Finance Manager and Financial Reporting Global Expert

Transforming complex finance into streamlined solutions for businesses across multiple regions and sectors.

Kelvin Ferreira

Kelvin de Araujo Ferreira excels in simplifying complex finance operations, ensuring timely and compliant financial reporting while navigating diverse financial landscapes for companies across EU, Switzerland, Brazil, and other Latin America countries through innovative solutions and innovative management.

He main areas of technical expertise are in financial reporting and consolidation, treasury, finance operations, and FP&A with proven team management experience, leadership and strategic partnership at executive and shareholder level. His professional identity sits at the intersection of finance operations, governance, systems, and decision support, with a consistent focus on building reliable, scalable, and regulator-ready finance functions.

Profile

Professional Summary

With over 14 years of expertise, Kelvin hands-on finance leader who designs, operates, and scales finance functions in complex, multi-entity and multi-jurisdiction environments.

His career spans Big4 firms, fiduciary and corporate management services, multinational industrial groups, global financial institutions, and fintech companies, allowing he to bridge technical accounting rigor, operational finance, and business strategy.

Operate comfortably from day-to-day finance execution (treasury, payments, closing, controls), through financial reporting and consolidation under IFRS and local gaap, up to board-level decision support, acting as a strategic partner to executives and shareholders on financial performance, liquidity, risk, and growth

With extensive experience as a consultant and coordinator in large-scale multi-stream programs of ERP replacement / update projects, he also managed and improved financial systems and processes by integrating suitable software and tools to streamline operations, improve accuracy, and increase overall efficiency. Among the tools and technologies he supported are SAP S4 HANA, Yardi, Sigma Conso, Lucanet, SQL/Python, as well decentralized ledgers and digital assets and custody solutions such as Fireblocks.

Throughout his career, Kelvin has consistently combined hands-on operational execution with strategic finance leadership, acting as a trusted partner to executive management and shareholders. He has overseen daily treasury and payment operations with transaction volumes exceeding CHF 2 million, designed liquidity planning and cash-flow forecasting frameworks, and supported business expansion through disciplined financial governance. In FP&A-related functions, he has managed and monitored annual budgets above CHF 5 million, developed multi-year financial models, and translated financial data into actionable insights for decision-making at board and executive level.

Over this path, he has been part of large multinational and regulated organizations across different industries, including PwC (PricewaterhouseCoopers) in audit and advisory, Intertrust Group (now CSC Global) in fiduciary and corporate management services, Nexa Resources in the trading and mining industry, and Royal Bank of Canada in asset servicing and custody, as well as fintech and payments companies. His professional experience spans entities of varied sizes and complexities in Luxembourg, Switzerland, and Brazil, including groups with net assets exceeding EUR 15 billion.

Tech-savvy and with passion for innovative industries, he embraced decentralized finance (DeFi), Web3 and accumulated experience and knowledge on cutting-edge topics such as digital assets, decentralized exchanges, and more recently promising innovations such as Real-World Asset (RWA) Tokenization, Decentralized Trust Structures (DAOs) and Automated Compliance via Smart Contracts.

In the traditional internal processes sphere, he actively organized and coordinated relevant corporate and financing operations as capital calls and distributions, back-to-back loans, payment waterfalls in loan facilities, intercompany agreements, and others.

On the regulatory front, he has hands-on experience with European VAT, Swiss MwST, multiple jurisdictions tax returns, local regulatory requirements and mandatory filings such as the eCDF and RCS in Luxembourg, as well regulatory reporting to the Central Bank of Luxembourg (BCL), STATEC, including 18 different statistical, security-by-security and balance of payments reports using applications such as FiRE and SAP.

Experience

At RBC Investor & Treasury Services, he coordinated complex system migrations and integrations impacting custody, lending, credit portfolios, and treasury functions, ensuring seamless transactional reporting within SAP S/4HANA and rigorous compliance with regulatory reporting requirements.

At Nexa Resources, he supervised consolidated statutory reporting under IFRS for multiple entities, coordinated international audits, and ensured compliance with diverse European regulatory filings.

At Senior Sistemas and Contrex Serviços Ltda., he led ERP implementations and integrations, driving process efficiencies through strategic system deployments, comprehensive revenue and cost analyses, and improved operational controls across various business functions.

For PwC (PriceWaterHouseCoopers) in the audit and consulting area providing administration and accounting services to large private equity, real and sovereign funds, as well credit institutions, custodian, private and retail banks, as well a varied range of investment vehicles.

At Intertrust Group (currently CSC Global) in the fiduciary and company management sphere, he provided high quality array of accounting, finance, and tax compliance services to diversified client portfolio of holding southern European and Latin American corporations.

Education Overview

Master in Business Administration

Estacio de Sa University (2015)

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Bachelor of Accounting

Anhembi Morumbi University (2018)

Sao Paulo, Brazil

Estacio de Sa College (2013)

Vitoria, Brazil

Business Management Associate

Bachelor of Business Administration

Sebrae School of Business (2008)

Coronel Fabriciano, Brazil