Gary M. Stephens - Brazil Email & Phone Number

Belo Horizonte, Brazil

GM Empresarial - Consultant for financial, administrative and process management, business systems and technology integration. In depth knowledge of brazilian operations including day-to-day financial and banking transactions, administrative management, tax details and comprehensive HR expertise allow me to be the liaison between global strategic direction and accountability in Brazil. I am a native English speaker with near-native fluency in Portuguese and advanced Spanish capabilities.

Belo Horizonte

Work with the divisional and Global Business Services (GBS) leaders at Boston Scientific to successfully drive completion of the integration for SAP and MasterSAF at Symetis, Brazil. The Symetis GBS acquisition Integration project is one of the sub workstreams within Boston Scientific and the Project Manager position represents GBS in Brazil as part of the overall company acquisition and interacts heavily with finance & operational leadership. The position requires strong collaboration, communication, leadership, and change management skills as well as experience driving large-scale Business and ERP transformations.

- Manage all financial, administrative and operational aspects of corporate based travel agency with monthly billings in excess of US$1,500,000; - Provide management reports including sales and cost projections, P&L statements, cash flow analysis and supplier relationship evaluations; - Design and implement strategic plans including growth projections and negotiate supplier contracts and customer rebate agreements; - Lead administrative/financial staff and operations team providing daily support for sales teams and problem resolution support while implementing controllership functions;- Responsible for technology enhancement, computing systems and IT development

- Utilize leadership, communications, teaming, business acumen and change management competencies to effectively deploy technology solutions in Latin America. - Provide coordination between country representatives and global teams while leading application deployment/process change, communicating in English Spanish and Portuguese - Define deployment objectives and design/monitor overall implementation plans, timing, budget and key milestones for multiple projects. - Responsible for coordination of a Global Revenue Cycle project in Latin America, initiated to improve financial systems and integrate revenue capture and reporting systems. - Complete the implementation of PeopleSoft HRMS in Latin America (10 countries) to roll out the firm's recruit to retire strategy, including recruiting and recordkeeping modules.

Senior staff position for financial planning, analysis and management. Responsible for a wide range of administrative matters including business operations and management practices- Collect, analyze and interpret financial information including human resources and budget data to support program planning and resource management in 7 colleges on 5 campuses, working directly with the Provost who is responsible for managing state resources totaling $750,000,000 annually. - Plan, design and evaluate internal resource allocation methodologies and financial models - Administer the annual faculty salary increase process on an $85 million salary base. - Plan and administer the State budget ($174 million) from appropriation to allocation and expenditure for seven colleges, four regional campuses and the fifteen support areas - Evaluate, recommend and implement Legislative, Board of Regents, and University policies and procedures relevant to resource requests, budgets, faculty salaries and management practices

Health Sciences Center

USF Health Sciences Center - Coordinator, Inst Research - Accountable for design, development and implementation of billing and reconciliation system for an $12 million common pay source involving 440 medical residents in 14 affiliated hospitals - Responsible for a salary management system from project development through implementation, and for planning and directing institutional research activitiesUSF Health Sciences Center – Statistical Research Associate - Plan, design and conduct administrative/fiscal research on financial data, human resources, and equipment, and originate/perform statistical analyses, and audit/analyze accounting and management information systems.

Master Of International Management (M.I.M.), Dual Degree Programa With Mba - Daniels College And Ma - Korbel School Of International Studies.

Bsba, Business Administration

Activities and Societies: Hornbeck Scholar