Luiz Henrique Moreira Coutinho
E-mail:-Phone #: -
Skype: luiz.henrique.moreira.coutinho
PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY
Graduated in Business Administration and MBA in Economic and Financial Engineering. I
worked in important multinationals: Automobile Industry; Glass Manufacture; Services for Oil
and Gas industry; Nautical; private equity firm.
Professional fluent in English; French; Spanish and Portuguese and with experiences in
emerging markets like Africa and South America.
Passionate about the emergent market with a strategic vision focused on the business.
CAREER SUMMARY
AGO 14
YD Capital Investment
Present
SOUTH AMERICA
FINANCE DIRECTOR
MAR 12
JUN 14
BENETEAU S/A (Start-up)
SOUTH AMERICA
ADMINISTRATIVE FINANCIAL DIRECTOR
JAN 11
FEB 12
TECNORED – VALE S/A
SOUTH AMERICA
FINANCIAL CONTROLLER
SET 08
DEZ 10
BUREAU VERITAS - AFRICA
AFRICA
FINANCE DIRECTOR / CONTROLLER
MAR 06
AUG 08
SGD – “SAINT-GOBAIN”
SOUTH AMERICA
ADMINISTRATIVE FINANCIAL DIRECTOR
SET 99
FEB 06
PEUGEOT CITROEN DO BRASIL (Start-up)
SOUTH AMERICA
MERCOSUR COST COORDINATOR
ACADEMIC TRAINING
Engineering Economic and Financial - UFF
Degree in Business Administration / UBM
LANGUAGES
Portuguese – mother language;
French - Fluent;
English - Fluent;
Spanish – Fluent.
INFORMATION SYSTEMS
ERP´s (SAP, TOTV´s; AS400, QuickBooks);
Magnitude – CITRIX;
Hyperion
Business Object.
CERTIFICATION
IFRS; Management Accountant
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
YD Capital Investment
Rio de Janeiro / São Paulo
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FINANCE DIRECTOR
Reporting to CEO
Main responsibilities
• Represent the company before all bodies and authorities.
• Oversees all the organization‟s financial activities such as investments,
budgets and expenditures, which require the manager to create financial
policies and goals develop financial strategies.
• Reduce expenses and Preparing reports and financial forecasts for upper
management and investors. Finance directors oversee audits, tax
preparation and accounting duties for organizations.
• Assist in performing all tasks necessary to achieve the organization‟s
mission and help execute staff succession and growth plans.
• Train the Finance Unit and other staff on raising awareness and knowledge
of financial management matters.
• Work with the President & CEO on the strategic vision.
• Provide an operating budget and strong MIS system. Work with CEO to
ensure programmatic success through cost analysis support, and
compliance with all contractual and programmatic requirements.
• Oversee the management and coordination of all fiscal reporting activities for
the organization including organizational revenue/expense and balance
sheet reports, reports to funding agencies, development and monitoring of
organizational and contract/grant budgets.
• Attend Board and Subcommittee meetings; including been the lead staff on
the Audit/Finance Committee.
• Monitor banking activities of the organization.
• Ensure adequate cash flow to meet the organization's needs
• Oversee Accounts Payable and Accounts Receivable and ensure a disaster
plan is in place.
• Oversee business insurance plans and health care coverage analysis.
Oversee the maintenance of the inventory of all fixed assets purchased.
• Treasury duties – responsible for the company‟s present financial condition.
Decide how to invest the company‟s money, taking into consideration risk
and liquidity. In addition, oversee the capital structure of the company,
determining the best mix of debt, equity and internal financing.
• Work with senior teams to grow the businesses formulating strategies and
plans.
• Lead and develop finance teams.
• Responsible for ensuring the company complies with local and international
accounting standards and procedures.
• Review and Report on monthly accounts & variances.
BENETEAU
Angra dos Reis / Rio de Janeiro / Bahia
ADMINISTRATIVE FINANCIAL DIRECTOR
Reporting to CEO Brazil / CFO + CEO group in France
Main responsibilities
• Implement and ensure legal compliance and accounting and financial
operations of the company. Plan, coordinate and monitor the implementation
of internal procedures in order to meet the organization's rules and
regulations;
• Manage the areas of accounting, controllership, tax, treasury, credit and
collection, purchasing, legal and IT;
• Manage cash flow, including the raising of funds from the BNDES for
infrastructure design and installation of the vessel automaker;
• Develop relationships with domestic and international banks and foreign
exchange hedging in import operations;
Report under IFRS for the headquarter (Balance Sheet, Income, Cash Flow
and DMPL) and KPI's.
• Develop and monitor the budget, forecast, Rolling Forecast and analyze the
variations of the budget.
• Calculation and control of direct and indirect taxes;
• Management of external audit activities;
• Negotiation and secure closing (property, civil liability, D & O, Transport and
vehicles);
• Negotiate and monitor the development of contracts with general
contractors;
• Negotiate and close import exchange;
• Price calculation of sales and margin; analysis of price, mix and volume.
• Construction of strategic and financial planning business.
• Meeting group reporting deadlines. Intra group accounting and financial
matters.
• Presentation of results to the executive committee in France.
Main results
- Fundraising with BNDES for the new plant facility in Brazil.
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TECNORED - VALE
São Paulo, SP
FINANCIAL CONTROLLER
Reporting to CEO.
Main responsibilities
• Manage the investment of Vale, BNDES in the development of Tecnored
technology.
• Creation of the budget and analysis of variances.
• Determination of cost of products by new technology.
• Monitoring of KPI‟s costs of technology.
• Report the results to the investment committee and development of Vale,
BNDES.
Main results
- Coordination in the implementation of the new ERP.
BUREAU VERITAS – CENTRAL AFRICA
Africa
FINANCE DIRECTOR / CONTROLLER
Reporting to CEO Africa / CFO group in France
Main responsibilities
• Financial restructuring and organizational.
• To ensure the financial profitability of the company (EBTIDA) and reduction
of working capital.
• To manage the cash flow (CAPEX and OPEX), including implementation and
funding of resources at the national and international financial institutions.
• To report on IFRS for the matrix (Balance Sheet, P&L and Cash Flow), and
KPI's.
• To develop and monitor the budget, forecast; rolling forecasting; variations in
manufacturing.
• Planning tax and fiscal control.
Main results
- Cash recovery at 60%, related an overdue of 35MUSD, with an aging more
than 360 days.
- I got authorization near to the central bank to transfer abroad (France) an
amount of 60 MUSD.
- Protected the impact of the foreign exchange rate.
- Reduction the number of the clients VIP, related to impact of the inflation.
- Accountant reconciliation of all accounts, especially bank reconciliations.
SAINT GOBAIN/ SGD
São Paulo, SP
ADMINISTRATIVE FINANCIAL DIRECTOR
Reporting to Director General Brazil & CFO world in France
Main responsibilities
• Direct participation in the acquisition of the company through "LBO";
• To implement and ensure legal compliance and financial accounting
operations of the company, planning, coordinating and monitoring the
implementation of internal procedures regarding law and rules of the
organization;
• To manage the areas of accounting, controller, tax, treasury, credit and
collection, purchasing, legal, logistic, HR and IT;
• To ensure the financial profitability of the company (EBTIDA) and reduction
of working capital;
• To manage the cash flow (CAPEX and OPEX), including implementation and
funding of resources at the national and international financial institutions;
• To report on IFRS for the matrix (Balance Sheet, P&L and Cash Flow), and
KPI's;
• To develop and monitor the budget, forecast; rolling forecasting; variations in
manufacturing;
• Planning tax and fiscal control;
• Management of the activities of external audit - KPMG;
• Negotiation and closing of insurance (Property; Liability, D&O; Transport and
vehicles);
• Monitoring the TSA - Transitional Service Agreement (IT and Purchases);
• Negotiate and monitor the development of contracts with providers of
services in general;
• Participation of the weekly "FTM - Financial Team Meeting" between the
CFO, headquarters and all finance directors of the group (China, Russia,
Germany, France, Spain and EUA);
• Participation of the annual meeting of the finance executive committee in
Paris France.
• Member of the Board Directors.
Main results
- Head operation in the acquisition of the company through "LBO";
- Construction the new financial team,
- Preparation of the services agreements near to the Saint-Gobain,
- Amortization of good will – Operation Downstream merger.
- Installation and refurbishment of the SAP.
- Improve the performance of working capital.
Improved performance of inventory of all the factories in the world.
PEUGEOT CITROEN DO BRASIL
Rio de Janeiro, RJ
MERCOSUR COST COORDINATOR
Reporting to Costs Mercosur Manager / Director of Mechanics Mercosur.
Main responsibilities
• Implementing the cost area in Brazil (vehicle and mechanical platform)
Argentina (mechanical platform);
• Implementation of the cost down politics and coordination of significant
projects to cost down next to a multidisciplinary team, including
nationalization of parts and components and technical economies.
• Responsible for the annual budget and "PMT" - Medium-Term (3 years)
above the platforms.
• Responsible for managing economic and financial (cost, budgets, OPEX,
CAPEX) of the projects: Motor TU3JP 1.4, Motor TU3JP 1.4 FLEX FUEL,
Motor TU5JP4 1.6 FLEX FUEL, Machining "In plant" of block and Head of
Motor TU3JP, Increase in capacity 180,000 engines, mechanical box of
change partnership FIAT x PEUGEOT CITROËN, totaling investment of
215MBRL.
• Review of Make or Buy Mechanical projects in Mercosur.
• Prepare and develop long-term cost projections.
• Preparation and analysis of the budget cost of manufacturing engines,
analysis of gross margin on the cost varied and consolidation of results.
• Manufacture of management reports and monitoring actual budgeted.
• Economic and financial analysis of the implementation of the project flow of
industrial operations in Brazil.
• Direct participation in the implementing of the system RECOF in Brazil and
RAF in Argentina.
• Responsible for the basis of information, cost estimates and logistics (import
and export) sector.
• Coordination of the database of the area of purchases and their integration
with SAP.
Main results
Prize of the best of “DPTA” in 2004, with the project of the optimization of
logistic cost.
