Independent consultancy practice for solutions in finance.

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• Assists management in formulating the company's future direction and supporting tactical initiatives.• Monitors and directs the implementation of strategic business plans.• Participates in key decisions as a member of the executive management team.• Developed financial and tax strategies, as well as performance measures that supports the company's strategic direction.• Manages all tours production day-to-day accounting and finance as well as the settlements with each tour accountant.• Manages any third parties to which financial, legal, and accounting functions have been outsourced.

Managed engagement teams (from 3 to 25 professionals) deliver solutions that help clients improve business performance and operational efficiency.Interim controller role:• Redesigned/improved internal Accounting closing, A/R, A/P processes (managed departments up to 25 professionals).• Day-to-day responsibilities: month-end close, accounting records, vendor invoice processing, accounts receivable, capital expenditures, management reporting and financial planning.• Industries: car rental and leasing, wholesale distribution, technology.Shared Services Center (SSC) implementations:• Back-office operations: Finance, HR, Legal, IT support, Procurement, Logistics.• Geographical scalability: from regional (Northeastern Brazil) to Latin America coverage.• Stages: scoping, feasibility analysis (value prop), site location, migration planning, processes mapping, organizational sizing, infrastructure build out and go-live transition (training, hypercare).• Industries: Agribusiness, logistics, real estate, consumer goods, professional services.Zero-based budgeting (ZBB) framework implementations:• Net cost productivity: range from 1% to 7% off SG&A base.• Geographical scalability: from regional (Sao Paulo state) to nationwide (Peru) coverage.• Industries: Beverage, media.• Stages: scoping, feasibility analysis (value prop), budget guidelines, change management, systems requirements, budget preparation and reviews, follow up reviews.Other projects: process diagnostics/rapid assessment, financial modelling for project initiatives.

Global Corporate Center:• Month-end close, accounting records, accounting systems, vendor invoice processing, capital expenditures, management reporting and financial planning and controls.• Developed FCF robust analytics and estimation processes that helped improve forecasting accuracy by 80%• Led ZBB implementation across departments, conducted knowledge transfer to entity owners, developed annual budget within framework. Initiative part of a global cost leadership program devised to bring $4B of gross savings over the course of 5 years to the organization.International Operations - SSC implementation:• Back-office operations: Finance (accounting and treasury).• Geographical coverage: Asia–Pacific operations (Gurgaon, India).• Role: feasibility analysis, budget, resource management, and change management capabilities.• Stages: scoping, feasibility analysis (value prop), site location, migration planning, processes mapping and organizational sizing.U.S. Supply Chain, Finance Project Manager:• Provided analytical Finance support and capital expenditures control for all project-related initiatives across the U.S. Supply Chain organization, including freight & warehousing cost analysis impacts, financial modelling, lease vs. buy decisions, etc.• Project portfolio: distribution centers network consolidation, small appliances factory warehousing expansion, rail strategy for Mexican-built products sold in the U.S..• Developed innovative freight & warehousing cost analysis tool dramatically reducing response turnaround and leveraging precision in costing predictability from changes in logistics network redesign.U.S. Supply Chain, Assistant Controller:• Month-end close, accounting records, accounting systems, vendor invoice processing, annual budgeting, monthly management and weekly flash reporting.• Successfully revamped accruals and cost analysis procedures for the Supply Chain Finance area resulting in improved financials accuracy.

Recurring role:• Overall responsibilities: financial statements consolidation, actual vs. forecast analyses, management reporting, annual budget consolidation.• Global operations under scope: Brazil, USA, Mexico, Italy, Slovakia and China).• Team of 2 professionals.Special projects (PMO role):• Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX): led annual compliance efforts (controls validation, testing, certification).• Business Performance Management (BPM): harmonize global financial analysis platform with implementation of standardized solutions (chart of accounts, product category structure, business intelligence system).

• Overall responsibilities: accounting, tax, payables, receivables and financial reporting.• Enhanced budgeting process and accountability mindset towards cost centers managers that enabled up to 15% business unit’s profitability increase.• Provided analytical Finance support for logistics redesign project that represented total cost productivity gains of up to 30% to the product distribution footprint.

• Supervised, assigned and reviewed work of staff auditors and assisted in the preparation of audit reports.• Created work products such as audit analyses, substantive tests of relevant balance sheet/income statement accounts and engagement documentation, evaluated and tested processes and related controls, prepared audit approaches relating to nature, timing and extent of procedures.• Examined internal control frameworks and identified opportunities to achieve results beyond compliance for companies across a wide array of industries (i.e.: petrochemicals, agribusiness, mining, tobacco).• Helped corporate clients build and implement sustainable improvements to their internal controls structure either related to the overall internal controls design or to specific control issues.