Umberto KILASSA

Experience

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  Lestade

  Jan 2010 - Oct 2012

  Product Marketing

  Lestade is a Sweden supplier of custom-made sportswear for the Europe, Middle East & Africa market. - Work with marketing teams to provide general marketing support to achieve and exceed business goals.- Lead the development of marketing plans by preparing market research, pricing analyses, and interpreting data for discussion with marketing leaders.-Work with leaders to develop marketing communication plans; prepares drafts of marketing communications.-Explore the new market and new product growth opportunity for sport industry in China. -Lead and manage the new business development pipeline, and work with whole value chain customers. -Work closely with sales, technical support and R&D team to design the product offering & solution to meet customers' need. Show less

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  Congo China Business Sourcing Co,Ltd

  Dec 2010 - Nov 2012

  Senior Business Consultant

  -Work with internal senior management and external partners to help identify new business opportunities/threats for Congo China Business Sourcing Co,Ltd & develop business strategies. Identify new priorities (15%) -Identify new opportunities and threats for the company in the Congolese market place and develop relevant briefings/whitepapers e.g. competitive, industry, policy and user trends Strategy Development (85%) Enable business group owners to develop strategies for their business by providing •Business frameworks/tools •Market insights & data analysis •Workshop facilitation •Strategy presentations •Project / team management-Analyze human resource and business processes, and make recommendations for improvement -Build relationships internally and collaborate effectively on cross-functional teams Show less

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  Accenture

  Nov 2012 - now

  Financial Controller

  - This role is a key member of the Gallia region (France, Luxembourg, Netherlands, mauritius and Belgium) Finance team, liaising with all levels of Gallia region & Worldwide Finance and Planning Analysis and Functional teams.Control & Compliance-Continue to strengthen channel control and compliance, improve the business ethic and conduct environment and ensure full T&E and Accenture compliance.- Facilitate the training of customers(employees) on T&E policy and procedureto strengthen internal control.-Prepare the vouchers and accounts reconciliation related to T&E accounting then arrange fast payment to employees.- Assisting Finance controllership Manager, in upgrading methodology/systems for Finance controllership. Show less