Leandro Argibay Email & Phone Number

State Of São Paulo, Brazil

Guaxupé Area, Brazil

A metallurgical company producing cabs, chassis and structural parts for construction, agricultural and locomotive machines.Head of Finance, IT, HR, Legal and EHS.Reports to the Corporate VP and CFO in the USA.Legal local administrator and company owner representant in Brazil.

Bangkok Metropolitan Area, Thailand

 CFO of Public Listed Company in Stocks Exchanges Thailand (Goodyear: 66% share); $120m Revenue (50% Local / 50% Exports); Functional report to Regional Finance Director and Business report to Local Managing Director. Lead in conjunction of the full leadership team the Manufactory team (around 700 employees), Sales and Administrative team (around 120 employees) and support the transactional shared service center operation (in Philippines);  Responsible for all Finance activities including Controllership, Treasury, Credit, Pricing and Financial Planning & Analysis; Act as business support for delivering Volume, Revenue, Profit and Cash Flow target in all company areas. Ensure compliance of local regulations, SOX and internal controls; Manager of local IT support team and functional link with local business needs.

São Paulo Area, Brazil

 Collaborate with the business unit strategy development, tracking, and adjusts for each country. Coordinate the regional business unit annual operating plan and monthly results reviews submissions.  Lead the financial studies for innovation process, including CAPEX and OPEX return on investments and price positioning studies considering consumers, industry, and economy assumptions;  Support the products profitability review, including costs allocations by country and markets; Lead financial process and systems improvements in the Business Unit.

Campinas Area, Brazil

 Accounting of production/other costs for 3 plants, 5 mounting centers, 2 warehouses, and raw material and finish goods importation costs; Responsible for the billing, transfer, and returns process and team; Control and audit raw material, work in process, and finished goods inventory; Manage accounts payable, products receiving, and product warranty process and teams; Keep up production costs and resources allocations based in priorities and return on investment studies;  Business partner for local/regional manufactory management team, supporting lower product costs delivery through financial analysis and accounting rules understanding; Company procurator (contracts, financial transactions, third party payments approver); Manage the plants controllership team that consists of 4 direct reports, 35 indirect reports and, 11 third parties.

São Paulo Area, Brazil

 Manage the annual financial planning and monthly reviews process, risks & opportunities evaluation, and KPIs tracking; Publish to the executive/management team the Profit & Loss and Operating Cash Flow actual results and plan, including performance and variation analysis against previous periods and targets.  Define the process, information needed, and assumptions from all areas for an accurate planning and results explanation;  Contribute to the decision taken process of local, regional, and corporate executive team with accurate and conclusive information/facts/analysis.  Control the commercial policy, ensuring the governance, and being the strategic changes, products price position, and tactical discounts approver;  Analyze, monthly, supported by industrial accounting and procurement areas, the plant’s production costs, identifying the reasons for the main variations;  Keep up the sales and administrative cost, defining/justifying budgets adjustments; Build investments studies (CAPEX)

São Paulo Area, Brazil

 Responsible for building the financial capabilities of the Marketing and Innovation teams, providing Decision Support and playing a key role in budgeting, forecasting, product launches and financial decisions; Provides financial support to the LA&C Marketing Director, Regional Brand Directors, and their teams by helping to optimize A&P activity investment, championing high quality Measurement & Evaluation, helping tracking brands financial performance and advising and supporting the team on course correction; Lead Innovation Business Performance Management process, prioritization for new opportunities and regional strategic initiatives, including financials for regional projects, size of prize estimates, pipeline management, coaching support to cluster innovation Decision Support managers, analytical support for the Middle Class project, gifting financials, quantifying overlay opportunities and other ad hoc requests.

Miami/Fort Lauderdale Area

Based in Miami/USAManage the financial process and controls for Puerto Rico and Dominican Republic offices (see details below on DR Finance Country Manager usual responsibilities); Support the Caribbean Commercial team projects in the region (Distribution consolidation or expansion);Keep up commercial agreements and prices in the region; Support the regional production contracts and profitability (including 13 license beer breweries);Be part of the regional financial leadership team, defining and aligning the functional priorities and team careers opportunities. Additionally the function above, due to a team restructuring and lack of resources, I acted as Business Performance Manager for NorthLAC (Caribbean, Central America, and the USA border/main duty free stores) during the first five months in this position, being responsible for managing and providing the monthly data information with the risk & opportunity tracker, and the next fiscal year strategic plan.

Dominican Republic

Based in Santo Domingo / DRManage the local financial process, including:Cash flow management: Account Payables/Receivables; Intercompany Payments; Customers Credit Limits; Banks relationships; Bank Accounts balances investments or loans;General Accounting: Accounting rules based in international standards and local laws;Price Strategy: Approval of price increases or discounts;Inventory: Stock levels, Product Importation process; Cost of Goods; Review and sign off the local results submission, Investors Relations Report and Internal Complaincement and Disclosures documentation;Manage the end year tax audit (Deloitte), fiscal year statutory results audit (KPMG), and management and process audit (Internal); Keep the local system (Microsoft Navision) integrity and security, user training and access, including the Segregation of Duties for avoiding any error, misuse or fraud risk;Security, write-off, acquisitions and sales of company assets;Additionally all the usual financial responsibilities, the company decided to change the Route to Market (Customers/Channels policies), moving from direct sales to an Exclusive Reseller model (responsible for local sales and marketing activities) and downsize the office to 4 people responsible for importation and local accounting/cash management. My responsibilities during this process:Define company and reseller price/margins/investments by SKU in the new business model;Support the Management/Legal areas in the contract and way of working definition;Keep up all areas team/process during the transition and ensure the company stability and continuity;Manage the dismissal process and severance/legal obligations payments; Revise/Split company documentation, organizing the relevant documents and destroying others;Close/Disassemble the old office; Open/Build up a new office (including old contracts termination, new contracts negotiation, lay-out definition, hiring of contractors, and sales of assets);

Miami/Fort Lauderdale Area

Based in Miami / USA· Responsible for the accuracy and robustness of the planned targets and for ensuring great integrity of the reported financials for CAFEC (Central America, Free Trade Zone, Ecuador and Caribbean) region;· Assist the Finance Director, Finance Controller, and the Exec team on process and functional decisions in Controlling, Planning and Reporting areas;o Manage the month-end close and monthly Business Performance Review; o Manage the Strategic and Annual Plan submissions; o Analyze and control Overheads and A&P process; · Establish adequate controls to satisfy regulatory requirements; · Manage the CAFEC Financial Planning and Report Team.

Based in Miami / USAFinance Department / Global Support - Latin America & CarribeanI work with the LA&C Exec team and all LA&C Financial Directors and teams in order of consolidate informations, make analisys and reports, support then in regional issues and answer the center's questions.

São Paulo Area, Brazil

Based in Sao Paulo / BrazilSenior Financial Planning & Analyst(Mar/05 – Feb/06) (Finance Department / Decision Support). I worked together with many departments: Marketing / Innovation: Planning results for new products; Supply: Evaluating opportunities and alternatives for our supply facilities; Corporate Relationship: Making and support to studies sent to the federal/state government; Third Party – International: Follow up and control of Duty Free stores and International sales. Finance Analyst (Sep/01 – Mar/05) (Finance Department / Finance Planning & Analyze). Responsible for the finance planning for Brazil operation, commercial policies, and sales investment return. Marketing Assistant (Jun/00 – Sep/01) (Marketing Department / Consumer Planning & Research). Responsible for analysis and releasing of market research reports.

São Paulo Area, Brazil

Customer support (Daily activities, training, question answers…);Build market research presentations and reportsRelease information (after check analysis) for customers

Master'S Degree, Executive In Finance

Pmp, Project Management

Bachelor'S Degree, Economy

Technician, Electrical