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Sandro Ragogna In 60 Seconds...
Sandro is a dynamic finance executive with 20 years of proven success across diverse industries, including consumer goods, manufacturing, retail, pharma, and staffing. A results-oriented leader, he excels in driving process improvements, forging strategic partnerships, and inspiring high-performing teams. With expertise in ERP implementation, advanced planning tools, and organizational restructuring, Sandro is known for his data-driven decision-making and versatile executive capabilities. His leadership consistently delivers operational efficiency, growth, and innovation, making him a key asset for organizations looking to thrive in competitive markets.
Specialist Skills
Multiple Ownership Structures
Seasoned Leader in Finance and IT, driving strategic growth and operational excellence across diverse organizations, including multinational corporations, privately-owned businesses, and private equity-backed enterprises.
Management Information
Expert in developing and implementing comprehensive analysis and reporting systems across multiple dimensions—channel, customer, brand, location, and department—empowering data-driven business decisions and optimizing organizational performance."
Budgeting & Forecasting
Responsible for owning and managing budgets and forecasts across organizations of varying sizes, from short-term projections to long-term financial strategies. Expertise in developing detailed assumptions and presenting insights at the Board level. Led and contributed to high-level banking and group presentations, ensuring alignment with strategic financial goals.
Cash flow Improvement
Implementation of cash flow reporting focusing on initiatives to deliver optimal cash position.
Leadership
Successful leader of multiple finance and IT teams, delivering tier 1 support to our internal stakeholders and external partners; leading teams ranging in size from 4 to 40.
Track Record Highlights
- Effectively led multiple system changes including ERP transition, ERP upgrade, EDI transitions, system stabilization impacting business performance, planning tool implementations, POS system implementation.
- Led reduction of waste and destructions resulting in a 50% decline in destructions through in-depth analysis, cross-functional partnership, and root cause analysis over a 1 year period.
- Delivered SKU rationalization reduction of 7% resulting in improved inventory management, destructions savings and improved gross profit.
- Financial lead for a tier 1 consumer brand becoming the #1 brand in Canada. Finance lead for expansion of retail footprint from 4 stores to 55 stores in Canada, delivering double digit comp store growth and double-digit profitability.
- Delivered multiple price increase implementations in a challenging retail environment engaging directly with retailers providing support to Sales team.
- Responsible for currency management of more than 150m for multiple currencies in years of a deteriorating Canadian currency. Successfully collected on millions of outstanding receivables after a challenging client implementation in 4 months from involvement.
- Implemented multiple processes at multiple organizations including detailed gross profit analysis, in-depth portfolio reviews in a cross-functional manner, rolling forecasts, retail P&L development, customer P&L’s, brand P&L’s, and master data functions, resulting in improved gross profit improvements of 1% despite significant headwinds for input costs while doubling revenue in a 4-year period.
- Strong leader for both finance and IT resulting in above average company results on external employee engagement scores.
- Led the successful integration of a 30m brand into Canadian operations.
- Areas of responsibility have included banking relationships, legal, contract management, payroll, lease management including offices and warehouses.
- Successfully led the reversal of opinion from a tax assessment resulting in the avoidance of 1.0m in penalties and significant ramifications to tax treatment setup in 3 month period.
Sector Experience
- Manufacturing: Hard Goods, Import And Export
- Human-Resources-Recruitment
- Not-For-Profit
- Retail: Consumer Products
- Healthcare: Pharmaceutical, Consumer Packaged Goods
- Staffing: Permanent Recruitment, Temporary Staffing And Payrolling
- Wholesale: Consumer Products Wholesale Distribution: Food, Hard Goods
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