Esteve Duran has over 20 years of experience in controlling and finance roles. He has a bachelor's degree in business administration and an MBA with a specialization in controlling. Currently he works as the business controller for Cacaolat Group, a producer and distributor of Cacaolat and Letona beverages. In this role he has improved returns and margins by developing new KPIs, reports and procedures. Previously he held senior controller roles at Recticel Spain, a foam producer, and SATI, a textile company, where he managed monthly closing processes, budgets, variance analysis and SAP systems. He is fluent in English, French and his native Spanish and Catalan languages.

1. Esteve Duran
21stDecember 1970
Granollers (Barcelona)
 34 629 26 86 03
 estevedurantarabal112@gmail.com
es.linkedin.com/in/esteve_duran
Skype: esteve.duran
Senior Controller, bachelor’s degree in Business Administration and MBA in ESADE, specialisation in Controlling,
with consolidated financial experience in multinational companies. Used to manage and negotiate with different
work centres, to grant a good information flow within commercial department and factories. Expert in the
processes of Budget, Forecast and monthly closing,as well as followup and explanation of variances, interacting
with partners at all levels. Very fluent in English and French. Domain of SAP FI/CO/BI as well as good knowledge
of SD, PP and MM modules
Professional experience
Feb 15 – nowadays.Business Controller
Cacaolat Group. Company producer and distributor of Cacaolatand Letona. Gross Sales forseen 2015: 128 Mio €, 202
employees (http://www.cacaolat.es)
Improvement of returns and margins supportingSales & Product Teams thanks to the development of new KPIs,reports
and procedures and reports
Improvement and preparation of Commercial Monthly Reporting and ad hoc reports
Proposal of new procedures to improve Controllinginformation quality
Management of Sales Process Budget and Forecast
Analysis and preparation of additional Controllingreports
Manage monthly SAP Product Costingas well as supporton pricingand quotation processes
Mar 03 –Sep 14 Senior Controller.
Recticel Spain. Belgium company producer of foam for automotive sector, furniture sector...Factories in Santa Perpetua
(Barcelona), Valencia and Salamanca.Turnover2013: 53Mio €, 154 employees (www.recticel.com).
Monthly controlling closing. Prepare yearly budget and revisions. Monthly reporting and follow up of deviations and
explanation to the Board and Headquarters.Control of production variances.Control of inventories and calculation of new
standard costs. .Sales profitability reports. Review and settlement of production orders. Settlement Controlling Orders.
Profit & Loss, analytical and per cost nature.Cost analysisand variances per product.SAP CO/BI Key user (new issues,new
reports...).Financial issues (taxes, assets, general ledger and accounts payable)
 Achievements:
 Development of a new system of analysis based on a new report for a full explanation of production variances per
article. Afterwards, used this analysis at group level.
 Negotiation with business managers to use Business Intelligence instead of manual statistics based on SAP. This
improved the quality, fastness and analysis capacity.
 Teamwork with factory managers, to establish a new procedure to align standard costs with production reality.
Reduction of production variances (FSMC % Actual vs. Standard). Reduction gap % Average Groupvs Spain. 103%
vs.113% (3Q2008) - 111% vs. 117% (3Q2009) - 101% vs. 105% (3Q 2010)
 Improvement in procedure of information of transfer prices between subsidiaries,used afterwards atgroup level,
reducing purchase price variances.
 Design local procedure of cost calculation new standards achieving homogenize costs data in the company.
 Creation of a closing analytical procedure to obtain the maximum qualification from Headquarters.
 Comprehensive analysis of business variables to define and clarify procedures in order to help a successful start-
up of FI-CO module (start-up of all modules in one go)

2. Dec 00 – Feb 03. Subsidiaries Controller
SATI. Textile company with subsidiariesabroad.60 Mio €,410 employees. (www.sati.es)
Controller of subsidiaries located in Germany, Italy and France. Team of three persons(accountants of each
county).Functional analysis for the start-up of SAP FI in national headquarters.
 Achievements:
 Analysis of different information systems and accountancy, to obtain a common P&L per nature to be reported
 Successful start-up FI module in 2002 based partly upon my analysis.
Jan 97 – Nov 00 Junior Controller
HMR (now Sanofi-Aventis). Pharmaceutical German company.180 Mio €, 350 employees. (www.sanofi.es)
P&L’s carrying out, reporting and analysis of variances. Carrying out of budget and reviews.
 Most representative projects
July – Nov 00 (Madrid): active role in the Business Plan of the merger with Rhône Poulenc
Jan 98 - June 00: Budget of local headquarters and forecasts. Reporting of P&L to Headquarters. Analysis of variances.
March - Nov 98: Controller of the factory located in SantFeliu del LLobregat. Budget and reporting of actual costs.
Jan - Dec 97: Customising of CO (Controlling) module of SAP R/3. Start-up January 1998.
Education
Feb 08 – Jun 08 Controlling course: “Controlling: in the value added chain”. ESADE
Set 89 - Jun 96 Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration and MBA (Lic& MBA) in ESADE.
Specialization in Controlling in HEC (Paris)
Additional education
Feb 10 “Costs reduction in a crisis scenario”.Pompeu Fabra University.Teacher: Oriol Amat
Feb 06 – Sep 06 Financial Accounting.UOC (UniversitatOberta de Catalunya)
Oct – Nov 05 Treasury management. Pompeu Fabra University
Languages
English Written and spoken fluently.Proficiency level.
French Written and spoken fluently. DALF level.
Spanish and Catalan mother tongues
Information Systems
SAP’s Key User FI&CO&BI as well as good knowledge of SD, PP and MM modules. Advanced user of Excel, PowerPoint,
Word, Outlook, Lotus Notes, …