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Dr Gian Paolo Avanzo
I am committed to inspiring awareness of Best Planning Practices.




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Background
Dr Gian Paolo Avanzo is Managing Director and Founder of Crown Consultancy Services.

He graduated in Business and Economics at Cattolica University in Milan and attended to SAP finance and controlling courses.

He is passioned and committed to inspiring awareness of Best Planning Practices which helps customers finding opportunities for effective growth and has designed, developed and market ProfitQube, the Enterprise Integrated Financial Planning application (EIFP).

ProfitQube drives organizations to focus on accurate and reliable medium-long term strategic planning and enables financial targets achievement for revenue, operating profits, working capital and asset utilization.

With over 35 years in private sector, Dr Avanzo has experience as financial analyst, CFO, SAP senior FICO, project-rollout-country localization manager, transformation and change management, training, team building, share service centre implementation and strategic implementation.

He has managed and restructured financial departments in multinational companies (Unisys, Avdel, Chubb, TNT for 10+ years) and was local steering committee president and international steering committee member for the implementation of Triton BAAN ERP system at CHUBB LIPS Italian division.

Dr Avanzo has managed SAP ERP and organization projects worldwide for Blue Chips (Total, Novartis, Shell, ABB, AbbVie, Kraft Foods, Owens Illinois, Saudi Electricity Company, Fuji, Montell and more for 20+ years).

Montell (Shell+Montedison) project has been awarded the KPMG MRD Teamwork Award for 1998.

Achievement statement:

- Re-engineer financial business processes as CFO &
Financial Analyst in multinational company subsidiaries.

- Develop financial decision support system for SME,
business and finance professionals.

- Transform blue chip company business processes.

- Model and deliver worldwide common SAP business
processes template, harmonize and localize country
requirements.

- Identify, promote and implement best business practices.


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