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Senior Vice-President, Project Manager Officer for Chief Data Office Mexico at Citibanamex

• Responsible for overseeing and coordinating the separation of sub-groups and creation of a new Markets area for Banamex, as part of the Divestiture project for Citibanamex.• In charge of overseeing 12 workstreams for each entity along different areas: Governance, Risk and Control, product and system readiness, testing, Human Resources, regulatory certifications, legal matters, third-party contracts, and finance.• Tracking and execution of the project, effectively keeping records and evidence of milestones, risks, and issues. Project status presentation to senior management on a weekly basis, and member in senior forums (data governance, Operations, Business, IT).• In charge of system readiness, testing, onboarding, account openings, and data segregation definition and validation, among many others.• Successfully applied negotiating skills between the Business and many areas to move the project forward. Effective relationship building with areas around the business to complete milestones: Technology, Operations, Front Office, Treasury, Finance, Legal, Transformation, among others.• Strong analytical, problem solving, and diplomacy skills to make things happen. Deep interactions with senior management from many areas to explain project status, escalate, and explain matters and issues.

• Oversaw the operations and financial departments, and executed the financial planning and analysis; generation, monitoring, and analysis of the P&L, balance sheet, and cash flow statements; treasury management; costs and expenses control; accounting and tax reporting; audit; and presentation to owners.• Restructured and supervised the administrative, finance, logistics, and human resources departments, drastically simplifying the operation through strategic alliances with external companies while minimizing risk.• Created, implemented, and enhanced the financial and operations procedures and reports for all areas for better control, planning, and decision-making, becoming key in company-wide strategic decisions.• Led the process to fix mislabeled product by working and coordinating with several stakeholders, avoiding a loss of more than $250,000 USD.• Reduced accounts receivable by 80% in the last year and consolidated billing for better control.• Consolidated product storage in fewer locations at a lower cost, resulting in savings of over 30% per year.

• Created the project, start-up, and operation, including general management, maintenance, human resources, marketing, vendor management, collections, and customer service.• Hired administrative and general personnel and vendors, and procured systems, equipment, and material.• Created strategies for growing and maintaining the student population, managed staff, maintained strict cost and expense controls, and created and implemented the financial strategy.• In two years of operation the school reached the break-even point by enrolling 100 active students.• Reduced personnel costs from 60% to 45% in the second year.• Lowered controllable costs from 50% of income to 34% in the first year, and 20% in the second.• Successfully negotiated relocation to a more convenient location, resulting in an 80% increase in students.

• Managed the group in charge of obtaining thousands of valuations and closing prices of various financial products, the creation of valuation statements, and their distribution to thousands of clients in North America.• Performed the confirmation of rate derivatives transactions with clients in Latin America.• Implemented the new system for generating valuation statements and trained the staff.• Automated processes to reduce the time to generate statements by two hours.

• Took charge and improved the novation process, capture, valuation, risk and control, and reconciliation of financial operations of credit derivative swaps for the Asia-Pacific market.• Solved more than 500 discrepancies within the first two months against various counterparties worth several million dollars and implemented reconciliation and control processes to minimize future risk.• Implemented the new transaction and novation capture system and trained the staff.

• Managed the credit and rates derivatives confirmations team for the Asia-Pacific market.• Co-founded the Asia-Pacific derivatives settlements and confirmations hub.• Established the credit and rate derivatives confirmations team for the region, tested the new system, implemented the procedures, and trained the team.

• Managed the Trading Support team in Mexico that oversaw FX operations, bonds, rates derivatives, futures, and structured products trade capture, reconciliation, P&L generation, and exposure.• Improved and automated the process of capturing, generating, and reconciling the P&L and liquidity of the bank in a high-pressure environment, on top of implementing operational improvements to minimize risk.