EDOARDO TERRA / OPERATIONS × TECHNOLOGY
Making complex
things work better.
I build clearer, smarter operations at the intersection of contract management, compliance, automation and data. Currently working with Google Cloud Italy.
Based in Rome · Open to opportunities across Europe
From complexity
to clarity.
A practical approach to better processes.
- 01UnderstandMap the problem
- 02ControlEstablish clear ownership
- 03AutomateSimplify execution
- 04ImproveMeasure and refine
and research outputs
delivered at Q8
projects at Q8
Experience
Cloud, energy, banking and luxury since 2022, with one thread: making regulated execution reliable and traceable.
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Jul 2026 – PresentCommercial Contract Operations & Compliance Coordinator
Google Cloud · Finance Optimization Office · Rome
Authorized company signatory for Google Cloud Italy. I execute commercial agreements under delegated signing authority and coordinate contract execution across four functions.
- Execute commercial agreements for Google Cloud Italy as an authorized signatory under delegated signing authority.
- Coordinate contract administration and execution workflows in line with internal policy and governance requirements.
- Partner with Sales, Legal, Finance and Compliance on commercial contract execution and quarterly closing.
- Resolve operational escalations: policy interpretation, execution delays and non-standard signature requests.
- Support AI-enabled compliance knowledge management, workflow automation and operational monitoring, and contribute to the adoption of AI-assisted compliance processes across functions.
Sep 2025 – Jul 2026Business Operations & Process Automation Analyst
Q8 · Kuwait Petroleum Italia · Rome · Fixed-term contract, recommendation letter
Owned five automation projects from requirements to delivery while running SAP-based commercial and financial workflows for the regional network in Lombardy, Veneto, Friuli and Trentino.
- Delivered five end-to-end automation projects: 36 flows, 20 digital forms, 13 VBA macros and two Power BI dashboards.
- Improved operational workflows with Power Automate, Power Apps and Copilot Studio, standardizing inputs and approvals.
- Managed SAP-based commercial and financial workflows: purchase orders, accruals, credit notes, reconciliations, payments.
- Supported regional commercial operations across Northern Italy, coordinating reporting and operational requirements.
Oct 2024 – Sep 2025Business Process Improvement & Automation Analyst
Gruppo BCC Iccrea · Rome · Fixed-term contract, recommendation letter
Process analysis and mapping, impact and risk assessment, and the design of automation and business-intelligence solutions, working with the implementation team on BPM, RPA and AI technologies.
- Contributed to 5+ process improvement initiatives, including loan origination; coordinated JST reporting automation.
- Mapped banking workflows, designed future-state processes and assessed operational risks and improvement opportunities.
- Built workflow automation and business intelligence solutions, including dashboards and KPI reporting.
- Digitalized commercial credit checklists, coordinating business and compliance stakeholders to strengthen process controls.
Dec 2022 – Dec 2023Finance Operations & Accounts Payable Analyst
Fendi · LVMH · Rome · Fixed-term contract, recommendation letter
The accounts-payable cycle on France–Italy intercompany ERP systems, with EU and international AP accounting. Part of the LVMH Inclusivity Lab training programme.
- Processed 8,000+ invoices a year at over 98% accuracy and contributed to a 25% reduction in discrepancy resolution time.
- Handled invoice verification and posting, purchase-order matching, supplier reconciliations and month-end closing.
- Reconciled France–Italy intercompany ERP transactions and analyzed historical pricing discrepancies across production divisions.
Apr 2022 – Dec 2022Accounting & Financial Operations Intern
Studio Commerciale Dr. Giovanni Lombardo · Rome
Accounting and tax work for SME clients in a commercial law and accounting studio.
- Prepared 50+ VAT and F24 filings and assisted with client due diligence and AML compliance checks.
- Supported SME accounting, cost analysis, bank reconciliations, tax research and statutory filings.
May 2022Azimut Talent Challenge: Portfolio Optimization
Azimut Group · National competition
Built efficient frontiers with the Markowitz model in Python and finished among the top 30 finalists out of about 600 entrants.
Mar 2018Political Interviewer
SOS Children’s Villages International · Turin
With Corriere della Sera, interviewed Luigi Di Maio during the election campaign on the rights of children and adolescents. Read the article
Selected work
Seven selected case studies. Explore the full archive in Project Lab.
Contract Intake Automation & AI Adoption Tooling
A structured intake for contract-review requests, usage tracking for Gemini Enterprise and a set of custom AI agents.
Google CloudJul 2026 – presentLetters of Contestation Automation Workflow
Contestation cases traceable from the first signal to the final letter, with one data model and named owners.
Q8 / Kuwait Petroleum ItaliaSep 2025 – Jul 2026Invoice Progressivity Control & SAP/Siebel Reconciliation
Two systems that were never meant to agree, reconciled by explicit rules instead of individual judgement.
Q8 / Kuwait Petroleum ItaliaSep 2025 – Jul 2026JST Reporting Automation Workflow
Supervisory reporting with many owners, moved from email chasing to one tracked collection cycle.
Gruppo BCC IccreaOct 2024 – Sep 2025Price Discrepancy Catalogue & Intercompany AP Control
8,000+ invoices a year at over 98% accuracy, and eight years of price discrepancies catalogued.
Fendi (LVMH)Dec 2022 – Dec 2023HireWatch.eu: European Hiring Intelligence Platform
A candidate-first hiring intelligence platform for Europe, designed, built and secured by one person.
Independent digital venture2026Volatility & Option Pricing: Black-Scholes and Dupire
Where constant-volatility pricing breaks against real markets, and what a local-volatility model recovers.
Sapienza University of Rome2023 – 2025
HireWatch.eu is live.
A candidate-first hiring intelligence platform for the European job market, built end to end as founder.
About
The person behind the processes.
I work where finance, contracts and technology meet. Since July 2026 I have been in the Finance Optimization Office of Google Cloud in Rome, as an authorized company signatory for Google Cloud Italy, coordinating the execution of commercial agreements across Sales, Legal, Finance and Compliance.
Before Google, I spent almost four years making finance processes faster and better controlled. At Q8 (Kuwait Petroleum Italia) I ran SAP-based commercial and financial workflows and delivered five automation projects. At Gruppo BCC Iccrea I mapped and redesigned banking processes and built automation and BI solutions. At Fendi (LVMH) I handled accounts payable on intercompany ERP systems, after starting out in an accounting firm in Rome.
My studies follow the same line, from economics to quantitative finance to technology: a BSc in Economics and Management at Sapienza, an MSc in Finance at Luiss and an MSc in Financial Risk and Data Analysis at Sapienza, with exchanges in Örebro and Frankfurt. Since August 2026 I have been studying for an MSc in Digital Government Technologies and IT Project Management at Stockholm University.
What connects the two sides: I understand the finance and the controls a process needs, and I can build the tools that make it run, from Power Automate flows to Python models. I work in Italian and English (C1).
- 36automated flows across five end-to-end projectsQ8, 2025–26
- 20 + 13digital forms and VBA macros standardizing inputsQ8, 2025–26
- 8,000+invoices a year processed at over 98% accuracyFendi, 2023
- 5+process improvement initiatives, including loan origination and JST reportingGruppo BCC Iccrea, 2024–25
- 4functions coordinated on contract execution: Sales, Legal, Finance and ComplianceGoogle Cloud, 2026
Map
Interview process owners, document the as-is workflow end to end and surface what people have normalised: rework, waiting, manual hand-offs, undocumented exceptions.
Control
Identify the control points a regulated environment requires: where evidence must exist, who owns each step and what compliance must be able to reconstruct afterwards.
Automate
Build with the lightest tool that does the job, whether flows, digital forms, macros or trackers, designed around the controls and not despite them.
Measure
Turn the running process into dashboards and KPIs, so improvement is visible and the next bottleneck is found with data.
Education
Sapienza, Luiss and Stockholm University, with programmes in Germany, Sweden, France and New York.
Aug 2026 – PresentMSc Digital Government Technologies & IT Project Management
Stockholm University · Department of Computer and Systems Sciences · In progress
A technical and strategic programme on designing, architecting and managing large-scale digital systems for complex organizations, with a focus on turning technology into measurable organizational impact.
- ICT architecture and systems integration, requirements engineering and business process management.
- Enterprise systems (ERP), business intelligence and big data, cybersecurity and data privacy.
- IT project and change management.
Jan 2023 – Mar 2025MSc Financial Risk & Data Analysis
Sapienza University of Rome · 108/110 · 120 ECTS
Stochastic processes, mathematics for finance, quantitative modelling and time series; risk management, capital requirements and forecasting; banking regulation, capital markets and asset management; computational tools and econometrics.
Apr 2024 – Aug 2024MSc Money & Finance, Exchange Programme
Goethe-Universität · Frankfurt am Main, Germany
A full-time term in one of Europe’s main financial centres: advanced management, hedge funds and alternative investments, advanced international finance, and investment and pension finance.
- Institutional visit to the Deutsche Bundesbank.
- Workshops on the HealthTech ecosystem, innovation in the digital age and the digitalization of Klöckner & Co.
Oct 2023ARPM Quant Boot Camp
New York University · Online / New York, USA · 100%
Specialist quantitative finance training in analytical risk, portfolio management and market modelling, with Python-based portfolio construction and risk analysis.
Jan 2023Winter School in International Finance
Audencia Business School · Nantes, France · Grade A-
A short international programme on cross-border finance and international financial decision-making.
Sep 2021 – Dec 2022MSc Finance
Luiss Guido Carli · Rome · 107/110
Corporate finance, market finance and quantitative finance, with applied work on valuation, financial statements, asset pricing, Bloomberg and market regulation.
Sep 2020 – Jan 2021BSc Business Administration, Exchange Programme
Örebro Business School · Sweden
Management, marketing and operations from a Northern European perspective, taught and examined in English. Seven papers from this term are in the Project Lab.
Sep 2018 – Oct 2021BSc Economics & Management
Sapienza University of Rome · 183 ECTS
Economics, management, accounting, law and quantitative methods: the base for the later specialisation in finance, risk and data.
Skills
What I use, grouped by the job it does.
- Contracts and risk
- Contract management, contract administration, commercial agreements, compliance, risk management
- Automation and AI
- Power Automate, Power Apps, Copilot Studio, RPA, GenAI agents, AI adoption, process automation
- Programming and data
- Python (pandas, NumPy, SciPy, scikit-learn), SQL, VBA, applied statistics, econometrics
- BI and ERP
- Power BI, Power Query, Smartsheet, SAP ECC, SAP S/4HANA, Esker, Stealth3000, Microsoft 365
- Method and delivery
- Project management, Agile, Lean, Six Sigma, BPM, process mapping, KPI design
- Finance domain
- Purchase-to-pay, accounts payable, reconciliations, credit control, supervisory reporting, option pricing and volatility modelling, portfolio optimisation (Markowitz, PCA)
- Web and cloud
- Supabase, Cloudflare Pages, HTML / CSS / JS, Edge Functions, SEO and structured data, applied in HireWatch.eu
Credentials
Certifications, publications and awards.
Process and delivery
- Lean Six Sigma Black BeltThe Council for Six Sigma Certification
- Forward ProgramMcKinsey & Company
AI, data and Python
- Google AI Professional CertificateGoogle Career Certificates
- OCI 2025 Certified AI Foundations AssociateOracle
- Business Intelligence & Data Analyst (BIDA)Corporate Finance Institute
- PCAP Certified Associate Python ProgrammerPython Institute
- PCEP Certified Entry-Level Python ProgrammerPython Institute
- Python and Statistics for Financial AnalysisHKUST / Coursera
Finance and markets
- Capital Markets & Securities Analyst (CMSA)Corporate Finance Institute
- Financial Planning & Wealth Management (FPWM)Corporate Finance Institute
- FinTech Industry Professional (FTIP)Corporate Finance Institute
- ARPM Quant Boot CampAdvanced Risk and Portfolio Management
- Bloomberg Market ConceptsBloomberg
- Bloomberg ESGBloomberg
- Markets Virtual ExperienceJ.P. Morgan
Legal and languages
- European Union Trade Mark in a NutshellEUIPO Academy
- C1 Advanced (CAE)Cambridge English
- DELF A1French
Publications, research and awards
- BookHigh-Frequency Trading: Overpassing the LimitsAmazon, 2024
- BookAccounting Concepts and PrinciplesAmazon, 2023
- ResearchGeneral Statistical Analysis of the S&P 500, 2000–2025GitHub, 2025
- ResearchPricing Analysis of Options in Leading European BanksGitHub, 2024
- ResearchTheoretical Pricing vs. Real Markets ValuationGitHub, 2024
- AwardTop 30 of 600, Azimut Talent Challenge2022
- AwardErasmus+ Scholarship, Sapienza2020 and 2023
- AwardCertificate of Merit (Copper Medal), AVIS2023
References
Eight recommendation letters and written references, shared on request.
Each of my three completed fixed-term roles ended with a recommendation letter. Eight letters and references are available in total.
Letters are not published here. Tell me the role or institution, the angle you need and the deadline, and I will send the relevant ones.
Automation delivery
End-to-end project ownership, from requirements to operational delivery, with a focus on traceability, standardisation and execution quality.
Q8, digital automation projectsFinance operations
Timely and precise management of finance operations, reconciliation workflows and process controls in structured environments.
Q8, Iccrea, FendiData and analytics
Turning operational complexity into dashboards, controls, KPIs and automation layers that support faster decisions.
Power BI, Power Query, Excel, SmartsheetAcademic and international
Quantitative finance background, international study and collaborative project work across finance, regulation, AI and supply chains.
Sapienza, Luiss, Örebro, GoetheDocuments
Three PDFs, free to download and share.