Diego Salazar Email & Phone Number

Redmond, Washington, United States

Lead business processes improvement, operational excellence and implementation in key areas impacting Deal Desk.

Redmond, Washington

Responsible for internal audit program management of several organization that own the Commercial Sales Deal Execution processes that manage over $60B in Revenue: • Understand Business strategies and priorities and its end to end processes, risk management and controls thru a strong engagement with key stakeholders.• Develop and oversee the execution of the audit plan to evaluate management’s risk management capabilities and control effectiveness• Transfer business and risk knowledge to project teams to enable successful audit project execution, while providing coaching and mentoring, as well indirect supervision and guidance to multiple Project Managers, Audit Leads and Staff.• Engage with Enterprise Risk Management, Office of Legal Compliance, various Compliance teams, and key stakeholders to provide business insight on governance, risk management and controls• Coordinate with business management to develop appropriate action plans to address identified deficiencies, ensuring corrective actions are implemented in a timely manner to effectively address major issues.• Lead the HOLA Finance community (ERG for Latinos @ Finance).Achievements: -Build risk assessments and plans to provide adequate Audit coverage to the different End to End Commercial Sales Deal Execution processes by learning the business with stakeholders and prioritizing based on risk.-Delivered impactful audit and consulting engagements on key end to end business processes that required strong multi-organizational efforts to properly address the risk thru a coordinated effort with the various audit teams and stakeholders.-Align vision, mission, and priorities for HOLA Finance, focusing on mentoring, coaching and networking to grow our Latino talent, aiming to increase our participation at leadership positions.-High Performing team’s framework landing to increase team’s trust thru grow mindset, healthy conflict and mutual accountability.

Dubai, United Arab Emirates

I led the finance team covering North Africa, Lebanon, Jordan, Pakistan and Afghanistan, partnering with the Subsidiary Leadership team to achieving sustainable success in Business results and Compliance thru building a strong team: • People Development for 5 Full Time Employees and 6 Contingent Staff, hiring, assessing, training and retaining talent.• Lead the Compliance journey, having a risk-based and my capacity to impact and influence, questioning assumptions/ status quo.• Build Processes to support Business to identify growth opportunities and achieve results• Drive the planning, forecasting and analysis of a +$200M business in a multi-country region (9 countries), establishing quotas for the sales teams.• Support the Cloud Transformation engaging with Sales and Marketing to balance the P&L investments.Achievements: -Build a Positive Spiral in Business Results - Contribute to achieve Business Results while being a strong advocate on the HOW.-Strong Shift in Compliance in a very complex region – develop a environment promoting MS values and execution excellence. -Develop a Strong Team: after a tough people transition, leaving behind a team of top performers.

Bogotá D.C. Area, Colombia

I led the Colombia Finance team having a very close relationship with the General Manager and the Subsidiary leadership team to grow our team and double the size of the business in the first 3 years.• People Development for 3 Full Time Employees and 4 Contingent Staff, assessing, developing and retaining talent.• Support Business Profitable Growth in a Subsidiary of +200M in annual sales.• Lead the Compliance journey, having a risk-based approach leveraging my business acumen and my strong relationship with the Subsidiary Leadership team.• Drive Rhythm of Business thru monthly Business Performance Review and Forecast. Lead Annual Planning exercise.• Drive Business discussions to maximize the Revenue well with an efficient Opex ManagementAchievements: - Built Profitable Growth Journey – in close partnership with the Subsidiary Leadership team, doubling the size of the business in the first 3 years, being the best World-Wide Emerging Subsidiary in 2 years by focusing more on the HOW than the WHAT.-Leading, Building and Sustaining a Compliance Journey -Strong Ownership from the Business -Adopting a risk-based approach, having strong monitoring and communication with the Subsidiary Leadership team.-Developing talent, hiring, retaining, and promoting people’s careers based on their skills and demonstrated abilities. FY11 Best team Finance award

Bogotá D.C. Area, Colombia

Drive the Revenue analytics, identifying opportunities to accelerate growth and lead the business discussions to land dynamic investments, partnering closely with the GM, Sales and Marketing leaders.Responsible for Revenue Planning and Forecasting, People Development of 2 FTE's

Bogotá D.C. Area, Colombia

Build a deep understanding of the Services business to drive revenue growth and profitability, building a P&L by project for Consulting Services and contract P&L for Premier, reviewing deal structuring with Service Business Desk, and follow up on the execution, looking at KPI by project, working closely with Project Management, Services Operations, Resource Management and Services Sales.

Bogotá D.C. Area, Colombia

Bogotá D.C. Area, Colombia

Colombia

Colombia

Colombia

Colombia

Contador Publico

Strategic Marketing Management, Marketing

Programa De Desarrollo Directivo- Pdd, Alta Gerencia