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Lisbon, Portugal

Lisbon, Portugal

🚀 Responsibilities:Finance Department ownership where I am responsible for building Finance department, insourcing the accounting team and procedures and implement a new ERP.

Lisbon, Portugal

🚀Responsibilities:As a Commercial Operations Manager at Farfetch I drove financial excellence and operational efficiency in the dynamic Fintech landscape.🛠️ Key Achievements:- Financial Reporting & P&L Oversight: Successfully created and implemented departmental financial reporting processes and touchpoints, ensuring meticulous budget adherence, and maintaining the FintechOps P&L.- Financial Controls and Compliance: Established robust financial control procedures to ensure… Show more 🚀Responsibilities:As a Commercial Operations Manager at Farfetch I drove financial excellence and operational efficiency in the dynamic Fintech landscape.🛠️ Key Achievements:- Financial Reporting & P&L Oversight: Successfully created and implemented departmental financial reporting processes and touchpoints, ensuring meticulous budget adherence, and maintaining the FintechOps P&L.- Financial Controls and Compliance: Established robust financial control procedures to ensure effective compliance controls for all Payments & Fraud activities, achieving a 1m$ savings on a yearly basis. Managed areas such as payment processing fees, chargebacks, software costs, and reconciliation, ensuring a secure and compliant financial environment achieving a 99.9% of operational reconciliation (payment provider vs internal sales).- Cross-Functional Collaboration: Streamlined communications across departments such as Ops Strategy, Finance, Treasury, Procurement, Legal, and Marketing, fostering collaboration and efficiency in achieving financial goals.- Strategic Pricing and Proposition Development: Coordinated pricing inputs for Farfetch Platform Solutions on our Fintech Ops as-a-service proposition, ensuring the delivery of compelling services while maintaining profitability, by applying strategic pricing strategies aligned with the value proposition for both current and prospective clients.- Supplier Relationship Management: Ensured effective commercial terms with providers, supporting negotiations in strict adherence to Farfetch Standards, achieving a 3m$ savings on a yearly basis. Show less

🚀Responsibilities:Led the creation of the commercial finance team in Portugal for the German media industry. Working closely with senior management and the finance department, I have been at the forefront of providing timely analysis, intelligent insights and strategic recommendations to drive operational and financial excellence.🛠️ Key Achievements:- Team Development: Responsible for developing a robust Commercial Finance team, fostering collaboration and ensuring an… Show more 🚀Responsibilities:Led the creation of the commercial finance team in Portugal for the German media industry. Working closely with senior management and the finance department, I have been at the forefront of providing timely analysis, intelligent insights and strategic recommendations to drive operational and financial excellence.🛠️ Key Achievements:- Team Development: Responsible for developing a robust Commercial Finance team, fostering collaboration and ensuring an impactful presence across the organization.- Market leadership: Lead the monthly financial analysis of the market and ensure that executives understand the critical performance drivers and can make informed decisions.- Strategic Collaboration: worked closely with senior management to gain valuable insights that challenge and guide operational, financial and strategic decisions. Show less

🚀 Responsibilities:Played a pivotal role as a Senior Finance Analyst in a transformative journey revamping end-to-end financial procedures and initiating significant changes on financials tools such as General Ledger, Accounts Payable, Fixed Assets, Consolidation, FP&A and Finance Data Warehouse.🛠️ Key Achievements:- Process Redesign: Contributed to the redesign of end-to-end financial processes, optimizing efficiency and ensuring compliance with industry standards.-… Show more 🚀 Responsibilities:Played a pivotal role as a Senior Finance Analyst in a transformative journey revamping end-to-end financial procedures and initiating significant changes on financials tools such as General Ledger, Accounts Payable, Fixed Assets, Consolidation, FP&A and Finance Data Warehouse.🛠️ Key Achievements:- Process Redesign: Contributed to the redesign of end-to-end financial processes, optimizing efficiency and ensuring compliance with industry standards.- System Implementations: Involved on the orchestration of the the transition to new platforms for General Ledger, Accounts Payable, Fixed Assets and Consolidation and improved data accuracy and reporting capabilities.- FP&A tool enhancement: Spearheaded enhancements to FP&A tools that provide stakeholders with more robust analysis and forecasting capabilities.- Data Warehouse Revamp: Supported the revamp of the finance data warehouse, streamlining data flow and improving accessibility for reporting and analysis. Show less

🚀 Responsibilities:As an experienced financial expert specializing in planning and analysis, I had the privilege of making an important contribution to the European business unit, driving financial strategies and supporting data-driven decisions. 🛠️ Key Achievements:- Strategic Financial Planning: Organized comprehensive financial planning processes that aligned the strategies with the objectives of the Business Unit Europe.- Performance Analysis: Conducted in-depth… Show more 🚀 Responsibilities:As an experienced financial expert specializing in planning and analysis, I had the privilege of making an important contribution to the European business unit, driving financial strategies and supporting data-driven decisions. 🛠️ Key Achievements:- Strategic Financial Planning: Organized comprehensive financial planning processes that aligned the strategies with the objectives of the Business Unit Europe.- Performance Analysis: Conducted in-depth performance analysis and delivered actionable insights to optimize operational efficiency and maximize profitability.- Forecasting and Budgeting: Led the development of accurate financial forecasts and budgets, ensuring the Europe business unit's financial targets were met.- Cross-functional collaboration: Worked seamlessly with other departments to integrate financial planning into business operations. - Finance projects: Support the European finance team in implementing the necessary changes resulting from the Brexit process. Implement procedures and controls for the new European Legal Entities. Contact person for Europe FP&A for the Finance Transformation Program. Show less

Rua Alexandre Herculano. 50 Lisboa

🚀 Responsibilities:Led the implemenation of a robust Project Assurance team to ensure the success of the major global digital and efficiency transformation program sponsored by the BNP Paribas Group🛠️ Key Achievements:- Strategic Oversight: Led the creation of a Project Assurance Framework to provide strategic oversight of transformation initiatives.- Risk Mitigation: Developed and implemented risk mitigation strategies to ensure projects aligned with business… Show more 🚀 Responsibilities:Led the implemenation of a robust Project Assurance team to ensure the success of the major global digital and efficiency transformation program sponsored by the BNP Paribas Group🛠️ Key Achievements:- Strategic Oversight: Led the creation of a Project Assurance Framework to provide strategic oversight of transformation initiatives.- Risk Mitigation: Developed and implemented risk mitigation strategies to ensure projects aligned with business objectives.- Quality Assurance: Established rigorous quality assurance processes and created a culture of accountability and excellence assuring data quality control and consolidation of financial information - Cross-functional collaboration: Collaborated across Business Units to seamlessly integrate project assurance into the structure of transformation program. Show less

Lisbon Area, Portugal

🚀 Responsibilities:- I have successfully led from scratch the development of a dynamic planning and controlling department and contributed to the company's success through effective financial management and strategic direction.🛠️ Key Achievements:- Developed and implemented comprehensive planning processes to ensure alignment with business objectives.- Introduction of robust financial controls that led to improved budget compliance and cost efficiency.- Introduced Key… Show more 🚀 Responsibilities:- I have successfully led from scratch the development of a dynamic planning and controlling department and contributed to the company's success through effective financial management and strategic direction.🛠️ Key Achievements:- Developed and implemented comprehensive planning processes to ensure alignment with business objectives.- Introduction of robust financial controls that led to improved budget compliance and cost efficiency.- Introduced Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for strategic tracking, enabling data-driven decision making.- Cross-functional collaboration to integrate planning and controlling initiatives into general business processes with departments such as Operations, Sales, IT, Legal and Tax.- Close collaborate with Accounting on month-end tasks.- Led the planning and implementation partnership with Microsoft Financing, where BNP Paribas Portugal was considered a model for expansion partnerships in other countries. Show less

Professional Internship: Weekly preparation of the business development pipeline and forecast.

Barchelor, Management

Executive Master'S, Finance And Business Management