Diego Ramirez Email & Phone Number

Costa Rica

Costa Rica

Costa Rica

Costa Rica

Costa Rica

• Brazil end to end PTP control• Invoices analysis and processing• Suppliers first point of contact• Payments

Costa Rica

• Supervise the results of the area, applying controls over month end processes, and ensuring accuracy of the data, in charge of the direct reports development, goals and daily activities• Opex reporting: Report quarterly spending results, including categorization of all spending transactions to ensure accurate reporting of the various operating, investing and financing components within them. Analyzes and investigates variances to budget and forecast; with accounting, and Senior staff members as required. Assists with the preparation of quarter-end materials for e-staff• Opex planning: Reports and analyzes historical financial data to present a quarterly and annual investment plan tied out with Corporate Targets for each business unit and overall Global Business Unit Hierarchy; requiring strong partnership with business leaders.• Process improvement: Drive process improvements associated with the current methodologies used for the planning/forecasting and analysis processes. Led a headcount process simplification project, reaching time savings of 20%• Historical dashboards: Maintains historical dashboards to track the spending associated with the business units within the scope, to analyze trends such as: quarter over quarter and year over year, historical linearity, seasonality, as well as variances, to ensure alignment with key investment priorities

Heredia, Costa Rica

Heredia, Costa Rica

• Supervisor of a team of five collaborators, fully responsible for their career development, operational execution, goals setting, and the overall strategy of the team• In charge of the migration from Mexico to Costa Rica, of Integrated Close and Controllership for the “Seguros and Pensiones” Business unit. Required to not only migrate, but to standardize and stabilize over 100 processes in a six months timeframe• Sponsored standardization efforts in order to reduce variability, facilitate execution, and open opportunities for a continuous improvement culture• Fully accountable for the coordination and implementation of month and quarter end operational activities, including journal entries, and Accounts and systems reconciliations

Heredia, Costa Rica

• Close process: in a monthly, quarterly and annual cadence. Including journal entries, accruals posting, and review of the different spending, financing, and investment activities• Forecasting process: Headcount expenses, as well as discretionary and allocated spending. Extensive engagement with business partners to align investment expectations with key corporate strategies to drive top line growth, including projections for the Annual Operating Plan.• Drove multiples initiatives at the total Finance level, to improve and standardize, Headcount spending reporting in an effort to facilitate decision making, analysis, and investment execution. Helped to shape different Corporate targets for the R&D Finance function• Led the operationalization strategy to centralize, and improve the reporting of Opex and Capex spending, to have multiples views available for Senior Management• Acted as the lead of a project to validate, and aggregate multiple reports to easily assess the impact of Travel & Entertainment spending, which was a key area of interest for Senior Management

• Responsible for the weekly, monthly, quarterly and annual reporting of Headcount expenses and Revenue, explaining variances to budget and forecast, as well as business and circumstantial factors affecting the actuals• In charge of weekly slide-decks for Executive Management of the Global Consuming Banking Business unit, to brief them on actuals and variances• Accountable for changes on plan and forecast, based on insight from the Business, requiring constant monitoring of the trends• Led efforts to document processes and implement standard risk management control mechanisms

Costa Rica

• User Acceptance Testing (UAT) specialist, for projects related to software implementations with impact in the end to end accounting process. From local to global General Ledger, to US and Local GAAP views. Reached a reconciliation of more than 95% once the implementation was done• Processes documentation, and data analysis, to move from regional accounting software solutions to World Wide solutions and standards. Developed risk management measures to ensure success, and mitigate impact on the end users• Daily decks preparation for Senior Management to communicate: progress, risks, and overall status of the implementations

Act as main contact of service delivery model between management reporting organization and finance planning groups for Brazil Consumer businesses Provide technical solutions on reporting activities, month end cycles and project implementations performed in Citigroup reporting systems for Brazil. Supervise the results of the area and ensure the quality of the information, applied controls over month end processes, oversee staff and ensure appropriate hiring through the selection of appropriate candidates for each function

Responsible for changes to the legal book reporting process providing a managed view of the financial statements. This includes all product, channel or segmentation reporting Managing, processing and reconciling of management accounting adjustments for metric, FTE, FX, RAAP Asset, LLR, expense allocation and other statistical and financial reporting. Reconciliation between management systems and production of management reports for balance sheet and profit and loss results on behalf of the Global Consumer Group, the Institutional Clients Group, the Global Wealth Management Organization and Corporate Reporting for Citigroup and Citibank Brazil