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Curriculum Vitae of Alessandro Croci
Personal Information
Name:
Alessandro Croci
Natonality:
Italian, based in Milan
Current Job title
and employer:
Senior Manager at Accenture Management Consulting,
since November 1996
Language abilities:
Italian: native
English: fluent
French: basic
Contact details
Email: alessandro_croci@yahoo.it
mobile: +39 335 1322959
Professional Profile
Over 17 years of international management consulting expertise in the Consumer
Goods, Luxury, Fashion and Automotive industries, mainly focusing on
reengineering Multinational Companies’ Global Finance organizations, processes
and information systems
Corporate Treasury and Finance expert, acting as Trusted advisor to numerous
CFOs and Treasurers for defining growth & innovation strategies, designing new
operating models as well as executing cost analysis and optimization
Significant international working experience matured in countries such as Saudi
Arabia, Russia, Switzerland, Poland, the Netherlands, UK and USA, just to mention
the most recent experiences.
Core Competencies
Key Skills:
Finance functional expertize: international cash management and treasury
optimization; finance shared services operations set-up; management accounting
and performance management models design and implementation.
Professional knowledge of the ERPs’ and corporate information systems’ market,
with particular focus on “Financial Supply Chain Management” suites
Program and project manager in a number of multinational programs with vast
experience in working and coordinating multicultural teams, covering different
locations, companies and partnerships
Experienced at working in complex “political environment”
At ease in communicating with corporate’s senior executives and C-Levels
Certificates
Certified as personal financial advisor in 1999 (in Italy)
Memberships
Member of the Italian Association of Corporate Treasurers (AITI)
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Key accomplishments
From – To:
Sept. 2007 – to present
Job Tittle / Employer:
Senior Manager at Accenture Management Consulting, Milan, Italy
Deployed to the Manufacturing Industry’s practice
Responsibilities:
Lead of the Finance practice within the Consumer Goods and Service
(CG&S) industry for Italy, Greece, Middle East, Russia, Turkey and
Poland (IGEM)
In charge of shaping, marketing and selling new finance related
offerings for the CG&S consulting practice
In charge of managing and developing the alliance with SWIFT for
Corporates (SWIFT = the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial
Telecommunication)
Responsible for running finance transformation programs at key
clients
Lead of the Italian “Sales & Profitability Excellence” team, to enhance
Accenture’s executives operational efficiency and effectiveness
Key accomplishments:
 Successfully contributed to devise and execute a 3 years plan
(2009 – 2012) to increase the size of the management consulting
practice for Manufacturing Industry by over 50% in terms of
revenues
 Lead a 2 years finance transformation program at a major
Accenture’s client, which brought a reduction in its inventory
working capital of over 1 billon US dollars per year
 Managed the finance community of practice within the CG&S
industry (approx. 12 resources), across multiple projects and
clients in IGEM
From – To:
April 2002 – Sept. 2007
Job Tittle / Employer:
Manager at Accenture Management Consulting, Milan, Italy
Deployed to the Manufacturing Industry’s practice
Responsibilities:
Project manager on management consulting initiatives
Accountable for developing new business opportunities at existing
clients
Responsible for developing new service offerings and thought
leadership material for the Finance practice in the Consumer Products
Industry
Key accomplishments:
 Successfully contributed to the growth of the Accenture finance
practice
 Expanded Accenture finance brand recognition in Italy through a
series of successfully delivered projects at major CGS companies
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From – To:
Nov. 1996 – March 2002
Job Tittle / Employer:
Analyst and then Consultant (since 1999) at Accenture Management
Consulting, Milan, Italy
Responsibilities:
Team member and team leader on management consulting initiatives
Responsible to achieve project results, on time and on budget
Key accomplishments:
 Successfully delivered several projects across numerous functional
areas and several industries
Education
Education:
Bachelor of Business Administration at
L. Bocconi University, Milan (Italy)
Work History
From – To:
November 1996 – Present
Employer:
Accenture Management Consulting, Milan, Italy
Last 3 years notable projects
at Accenture:
9/2013 – today Leading vehicles distributor in Saudi Arabia and Middle East
Project description:
Re-design of the Group Corporate Finance’s organization, processes
and ERP systems across all functional areas.
Contribution:
The ongoing initiative aims at achieving significant increases in global
Treasury operations effectiveness, hence reducing exposure to
financial risks and enhancing global visibility on Group’s liquidity.
1/2013 – 7/2013 Russian affiliate of a leading Tobacco Manufacturer
Project description:
Analysis and reengineering of commercial back-office processes,
devising a new operating model to reduce the overall running costs of
the commercial organization by over 20%.
Contribution:
The project identified and piloted a new operating model for both
trade marketing and field force operations, achieving the 20% costs
savings. The pilot of the new operating model highlighted significant
further saving potential in the commercial planning area, above the
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20% that was achieved through back office processes reengineering.
Leading Tobacco Manufacturer
1/2011 – 12/2012 Project description:
Design of a new Corporate reporting capability to support
management execution of the Group working capital optimization
strategy in terms of stock levels and production planning.
Contribution:
The new reporting model gave top management clear and timely
visibility on stock levels. Coupled with supply chain optimization
initiatives, the overall effect has been a total yearly cost saving on net
invested capital of approximately 1 billion US$, which was previously
tied up on inventory of finished, semi-finished goods and raw
materials.
Leading Consumer Goods manufacturing company
1/2010 – 12/2010 Project description:
Design of the new global payment factory for the Group and
managing the transitioning of the whole organization from bank’s
proprietary payment networks to a more bank agnostic infrastructure,
based on SWIFT.
Contribution
New centralized payment organization and payment infrastructure
successfully deployed in Europe, allowing the Company to achieve net
savings of finance costs for approximately 0.5 US $ millions per year.
From – To:
January 1995 - October 1996
Employer:
C.M. Initiatives Ltd, London (UK)
Subcontractor in the construction industry
Personal interests
Meditation
Coaching
Reading
Traveling
References
References are available on request.
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