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Curriculum Vitae of Alessandro Croci
Personal Information
Name:
Alessandro Croci
Nationality:
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
Finance expert, acting as trusted advisor to numerous CFOs, Controllers 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: finance strategy, finance organization analysis and
strategic cost management, 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 SAP ERP and other main 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
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Curriculum Vitae of Alessandro Croci
Work History and Key Accomplishments
From – To:
Nov. 1996 – to present
Job Tittle / Employer:
Management Consultant at Accenture Italy, Milan office
Manager (“Dirigente”) since 2002
Senior Manager since 2007
Mainly working in the Manufacturing Industry, across Europe
Current responsibilities:
Responsible for developing and managing the finance community of
practice within the Consumer Goods and Service (CG&S) industry of
Accenture in Italy
In charge of shaping 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)
Lead of the Italian “Sales & Profitability Excellence” team, to enhance
Accenture’s executives operational efficiency and effectiveness (until
December 2013)
Responsible for running finance transformation programs at key clients
Key accomplishments:
 Successfully contributed to define and execute the 3 years strategic
plan which led to increase the size of the management consulting
practice of the CG&S Industry by over 50% in terms of revenues
 Managed the finance community of practice within the CG&S
industry (approx. 10 resources), across multiple projects and clients
in IGEM
 Lead several projects at key clients across Europe, including 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
Major projects:
Year 2014
Global leader in the Consumer Goods manufacturing industry
Project description:
Strategic cost management initiative, aiming at optimizing selling,
general and administrative costs of the Group’s businesses operating in
the Italian market
Results:
The ongoing initiative targets the achievement of significant cost
savings through identifying opportunities of externalizing activities,
redesigning the organization and process reengineering
Year 2013/2014
Leading vehicles distributor in Saudi Arabia and Middle East
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Project description:
Re-design of the Group Corporate Finance’s organization, processes and
ERP systems (i.e. SAP transformation initiative).
Results:
The ongoing initiative aims at achieving significant increases in global
Finance and Treasury operations effectiveness, hence reducing
exposure to financial risks and enhancing global visibility on Group’s
liquidity.
Year 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%.
Results:
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 20% that
was achieved through back office processes reengineering.
Year 2012/2013
Leading Tobacco Manufacturer
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.
Results:
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.
Year 2011/2012
Leading Consumer Goods manufacturing company
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 bank agnostic infrastructure, based on SWIFT.
Results
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
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Employer and Job Tittle:
Curriculum Vitae of Alessandro Croci
C.M. Initiatives Ltd, London (UK)
Subcontractor in the construction industry
Junior controller
Education
University Education:
Bachelor of Business Administration at
L. Bocconi University, Milan (Italy)
Personal interests
Reading
Coaching
Traveling
Meditating
References
References are available on request.
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