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Philadelphia, Pa, Us

West Chester, Pa, Us

ECM Consulting Group: Elevating CFOs to Strategic ExcellenceIn the ever-evolving business world, CFOs face the challenge of going beyond traditional finance management. At ECM Consulting, we empower CFOs to drive substantial growth and maintain robust financial health with innovative strategies.What We Offer:✔️Maximized ROI: Assisting CFOs to significantly enhance ROI and stay competitive.✔️Cost Savings & Cash Flow: Our methods can save up to 30% in costs and improve cash flow by 15-25%.✔️Strategic Overhaul: We specialize in revamping business models and processes, integrating technology to optimize operations with minimal operational disruption.Our global perspective uniquely positions us to handle complex challenges both in the U.S. and internationally.Our Approach:1. Performance Analysis: We begin with a thorough evaluation of your finance function, benchmarking against industry standards.2. Future-Focused Vision: Collaborating with your Leadership Team, we craft a vision for a transformative Finance organization.3. Tailored Roadmap: Developing a comprehensive plan to transition your Finance function to this new vision.4. ROI-Focused Execution: We prioritize positive ROI, mobilize teams, and manage the roadmap's implementation.Redefine your financial leadership with us. Contact ☎ 215-534-6194 or 📧echavez@ecmcg.com.

Zurich, -, Ch

Advisory role reporting to the VP Global Business Services (GBS). This program was aimed at centralizing, simplifying, automating and standardizing core processes to streamline SG&A expenses.✔Developed a long-range plan and obtained senior management buy-in including: 1️⃣ Benchmarking the organization against competitors and develop baseline performance metrics.2️⃣ Standardizing finance processes globally and, 3️⃣ Creating a process-based organization.✔Developed plan to create an M&A organization and policy on how to allocate GBS expenses to the business.

Chicago, Illinois, Us

Advisory role reporting to the Corporate Controller and the Group VP Global Shared Service Center. Two businesses were successfully spun-off in October 2016. The program reached operations in the USA, Europe, and India, including all functional areas.✔Prepared global project plan for Finance and IT in 2 months. ✔Led and provided direction and shared best-in-class practices to multi-disciplinary teams in regards to planning for a complex spin-off.✔Monitored execution of a detailed-level project plan. Prioritized tasks based on business needs, criticality, resource capacity, risk, among other factors.✔Facilitated project status meetings with C-level Executives

North Chicago, Illinois, Us

Abbvie is a leading bio-pharmaceutical corporation spun-off by Abbott Labs.Provided controllership, business analysis (budgeting and forecasting ) and operational support to all the Affiliates located in Canada and Latin America ($4 billion in sales)Led implementation of a new service delivery model including a Shared Service Center, Outsourcing and Centers of Excellence. Standardized business processes and rolled out SAP.PERFORMANCE HIGHLIGHTS✔Successfully transitioned 18 Affiliates to a Shared Service Center environment during an 8 month period. Saved a six-digit number on accounting fees to be charged by Abbott Laboratories otherwise.✔Shortened the accounting closing process from 4 to 2 days by eliminating non-value added processes. Reduced overtime and increased time performing analytical work from hours to almost 2 days.✔Automated the accounts reconciliation (i.e. balance sheet accounts) process. Enabled workflow for management approval. Process was completed by the 10th of the month (previously around the 18th)✔Prepared a business case and obtained approval to set up a Shared Service Center in a Central American Country. Reduced overhead by 35%.RESPONSIBILITIESControllership Functions│Business Processes Improvement│International Finance│Canada│Latin America│Divestitures│R2R│P2P│Order to Cash│Financial Close Process│Financial Statements│US GAAP│SAP│Account Reconciliation│Internal Controls│Finance Function Effectiveness│Shared Service Center│Transformational Outsourcing│Performance Management │F&A│External audit│Internal audit│Team building│Cross-Functional Team Leadership│Treasury│Financial Planning│Balance Sheet Review│Business Insight..

Parsippany, Nj, Us

Zoetis was spun-off from Pfizer and is a leading animal health care corporation.A large pharmaceutical company had decided to divest a non-strategic $4 billion animal health company. The key goal was to create a stand-alone finance organization. I was brought as the Project Leader responsible for the Americas region.PERFORMANCE HIGHLIGHTS✔Prepared a project and change management plan. Obtained approval from upper-management. Oversaw implementation of the plan. Provided project updates.✔Relocated a finance organization from the USA to an off-shore, low cost location to perform finance and accounting work for all subsidiaries located in the Americas region.RESPONSIBILITIESDivestitures│Project Planning│Strategy Execution│Team Leadership │Change Management│Latin America│ Communication Planning│Troubleshooting│Hiring│Knowledge transfer│International Finance│SAP│ERP Implementations│Customer-Facing Roles│Business Advisory│Big-picture Thinking│Leadership│Cross Cultural Management│Corporate Finance│Emerging Markets│North America

Houston, Texas, Us

A US$ 1 billion Staffing Firm needed to revisit its revenue process to improve cash inflows and customer service.PERFORMANCE HIGHLIGHTS✔Reduced billing process from 6 days to 1 day and DSO from 45 days to 30 days.✔Analyzed reporting package, assessed the IT Infrastructure and organizational design. Benchmarked against best-in-class companies.✔Prepared a detailed road map to take the revenue process to the next level of performance. Among other steps, it was recommended to shift from a departmental to process organization, upgrade the information systems, develop KPI’s, etc.RESPONSIBILITIESCash Management│Order to Cash│Collections Management│Problem Analysis│Process Assessment│Root Cause Analysis│Road Maps│Solution Selling│Team Leadership│Project Management│Solution Implementation│Customer-Facing Roles│Emerging Markets│Business Advisory│KPI Dashboards│Process Improvement.

Paris, France, Fr

Capgemini is a leading business consulting and business process outsourcing firm.✔Performed controllership role on behalf of Warner Brothers' subsidiaries, the movie production company, located in the USA, EMEA and Asia-Pacific region. Managed time-sensitive projects aimed at transitioning back-office functions to low-cost countries (e.g. China, India, and Poland). Managed three shared service centers and 200 accounting professionals.PERFORMANCE HIGHLIGHTS✔Built finance organization in India in 6 months and reduced the cost of the finance organization by 50%. Managed transition of finance operations from the USA and Europe for subsidiaries as large as $4 billion in sales.✔Reduced work cycle for preparing the financial statements from 7 to 3 days. Removed non-added value procedures. Implemented SAP cockpit to better monitor month-end closing activities.✔Met/exceeded agreed-upon performance measures, including all international operations, aimed at measuring timeliness and accuracy. Led monthly operational reviews attended by C-Level executives and regional leaders to discuss financial and operational issues.RESPONSIBILITIESControllership Function│Transformational Outsourcing│Profitability Improvement│Building new finance organizations│Finance Function Effectiveness│Project Management│Change Management│Customer-Facing roles│Knowledge transfer│Finance Transformation│ Virtual Teams│USA│Europe│Asia│KPI Reports│Contract Management│Group Presentations│Corporate Finance │Process improvement│SAP│Understanding corporate and local practices│Global Finance│Cognos│Annual Budgets│P&L Management.

Dublin 2, Ie

Accenture is one the key players in the business consulting and business process outsourcing industry. Advised finance leaders at the CFO, Vice President Finance and Directors of Finance levels.Led projects at large Fortune 500 companies to improve operational effectiveness. Performed complex financial analyses, assessed organizational structures, streamlined business processes and deployed SAP systems.PERFORMANCE HIGHLIGHTS✔Assisted a $69 billion distributor of pharmaceutical products to reduce Order-to-Cash operating costs by 40% and end-to-end process from 60 to 30 days. Developed business blueprint to implement SAP’s Financial Supply Chain Management. RESPONSIBILITIESBusiness Advisory│Multinational│Fortune 500│CFO│Finance Transformations│Organizational Design │Best practices│Profitability Improvement│Strategy│SAP implementation│Finance Function Effectiveness│CFOs│Shared Service Center

Heidelberg, De

Westernacher is a German boutique consulting firm specialized in implementing ERP systems. Assisted division of an US$18 billion Media and Entertainment corporation to plan and implement a finance transformation initiative in Europe and the USA.PERFORMANCE HIGHLIGHTS✔Reduced overhead by 15% and improved operational efficiency by designing the future finance organization. Prepared business case, presented and gained support from senior management to approve a capital investment to: 1️⃣ Implement an ERP system2️⃣ Standardize business processes 3️⃣ Create a finance Shared Service Center.RESPONSIBILITIESBusiness Advisory│Multinational│Fortune 500│CFOs│Finance Function Transformation│Business Models│Best Practices│Profitability Improvement│Strategy│SAP Implementation│Finance Function Effectiveness│Performance Improvements│USA│Europe.

London, England, Gb

ConvaTec is a medical devices corporation formerly owned by Bristol Myers Squibb.Full financial responsibilities in Latin America. Led cross-functional project to roll out a new business model in the USA, involving a third party logistics partner, aimed at improving supply chain and all Order-to-Cash processesPERFORMANCE HIGHLIGHTS✔Managed execution of OTC project plan involving operational, financial and information systems (SAP) related issues. Reduced inventory turnover by 15 days, shortened time to deliver customer orders by 3 days and shipping costs by 10%.✔Worked with Corporate Treasury to design and implement new functionality, including a Lockbox account, credit card payments, Auto-Cash, daily sweeping of funds to the parent company and cash forecasting.✔Prepared business plan and executed plan to create a Regional Distribution Center in Panama resulting in reducing inventory levels by 10% while reducing customer orders delivery time by approximately 15 days.✔Achieved 95% budget accuracy. Streamlined annual and monthly budgeting/forecasting process.RESPONSIBILITIESLeadership│Controllership Functions│Trusted Business Partner│Latin America│Strategic Planning│Strategy Implementation│Planning Budgeting and forecasting│Distribution Center Operations│Finance Close Process│Profitability Management│Manufacturing│ERP│ Inventory Management│ Transformational Outsourcing│Project management│Global operations│Business Case│Sales Operations│Cross-functional Team Leadership│P/L Management│Balance Sheet Review│Annual Budgets│Consolidation Reporting│Cost Savings│Financial Modeling│Operational Efficiency│Financial Variance Analysis│Intercompany Transactions│Foreign Exchange│Shared Service Center.

London, England, Gb

Towers Perrin is now known as Willis Tower Watson. It is a large HR consulting firm providing services related to compensation strategies, actuarial studies, and pension plans. Oversaw 32 subsidiaries located in Europe, Asia, and Latin America. Responsible for financial accounting and planning.PERFORMANCE HIGHLIGHTS ✔Reduced accounting-related costs by 12%; improved reliability of financial information and cash management as well as reduced credit risk by proposing and executing the creation of a Shared Accounting Center in London, UK.✔Managed integration of a $600 MM company in Australia which resulted in removing 20% of the combined organizations.✔Shortened budgeting and forecasting activities by 30 days. Leveraged new technology and established new procedures based on best practices.RESPONSIBILITIESLeadership│Controllership Functions│Trusted Business Partner│Latin America│Strategic Planning│Strategy Implementation│Planning Budgeting and forecasting│Distribution Center Operations│Finance Close Process│Profitability Management│Manufacturing│ERP│ Inventory Management│ Transformational Outsourcing│Project management│Global operations│Business Case│Sales Operations│Cross-functional Team Leadership│P/L Management│Balance Sheet Review│Annual Budgets│Consolidation Reporting│Cost Savings│Financial Modeling│Operational Efficiency│Financial Variance Analysis│Intercompany Transactions│Foreign Exchange│Shared Service Center.

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Post-Graduate Course, Finance, General