The
Interview
What are your responsibilities at Circular Materials?
I joined Circular Materials six months ago as Head of Financial Planning and
Analysis. As suggested by the job title one of the main responsibilities is to
manage budgeting and forecasting: over the last few months I restructured
and updated our 5-year business plan and prepared the 2025 budget.
My current priority is to deep dive into our operational data to provide more
visibility over our unit economics, support the commercial team in defining a
comprehensive pricing model and help the production team monitor and
reduce costs.
Now that the activity is ramping up we also need to structure our financial and
operational reporting, both for internal stakeholders and our investors.
What is your educational background?
I have a MSc from a French business school, where I made great friends and
probably learnt a few things. More recently I passed a financial analysis
certification to complement the skills I acquired throughout my professional
experiences.
How have you developed your skills at CM?
My adaptability and curiosity are clearly stimulated every day at CM. I am glad
to be the first non-Italian speaker in the company, and very grateful to
everyone at CM making the effort to speak in English when I’m around. I’m
slowly learning and one of my goals is to be able to communicate in Italian
soon.
And on top of that, my previous jobs were in digital start-up, CM is actually my
first experience in an industrial environment so it’s very exciting to have
something new to learn every day and transpose my skills into a new context.
How would you describe your relationship with the team?
Everyone in the company has been very welcoming and helpful since the
beginning, the knowledge and expertise across the board are quite impressive
and make every conservation very insightful. I live in Spain so the relationship
is somewhat distant by nature but I really enjoy going to Cadoneghe and
meeting people in person, and I’m looking forward to celebrating important
milestones and achievements all together soon!
What aspects of Circular Materials’ project do you appreciate the most?
I wanted to transition to a more purpose-driven role and work for a company
that promotes sustainability and CM is offering me this. I feel completely
aligned with the mission and values of the company.
And I love the fact that so much is happening at the moment. The project is
very ambitious and it’s great to be part of the adventure at this stage, to have
the chance to contribute to the development and structuring of the business.
