CHAPTER 337: CHAPTER 122: THE NEW CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER

The next day, upon arriving at Su Family’s headquarters, Qing Chang immediately issued a dispatch order, revoking the positions of the HR and finance department managers, and then announced the new HR manager’s appointment. As for the finance department manager’s position, it had yet to be announced.

Inside Shengshi Huasha, all Su Family employees were anxious, unsure whether the personnel changes would affect their livelihoods.

As for the young white-collar workers in the secretarial office, they spent a morning discussing what the new manager would be like.

In the afternoon, the new HR manager arrived, and everyone felt somewhat disappointed at the sight of him. The HR manager was a balding middle-aged man with sleazy eyes, triggering the romantically inclined women in the HR department to beat their chests in frustration.

Therefore, when Pello walked into Su Family’s offices, he immediately attracted everyone’s attention. When he informed the reception at the secretariat that he was looking for Chairman Su, the female receptionists couldn’t stop grinning.

After he took the elevator to the top floor, rumors were already spreading wildly throughout Su Family that Pello was the new finance department manager.

As for whether Pello was indeed the new chief financial officer of Su Family, everything was still an unknown.

Qing Chang’s office was a full fifty square meters with floor-to-ceiling windows on three sides, providing excellent light. From his office, one could see Mo City’s skyline.

When Pello entered, Qing Chang was gazing at the Parliament Building under construction nearby. The new Parliament Building, financed by the Fei Family, was said to be forty-one stories high. Once completed, it would surpass Su Family’s Shengshi Huasha. This move by the Fei Family was tantamount to a declaration of war against Su Family.

The fifty-square-meter office did not feel spacious due to Qing Chang’s massive desk, which took up most of the room. The desk was piled high with a daunting number of documents. Sitting behind it, Qing Chang seems less like the chairman of Su Family and more like the ruler of a vast empire.

However, this man, who instilled fear in everyone at Su Family, did not intimidate Pello. Pello quickened his pace and walked up to Qing Chang’s desk, extending his hand as if greeting a client, and said, "Pleased to meet you, Chairman Su."

Qing Chang did not immediately take his hand but looked up at the young man who stood before him. He had a pair of firm and unflinching eyes, not avoiding Qing Chang’s gaze like ordinary employees would.

It took a full ten seconds before Qing Chang stood up, and even though he was half a head shorter than Pello, standing gave him a much better presence than sitting.

The two shook hands firmly for a moment before letting go, "Mr. Perro, welcome, please take a seat."

After sizing each other up briefly, Qing Chang’s previously furrowed brows relaxed. He didn’t immediately ask Pello if he was as familiar with finance as Chang Mei had said.

"I have a project here that I’d like Mr. Perro to help analyze," said Ziceng, pushing the project report that had cost the former finance manager his job in front of Pello.

Pello didn’t ask too many questions. Qing Chang was smart, opting for on-the-spot evaluation over meaningless questioning, which would show clearer results.

Pello only glanced briefly at it, without a thorough read, "A project worth investing in."

Pello hadn’t seen Ziceng’s report before, but the few figures he checked were sufficient to demonstrate the project’s viability.

"The reason," Qing Chang said, "is that this is the smallest of all Su Bi’s projects. I do not wish to hear such brief replies every time from a chief financial officer whom I’ve recruited at great expense."

Qing Chang couldn’t believe that with just a few brief glances Pello could determine a project’s feasibility.

"Sorry, I thought that all company chairmen liked their subordinates to answer their questions in the simplest terms," Pello said with a smile as he pulled a pen from his chest pocket.

There were several pens on Qing Chang’s desk, but Pello didn’t use any of them, choosing instead to take out his own. Qing Chang noticed this detail and was pleased with the young man’s action. Everything on Qing Chang’s desk belonged to him, and he didn’t like to see a young upstart taking things in front of him at will.

This was routine for Pello, who learned during his hunting days in the Alps that one should never compete with wild beasts for territory and should always tread carefully upon entering their domain.

The pen glinted with the color of platinum, and a few water-blue lines were drawn across the report that had been reviewed repeatedly. "Although the return rate is not high, it’s stable enough. A 10% average return rate with compound interest means the cost could be recovered in about eight years. Although this is a small project under Su Family’s umbrella, it will definitely not be a drag. To use a phrase from the business world, ’A project that beats the GDP growth rate is a good project’."

Such a succinct analysis might have provoked a tirade from the former finance manager, but coming from a young man who had only been in Qing Chang’s office for twenty minutes, it touched Qing Chang somewhat.

Not only did he give his opinion, but he also analyzed the current macroeconomic situation in Z country. Z country’s economic growth rate was 7.8% last year, as everyone knows, a not insignificant figure. Moreover, Pello also had prior knowledge of other projects under Su Family’s name.

He was well-prepared, came with a clear mind, and what’s most valuable is that he was very young. Looking at Pello, in his twenties, Qing Chang felt a surge of emotion.

When a person in the twilight of their career looks at a young person rising like the morning sun, they only have two thoughts: recruit them or destroy them completely.

"Have you studied Su Family’s projects?" Qing Chang asked again, needing more information about this young man.

"Su’s projects are mostly long-established. They benefited from strong national policies in their early stages, but in recent years, as the government begins to control the expansion of heavy industry and consider economic and environmental needs, they lack residual energy," Pello said, expressing his personal views directly without sugarcoating his words.

"It’s been a while since I’ve heard such straightforward criticism," said Qing Chang, "Mr. Perro, I’m glad that you are sitting in Su Family’s building today, and not with another company." Qing Chang stood up again, only this time he didn’t stand straight up but leaned forward and reached out his hand proactively.

Pello knew that this was the real handshake between the two men. (To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to cast your monthly ticket and recommendation ticket on Qidian. Your support is my greatest motivation.)