Adrian Cimpeanu

Senior Plant Manager

Salary / Daily rate

Buzău, Romania

Freelance, open to permanent contract

Can come onsite

Languages

Romanian (Native)EnglishFrench

About me

Intro

Executive Director and CGMA with 20+ years in operations and financial management across manufacturing and petrochemical industries. Led company turnaround from €2M loss to profitability and managed teams up to 100+ employees. Specialized in strategic planning, cost control, and operational excellence with proven expertise in ERP implementations and financial reporting.

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Work experience

Executive Director

CONSTRUCTII SI PRELUCRARI METALICE

Mar 2024 - May 2025

1 year 3 months

Buzău, Romania

Heurtey Petrochem Solutions

Mar 2020 - Dec 2023

3 years 10 months

Buzău, Romania

Plant Manager

Oct 2020 - Dec 2023

3 years 3 months

Buzău, Romania

• Establishing and implementing short / medium term development strategies of the company - HR, production, commercial and financial; • Participating in the development of mid and long-term strategy in cooperation with the company's stakeholders; • Responsible for the relationship with the authorities; • Negotiation / finalization of contracts necessary for the current activity; • Setting up of budget and reforecast; • Supervise the quoting and controlling system; • Plan, organize, direct and run optimum day-to-day operations; • Increase production, assets capacity and flexibility while minimizing unnecessary costs and maintaining current quality standards ; • Responsible for production output, product quality and on-time shipping ; • Allocate resources effectively and fully utilize assets to produce optimal results ; • Implement strategies in alignment with strategic initiatives and provide a clear sense of direction and focus ; • Monitor operations and trigger corrective actions ; • Share a trusting relationship with workgroup and recruit, manage and develop plant staff ; • Collect and analyze data to find places of waste or overtime ; • Commit to plant safety procedures ; • Develop systems and processes that track and optimize productivity and standards, metrics and performance targets to ensure effective return on assets. Achievements: • Stabilization of the company in 2021 – succeed to make a turnaround of the company from 2 mil euro loose ; • Smooth transition in period of closure the company – 98% from personnel found job during notification; • Reposition of the company on his normal business line.

Senior Finance Controller

Mar 2020 - Oct 2020

8 months

Buzău, Romania

• Issuing the financial report to HQ according to IFRS; • Follow up of clients contracts for selling price and cost in relation with our workshop and subcontracted fabrication; • Calculation of the contracts progress; • Forecast of ongoing contracts and workload planning; • Calculation of the work in progress; • Setting up of budget and reforecast ; • Calculation of fabrication hourly rates; • Follow up and control of structure cost and subcontractors; • Follow up of investments; • Issuance of monthly reporting based on quantities, contract’s value and manpower resources ; • Issuance of monthly P&L account; • Set up of a planning system ; • In charge with quoting system. Achievements: • Reconfiguration of controlling system for Heurtey

Finance Manager

Martens

Mar 2018 - Mar 2020

2 years 1 month

Galați, Romania

• Coordination of the activities necessary for the efficiency of the accounting activity and the financial reporting to the executive director, financiers and partners; • Coordinating the necessary activities for the good performance of the accounting service; • Completing and / or handing over of financial documents; • Relationship with the bank and the treasury; • Organizing the archive for financial and accounting documents; • Financial reporting to the general manager, financiers and partners; • Financial management of grants; • Drawing up an annual budget; • Coordination of a 7 people team; • Involvement in brewing production planning; • Analysing and make proposal for product mix for company ( Ow brand and Private label) Achievements: • Reporting as per standard of the company ; • Financing of day-to-day operations through various way of doing this type of business.

Management Controller

Heurtey Petrochem

Oct 2009 - Mar 2018

8 years 6 months

Buzău, Romania

• Issuing the financial report to HQ according to IFRS; • Follow up of clients contracts for selling price and cost in relation with our workshop and subcontracted fabrication; • Calculation of the contracts progress; • Forecast of ongoing contracts and workload planning; • Calculation of the work in progress; • Setting up of budget and reforecast; • Calculation of fabrication hourly rates ; • Follow up and control of structure cost and subcontractors; • Follow up of investments; • Issuance of monthly reporting based on quantities, contract’s value and manpower resources; • Issuance of monthly P&L account. Achievements: • Creation and maintenance of the controlling system ; • Yearly approval of budget.

Cost Manager

Blue Projects Company

Oct 2007 - Oct 2009

2 years 1 month

• Issuing the cost plan; • Presenting this plan to client and get approval from it; • Development and improving of the cost control procedure (cost report, cash flow, cost data base administration); • Checking contract type and negotiation strategy; • Negotiation according to the offer received; • Budget allocation and budget consummated versus spend; • Projects cost accountancy; • Cost report; • Cash Flow regarding total cost of project; • Identify the company from market, make some contacts them, starting a business with this company. Achievements: • Finalization in time and in the allocated budget of an important investment in brewery ( around 75 mil euro and a important increase in production); • Creation of various tools ( cash flow; cost report) and implementation of this.

Cost clerk

Savant International

Mar 2006 - Oct 2007

1 year 8 months

Buzau County, Romania

1. Issuing the cost plan 2. Presenting this plan to client and get approval from it; 3. Development and improving of the cost control procedure ;( cost report, cash flow, cost data base administration) 4. Checking contract type and negotiation strategy; 5. Negotiation according to the offer received; 6. Budget allocation and budget consummated versus spend; 7. Projects cost accountancy; 8. Cost report; 9. Cash Flow regarding total cost of project; 10. In the mean time I was in charged to make the connection between Savant Accountancy from UK with he Romanian accountancy

Accountant

SOFROM

May 2006 - Mar 2007

11 months

Buzău, Romania

I was in charged with accounting department. I made all the accountancy file, registration, various declaration , balance sheet, annual report, etc. In the mean time, I work with company banks to obtain/prologue loan for company.

Economist- Chief of financial Department

Beta

Jan 2001 - May 2006

5 years 5 months

Chief of Financial Department

In the begining, I was economist in budget department and production plan. My daily tasks were to make the consolidated and specific budget, to follow the production, the budget execution and other kind of operation. In this time I work for the payment negotiation. After 1 year I was move to the financial department, beiung promote to handle it. In this case my daily tasks were: current accounts, foreign operation, cash-flow, and the state debts. Other tasks were preparing credit documentation for a loans, to obtain various certificate from Romanian authorities. In the same time, I was incharged with taxation in my company, assisting various authorities during their verification.


Education

CIMA

Chartered global management accountant (CGMA)

2023 - 2024

2 years

Controller Institut Austria

Controller Certificate

2017 - 2017

4 months

Academia de Studii Economice din București

Bachelor of Business Administration - BBA

1996 - 2000

5 years

Olimp Net

Certificate

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