Umberto Compagnone

Responsible for overseeing and optimizing the end-to-end receivables process (Order to Cash) across multiple countries, minimizing risk, and maintaining strong customer relationships. The role requires strategic leadership, operational excellence, and collaboration with internal and external stakeholders to drive efficiency and compliance in B2C and B2B transactions. Lead and mentor a team of 30 AR professionals, including two team leads for B2C and B2B operations. Establish performance goals, provide coaching, and drive team development. Foster a culture of accountability, collaboration, and continuous improvement. Oversee the full-cycle AR process across five countries, ensuring efficiency and adherence to local financial regulations. Ensure accurate reconciliation of accounts and timely financial reporting. Develop and implement AR policies, procedures, and best practices to enhance cash flow and reduce bad debt exposure. Transform and reallocate teams structures towards a purpose to increase productivity. Driving complex online allocation and reconciliation processes Leverage automation and technology to improve collection efficiency and reporting accuracy. Drive process improvements in credit control, dunning strategies, and customer payment experience.

-Designing & leading the harmonization and creation of centralized AP, AR, GA implementing defined process mapping, BPO, Cross Functional. -Leading the centralization of the accounting processes from the different countries to set up a Global Business Center, Designing and Executing transition Process using Lean & Six Sigma methods

(Fit gap & Knowledge Transfer) for R2R & OTC (Benelux – Poland), Change Management, Reporting to the Managing Director

-Kpi Implementation - Digital Development – Process Model & FTE Impact , Reporting to the Managing Director -Month & Closing Activities Implementation of related Software (Piranha) with Linked Dashboard via Qlikview , working aside IT team for the successful implementation, Roll in. -Design and Tackle a statutory Requirement impact after transition -Design & Implement a Master Data process -Deisgn and implement Global Desktop & Procedure Ifor all processes (over135)

• - Deisgn Training Plan Implementation for all team member (over 100) within GBS

• - Build a SharePoint Structure as GBS Governance

• - Create and Develop Segregation of Duties in SAP, aside Product team

• - Cherwell Implementation for Global Front Office's Team, affecting over 10000 employees at business operation level, working aside IT team for the successful implementation

• - Internal Control System Implementation – Internal Control's Audit Business Partner (ICS), Reporting to Risk Management in the Headquarter, Germany

• - Coordinate the Statutoty Requirements & External Audit Business Partner

• - Hiring for Transition Purpose (35 FTE in 3 Months as best achievement)

• - Project , Planning & Budgeting Transition internal insource for 120 FTE (Germany)

• - Manager Since 2024, leading a team of 15 FTE and Receivable for 5 countries Working aside Local Project Manager and Heads

• - Act as the GBS Finance Business Partner with the country CFO

• - Contribute to the Account Payable Department Creation within an internal Outsourcing project of IWG, Design all the R2R flow centralizing finance operations (All Eruope – Middle est & South America), Reporting to the Head of Finance

• - The position is focused on the management of different countries (25) and the relative specifications, (Invoice flow in Italy & Turkey – Federal Taxes structure in Brasil).

• - Contribuite to define and amend chart of Accounts & Tax codes affecting the ERP based law and operative needs, aside Finance & compliance team.

• - Leadership of a team of 25 direct reports within an international environment.

• - Verify and ensure that all activities and goals are made in accordance with the pretexts.

• - Provide daily support and direction to team through training, coaching, guidance and advice.

• - Conduct performance reviews and create individual development plans.

• - Provide detailed statistical feedback on performance of team members for evaluation and reward purposes (KPI)

• - Manage process improving, monitoring activities, reduce gaps

• - Attitude focuses on contributing to the process of standardization and development of the Account Payable department and migration including all 82 countries

• - Recruitment for new team members or in case of replacement

• - Create work instruction of the entire process

• - Being the Responsable department representative in case of Audit

• - Involved in the migration for all the countries, remote migration and local migration

• - P&L and Balance Sheet report for the Business Units

• - UAT Key user Microsoft Dynamics for the ERP implementation affecting all 82 countries within Barcelona hub , follow up and fixing all processes related issues, working aside IT team for the successful implementation