Diego Mendes Email & Phone Number

State Of São Paulo, Brazil

Rio De Janeiro, Brasil

São Paulo, Brazil

São Paulo E Região, Brasil

• Senior Finance Manager for Revenue and BTL (trade investments), directly report to the Senior Finance Director of Sales and Distribution. Lead of a 10 people team with 4 coordinators/specialist and 6 analysts;
• Business partner for Revenue Management, Trade, Sales Channels (On premise /Off premise) and Tax team providing financial consulting and strategic support to management team to deliver market expected results and drive.
• Finance Transformation leader for “Drive End to End Value” strategic front, designed a roadmap and implemented 3 projects in 2020 (developed a profitability playbook, reviewed the finance business plan, and developed.
• Lead of short- and long-term planning, manage and prepare monthly rolling forecast review, annual plans and 5 years strategic planning;
• Lead monthly period closing and business reviews to analyze on business performance of volume / price / mix and review key business drivers of risks and opportunities with management to ensure budget forecast accuracy;
• Prepared and developed business case valuations of commercial contracts and joint business plans with top customers, key promotional activities and tax projects performing financial recommendations based on ROI and.

Itu, São Paulo

• Finance Manager for Production in Brazil reporting to the Senior Finance Director of Supply Chain;
• Business Partnering for 15 Plants in Brazil. The core of activity was Planning and Controlling of Variable and Fixed COGS for Brazil, supporting business management and providing value add information.;
• Business partner managing stakeholders of Procurement, Breweries Directors, Supply Chain Head Office areas and Supply Vice President. Supported Innovation, R&D and Supply Planning / S&OP.
• Responsible for COGS (variable and fixed) forecasting and monitoring; and participation in the innovation process by providing cost inputs and financial insights to optimize resource allocation and decisions;
• Lead a Cost Reduction program involving all Supply Chain leadership and drove initiatives implementation by provide financial analysis and measure effort vs return – Program was considered a best in class and reference.
• Developed reports to integrated performance of factories and enabled to benchmark operations according to their size. Managed KPIs report to monitor lines efficiency, first time right, productivity, among others;

Goiás, Brazil

• Finance Manager for Supply Chain reported to the Latin America Foods Supply Chain Finance Director based on Switzerland responsible by management and development of a 13 people team (2 coordinators, 5 analysts, 6.
• Business partnering of main Foods Plant in Brazil and second in Latin America (Goiania-GO – production of Dressings and Dry Savory portfolio). Factory was responsible by 8% of Net Revenues from Unilever Retail in.
• Managed Conversion Cost forecasts, Cost Monitoring, Capex Analysis, Innovation Business Cases and Savings Programs validation;
• Responsible by Controlling: Fixed Assets Control, Stock accounting, Materials and Non-productive items annual Inventory;
• Managed a factory relationship with Cargill (owner of the site), discussing monthly site costs, investments and aligning forecasts to be shared between both companies. Main Projects / Mais Achievements / Awards:
• Participated in a Sourcing Evaluation project and Restructuring Studies of a long-term rental contract vs relocate the plant with financial analysis and also guarantee the business continuity;

São Paulo E Região, Brasil

• Finance Management Trainee, reported to the Supply Chain Finance & Indirect Tax Senior Director of Brazil
• Responsible by the supply chain quarterly cost forecast process involving Plants, Distribution, SCI and Fiscal Benefits;
• Performed reports consolidating all financial analysis in a monthly base and lead discussions with finance brand category leaders, highlighting main deviations and identifying opportunities to improve forecast accuracy;
• Elaborated cost results analysis monthly and GMVA qualitative reports, providing assertive information to Brazil and Regional leadership.Main Projects / Mais Achievements / Awards:
• Participated in a Sourcing Evaluation project and Restructuring Studies of a long-term rental contract to the business continuity of the factory of Goiania and closing/moving factory project;
• Elaborated a simplified quarterly cost forecast process for Supply Chain as project leader reviewing processes, setting new ways of working and engaging stakeholders; main achievements: reduction of timing, structure.

São Paulo E Região, Brasil

• Finance Management Trainee, reported to the Customer Development Finance Senior Director of Brazil;
• Responsible to support Drugstore Channel trade and sales teams by analyze trade terms structure;
• Managed top customers performance, providing analysis for better investment allocation and optimization through developing and implementing an Optimizing Promotional Sell Out analysis tool;
• Participated in discussions and projects (Trade Profitability) in order to optimizing pricing chain through end to end analysis in Direct’s and Indirect’s Drugstore business channels, understanding tax change impacts.
• Supported Joint Business Plans with all main customers for Drugstore Channel, including participation on negotiations with distributors and remodeling of partnership with main customers.

- Experience as a salesman serving four supermarket chains and facing intricate customer service related problems; through this field-training I raised and share some opportunities of improvements and “quick wins” to improve Modern Trade.

São Paulo, Brazil

- Elaborated comparative analysis, allowed benchmarks and drove better decisions in the A&P budget management through creating standard management reports, integrating all categories in same tool and engaging stakeholders in this new culture.- Developed a tool of Innovation Incremental Turnover analysis and providing reports driving performance.

Cfo Do Futuro, Finance, General

Leadership Training, Leadership

Bachelor, Economics

Technical, Administration