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Barcelona, CT, ES

París Y Alrededores

• Managing the customer service team (33 employees) providing services to medical devices and contact lenses division (total turnover $200M).
• Driving team transformation by focusing on process and system improvements, strengthening key competencies, measuring and improving financial and operational performance and promoting cross-functional collaboration.

Barcelona, Cataluña, España

• Reporting to Head of International Customer Operations, and part of the Leadership team (600+ associates across 5 regions and over 50 countries).
• Preparing and monitoring the ICO Strategic Plan (budget $70M).
• Identifying and implementing efficiencies and process harmonization (11 processes across 30 markets, $7M savings).
• Financial budget preparation in collaboration with Regional and Country Customer Operations Heads and newly created service center in India.
• Definition and monitoring of costs savings and restructuring costs.
• Collaborate to establish a new Organizational Design, leading to the creation of a new project team of 30+ associates to drive automation and transformational process change projects

Johannesburgo Y Alrededores, Sudáfrica

• Management of 15 employees covering the functions of Business Planning & Analysis, Financial Reporting & Accounting and Compliance (turnover $30M).
• Creation of working groups with the commercial and operations areas, driving the reduction of provisions for bad debts and slow-moving stock, obtaining improved cash collection and reducing inventory destruction costs.
• Achieving greater transparency and relevance of financial presentations, ensuring better monitoring of business performance at both income statement and working capital levels.
• Implementation of a new financial forecasting process based on cross-functional collaboration and identification of fact-based assumptions to enable rapid and reliable identification of risks and opportunities and.

Barcelona, Cataluña, España

• Accountable for the successful deployment of SAP in 23 countries (leading 12 local coordinators).
• Managing integrated program plan and monitoring execution through all project phases.
• Leading management of local business resources and back-up, ensuring identification and appropriate review of local users’ requirements.
• Coordinating all deployment activities with local organizations and leadership teams as well as managing escalation process for critical risks and issues both at local at global levels.
• Monitoring parallel initiatives and 3rd party systems to anticipate and avoid conflicts with wave roll-out.
• Supporting Functional leads to ensure adherence with global template and managing change requests.

Barcelona Y Alrededores, España

• Leadership of Iberia’s financial function (15 employees, turnover of $160M).
• Implementation of several process improvements to eliminate critical pain points based on clear definition of roles and responsibilities and consistent focus on cross-functional collaboration to generate efficiencies.
• Development of the action plan to eliminate the problems identified by internal controls, achieving significant improvements validated by follow-up internal audit.
• Creating a holistic set of metrics and reports to improve result transparency for leadership and allow for faster identification of risks and opportunities.
• PMO Lead for Emerging Growth Markets: definition and monitoring of financial and organizational impacts of the combination of Alcon’s Ophthalmic Pharmaceutical business with Novartis Pharma’s Retina franchise for the.

Barcelona Y Alrededores, España

• Leadership of Iberian FRA Shared Service Center team (11 FTEs) providing financial services to Novartis “Over-The-Counter” and Animal Health divisions in Spain and Portugal (approximate turnover of EUR 120M) including.
• Led new Organization Design of Accounts Receivables in Portugal (to minimize bad debts and overdues), via implementation of new policy and team re-organization, leading to increased productivity, strict results.
• Prepared transfer of FRA activities (support for processes validation and data migration) from our internal SAP ERP system to Eli Lilly and Glaxo SmithKline Shared Service Centers
• Strong and positive customer feedback received from CFOs regarding quality of services delivered (performance measured on continuous improvement around automatization, productivity, business partnership, innovation and.
• Part of the team that created "Business Partnering" virtual training program for the Novartis Business Services division (6 months and 100% virtual program designed to develop the Business Partnering skills of 600 +.

Camberley, United Kingdom

• Monitoring of SOX controls. Introduction of a new dashboard to facilitate understanding of risks and pro-actively propose remediation solutions.
• Implementing a new divisional compliance cockpit achieving higher compliance with corporate requirements and stronger involvement from local leadership team.

Barcelona, Spain

• Creation of the Iberian BPA team structure, recruitment of 5 new associates identification and remediation of low performance issues.
• Responsible for financial and strategic planning, implementing strong controls of risks and opportunities and driving the implementation of contingency plans to ensure the achievement of objectives.
• Leading and implementing continuous improvement projects with high impacts on logistics, commercial and financial plans
• Developing business plans to support BD&L projects such as licensing-in agreements and partial externalization of Pharmacy sales force in Spain

Barcelona, Cataluña, España

• Iberian CFO on an ad interim basis with full responsibility over FRA and BPA functions.

Barcelona, Spain

• Responsible of Spanish BPA activities including full P&L ownership, financial planning and control, strategic planning, pricing, working capital management and measurement of effectiveness of promotional activities.
• SAP implementation

Horsham, United Kingdom

• Responsible for recruiting and leading a new BPA team (3 FTEs) in charge of monitoring the results of 3 business units with total turnover of approximately GPB 100mio, 300 FTEs and 2 manufacturing sites.
• Led preparation of financials (NPV, productivity gains estimates) which resulted in the closure of Health and Functional Food factory in Kings Langley.
• Member of the SAP (2B1) implementation team (first European implementation).

Horsham, United Kingdom

• Implementation of new business warehouse system (Datatracker) which improved the monitoring of financial and commercial results.
• Contributed to the rejuvenation of key brands (Options/Ovaltine) through the preparation Capital Appropriation Requests (CAR) which supported significant investments in production lines necessary to implement major.

Geneva, Switzerland

• Reporting to European Controlling director and collaborating extensively with the Reporting team which led the implementation of new reporting system and process following the creation of Novartis.
• Member of the Consumer Health integration office together with McKinsey Inc. consultants following the merger of 3 Business Units (Nov. 98 – Apr. 99).

Master, Dirección Económica-Financiera

Licence, Sciences Economique