Paolo Ruggeri

Area di copertura: Francia, Germania, UK, Polonia, Romania, Israele, Canada, USA, Brasile e Messico - Gestione di un team per un miglior supporto della funzione “Business Analyst”; - Riporto diretto al Board del Gruppo, con riunioni mensili di presentazione della situazione Economico, Finanziaria e Patrimoniale; - Supporto ai General Manager delle Country per scelte strategiche e di rilevante impatto economico e finanziario; - Controllo dei Bilanci dei Paesi, supportando in particolare la «visione prospettica» del Business: il processo di Budget e la definizione di un processo di Forecasting, in collegamento con le visioni del General Manager e dei Responsabili di Business Line; - Monitoraggio dei KPI di business dei Paesi, accentuando un'ottica previsionale; - Evoluzione delle analisi e degli strumenti a supporto, compresi benchmark e confronto fra dati di Paese; - Introduzione di analisi dei dati in chiave gestionale e organizzativa accanto alle tradizionali analisi basate su una visione prevalentemente societaria; - Supporto allo sviluppo delle Business Line nelle varie Country; - Trasferte settimanali nelle Country per entrare nel dettaglio degli aspetti strategici a livello di direzione locale.

Coordinator of the AFC department of AB Group: - North & Central America (Canada, USA, Mexico and Puerto Rico) - South America (Brazil, Argentine and Colombia) Responsible to develop the AFC department of AB Group in the Americas, supervising the accounting teams of the foreign subsidiaries, mainly North America and South America (Canada, USA, Mexico, Brazil and Argentine), traveling 15 days per month. Project Manager - Puerto Rico Responsible to develop Puerto Rico market as a new country for the Group, from a corporate prospective. Coordinate a team of 10 people (key users from different departments), in order to allow the Group to be operative in the country through a branch. Successfully opened the AB Puerto Rico Branch in 6 months.

- Posted and managed data on SAP (FI-CO) - Supervised the accounting teams of the foreign subsidiaries, mainly North America and South America (Canada, USA, Mexico, Brazil and Argentine), traveling 15 days per month - Prepared monthly CashFlows (in & out) - Analyzed monthly revenues and costs through Microsoft Office package and SAP reports - Reporting directly to the international accounting coordinator and administration & accounting Manager of the Group - Analyzed and controlled United States taxes (Corporate income tax - Sales and Use tax) - Analyzed and controlled Brazilian, Canadian and Argentine taxes - FX exchange rate analysis with related project of IC payments to gain exchange profits - Withholding Tax supervisor for both USA and Canada subsidiaries

Ordinary company accounting • Management of official correspondence • Bookkeeping • Accounts Payable and invoices management • Supported the accounting team with management of SAP • U.S depreciation and U.S Tax system analysis • Prepared accounting and financial reports

Provide companies with consultancy, in order to improve the efficiency of the entities, to develop expansion projects and investments diversification.

• Attend quarterly company financial trend presentation • Approve/Deny monthly investment company projects

Guided the startup business development and management of business administration operations, systems, and programs. • Managed clients company portfolio, building relevant partnerships for the company growth. • Negotiated contracts with 10+ main suppliers and 5+ freelancers, increasing sales by 35% in the first 2 years. • Collaborate with a team of 5 financial experts to reduce labor and operation costs by 25% in the 2nd year, improving the company EBITDA up to 25%. • Analyzed the market conditions and saved $50K/year by reorganizing the employee contract structure.

Guided the team selected by the main Italian holding company to create a new business branch in the United States. • Developed a complete business plan and cash flows statement for the first 3 years • Closed deal with local suppliers and with final investors that are going to finance the 50% of our next US 10 branches. • Made the final presentation to the shareholders, obtaining the approval for the first US store opening.

• Elaborated weekly financial documents for company clients, cooperating with the accountant team office. • Inspected the monthly Balance sheet and Income statement and held up relationships with 4+ Italian banks. • Controlled the efficiency of the office operations (Business administration area) • Reported monthly the economic and financial office trend to the company shareholders.

- Specialization in Finance (Financial Management, Corporate finance, Entrepreneurship through acquisition, International finance and entrepreneurial finance) Six global campus locations in Boston, San Francisco, London, Dubai, Shanghai and New York. With 19,000+ alumni across the world, a student body of more than 150 nationalities, faculty that combines practical industry experience and global expertise, and expert Career Development teams that know the international job market inside-out—highly-ranked business school defining global education. - Forbes: 15th best foreign 1-year business school in the world - The Economist: 13th best master in management in the world - Bloomberg: 17th best international business school in the world - Awarded the 3 Crown: AACSB, AMBA, EQUIS. The first university in the US to achieve it and among 1% of the worldwide universities.

The MicroMaster covers the following topics: Risk Pooling Inventory placement Integrated planning and collaboration Information sharing Delayed differentiation Dual sourcing Smoothing. It is led by Abraham J. Siegel Professor of Management (Massachusetts Institute of Technology).

Attended a month specialization course on the evaluation of Business Frameworks to solve institutional voids in emerging markets. The course was led almost completely online by: Tarun Khanna - Professor at Harvard Business School and Director at South Asia Institute Sue J. Goldie - Professor at Harvard School of Public Health and Director of the Global Education and Learning Incubator at Harvard University

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