Diego Venegas Email & Phone Number

United States

Schaumburg, Illinois, United States

Chicago, Illinois

• Led the Trade Credit decisioning suite transformation, core to achieve the committed program growth; the project launched on Jul-23 and it's expected to impact the $3B+ Partnerships portfolio, with a ~5.5p.p.
• Built the Credit Policy for Wayfair B2B (~$400M in exposure); the decision was built on top of no prior credit data by using robust assumptions and building an actionable monitoring plan
• Launched reactive strategies to prevent transaction fraud for Menards and Walmart Commercial by conducting research of the industry’s best practices; losses decreased ~30% with minimal ops disruption
• Modernized monitoring infrastructure from Excel to Markdowns by leveraging Snowflake, R, and Tableau; standardized metrics across Line of Businesses and saved ~1 week of monthly work
• Enhanced the RCLIP Credit Policy for Menards Consumer; introduced risk splitters and designed a Test that reduced by ~10% annual losses and increased the data points for future credit policy optimization
• Monitored quarterly performance and compliance for Private Label 4M+ active accounts with $4B+ OS

Durham, North Carolina, United States

• Served as a key liaison for finance team to control organization’s costs; Communicated with cost center managers and senior executives to ensure alignment of business objectives with budget commitments
• Developed tool to control companies’ overhead, resulting in a $5M budget savings during the first year of implementation
• Proposed and built new metrics to forecast 2018 budget based on headcount and pipeline projects
• Defined overhead allocation with the job-costing team to improve the margins of ongoing projects

Santiago, Chile

• Proactively monitored trends, updated financial models and conducted extensive research to identify investments opportunities, presenting findings to senior management on a regular basis
• Conducted in-depth financial analysis and built a comprehensive model to understand revenue performance for 10 Chilean and 15 Latin American companies, both in equities and fixed income
• Supervised and trained 3 Junior Analysts to enhance their ability to evaluate and pitch investment ideas to senior management, resulting in direct improvement of their financial acumen and presentation skills
• Covered 20% of J.P. Morgan Corporate Emerging Markets Bond Index and 50% of the Chilean Equities index, exceeding the industry analyst average of 15% and 25% respectively
• Managed BICE’s theoretical local equity portfolio by leveraging company-wide analyst input and making strategic decisions to allocate company’s portfolio; outperformed benchmark by 5% annually
• Promoted to Senior Analyst out of a pool of 5 Junior Analysts to lead the utilities segment

Santiago, Chile

• Analyzed 6 Chilean and 6 Latin American companies; developed experience in the utilities segment focused on equities; supported portfolio managers by conducting fixed income analysis of new issues
• Served as the key liaison for 12 companies within our investable universe; maintained communication with senior executives to understand ongoing business strategy, enhancing financial models and improving decision-making

Santiago, Chile

• Selected out of 100+ applicants to participate in the rotational trainee program; acceptance rate 1%
• Prepared and confirmed 50+ daily FX and Swap contracts with counterparties, and monitored 300+ mark-to-market customer contracts
• Built 15+ macros in Excel to optimize team’s reporting; achieved a daily 30-minute time saving

Chile

Undergraduate internship; projected free cash flow to measure the viability on real estate projects.

Master Of Business Administration (Mba), Corporate Finance

Concentration in Corporate Finance Honors: Beta Gamma Sigma academic honor society Teaching Assistant for Accounting, Global Economics.

Bachelor Of Business Administration - Bba, Corporate Finance

Activities and Societies: Teaching Assistant for Accounting, Corporate Finance and Project Evaluation.