Joao Areosa BPO Director

GRADUATION

Accounting, with specialization in Controllership and Finance

SKILLS

Executive with extensive experience in accounting, tax, and finance, working in the retail market, with an emphasis on the supermarket and food-away-from-home segments.

Responsible for managing accounting processes, tax assessment, and strategic financial planning. Experience in implementing internal controls, audits, results analysis, and decision-making support. Strong performance in tax compliance, cost reduction, and optimization of operational processes.

Worked mainly in auditing the financial statements of publicly traded companies listed on the CVM (Brazilian Securities and Exchange Commission) and SEC (U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission), with shares traded on the Brazilian Stock Exchange, BOVESPA, and in the United States, NYSE - Retail and Energy Sector - Highlighting the Eletrobrás System and ANEEL (National Electric Energy Agency).

A specialist in internal control assessment, he has participated in projects at large public and private companies based in Brazil and abroad, considering the provisions of the 2002 US Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX 404), which aims to certify an entity's internal processes under the highest standards of governance and compliance.

LANGUAGE

Portuguese