Senior Financial and Operations Executive with corporate wide treasury, customer financing, compliance, internal audit, FP&A, inventory planning of International operations and strategic projects.• Continuously support all business divisions of the company across the Americas enabling sales preservation and growth.• Working on the transformation of the company based on the Epson 25 Corporate vision. • Leading treasury and credit areas through the Covid19 crisis without any credit loss and managing the forecasting the funding of the company.• Leading the compliance area to maintain and foster a culture of high ethics and observance of laws and regulations.• Led the Merger of Epson Electronics of America into Epson America, Inc.• Deployed and maintained the continuous improvement program and process across the company.

Senior Financial & Operations Executive with P&L and Control responsibilities for export sales and subsidiary activity of Latin American operations.• Led the Latin America Finance-to-Manage and Procure-to-Pay deployment for SAP in Latin America.• Improved and ran the Latin America and US Exports distribution operations into the region.• Implemented Concur for Latin America. Revamped the travel and entertainment policies to adapt to the corporate standard.• Standardized accounting processes and practices and tightened internal controls. Have eliminated all deficiencies identified as part of our J-Sox activities also created a Risk Assessment Process for the Region. Unification and deployment of standard policies.• Completed the regionalization of our Financial Services in the North, South and Brazil. Prepared a preliminary plan to further consolidate into shared services once SAP is fully deployed and stabilized across the region.• Improved Managerial Reporting and the Forecasting processes to improve visibility and control of our Subsidiaries.• Led the implementation of a comprehensive FCPA program for the company to reinforce compliance and ethics. • Over the past 4 years, enabled $200M+ in annual sales by creating an excess of loss credit insurance program and reforming our internal policies and practices.

Assessed the organization, developed the strategy and began executing Citrix Global Accounts Payable Goals, managed the day to day operations of AP functions in the Americas, EMEA and APAC driving a shared services culture and process.

Provided consulting engagements, interim services in executive management, and advisory capacities focused on financial execution implementation and quick turnaround of the client operations.

Senior Financial Executive with P&L and Control responsibility for the Latin America Region and its consolidating legal entities, Operations, Legal, Human Resources, M&A and Information Systems.• Co-lead with the CEO, for five years, exceptional business results including a significant increase in profitability (50%) driven by cost conservatism, the network's rationalization, and significant year-on-year growth on revenue (20%), • Rationalized the agency network to improve coverage, documented relationships with affiliates and sold 14 unprofitable companies in 9 countries while purchasing 3 remaining minority shareholders, converting a loss in excess of $1M to a $.5M profit.• Co-developed and implemented a Regional media strategy, focused on intra-group synergies, customer service and profitability maximization.• Implemented the Performance Excellence model and metrics for the region. Implemented and deployed SOX in accordance with corporate guidelines.

Steered the local club as part of a transitional leadership period. Provided financial expertise and led non-profit activities as required.

Regional CFO, • Co-lead the Group to its first and second profitable quarters while sustaining growth by maximizing financial capabilities. Increased and focused the organization on ethics, compliance and control.

Senior Financial Executive in charge of Manufacturing and Distribution operations for the American Continent.• Structured the reporting processes and metrics for two factories, three distribution centers, and supported the implementation of a new forecast, cost accounting, and Oracle order entry system. Managed and assessed restructuring and operational reserves, assumed risk mitigation opportunities and physical destruction of obsolete items.• Led a 40% reduction in operating costs in the sites in the Americas by restructuring the sourcing of products, moving to a more flexible cost structure. Managed assets and Cost segment of P&L in excess of US$4Bn.

Senior finance executive in charge of the finances and control of the Jaguariuna Manufacturing and Distribution Complex.• Improved manufacturing cost per unit from $36 to $8 in a 10 month period by creating and completing a cost reduction program bringing cost to comparable benchmark levels by eliminating non-value added activities and developing a unified management team to serve multiple divisions. Restructured finance by merging the business support and manufacturing finance into a single team. Led the local analysis and negotiations for the feasibility study for operating the factory in the Brazilian market or outsourcing the operations.• Developed metrics to control key cost drivers. Improved the cost accounting systems and processes, by implementing Oracle 10. Used advanced cost analysis to improve operations of the site. Maximized profits, cash and asset utilization as well as generating tax loss recovery for the corporation in excess of US$200 Million. Created and managed a resizing program to right-size operations to 33% of its installed capacity. Increased export activities from 10% of total activity in 2000 to 60% of total activity in 2001 by showcasing the benefits that the site could offer in regards to quality, cost and tax incentives.

Senior Finance Manager supporting the development and enhancement of regional business activities.• Moved the financial function from the headquarters in Illinois to Ft. Lauderdale Florida refocused the group on customers and built a team of high caliber individuals in support of the sales team. Implemented individual financial forecasts, pricing models, margin analysis, brand advertising and co-op analysis controls and a developed a strong internal control environment.• Organized the financial process for distributing products from the Brazilian factory to the Latin American customers and centralized credit control to present one face to the customer.• Customized and expanded trade finances activities in the region. Built relationships with Own Credit Corporation and insurance companies to expand the credit lines and sales by 3X the baseline in 3 years.

Senior Financial Manager in charge of financial operations of the company in the Andean Region.• Created the Financial function as the Company expanded its business. Recruited, trained and developed talented financial professionals in three countries and utilized outsourcing in two other. Implemented a standardized integrated accounting system, provided treasury coordination, and tax planning. • Supported all Sectors and Group in their 3-year 10X-expansion plan providing expert guidance and creating the supporting infrastructure in country. Participated in the negotiations for the sale of the first digital CDMA Cellular Infrastructure System in Latin America.

Controller in charge of general financial operations including the control and accounting of 2 remote factories in the country.• Restructured the financial function. Installed an integrated financial and reporting system that reduced staff by 50% while growing sales 3X, automated the reporting package to Headquarters, designed Policies and Practices, and partnered with the marketing and sales functions. Established coordinated pricing actions derived from the product margin analysis. Managed 2 factories. Demonstrated the need to sell a factory and executed on the negotiation and sell in 3 months.

In charge of Multinational audits (Philip Morris, Sony, Reckitt & Colman; Slumberger, Dowell Slumberger) and Foundations (CVA, Mercantil foundation).• Promoted from Auditor II to being in charge of key multinational clients in less than 15 months. Sent to Mexico as Supervisor for the 1990 audit of Dowell-Schlumberger. Offered a promotion to Senior Auditor.