Before I advised Italian-owned businesses, I was responsible for their numbers from the inside. I know your situation because I have lived it.
Most U.S. accountants who serve foreign-owned companies have only ever seen those companies from the outside, as a tax return to file. My path was the opposite. Before I advised Italian-owned businesses, I was responsible for their numbers from the inside: the monthly close, the audits, the finance team, and the reporting that went back to the parent company in Italy.
My career began in Italy in audit and transaction services at a Big Four firm, where I built the technical foundation that still underpins the work. I then spent about six years in a New York CPA practice advising Italian and international clients on their U.S. tax and accounting, and it was in those years that I qualified and was licensed as a U.S. Certified Public Accountant. That is also where I first saw how poorly this niche is served by firms that treat it as a side specialty.
From around 2017, I moved inside. For nearly a decade I held senior finance leadership roles, as Finance Director and CFO, at the U.S. operations of Italian-owned companies. In those years I did the full job. I built and led finance teams. I ran the monthly close. I managed the relationship with the auditors. I aligned U.S. reporting with what the parent company needed. And every month, I owned the numbers that went back to headquarters. That decade in the chair my clients sit in today is the reason I can do more than file a return. I understand how an entire U.S. finance function actually works, because I have run one.
I built this practice to give Italian-owned companies the advisor I wish they had had: a U.S. CPA with deep technical training, the judgment of someone who has operated the finance function from the inside for years, and the ability to talk to your team and your commercialista in Italian, with nothing lost in translation.
Across roughly twenty years spanning audit and transaction services, CPA advisory, tax and accounting, and U.S. corporate finance, I have worked with Italian-owned businesses and the U.S. operations of foreign groups at different sizes, in different sectors, and at different stages, from a company's first U.S. filing to an established multi-state operation. That range matters. It means that when you describe your situation, I have very likely seen something close to it before, and I know where the real risks and the real opportunities tend to sit.
We bring the U.S. side of your tax, accounting, reporting, and finance needs under one coordinated point of responsibility, with a licensed CPA, me, accountable for all of it. You work with me directly rather than being handed to a junior after the first meeting, and the practice is structured to support your U.S. operations on an ongoing basis, with continuity beyond any single task. Whether you need only your compliance handled or a finance function run end to end, the work is led and supervised by someone who has done it, not only studied it.
Your Italian commercialista keeps the Italian side. We take responsibility for the American side. Between us, nothing falls through the gap.
I keep this practice deliberately focused on Italian-owned U.S. companies. You have direct access to me as the principal and licensed CPA, the work is led and supervised by me, and the practice is set up to support your U.S. tax, accounting, reporting, compliance, and finance needs over time, not just a single filing.
If that is the kind of relationship you want with your U.S. finance advisor, let's talk.
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