Alejandro Robledo Ruiz Email & Phone Number

Bogotá, Bogota, Co

Bogotá, Capital District, Colombia

Responsible for financial planning, stewardship, reporting, forecasting, and medium and long-term financial projections that are used for strategic decisions. GEB is a holding with affiliates in Colombia, Brazil, Guatemala and Peru, requiring teamwork with the financial teams in those companies to consolidate projections for the entire group. I provide support to other areas in the company to accomplish M&A initiatives, make financing decisions, and renew credit ratings with agencies.

Bogotá D.C. Area, Colombia

Responsible for all treasury related activities of the company in Colombia and cost optimization projects, managing an average daily collection of US$ 6M and credit assignment and stewardship to more than 400 clients, leading team of 5 direct reports.- Margin Optimization: Financial analysis of trading conditions for the purchase of green bonds, achieving an increase in company's gross margin of US$ 3M in 2019.- Corporate Finance: Improve profile of long-term debt, renegotiating the… Show more Responsible for all treasury related activities of the company in Colombia and cost optimization projects, managing an average daily collection of US$ 6M and credit assignment and stewardship to more than 400 clients, leading team of 5 direct reports.- Margin Optimization: Financial analysis of trading conditions for the purchase of green bonds, achieving an increase in company's gross margin of US$ 3M in 2019.- Corporate Finance: Improve profile of long-term debt, renegotiating the term and interest rate of a US$ 60M credit, achieving savings of $5M in interest payments.Negotiate and contract short-term facilities for a total of US$ 40M, at competitive rates and with grace period for the capital payment.WACC reduction through leverage optimization.- Working Capital Optimization: Lead an inventory reduction project, freeing up US$ 10M cash, equivalent to a 20% reduction in inventory cost.- Negotiation: Increase annual financial income by 300%, valued at US$ 300K, through negotiation with collection banks.- Risk Management: Negotiation of corporate insurance policies, quantifying risks, optimizing coverage, and negotiating premiums, achieving savings of around US$ 300K in a year. Implementation of control measures to mitigate the risk of execution of unauthorized operations, achieving an indicator of zero errors in the year.- Project Management: Migrated the treasury client definition in Citibank, maintaining functionalities, without incurring costs and improving security levels for transactions.- Budgets: Define, execute and steward a budget of approx. US$ 700K, achieving savings by executing 98% of the approved budget.Implementation of "Zero-Based Budgeting", achieving a cost reduction of US$ 15K per year in the treasury group. Show less

Bogotá D.C. Area, Colombia

Managed a $10 million project for automation of loading and unloading activities at 5 fuels terminals in Colombia, ensuring availability of needed resources and compliance with schedule and budget

Bogotá D.C. Area, Colombia

- Budgeting: Prepare and steward the budget for more than 50 projects in 6 countries in LATAM related with reputational risk, environment and local regulation. Average cost per project was US$ 500KAsset Management: Manage a phased divestment project valued at US$ 15M, impacting more than 200 service stations in Colombia and Ecuador

Dallas, Texas, United States

- Cash Management: Managed cash operations for all ExxonMobil affiliates in more than 20 countries in the Americas from the headquarter offices in Dallas, including investing cash surpluses of up to US$ 10 billion - Leadership: Management of a team of 12 direct reportsRisk Management: Compliance with guidelines and procedures, achieving flawless execution and zero incidents

Bogotá D.C. Area, Colombia

Managed treasury activities for ExxonMobil affiliates in Colombia, Ecuador y Peru.- Coordinated, assembled and submitted annual finance plan for the three affiliates, incorporating growth, revenue, margin, expense and investment data into a financial model in order to determine financing and capitalization requirements- Developed and implemented a system for reporting and control of foreign exchange operations, eliminating sanctions

Bogotá D.C. Area, Colombia

Responsible for supporting the Retail Manager with Financial and Performance Analysis of the business

Bogotá D.C. Area, Colombia

Responsible for Financial reporting of affiliates in Colombia and Ecuador

Bogotá D.C. Area, Colombia

- Financial Analysis of affiliate projects- Finance planning for affiliate- Participated in the Board of Directors of a Real Estate Joint Venture as affiliate representative

Bogotá D.C. Area, Colombia

- Financial Analysis of Retail projects and management of Retail budget in Colombia and Ecuador- Development of a financial planning model used to determine strategic actions and investment required to reach market and financial targets

Bogotá D.C. Area, Colombia

Responsible for the design of service stations in Colombia and management of civil contractors used for construction of service stations

Responsible for construction of service stations in the Central Area of Colombia

Finance Specialist, Finance

Master In Engineering, Seismic Engineering, 4.40

Master in Engineering oriented to Seismic Engineering

Civil Engineer, Civil Engineering, 4.28

Major in Civil Engineering