A New Employment Dynamics

The 21st century market competition is characterized by velocity, flexibility and an ever-changing world. These conditions affect many business aspects, including labor relations. It is becoming increasingly common for companies to avoid hiring employees on a permanent basis, choosing instead to employ staff on demand.

For companies, this situation is an opportunity to keep only the essential minds in house and hire external help whenever necessary, transforming a big part of their fixed cost into variable cost.

For workers, this reality requires a change of mindset in terms of career management. We must leave behind the employee mentality and learn to manage our careers as if they were companies or businesses.

The benefits of doing so can be tremendous. Think of how exciting it could be to work at multiple projects at once for different organizations as a freelancer. Can you imagine what this will do for your network and your set of skills?

I would cherish an opportunity to become a Finance Expert freelancer for a company such as Toptal. As a Finance MBA Professor, I already lead my career as a freelancer, offering my services to MBA programs on an on-demand basis. At Toptal, I will have a chance to also supply my finance expertise to interested companies.

In more than 12 years of experience in Finance positions such as Financial Controller, Treasury Manager and Sr. Finance Manager, I have always worked as a partner to support the profitable growth of organizations through clear and defined long term visions.

Through a robust academic background that includes an associate´s, two bachelors’, a master´s and an executive MBA, as well as thorough experiences in the Oil & Gas industry (8 years) and in the Executive Education sector (5 years and counting), I take pride on being perceived as a knowledgeable professional in Finance.

But, through my professional experiences in Brazil, Europe and the USA, I learned to recognize that strategy is the true language of business. I believe that Finance is a requirement for all businesses, while Strategy is found only in the truly successful organizations. Today, I consider myself a Finance expert and a Business Strategy enthusiast!

I would love to take my finance expertise and my business strategy enthusiasm to the Toptal network. As Bill Gate says, “the key to success is to realize where the world is going and get there first.” Can Toptal help me get there? I think so.