Controller & Regional Director
Tandem
Total years of experience :28 years, 3 Months
Senior management role in charge of :
o Corporate planning and analysis, developing business cases, cash flow modelling and analysis to examine the robustness of projects economics in a range of scenarios.
o Formulating the annual operations plan and business units budgeting, quarterly forecasting, financial reporting, treasury management, taxation and consolidation.
o Global optimization of financial and core business processes, leading the implementation of policies, internal control procedures and systems.
o Lead the implementation of the M&A agenda.
Achievements:
o Developed and implemented a strategy framework to guide improvements in financial performance.
o Re-structured and streamlined business operations.
o Reduced operating expenses by exploiting synergies among several legal entities.
o Reduced working capital and improved cash from operations.
Senior management role accountable for providing services to a portfolio of petrochemicals companies in Qatar, responsible for:
o Strategy and Business Planning.
o Enterprise Risks Management.
o QA and Process Improvements.
o Transformational changes.
Achievements:
o Streamlined operations and successfully controlled CAPEX and OPEX budgets in the range of hundreds of million US$.
o Managed projets on time and on budgets.
o Improved corporate governance, risks management and compliance.
o Succesfully led the Business Transformation Program, leading the implementation of a new target operating model and SAP ERP.
Pöyry is a global engineering and consulting company serving the energy, infrastructure and process industry sectors, headquartered in Finland and listed in the NASDAQ OMX.
Progressive career with a multi-country remit, overseeing finance, HR and projects controls in Spain and Latin America. Position based in Madrid, reporting to the President of the Business Area..
Achievements:
o Five consecutive years reporting profitable growth whilst driving a complex projects portfolio in a geographically dispersed region.
o Represented corporate interests in regional joint ventures boards, liaison with internal and external stakeholders, such as law firms, multilaterals and private banks.
o Contributed to double the size of the business area with excellent bottom line results through organic growth and M&A.
o Managed the integration of acquired companies in Spain, Switzerland and Germany.
o Position focused on consulting services, development of business cases and software implementation services for key international customers in a broad set of industrial sectors.
• Accountable for P&L, leading the ERP Business Unit.
• Five years managing profitable business growth in IBM South America; received the Executive VP recognition for overachievement of business objectives in 2002.
- Aligned IT with with the corporate strategy that was based on M&A.
- Led a global SAP implementation.
- Managed the merge of the paints and resings divisions in order to avoid redundancy costs.
The Strategic Financial Analysis and Business Evaluation Program is a cases based course for senior finance and general management executives focused on business analysis, performance improvement and M&A.
MBA
Bachelor Degree in Computer Science and Applied Mathematics, Universidad Simón Bolívar.