Douglas Ito
Cotia,Brazil
Summary
Highly motivated and goal-driven Financial Analyst skilled in collecting, monitoring and studying data to analyze financial status and recommend business strategy. Experienced in qualitative and quantitative analysis, contract management and forecasting. Tech-savvy in use of spreadsheets, accounting and financial management software.
Overview
16
16
years of professional experience
Work History
Head of finance
Atua Agro (Syngenta group)
09.2023 - 05.2024
- Team Management
- Responsible for managing 25 employees in the South region of Brazil (Paraná and Rio Grande do Sul)
- Accounting
- Responsible for the accounting and tax área with a focus on tax planning
- Controllership and FP&A
- Resposible to making weekly KPIs for control and management for quick and effective decisions
- Barter
- Barter operations analysis with a focus on input sales, MtM calculation and exposure sensitivity analysis
- Treasury
- Accounts payable, cash flow planning and hedge strategies
- Credit and collection
- Restructuring of the entire credit department (structure, processes and policies), generating more agility, security and proximity to customers
- Pricing
- Restructuring the area, improving service to internal customers, reducing errors and bringing greater agility in decisions
- Exposure
- Analysis and control of the company's exposure (exchange exposure, grain and input exposure).
Head of finance
Dipagro (Syngenta group)
01.2022 - 08.2023
- Team Management
- Responsible for managing 35 employees in the midwest and north region of Brazil
- Accounting
- Responsible for the accounting and tax área with a focus on tax planning
- Controllership and FP&A
- Structuring the department with a focus on controls, understanding the results and financial planning very close to the commercial director
- In addition to making weekly KPIs for control and management for quick and effective decisions
- Barter
- Barter operations analysis with a focus on input sales, MtM calculation and exposure sensitivity analysis
- Treasury
- Accounts payable, cash flow planning and hedge strategies
- Credit and collection
- Accounts receivable and customers credit with a focus on developing policies that mitigate risks without losing agility in decision
- Exposure
- Analysis and control of the company's exposure (exchange exposure, grain and input exposure).
Controllership manager / Business Controller
Agrogalaxy
10.2019 - 12.2021
- Team Management
- Responsible for managing 17 employees in different regions of Brazil (south, southeast and midwest)
- Monthly Closing
- Monthly closing results, reporting, KPIs and presentation with analysis of variations
- Branches and region reporting
- Report results by branch, segment and region for better management
- In addition to making detailed financial planning to support BU directors
- External audit
- Attendance of the external audit close with the accounting
- Budget preparation
- Review of numbers projected by departments and preparation of material for board approval
- Implementation of a budget management system
- Responsible for implementing a budget management system so that account managers have greater visibility and budget control.
Strategic Planning Specialist
Agrex do Brasil SA (Mitsubishi Group)
09.2017 - 10.2019
- New Business Feasibility Study
- Feasibility analysis of new businesses that can generate more profitability for the company
- Strategic Planning
- Make the strategic planning of the business units together with the departments, analyzing possible operational improvements and increase of marketshare and clientshare
- Business Plan
- Develop the management of the business plan for the next 5 years of the company
- Investment Payback
- Analysis of the company's investments that have already been made
- Strategic Indicators
- Development of strategic indicators for the company for agile and assertive decision making
- Annual Budget
- Support areas for budget preparation and comparison of forecast versus actual
- Market analysis
- Market analysis of the operating region for inputs, seeds and commodities mapping all customers, competitors and potential of the resale customer market in the region
- Fair Value
- Responsible for calculating the company's commodity MtM.
Agricultural Control Supervisor
Ipanema Coffees (Mitsubishi Group)
05.2012 - 08.2017
- Manage administrative activities
- Lead team and administrative activities of production units
- Strategic Planning
- Make agricultural strategic planning together with the directors and define those responsible for each financial account
- Forecast
- Prepare the forecast for the next month with those responsible for each financial account
- Effective Budget Analysis
- Validate that all information has been classified in their respective financial accounts correctly
- Analyze the differences between the forecast and actual budget, explaining the reasons for the variations
- Prepare reports with all company costs
- Prepare reports with the costs for each operation per production unit, identifying possible opportunities for improvement and communicating to the directors
- Analyze effective indicators of operations
- Prepare reports with operational indicators of the company, identifying possible improvements to reduce costs
- Investment payback
- Prepare a feasibility study for investments
- Business Plan
- Develop a business plan for the next 5 years with the directors
- Agricultural Control
- Responsible for all agribusiness control, ensuring that the system information is correct for decision making
- Coffee processing traceability
- Responsible for the coffee production traceability process
- Responsible for the inventory
- Responsible for annual inventory.
Financial Control Analyst
Itaú Seguros SA
11.2008 - 10.2011
- Bank Reconciliation - Process Automation
- Automation of the tax accounting reconciliation process with ACL system
- Periodic information form
- Check bank system information (capitalization, pension, insurance)
- Automate processes for preparing reports and analyzing information from companies (capitalization, pension, insurance) to send to regulatory company for publication in the market (SUSEP, FENAPREVI and FENACAP)
- Reconciliation of information by guarantee fund (PGBL and VGBL) between assets and liabilities, analyzing system variations versus information sent to the regulatory company
- Support in the preparation of the company's management report.
Education
MBA in Financial Management, Controlling and Auditing -
Getulio Vargas Foundation
04.2019
Advanced excel course -
06.2016
Advanced course of ACL Tech Supply -
09.2010
Bachelor in Business administration -
Mackenzie Presbiterian University
06.2010
Skills
- Financial policy creation
- Project Finance Management
- Financial Technology Adoption
- Financial Strategy Development
Languages
English
Professional Working
Portuguese
Native or Bilingual
Other Information
- PRAD – High performance recognition program (Itaú Seguros SA) – 2010
- TOP 6 – Training program for the formation of 6 professionals with the potential to assume strategic management positions within the organization (Ipanema coffees) – 2016/2017
Social Projects
- Santa Inês School - 2012
- Volunteer at Ipanema Institute – 2014 e 2015
Personal Information
- Age: 36
- Nationality: Brazilian
- Marital Status: married
Timeline
Head of finance
Atua Agro (Syngenta group)
09.2023 - 05.2024
Head of finance
Dipagro (Syngenta group)
01.2022 - 08.2023
Controllership manager / Business Controller
Agrogalaxy
10.2019 - 12.2021
Strategic Planning Specialist
Agrex do Brasil SA (Mitsubishi Group)
09.2017 - 10.2019
Agricultural Control Supervisor
Ipanema Coffees (Mitsubishi Group)
05.2012 - 08.2017
Financial Control Analyst
Itaú Seguros SA
11.2008 - 10.2011
MBA in Financial Management, Controlling and Auditing -
Getulio Vargas Foundation
Advanced excel course -
Advanced course of ACL Tech Supply -
Bachelor in Business administration -
Mackenzie Presbiterian University