • Implementation and monitoring of LGPD/GDPR privacy governance programs. • Acting as Data Protection Officer (DPO) and compliance leader. • Development of compliance policies, internal controls, governance frameworks, and risk assessments. • Support in internal and external audits, due diligence, and anti-corruption initiatives. • Financial planning, budgeting, forecasting, profitability analysis, and strategic decision-making support. • Supply chain, industrial cost analysis, treasury, accounting, and business administration. • Leadership and management of multidisciplinary teams in multinational environments

Director - TAX and Transfer Pricing:

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Development and project management of transfer pricing (Brazilian transfer pricing Legislation and Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development ("OECD") transfer pricing guidelines), winning new customers, market development, training of staff and customers. Consulting in Finance, Accounting and Administration to Multinational Companies in Business Management. Teams Management, Support in Industrial Costs Training, Supply Chain, Accounting, Treasury, Accounting. Development and Restructuring Tax / Tax areas. Development of reports to support decision making in generating financial resources projects to the value chain, development of dynamic forecasts, effective analysis, variance, contribution margin, investments, profitability, channels, branches and products, budgets. Preparation and analysis of different economic scenarios, medium and long term and control of general reorganization expenses. Practice in the preparation and monitoring of budgets, cash flow, tax planning and support to external and internal audit. Production / revision of rules and administrative and operational procedures. Preparation and management of internal controls. Experience with the application of different taxes in the production chain. Experience in developing new business áreas; Studies Transfer Pricing (Brazilian tax rules and regulations and OCDE Guidelines) and Compliance for different sectors: automotive, chemical, technology, pharmaceutical, aviation and others; Seminars, market research, team management, development of training for managers and staff, training for clients, project management, marketing and business plan; Accounting, financial statements, tax advice and tax planning; Technology: Electronic Files, Software Development IRS; Specialties: Transfer Pricing studies, team management, project management, R&D, electronic files, Reintegra, tax code, direct, indirect taxes and management in developing solutions for the tax area:

Responsible for managing software development for banking systems and teams

Execution of works with critical-analytical objective, with ability to develop logical thinking in solving business problems. Acted ethically in preparing business reports to reflect the economic and financial situation of entities contributing to the decision making efficiency and effectiveness by internal and external users, acting with motivation and leadership of multidisciplinary teams in collecting and heritage events the generation and dissemination of financial information in local and international environments