SUMMARY:

Highly motivated and results oriented financial planning and analysis professional, Bi - Lingual, possessing exceptional communication and cross-cultural skills with thorough experience in Accounting, FP&A and Strategic Planning & Analysis and Data analysis experience, reporting to highly visible positions within the senior management. Significant experience in LATAM backed by a bachelor’s degree in business administration, major in management, advanced studies in finance and substantial financial systems knowledge and Project management.

SKILLS AND CORE COMPETENCIES:

• Financial Planning& Analysis
• SAP
• Power BI: expert (including DAX coding)
• Budgeting, Forecasting and Financial Reporting
• Oracle
• OBIEE 11g: expert level
• Accounting and Financial Controllership
• JD Edwards
• Business Objects: expert level
• Capital Planning management and Analysis
• Lawson
• Excel and VBA: expert level
• Business cases preparation and analysis
• QuickBooks
• Excel Reporting design and automation: Expert level
• Business Intelligence
• Hyperion / Planning
• SQL
• Metrics Development and Reporting
• Hyperion / Essbase
• Access and other relational databases
• Data visualization
• Cognos

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Miami, FL

Financial Planning and Business Intelligence Analytics

Responsibilities:

• Power BI implementation project manager
• Lead developer for all reports and metrics in Power BI; DAX coding and dashboards
• Lead Visualization projects; requirements gathering - implementation
• Power BI Super user and Admin functions
• ETL admin and maintenance; Microsoft SQL Server Integration Services
• Data validation and mapping
• Lead Power BI integration efforts into a variety of providers platforms
• Preparation of financial and operational KPI performance analysis & commentary to support the monthly reporting, pipeline tracking, flash performance reports & CEO’s presentations

Confidential, Miami FL

Sr. Finance Manager

Responsibilities:

• Compile senior management presentations summarizing growth assumptions, profitability projections and department initiatives ensuring clear communication of business strategy and KPIs
• Produce period-end reporting packages for corporate finance and accounting teams including actuals vs budget/forecast walks and departmental expense analyses
• Create dynamic P&L and cash flow models to support annual budget and long-range plan creating high
• Prepare, review and communicate financial budgets and forecasts. Included in this process is updating the 5-year strategic plan on a consistent basis.
• Prepare financial analysis of business unit strategic capital initiatives, including business cases, calculating and presenting return analysis for capital requests.
• Provide financial guidance to the business unit department leaders and ensure their adherence to the budget and operational guidelines.
• Assists in the preparation of financial and operational KPI performance analysis & commentary to support the monthly board report, flash performance reports & CFO and boards monthly presentations
• Lead developer for all metrics in Power BI
• Coordinate and provide finance support for all Investor Relations activities regarding all public communications, press releases and regulatory documentation

Confidential, Miami, FL

Responsibilities:

• Assists in the preparation of financial and operational KPI performance analysis & commentary to support the monthly board report, flash performance reports & CFO's monthly presentation to the executive committee and board
• Coordinate and provide finance support for all Investor Relations activities and specially regarding all public communications, press releases and regulatory documentation (UK Financial Services Authority)
• Lead the Confidential allocation process in close partnership with the Commercial and Technology divisions.
• Project lead of the Confidential Finance integration effort; in charge of design and execution of accounting and reporting processes
• Responsible of Confidential financial controllership functions
• M&A team finance member; developed financial models in order to support a major acquisition. Development of sensitivities analysis, synergies models and valuation scenarios. Demerger and disposal financial due diligence in disposal of one of the company’s Europe business unit; covenant stress testing and financial model development

Confidential, Tappan NJ

Responsibilities:

• Provide financial support to the Global procurement division with emphasis is on the BI analytical and reporting aspect.
• In charge of the financial analysis planning and reporting process for the Global Procurement; Act as the liaison with the Finance group for the monthly, quarterly and year end reporting, via Essbase-Hyperion, Oracle financials and SAP business warehouse (Business Objects)
• Preparation of regular operational performance tracking and reporting metrics
• Lead developer for OBIEE reporting; preparation and maintenance of data integrity and preparation of dashboards
• Lead and management of Risk database, KPI dashboards, etc., Standardization of data
• Manage the Data analytics process, trough strong knowledge of data warehousing concepts, technologies and best practices including logical data modeling and physical database design (Business Objects, Cognos, Hyperion)
• In charge of the Strategic Financial Risk evaluation process, benchmarking

Confidential, New York, NY

Corporate Finance Division, Financial Planning and Analysis AVP

Responsibilities:

• Preparation and consolidation of annual Confidential budgets and strategic plans, analysis of actual vs. budget performance for all operations and corporate IT divisions.
• Coordinate and perform review of POA’s (project opportunity assessments) for executive reviews and post-implementation reviews (PIR's) of projects.
• Ongoing Management, Review and Guidance of the Business Case Process for all capital and commitment intensive projects.
• In charge of monthly, annual and strategic Confidential budgeting (1.9 billion/year) and forecasting process, all the way to project level (over 2.5MM and above; 250 projects at any time)
• Cyclical Reporting on Capital Spending & Projects progress to the Management board
• Firm-wide Balance Sheet forecasting and consolidation process as well as the Support FP&A/Expense Management reporting (Hyperion, Clarity, Oracle)

Confidential, FT. Lauderdale FL

Finance Manager

Responsibilities:

• Oversee the capital appropriation process, its governance and the financial reporting process, including IT spend and FTE’s
• Project and Business case preparation and evaluation (Net Present value, discounted cash flow, internal rate of return, pay backs, etc.)
• Coordinate project monitoring and due diligence efforts, which includes the evaluation of project’s strategies and financials and facilitating additional technical reviews.
• Coordinate and perform review of POA’s (project opportunity assessments) for executive reviews.
• Perform as liaison with all the functional Project Controllers, on project reporting, including benefits and costs, reviews.
• Project reporting to Global management board, and all other activities required from the functional Project controllers and the US management board.