Giuseppe Puccio

Current

• Finance and Strategic Planning Director at Major distributor of leading brands on consumer electronics

Past

• Head of Financial and Business Controlling (acting as CFO) at Adidas Group (Italy)
• Finance Manager at Levi Strauss Europe
• Financial Controller at Ferrero International

• Assistant Project Manager at Dianos

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Education

• Université Jean Moulin (Lyon III)
• Università degli Studi di Torino
• Liceo Scientifico

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Industry

Consumer Goods

Giuseppe Puccio’s Summary

Financial Director with extensive background in Strategy and Business Development, with many years experience in top performing global companies.

Fluent in four languages (EN, FR, IT, ES), with international education, working in several countries and with experiences in managing multicultural teams and task forces.

Giuseppe Puccio’s Specialties:

Apparel & Fashion, Sporting Goods, Food, Consumer Electronics, IT.

Giuseppe Puccio’s Experience

• Finance and Strategic Planning Director

  Major distributor of leading brands on consumer electronics

  (Consumer Electronics industry)

  July 2007 — Present (1 year 4 months)

  A leading distributor of mobile electronic devices. Major shareholder of the company is an important Italian fund of private equity.
  • Reporting directly to the CEO and the Board, I am responsible for all the Financial activities of the company (monthly and year end closing, forecasting, business controlling, treasury, external relations with banks and insurances, auditors) and HR procedures (hirings and organizational developments).

• Head of Financial and Business Controlling (acting as CFO)

  Adidas Group (Italy)

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; FRA:ADS; Sporting Goods industry)

  December 2004 — July 2007 (2 years 8 months)

  Adidas - Worldwide leading brand producing sporting goods
  Location Italy – Milan (Italian Headquarters)
  • Financial partner for the MD and business functions (Mktg, Sales, Operations, IT, HR), creating financial transparency through all subsidiary-HQ activities: budgeting, forecasting and reporting.

• Finance Manager

  Levi Strauss Europe

  (Privately Held; 10,001 or more employees; Apparel & Fashion industry)

  October 1999 — May 2004 (4 years 8 months)

  Levi's - The best known brand producing denim products.
  Location: Belgium - Brussels (European Headquarters).
  I experienced 3 different roles:
  • Strategic Planning Finance Manager
  • Finance Manager New Business Developments
  • IT Finance Manager.

• Financial Controller

  Ferrero International

  (Privately Held; 10,001 or more employees; Food Production industry)

  April 1996 — September 1999 (3 years 6 months)

  Ferrero - One of the best and well-known companies producing confectionery goods.
  Location: Luxembourg (International HQ).
  • Analyse and co-ordinate the annual and strategic financial planning and manage the economic planning reporting system (Microcontrol and then Hyperion) related to the next 3 years plan of more than 30 local affiliates

• Assistant Project Manager

  Dianos

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; DIA.IT; Information Technology and Services industry)

  December 1993 — September 1995 (1 year 10 months)

  Dianos - softwarehouse of treasury systems for managing, valuing and hedging financial instruments.
  Location: Turin with assigments in Milan and Rome.
  • Study and empirical testing of models for forecasting cash-flow and managing portfolio’s risk, tools for pricing and hedging investments in forex and in interest rates exposure.
  • Co-operate with software analysts to design new advanced financial algorithms, supporting the project mgr. in introducing the applications into the client trading room.

Giuseppe Puccio’s Education

• Université Jean Moulin (Lyon III)

  Business Administration 1991 — 1992

  • "Maîtrise A.E.S." Université Lyon III - France.
  Final Result: 15 with Honours "Bien" (high score obtained by the first 2% students graduated that year).

  Activities and Societies:

  UCPA

• Università degli Studi di Torino

  Economics 1987 — 1991

  "Laurea in Economia e Commercio", Universit� degli Studi di Torino, Turin, Italy.
  Final Result: 110 with Honours "Lode" (top score, obtained by the first 5% students graduated that year).

  Activities and Societies:

  AIESEC

• Liceo Scientifico

  College, 1982 — 1987

  Maturità scientifica, Turin, Italy. Final Result: 60/60 (top score).

  Activities and Societies:

  PanEuropa