Alejandro Blanco Email & Phone Number

Miami, Fl, Us

Miami, Fl, Us

Miami, Fl, Us

• Responsible for developing and maintaining annual operating budget, & monthly and qtly. forecast of financial statements. • Reviewing monthly results and preparing actual vs. budget variance reports and finance packages for CFO, CEO, and Trustees.• Managing and forecasting Cash Flow. Developing & maintaining financial statements timely and accurately.

Luxembourg City, Lu

• Leading Finance team in the preparation of strategic plans, budgets, and financial forecast for LATAM on (IFRS). Managing Finance department for 15 countries, supervising monthly accounting closing procedures, and reporting directly to CFO and CEO.• Ensuring all internal accounting and financial controls work effectively across 15 countries (130 business centers).• Preparing regional financial, sales, and network development performance PowerPoint decks for the CEO and CFO (budgets, actual vs. budget reviews, business center acquisition analyses and recommendations, P&L, Balance Sheet, and Cash Flow detailed reviews, and remedial strategies for underperforming centers). • Preparing and analyzing Business Center Investment Financial Models, NPV, IRR and payback, Cash flow analysis, board of director investment recommendations for new centers, and financial analysis on lease renewals of existing business centers. Providing leadership and direction, and ensure compliance on matters pertaining to corporate policies, strategy decisions, and planning.• Identifying risks, and opportunities to the business performance, and ensure plans are in place to mitigate/exploit them.• Provide metrics and KPI’s that improve the key drivers of operations and enable effective management, decision-making and execution. Managing financial month-end and year-end reporting. Responding to queries from corporate headquarters in Luxemburg, related to cost management plans, audits, and financial performance of all business centers.

Luxembourg City, Lu

Coral Gables, Florida, Us

• Responsible for strategic planning support: annual budgeting process, interim forecasting with quarterly outlooks, analysis, and research in financial and expense performance, actual results vs. forecast, ROI modeling, NPV analysis, depreciation, working capital, and investments. Reviewed and recommended enhancements to financial reports and finance processes as needed.• Prepared and distributed monthly reporting packages timely and accurately to CFO. Designing, implementing, and documenting solutions to streamline processes and to create operational efficiencies. Prepared revenue & gross margin trends presentations.• Delivering on the automation and development of financial reports that supported decision making in an accurate and timely manner.• Calculated and monitored compliance with complex financial covenants and borrowing base availability for revolving lines of credit, converting credit agreement verbiage into Excel models to calculate covenants. Implementing and documenting new processes to improve cost controls and productivity. Performed P&L analysis for presentation purposes, i.e. identifying risks and opportunities and assisting in summarizing performance in pitch presentations to senior management for estimates & plans.

Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Us

• Supported the preparation of the operating, and strategic plan. Updated monthly forecasts based on expense trends.• Identified key spending trends and translated data into actionable insights. Prepare profitability reviews for all departments.• Led design, and distribution of financials in accordance with GAAP. Prepared Capex projects for approval to CFO. monitoring open projects providing control for spending. Managed the process of loading and consolidating financials to HFM and Hyperion. • Created and managed Sales and Inventory report that got approved by CFO to distributed to Senior Executives daily.

Masters Of Finance, Finance

Bachelor Of Science In Management, Finance And Marketing Majors

Business Management, Finance And Marketing