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Bogotá, Bogota, Co

Bogotá, Capital District, Colombia

Responsible for Strategic Leadership for Change Management of global projects in the Customer Value Stream utilizing strategic, leadership skills, and cross-cultural competencies. Responsibilities:* Identification and mitigation of resistance to change.* Effective communication to ensure understanding and acceptance of change.* Experience in managing multicultural teams.* Cultural sensitivity to adapt change strategies to different contexts.* Collaboration with leaders from diverse areas and markets.* Establishment of strong relationships with key stakeholders.* Promoting a culture of innovation and continuous adaptation.* Identification and assessment of risks associated with change at an international level.* Development of risk mitigation strategies.* Data analysis to assess the impact and progress of change.Skills:* Exceptional communication skills at a global level.* Developing clear and persuasive messages for diverse audiences.* Creation of training programs to strengthen skills and adoption of implemented solutions.* Ability to adjust strategies according to the dynamics of the global market.

Bogotá, Capital District, Colombia

• Part of the Digital and Technology Global function acting as regional point of contact, mainly focused on enabling Consumers, Customers and Diageo to [triple] win, through insight powered Commercial Execution tools• Support the E2E process for Customers, enabling global roadmap considering also local solutions (process, data, technology) ensuring a proper Change Management is in place. Guarantee projects initiation and execution with key focus on requirement gathering and documentation by having a fully understanding of the business processes. • Responsible to clearly document “AS IS” and “TO BE” processes as well as defining user stories and analyse requirements – organizing, specifying, modelling and documenting the requirements to ensure they are complete.In charge of support: - Outlet Execution solutions: digital and physical- Trade Investment Solutions- RTM strategy- Data Governance & Service Introduction within RUN- Solution Architecture / IT & Security Standards- Global Sales Strategy- Process Improvement

Bogotá, Capital District, Colombia

• Manage a team of 18+ direct reports for the timely accurate and qualified delivery of invoice Processing for Latam region, supporting the succesfull development of electronic invoicing projects in Brazil and Colombia ensuring quality criteria, legal requirements adherence and timeline achievement to deliver benefits promissed.• Continuous improvement initiatives developed to the proceses in charge ensuring final deliverable to stakeholders with autosustainable solutions focused on simplification and processes optimization, Achieving improvements out of 70% avg in timing for the markets in scope.• Detail control of liabilities related to trade creditors, downpayments and double payments to be recovered/avoided for Mexico’s operation. In the firts year of Management 100% of overdue ítems were closed for demand operation, as well as GBP 50k were recovered thanks to deeper follow up on prior year’s double payments recoverall.

Ciudad De México, Distrito Federal, México

• Develop the design and delivery of procure to pay projects simplifying processes that help the organization to react to the needs on time, with no disruption and keep it up to date.• Manage consulting teams in order to develop the requested tools ensuring not only the development but the methodology process and security compliance.• Ensure follow up and the adequate stakeholder expectations management to evidence any GAPs on time and plan conjoint recovery actions that allow the project to finish on time and successfully.

Ciudad De México, Distrito Federal, México

• Monitor Vp governance strategy in order to fulfill KPI results and give monthly or AdHoc visibility that allow the team to react and design mitigation plans. KPIs (focused on full Vp Services) from 73% to 80% with a clear plan to close the 20% GAP. • Prepare toolset handbooks to standardize procedures related to Business Process Designs, Business Readiness, Communication and Stakeholder Management and Post Implementation Reviews.• Prepare and run Regional meetings to gather and escalate requirements to the Global meeting. (Agenda, minutes, actions).

Bogotá, Bogotá D.C. Department, Colombia

• Ensure the alignment to global standards of the whole services & operations KPI giving worldwide value added to the services provided by the zone Regional Capabilities Center meet or exceed the service levels set in the global benchmark. • Manage an indirect team to implement, build, develop and align processes despite of tools differences to drive continuous improvement. • Share and replicate regional best practices for processes and tools presenting the opportunities the zone had to share recognizing the advantages that were already captured and also the GAPs that could be fixed by copying other zones best practices.

Colombia

• Analyze, plan and execute tools improvements; enhancing the area’s capability to focuse on urgent matters and optimize the usage of SAP ERP, reducing GR/IR open items, improving parked invoice resolution, enhancing payments delay visibility.• Develop new ways of working supported by root cause analysis, historical data and benchmark identification; delivering SOP’s and enabling the operational team to execute the processes and build a career path without disrupting the service.• Prepares and runs monthly market reviews to present the outcomes provided by the global delivery center and the value added by the demystifying the “transactional only” BIAs for service centers.

Colombia

• Provide reports to source to pay service lines including SLAs, OLAs, and general KPIs overview in order to start the day with a visual of the risks that may impact the line expected result• Generate data for leader’s analysis in order to validate peaks on work load and plan an adequate mitigation plan.

Colombia

Perform processing of T&E and FOREX manual journal record in SAP system supporting the treasury team transaction related to Hedging and Foreign Loans management.Monitoring of Citibank NY account and reconciliation on a monthly basis.Support to central bank audit requirements.Support to local tax entity audit requirements and any other special processes.Build and insights for management notes to Financial Statements related to International Loans, Debts and asset titles control.

Colombia

Rol desempeñado luego del desarrollo de practicas en el área de contabilidad y finanzas de la cervecería de Bogotá.Asiganada a la dirección general donde inicialmente estaba a cargo del registro de cuentas por pagar y pasivos a proveedores de la compañía; y posteriormente fui promovida a un rol en el cual tenía a cargo el backoffice contable de las operaciones de moneda extranjera y coberturas de riesgo de la compañía.Dentro de mis funciones se contenían:1. Monitoreo y seguimiento de la deuda financiera en los estados financieros de la compañía2. Periodificación de intereses sobre deuda3. Liquidación de operaciones de cobretura como forwards y swaps4. Preparación de información para entidades de control y stakeholders de la compañía5. Monitoreo y registro oportuno de las transacciones contables en el banco de new york de la empresa (cuenta puente de operaciones de FX).

Master Of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Administración Y Gestión De Empresas, General

Bachelor Of Business Administration (B.B.A.), Administración Y Gestión De Empresas, General

Final paper for SMEs alternative financial stock in Colombia, awarded as the best paper developed by Research Centre at the University.

Technical Degree On Finance And Accounting, Accounting And Finance