With a multicultural team: Manage the Group liquidity position in the region, with multiple legal entities and more than 100 bank accounts in different banks and Countries, ensuring the consolidation of the European currencies balances optimizing the Group cash in USA.Give support to all the Group legal entities in EMEA Countries in Treasury related matters, improving the internal and external flow of funds.Develop the worldwide Treasury network together with the 2 other hubs in America and APAC, creating synergies and common processes.Supervise and assist in the implementation of policies and procedures to ensure the collection of funds in a timely and accurate manner, as well as improving the payment schemes to minimize fraud and improve efficiencies, automation and processing speed.Assist in project analysis and implementation targeting automation, systems update and consolidation.

Cash management of all the Group entities in 6 different countries through a cash pooling system. Thorough cash flow control with weekly analysis of the following 13 weeks forecasts, AP and AR overdue and stocks balance.Extensive report and studies of the cash situation, needs and constraints in a lack of cash environment.Detailed analysis of collections and payments together with Procurement and Business Development on a weekly and short term basis, to assess the crucial needs to support the continuity of the Sites activity, optimizing the inflows and assigning the limited cash to the key external and internal suppliers.Tax and insurance claims management.

Treasury Manager for all the Group companies in the UK and Iberia (50+) reporting to the European Treasury Manager. Expert on cash pooling, funding, settlements, FX deals, reporting and project management. Responsible for managing trade working capital to tight targets. Key responsibilities:• Supervision of the regional treasury team.• Settlement and confirmation processing and control, plus query resolution. Ensure treasury back office and front office functions.• Manage the cash pooling structures with 5 different Banks and 6 currencies.• Analyse and manage all the funding needs of all the companies in the Regions.• Improve the Trade Working Capital figure of the different companies and the Region overall.• Oversee the input and processing of treasury transactions into the main accounting system.• Liaison and relationship management with local market banks.• Responsible for all treasury management reporting for their respective region. • Maintain, review and implement business risk controls for their region.• Management of all FX hedging needs.

Main areas of activity and achievements:- Manage and control the cash of all the companies of the Group in the Región.- Manage the connection between the local cash pooling and the international cash pooling of the Group.- Implementation of the Portuguese cash pooling system connecting it also to the Spanish one, creating an Iberian cash pooling structure where all the funds are pooled on a daily basis.Manage and control all the funding and guarantee needs of all the companies of the Group in the Región.- Implementation of a Treasury Management System in the Region (Quantum, from Sungard).- Set up of a payment module in the TMS to channel the payments of all the companies to the Banks through Swiftnet.. Negotiation with the Banks for all the companies.AR manager for the Región:. Implementation of a collection tool for all the companies defining collection strategies, policies and processes.- Huge improvement of the overdues percentage.- TWC management. Turning the TWC trend in a short time achieving great results (60 M Eur improvement).Treasury advisor for Middle East- Advisor for all treasury related matters for the companies of the Group in Middle East.- Analysis of all the funding needs for the companies.- Monthly review of the AR situation of the companies in the Región client by client.- Analysis of the potential implementation of a cash pooling structure including the companies in the main countries in the región to set up a gloabl RFP.

Main areas of activity and achievements:Finance manager:- Responsible for all the treasury management and funding needs of the company.- I have restructured the bank structure of the company and increased the financing while getting better conditions and closing unuseful Banks.- improvement of the guarantee facilities of the company to acompaign the growth in number of projects-- Project financing for different Works such as a parking for a train station for Renfe.- Implementation of a treasury management system (XRT) as well as control methods and different processes.Responsible for the AP, AR, accounting and billing departments.- Implementation of different work processes.- Reduction of the DSO and improve the connection between the different departments to boost the cash cycle.Insurance manager:- Renegotiation of all the insurance policies increasing and improving the coverages and reducing the price.

Main areas of activity and achievements:Treasury: Deputy manager managing the treasury of all the companies of the different Alstom divisions in Spain (Transport, Power, Power Conversión) - Implementation of the cash pooling structure for all the companies of the Alstom Group in Spain- - Implementation, management and control of the Treasury Management System (Cerg) for the Group - Cash forecasting, credit control and cash mangement of all the companies in Spain - Forex management - Negotiation of all type of facilities with a huge range of local and international Banks - Management and control of local and international bonds and guarantees - Coordinate and link the local glbal cash position with the international cash pooling of the Alstom Group.Project and Export Finance: In charge of analysing the different Project os the diffrent divisions of Alstom in Spain and searching and arranging financing for them in the most adecuate way for each one. - Negotiating with different local and international Banks and Pulic corporations the financing of the projects - Project study to define the potential ways of financing (loans, project finance, Public-Private structures, operating lease, tax lease, etc...) - International projects in Israel, China, Brasil, Argentina, for the acquisition of trains, locomotives, energy plants and turn-key systems. -Structured Finance projects like the oeprating lease of Metro Trains for Barcelona (300 M EUR) with Public Coroporations, two Banks and the EIB. - All in full and deep cooperation with the Global Exports and Project management team of Alstom in Paris.Insurance: IManager of all the insurances in Spain. - Negotiation of all the risks coverage for all the companies of the Group. - Coverage of specific projects like transportation of trains or energy equipment. - Management of all the claims (6 M EUR aprox through the years)Coordinator for the share purchase sheme for employees in 2000 and 2004.