Finance Manager at Servier, Mexico City
May 2020 – Present
- Controllership of the business and finance overview on short and long terms.
- Provide business insight that helps strategic decisions effectiveness.
- Lead and coach the finance team focused on develop their strengths and empower their actions.
- Partner with cross-functional teams to evaluate and perform financial analysis on business’ health, cash flow, pricing, financial modeling and data mining.
- Lead ad-hoc financial analysis to evaluate new business development opportunities.
- Set the budget, projections and control of P&L, Sales and Gross Margin, Opex, Capex EBITDA, BS, Receivables, Payables, Taxes, Cash Flow and all financial items.
- Lead the reporting package locally and to HQ based on financial and operational performance metrics.
Finance & Business Controller at Servier, Mexico City
May 2017 – Apr 2020
- Issuing timely and complete financial statements and scorecards.
- Supervise the month-end close to ensure accurate reporting to headquarters.
- Develop ad-hoc reports and follow up on relevant KPIs which support and advise the decision making.
- Lead the strategy plan process and quarterly forecasts.
- Forecast the results and business performance identifying risks and opportunities and implement measures to counteract risks.
- Participate, from the financial and operational point of view, on developing effective business initiatives and strategies (e.g. pricing, new product launches, strategic alliances, new business profitability).
Financial Planning & Analysis Manager at PagaTodo, Mexico City
May 2015 – April 2017
- Business partner to Senior Management.
- Provide financial and analytical support to managerial decisions across the company.
- Develop financial models to evaluate business initiatives (e.g. M&A, new products launching, pricing, market analysis).
- Review and valuation of working capital requirements.
- Provide explanations of financial results to the Board of Directors.
- Responsible for annual budgeting and forecast activities.
- Develop financial monthly reporting package.
Financial Planning Analyst at El Palacio de Hierro, Mexico City
September 2012 – April 2015
- Develop financial models to evaluate new projects profitability.
- Follow up of new projects development and analysis of their variations versus plan.
- Annual Budget process and quarterly forecasting activities.
- Consolidation of P&L and analysis of Budget variations.
- Participate actively in management committees of Business Units in order to implement strategic decisions.
- Develop KPI’s and dashboards to support the following up of business performance and implementation of improvement measures.
Financial Information Analyst at General de Seguros, Mexico City
November 2009 – August 2012
- Participate in Financial Statements Consolidation.
- Analyst of Financial Statements, financial ratios & KPIs,
- Issuing timely and complete financial information package to National Insurance Commission.
- Manage databases with all financial information.
- Providing business performance reports to the Board of Directors.
