Diego Carota

• Solid line report to EMEA Accounting Operations Director and dotted line to Acer Italy CEO
• In charge of Acer EMEA Consolidated Financials preparation and key contact window for Group External Auditors
• PMO for critical Corporate Finance projects
• Responsible for ensuring that EMEA accounting operations are compliant with IFRS general accounting principles, Acer internal accounting policy and local regulations
• In charge of providing expert finance guidance for all operations in the company
• In charge of ensuring that accounting processes are designed to provide the expected level of controls, including a proactive view on change requirements and risk management
• Responsible for the timely and accurate preparation of statutory reports across the entire region
• Responsible for providing the right level of structured information through the output of the accounting activity in order to bring value to the stakeholders, including finance partners such as the planning and analysis team, tax, credit risk, etc

• Solid line report to Regional Finance Manager and dot-line to Country Managers.
• Responsible for Sales Back-Office, Logistic & Order Entry, Credit & Accounting and Business Control departments over 2 different countries (Italy and Spain) and 6 markets (Italy, Greece, Malta, Cyprus, Spain and Portugal), with 16 resources in total out of which 6 direct reports.

• Solid line report to Regional Finance Manager and dot-line to Country Managers
• Coordination of 12 resources over 3 different Countries (Italy, France and Spain)
• Tax: coordination and overview of open tax audits and responsible for tax compliance (with particular focus to Transfer Pricing)
• Accounting operations: in charge of cross-country harmonization and compliance
• Credit Risk Management: key contact window for credit topics and in charge of the business start-up in NW African Countries
• OpEx control: proposal and review/follow-up of cost reduction projects

• Solid line report to Regional Finance Manager and dot-line to Country Manager
• Management of local Finance and General Services teams (7 resources in total)
• Financial: preparation and review of all financial and management accounts used for both internal and external purposes with commentary and analysis as required (primarily Statutory Accounts and Reporting Package)
• Service to Business: provision of timely, relevant, insightful analysis coupled with feasible solutions to support operational decision making; key advisor for Country Managers and Executive Directors
• Forecasting: working with the business to produce accurate and timely P&L, production and cash forecasting
• Contractual: advise and review of customer and supplier contracts ensuring legal compliance
• Customers: review and assessment of the financial risk to the business
• Financial Operations: manage and ensure efficient cash receivables and payments process in order to optimize cash flows
• Payroll: cost analysis and forecast
• Audits: reference point for any external audit, internal audit, tax audit and Board of Statutory Auditors

▪ Direct report to CFO

Responsible of GL bookings and Balance Sheet accuracy.
▪ Key activities owner of reporting package monthly closing.
▪ AR and key reports managing (DSO / payment history / credit limits usage)
▪ In charge of contractual rebates managing through maintenance of existing internal tools.
▪ Preparation of cash flow forecast and i/co payments.
▪ Responsible of compliance to local requirements
▪ Contact window for weekly updates of Business Simulation.
▪ Support on arrangement of Statutory Financials, notes to the Financials and Directors report.
▪ Support to local external fiscal advisors, external auditors (KPMG) and to the Board of Statutory auditors.

• Senior in-charge for stand-alone, statutory and consolidated financial statements audits regarding Italian private or listed companies and Italian subsidiaries of multinational Groups, mainly operating in the consumer markets, media industry and IT
• The role included, in addition to the managing of junior resources assigned to my audit teams, the analysis of the major accounting issues relating to client Companies, the compliance with fiscal and contributory requirements and the mapping and testing of internal control systems