Isabel Ramirez Email & Phone Number

México

• Managing Mexico and CCA customers, executing harmonised SOPs to effectively manage Nokia exposure to credit risk by driving customer payments on time• Interacting with customer Account Payable departments to progress chase invoice approvals and payments suporting payments allocations with the proper escalations• Progress chase invoice quality issues• Follow-up on payment allocations with Cash Apps and drive additional actions if needed• Proactively reconciles invoices by working with both the CT team and the customer representatives to ensure payments by the due date• Supports CTC with SoR administration, Due date amendments, provide accurate cash forecasting• Identify key unsolved issues to be further escalated via CMO escalation process • Analyse issue/escalation raised by Region Finance, CTC and/or Customer and coordinate resolution• Support CollectionProcess improvements • Contribute to Collection related concept design & UAT phases for Global projects• Coordinate SoX controls execution & provide support to validation process

Mexico City Area, Mexico

• Provides financial expertise for customer offers when required, and supports negotiations regarding financial matters, within approved project. Transitional task: Completes project forecast calculations.• Key customer interface for all financial matters managing LocOp Business of 80 MEur.• Accountable for all actual business reported numbers and accuracy of business forecast for all Business Lines.• Responsible for business revenue recognition processes in close collaboration with Finance: reviews, prepares and presents all won sales cases to the Revenue Recognition Board, and performs all subsequent reviews.• Ensures compliance with Nokia accounting principles, reporting guidelines, processes, tools and internal controls (SOX) in the business.• Responsible for accurate reporting and controlling of business’ accounts receivables• Ensures quarterly certification of business financials and provides audit support. Owns and oversees SOX controls (revenue, balance sheet) within area of the responsibility.• Supports collections team in cash collection process, performs collectability assessments, requests guarantees and bonds. Maintains credit limits and requests credit rating updates. Responsible for cash collection in business’ without assigned Credit Collector.• Supports the order intake and order backlog forecasting and performs business order intake controlling• Performs financial risk management, reflects risks and opportunities in financials

Mexico City Area, Mexico

• Manage CARSO Cost & Progress Manager team (20 people) in all Cost & Progress Manager (CPM) work for seven Countries in Latin America (Mexico, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Chile, Argentina and Brazil).• Implement business strategies with the support of the CPM team in all CTs belonging to the CBT and ensure CBT standards throughout the projects in the region (aligned with global and regional standards).• Provide the Customer Operation Manager with necessary and required information related to overall progress and cost issues, in order for the CBT to track target achievements, identify main pain points and prioritize preventive/corrective actions.• Implement CBT standards for estimating, monitoring, reporting, analyzing and managing the project execution progress against time, milestones and invoicing schedule agreed in the customer contract in each CT in line with global Earn Value Management (EVM) processes. • Implement CBT standards for estimating, monitoring, reporting, analyzing and managing of all project related procurement and costs against cost baseline in each CT in line with global EVM processes.• Align with Finance & Control team the accounting guidelines and principles to be applied to the different Countries and projects. Ensure correct application by project CPMs.• Estimate at completion and estimate to complete analysis of each project in each country.• Evaluation and identification of risks impacting the project margin and proposal of corrective actions, including costs of risk mitigation.

Mexico City Area, Mexico

• Manage McCain finance and administrative teams, performing financial analysis, responsible of accounts payable, accounts receivable, planning and human resources.• Ensure IFRS are correctly followed for Mexico office financial information.• Define a planning model with different scenarios for evaluating financial results of the different strategies to be implemented during the year.• Define financial strategies ensuring at least annual 5% profit.• Ensure team efficiency and consistency by establishing, developing and enforcing standard control processes.• Prepare and reconcile a US$20 million budget, presenting recommendations to the Americas directors for decision making.• Increase business by analyzing trends, results and strategies of the business.• Preparation and presentation of the monthly financial report to the Americas directors, comparing actual results against prior periods and annual and operative budgets, providing full explanation of deviations and proposals for improvement.• Coordinate Pricewaterhouse Coopers external audit.• Coordinate McCain internal audit, reducing control issues from 30 to zero in 6 months.• Ensure the submission of the tax returns on time.• Ensure value added tax is refunded on a monthly basis. Challenge included coordination of tax consultants team for completing pending value added tax to be refunded since 8 months ago.• Ensure efficient office management by supporting HR on recruiting and payroll and office administration.• Provide HR support by being responsible of payroll calculation and payment, also being responsible of all payroll taxes and contributions calculations and payments. • Provide HR support by looking for candidates for the several positions vacancy in the company, interview, evaluate and define best candidate to the positions.

Mexico City Area, Mexico

• Manage the Dell Managed Services (DMS) and Dell Professional Services (DPS) team, performing financial analysis, assessing project risks and costs, and determining appropriate LOB financial structure.• Lead efforts to consistently double sales growth each year, negotiating long-term, cost-effective service contracts, and conducting effective financial and/or pricing analysis.• Ensure team efficiency and consistency by establishing, developing and enforcing standard control processes.• Prepare and reconcile a $83 million budget, managing resources effectively.• Ensure IFRS are correctly followed for the Services LOB financial information.• Define and approve the economic / financial objectives of the Services businesses of each Latin American sub-region.• Increase business by analyzing trends, results and strategies of the Services business in Mexico.• Perform hiring interviews, ensuring highly skilled team members.• Prepare and present annual employee evaluations, mentoring employees in areas of weakness.• Perform periodic audits, ensuring Services financial statements control.• Oversee cash flow control, coordinating with the Treasury in Mexico and the Global team.

• Oversaw financial support offered to new multinational companies in Mexico.• Performed tax calculations, payroll calculations and coordination of monthly closures for financial reporting to the headquarters.• Served as bookkeeper for multi-national companies.• Led a team in updating accounting records of a major client equaling 80% of company’s income.