José António de Bivar Xavier

José antónio de bivar xavier

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  • Timeline

  • About me

    Senior Director & EMEA Finance Controller @ Cyient | Managerial Finance

  • Education

    • Instituto cervantes

      2013 - 2013
      Español - b11 linguas 19
    • Instituto superior de tecnologias empresariais

      1996 - 1997
      Post graduation business and finance
    • Universidade católica portuguesa

      2008 - 2009
      Executive management advanced executive and business program

      FCEE - Universidade Católica48th PAGE Edition (Programa Avançado de Gestão para Executivos)

    • Instituto superior de contabilidade e administração de lisboa - iscal

      1987 - 1993
      Master financial auditing
    • Instituto superior de gestão

      2013 - 2015
      Master in management management 16
  • Experience

    • Omron electronics

      May 1993 - Jul 1997
      Finance director - portuguese subsidiary

      Director of Finance, HR and IT.

    • Axima

      Aug 1997 - Nov 2000
      Finance director - portuguese subsidiary

      Director of Finance, HR and IT reporting directly to the company’s General Manager and Iberian CFO.

    • Hikma pharmaceuticals

      Nov 2000 - Jan 2009

      Segment Finance Director reporting to the Segment’s Vice-PresidentCoordination of all the budgeting, consolidation and reporting activities as well as finance management of the segment.- Budgeting, forecasting, consolidation and reporting models implementation - Injectable Segment (EUA, PT, DE, AU, NL, UK, IT, MENA).- Cost saving and resources management projects implementation (cash-pooling, power buying e general corporate support to subsidiaries).- Foreign subsidiaries setup (Hikma Germany, GmbH and Hikma Benelux, B.V.)- IPO to the London Stock Exchange (2005) - Team member. Show less Director of Finance and HR, reporting to the general manager Team of 16 persons (Accounting and Controlling, Budgeting, Treasury, Purchasing, Logistics e IT).- Creation and development of the company’s finance department by organising internal control andreporting processes, Treasury management. - Recruited and managed a strong team, which ultimately received the award for the best Group Finance Team in 2005.- Company debt re-negociation (10 Million Euros with a 45% reduction on cost of borrowing)- Organization and implementation of HR set of policies, recruited and developed a team of 2 HR professionals;- Design and Implementation of ERP SAGE X3. Show less

      • Segment Finance Director

        Jan 2006 - Jan 2009
      • Director of Finance, HR & Board Member

        Nov 2000 - Dec 2005
    • Ongoing strategy investments

      Jan 2009 - Mar 2014
      General manager

      General Manager, reporting to the Board of Directors, Head of the Shared Services Finance Function (Accounting, Treasury, Accounts Receivable, Accounts Payable), Procurement and IT. - Ongoing Shared Services setup. - Group process's redesign under Shared Services philosophy. - Finance-team roll re-organization.- Internal Control System's redesign.- SAGE X3 ERP system's enhancement (existing and new implementations).- Integrated treasury management system TARGET ONE implementation (Metacase).- Reporting and consolidation processes enhancement. Show less

    • Cyient

      Apr 2014 - now
      • Senior Director & EMEA Finance Controller

        Sept 2023 - now
      • Chief Financial Officer & Board Member

        Apr 2014 - now
  • Licenses & Certifications