SUMMARY:

• 15+ years’ experience partnering with senior management to create meaningful budgets, forecasts, dashboard reporting, strategic planning and financial - variance analysis
• Created complex financial models for 11 Business Units, 5 manufacturing plants in five countries
• Prepared timely, accurate and informative consolidated financial statements to senior and operating management
• Generated presentations for the Board of Directors and senior management of large corporations with sales exceeding $5 Billion USD
• 10+ years of experience as a regional financial controller (CFO) for a $200 Million USD operation in Central America (Sigma Alimentos, $5.4 Billion USD in sales)
• In charge of monthly, quarterly and yearly end closings
• Full P&L responsibility for 11 BUs and 5 manufacturing plants in five countries
• Multi-unit, multi-country GL environment with monthly closes and full financials and disclosures
• Lead general financial and accounting external and internal operations audit compliance (domestic and international) for large companies with revenue exceeding $5.0 billion (Sigma Alimentos, Alestra- Confidential &T, NEC BNS)
• SOX documentation and compliance to ensure agile and successful PWC audits
• Governmental compliance, and regional banking relations
• 12+ years’ experience in Inventory Control and Cost Accounting
• Passionate about generating continuous process improvements, creating cost-saving activities, building teamwork, leading financial department and partnering with commercial, operations, and administrative functions
• Extensive staff development experience; motivating, coaching, training and promoting employees
• 7 directs and 45 employees total with Sigma Alimentos 
• 5 with NEC BNS 
• Accustomed to working in a fast-paced environments and making time-sensitive decisions that create value

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Executive Relations: Board of Directors relations, Strategic planning, Business process re - design, Dashboard KPI and reporting, Consolidated financial reporting (non-SEC), Financial/variance analysis, presentation, Business plan, budgeting and forecasting, Benchmarking, SWOT analysis, EBITDA+, Teamwork, empowerment

Financial and Management: FP&A for 11 BU s / 5 manufacturing plants in 5 countries, Functional Financial statements, Family - Brand results, Customer P&L, Distribution by channel profitability, Country performance, Cross-functional project management, Process improvements, flow analysis & documentation, Advanced financial modeling, Financial system implementation (SAP Business Intelligence, in-house system), Master file design and maintenance procedural process, ownership, M&A - analysis and due diligence, Post-acquisition integration/ restructuring, Financial system implementation, Oversaw department staff of 45 people total, 7 direct reports (Strategic Manager, Controller, A/R Manager, Cost Accounting Manager, Tax Manager, Internal Control Manager and IT manager), Support operations for over 2000 employees, Staff development, coaching, Full P&L responsibility

General Accounting Controlling: General accounting & analysis, Month and year end close processes, Expense analysis, Advanced account reconciliations, GL, A/R, A/P, Income statement, Balance sheet analysis, Financial statement creation, reviews, Inventory management, cycle counts, annual non - interruptive production, analysis, obsolescence review, WIP reconciliations, Cost accounting, job costing, standard costing formula analysis, CAPEX yearly planning, process redesign (policy & authorization procedures), postmortem analysis, Fixed assets and depreciation, Cash forecasting, Banking representative and operations, Legal representative, Full P&L responsibility

Principal Areas of Practice: Visionary leader with the ability to quickly analyze key business drivers and develop strategies that maximize the organization's long-term health. 20+ years of wide-ranging experience in finance, accounting and administrative functions in a variety of industries (Manufacturing / Food & Beverage / Aerospace / Telecommunications) and cultures (US / Mexico / Latin America)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Senior Accounting Finance Analyst

Confidential, Minneapolis, MN

Responsibilities:

• Provides food, agriculture, financial and industrial products and services to the world
• Finance Lead for the Global Corporate Strategic Development, Tax and Corporate Affairs functional departments. Provide accounting & finance guidance, serve as a critical business partnering role and be the first contact with senior management
• Created a financial modeling database to report Global financial P&L results
• Established Key Performance Indicators, trend analysis, expense reviews, and monthly management reporting
• Completed Fiscal Year 2017 budget

Regional Financial Controller

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• A member of ALFA (>$20B USD), Sigma Alimentos is a leader in the production and distribution of refrigerated frozen food products in Mexico, with presence in the US, Europe, Central America and South American markets
• Accountable for the company’s financial operations in Central America ($200M sales), overseeing financial controls, budgets, forecasting, reporting and planning, administrative functions, general accounting, cost accounting, taxes, credit, treasury, and information technology. Managed a staff of 7 (Strategic Manager, Controller, A/R Manager, Cost Accounting Manager, Tax Manager, Internal Control Manager and IT manager; 45 people total), and support the operations for over 2000 employees
• Partnered with Executive, Commercial, Marketing, Operations, and Administration functions to review a long term strategic business plan. Resulting in a 10% sales CAGR for 10 years, reaching $200M in 2015
• In 2005 worked with CEO, Corporate Headquarters and Boston Consulting Group in the planning, execution, and analysis of the long term strategic Central America regional plan
• Aerospace
• Telecommunications
• SAP3 / SAP Business Intelligence / BW
• JD Edwards
• Excel Advanced
• Power Point Advanced
• Word Normal
• Bilingual - Spanish
• Led the monthly financial consolidation process for 11 BUs, 5 manufacturing plants, 5 countries in the Central American region. Provided in-depth analysis to identify opportunities for business improvement and to drive continued growth. Generated monthly P&L for decision making by family, brand, channel of distribution, customer, BU’s and Country profitability analysis
• Implemented an operational forecasting planning process that permitted the organization to be more proactive to the external environment (3 months moving forecasting)
• Conducted and provided PowerPoint presentations of sales and profit analysis that facilitated understanding of regional results to non-financial team members
• Created daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly, yearly and trend analysis reports for 200 distribution routes, 3 channels of distribution, brands, families, key customers, 11 BUs, 5 countries,

Senior Consultant

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Confidential in partnership with ALFA and Bancomer provides voice, data, video telecommunications and Internet services to business, consumer, and government agencies in Mexico
• Accountable for the broad business aspects of Alestra ( Confidential &T joint venture with Mexican ALFA Corporation) by interacting with internal and external environments for the purpose of identifying issues and making recommendations that are useful to the Senior Management and the Board of Directors
• Established corporate leading indicators that drove business value and contributed to the organization long-term health
• Oversaw competitive research, benchmarking, financial analysis, and statistical studies
• Implemented an operational forecasting planning process that permitted the organization to be more proactive to the external environment
• Generated functional area profit analysis: Data, Internet vs. LD operations; Commercial vs. Residential profit review
• Increased efficiency and effectiveness of capital investment programs by establishing policies and procedures
• Developed and implemented new project authorization procedures
• Supported the Director of Strategic Planning with long-term corporate business planning, budgeting and forecasting
• Completed 2002, 2003, 2004 and 2005 department budgets

Cost Accounting Manager

Confidential, Irving, TX

Responsibilities:

• A wholly owned subsidiary of Confidential ., specializing in the design and implementation of NEC's advanced digital telephone systems, video conferencing, voice mail and lately pioneering voice over IP with Confidential
• Managed cost and contract accounting activities for the company including preparation and analysis of accounts, sales through gross profit budgets, forecasts, and monthly reporting
• Managed, supported, and developed a staff of 5 Project accountants
• Presided over the contract accounting function inclusive of actual versus budget analysis, event-based costing and billing through to job and/or project cost closure
• Developed Peoplesoft financial queries used by operations and management to forecast and review actual vs. budget sales and cost activities
• Increased the accuracy and accessibility of information for numerous tasks

Inventory Accounting Manager,

Confidential, Dallas, TX.

Responsibilities:

• Dallas Airmotive is an OEM-authorized, independent supplier of maintenance, repair and overhaul services for small gas turbine engines used in aviation
• Managed cost and inventory reconciliations for the GL and maintained integrity of perpetual system records and general ledger accounts for commercial jet inventory (32 product lines, including Rolls Royce, Pratt & Whitney, Tay, A250, with more than $69.5 million dollars net of reserve)
• Inventory accounting management expert (cycle counts vs. 100% counts)
• Generated monthly reconciliations for 70% of the General Ledger
• Improved inventory GL account reconciliations to have them available in a timely manner for closing (~ 2 days)
• Enhanced inventory controls for more than 10 shops located in the United States and Europe which facilitated external audit process
• Reduced inventory losses from more than $300K to less than $50K per year
• Calculated material and manufacturing variances, inventory reserves, inventory movement, costs of sales, and system cost flows
• Planned and directed physical inventories and year end audits