Daniel Turcu

- End-to-end responsibility for budgeting, forecasting, and financial performance across 6 manufacturing plants - Strategic business partner to BU management on cost optimization, profitability, and investment decisions - Designed and implemented group-wide controlling and reporting standards, increasing transparency and comparability - Led and developed a cross-border team of 10 controllers (Germany and Czech Republic) - Coordinated multi-site monthly closing, variance analysis, and management reporting

- managed a Controlling and Finance team of 8 people - managed to bring the plant at breakeven after several years of negative EBIT - implemented a cost reduction action plan and reduced the costs by 5 MEUR per year.

- managed to implement all the controlling processes from scratch. - managed to move the plants from red status at internal control to green. - managed to implement KPI follow up with all the relevant plant departments

- ensure site activities are compliant with Faurecia finance related procedures - lead all financial forecasting processes - provide all necessary controlling analysis including variance analysis/standard costs, margin/programs, squeeze management and follow up of sales and purchasing prices - monitor the program start up and establish variances versus last reference business plan - Internal Control Manager of the division: participation in the internal control audit and Action Plan follow-up by plant.

- operational results analysis of the division - ensure consistency between financial and operational indicators - economical and Industrial Gap’s analysis by plant Actual vs Budget and Forecast - preparation of the result presentation for the Business Group - Internal Control Manager of the division: Participation in the internal control audit and Action Plan follow-up by plant - coordinate and answer to the External and Internal Audit - balance sheet review with Shared Services of each country

- manage both Romanian Seating Division plants from Sibiu and Valcea (900 employees 100 MEUR turnover) - implemented all the controlling tools and trained the team in the new Valcea greenfield plant - lead all financial forecasting processes (budget, periodic forecast) - provide all necessary controlling analysis including variance analysis/standard costs, margin/programs, squeeze management and follow up of sales and purchasing prices - control and manage the plant's operating cash

- Group monthly reporting and budget execution analysis - Cost and profitability analysis, including cost/profit center allocation and unit cost calculation - Budgeting, pricing, and cash flow management (financing, FX, banking relations) - Optimization and development of controlling tools - Key contributor to SAP implementation FI/CO modules