Leonardo Cortes

Background

About Leonardo Cortes

A seasoned CFO professional with an international experience of more than 20 years at global, regional and local levels acquired in global companies (Reckitt and BAT plc) Led 2 different regions as the CFO for South Europe (>15 countries) and CFO for Latin America (>10 countries), managing teams > 300 people from different cultures Experience in leading transformation which includes the merge of business units, spin-off of the business, delisting from stock market, organisation design review, global business service (GBS and GFS), SAP implementation, portfolio rationalisation, footprint review including new factories Proved capacity of delivering robust results despite economic volatility guaranteeing top line growth (consistency in high single digit growth), combined with margin improvement (>150bps) via an agenda of productivity with COGS and fixed cost optimisation Solid Controlling experience which includes Accounting, Treasury (FX management), Risk Management, SOX implementation and Compliance As part of the global M&A team, led the creation of a Corporate Venturing company/unit which resulted in accelerating the innovation pipeline through different types of external partnerships Responsible for leading the Revenue Growth Management (RGM) worldwide as the Global Commercial Director based on the global HQ (Top Line > GBP 9bn) Government Affairs experience acquired when working Strategic & Business Area and interacted with IRS, MFAZ and MRE