About Donatella
Across my career, I have successfully united accounting and management control expertise with hands-on SAP project delivery, enabling me to strengthen business continuity, accelerate issue resolution, and help ensure dependable finance operations during critical change.
I thrive in roles that demand cross-functional teamwork, disciplined problem solving, and clear, effective communication between business and IT.
I have partnered with process owners and data stewards to translate operational needs into strong controls, accurate documentation, and sustainable processes.
In recent roles, I have improved closing cycles, master data quality, regulatory reporting, and workflow automation while maintaining compliance, traceability, and user adoption.
English
Native or bilingual
French
Fluent
Dutch
Basic
Italian
Native or bilingual
Can work on-site
Brussels (up to 50km)
Experience
- Whirlpool CorpIT Finance ManagerMECHANICAL ENGINEERINGJuly 2023 - December 2025 (2 years and 5 months)Grimbergen, Belgium• • Lead end-to-end SAP and finance transformation projects, reducing month-end closing timing by 30% and manual AP effort by 40% through e-invoicing automation, ERP integration, and digital approval workflows.• • Implement a Master Data standardization across multiple legal entities, reducing data discrepancies and cross-border reporting errors.• • Strengthen regulatory governance across VAT, Intrastat, and corporate income tax processes, coordinating with foreign subsidiaries to standardize controls and reporting.• • Orchestrate international cost-optimization initiatives, generating € 60M+ in savings through activity-based costing and enhanced cost visibility.• • Improve audit readiness and regulatory compliance, reducing exceptions and increasing audit performance by 40%.• • Increase cash flow forecasting accuracy and financial planning activities by streamlining and automating Accounts Payable (AP) and Order-to-Cash (O2C) workflows.• • Design executive KPI dashboards and advanced reporting frameworks, improving decision-making speed, portfolio visibility, and financial performance monitoring.
- Banque ENI SAFinance ManagerBANKING AND INSURANCENovember 2019 - May 2023 (3 years and 6 months)Brussels, Belgium• • Streamline month-end and year-end closing cycles, achieving 20% acceleration and improving reconciliation processes.• • Define data quality checks and analytics tables for the regulatory reporting package, including COREP, FINREP, LCR, and NSFR, enhancing data accuracy, reconciliation quality.• • Deliver pragmatic remediation roadmaps with prioritized stabilization initiatives, process optimization measures, and long term structural improvement recommendations.
- AXA GroupSenior Financial ControllerBANKING AND INSURANCEOctober 2013 - October 2019 (6 years)Brussels, Belgium• • Implement the S4/HANA Cloud Group Reporting by designing reporting templates and tools for generating financial and disclosure statements across multiple legal entities.• • Shape future-state finance processes in S/4HANA Public Cloud to strengthen master data governance, controls, and reporting efficiency.• • Formulate actionable remediation strategies to enhance process efficiency and improve control frameworks.
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Education
- Degree in EconomicsUniversity of Milan1987Degree in Economics
- Courses in International finance and corporate financeSaint Xavier University of Chicago1992Courses in International finance and corporate finance