CFO - Fondazione Compagnia di San Paolo

Our challenges
- - For the common good
    - We have been working for the common good since 1563, on the strength of our solid assets and stable grant-making capacity.
  - Culture Goal
    - Building capacity to attract
      
      Developing skills
      
      Preserving beauty
      
      Encouraging active participation
  - People Goal
    - Reinventing dwelling systems and regenerating neighbourhoods
      
      Promoting decent work
      
      Educating for collective development
      
      Rediscovering community
      
      Working together for inclusion
  - Planet Goal
    - Harnessing the value of research
      
      Boosting innovation
      
      Fostering international opportunities
      
      Promoting well-being
      
      Protecting the environment
  - Planning, Research and Evaluation Department
    - A continual learning and improvement process, at the service of FCSP’s institutional missions.
  - CFO
    - The careful financial management of FCSP’s assets generates income and connects that income with the Foundation’s grant-making activity.
  - Finance Department
    - A commitment to efficient investment, aimed at increasing the long-term value of FCSP’s assets.
  - Impact Innovation Department
    - Special projects, data science and services for FCSP’s various functions, with a constant focus on innovation.
What we do
- - Method
    - We pursue our goals by means of asset management and grant-making.
  - Grants
    - Every year, we support effective projects with a proven ability to generate value for people and local communities.
  - Scholarships
    - Every year, we support effective projects with a proven ability to generate value for people and local communities.
Projects

FCSP fulfils and supports its mission with income from the management of its financial assets, which amounted to 7.2 billion euros at the market values ruling on 31 December 2019.

Asset management is aimed at generating revenue streams, diversifying risk, increasing the long-term value of the portfolio and having an impact on the social ecosystem and innovation. The Chief Financial Officer directs the process by which FCSP’s assets generate revenue for its institutional mission and generate revolving capital resources, as part of a virtuous cycle of support for knowledge generation and innovation.
The CFO carries out his or her duties with the aid of two departments.

Finance Department

The Finance Department oversees FCSP’s diversified, strategic investment portfolio, taking a long-term view aimed at increasing the real value of the assets.

Impact Innovation Department

The Impact Innovation Department supports the CFO in evaluating investments and innovation-oriented initiatives, as well as in managing and making productive use of FCSP’s data.