Luísa Silva Email & Phone Number

Porto, Pt

Porto Area, Portugal

•Lead and manager the Finance Business Analyst team;•Improve and develop Business reports;•Support an efficient and effective forecasting process (Budget, Outlook) that produces accurate, achievable plans and forecasts that align with business’s strategic objectives;•Participate in strategy development and planning, develop metrics to monitor the performance against strategic objectives;•Assist the implementation of process improvements to reduce finance business process cycle times, improve financial forecast quality and enhance information provided to leadership for business decisions;•Support the business leader to successfully implement the business strategy;•Developing and coordinating the annual budget and quarterly outlook process relative to BI volumes, revenues, contribution and gross margins ensuring all activities are completed in order to submit accurate forecast numbers for all business units in the region;•Works alongside with the BI team in order to improve the level of analysis and data quality;•Works alongside with the FP&A team in order to work in the financial processes.

Porto Area, Portugal

•Evaluate business performance to ensure consistency with business unit long-term strategic plan and the overall corporate strategy;•Provide regular reviews of all critical initiatives that support achievement of current year financial plan;•Evaluate and provide analysis on the financial impact of proposed business activities (e.g. business acquisitions/divestitures, capital expenditures, etc.) on the business unit and provide guidance on best course of action to the business unit director;•Develop financial models for specific situations and purposes to provide support for decision making;•Support business leader on specific business development and profitability optimization projects;•Coordinate among peers to standardize, where relevant, groups of work to utilize consistent templates and processes;•Coordinate regionally/internationally to ensure the leverage of best practices and the standardization of processes;•Collaborate with business leadership teams to develop a financial outlook (forecast) for the business unit supported (updated monthly/quarterly); focus on outlook accuracy and determining the most likely scenario for the balance of the year; outlook should factor in changes in raw material costs, pricing actions, new business closes, changes in end-market conditions, etc;•Collaborate with business leadership team to develop a financial budget for the business unit supported; ensuring the team understands where and how the business unit is expected to grow (price, new business, erosion, market growth, etc.); committing with the business unit leader to deliver the budget commitment every year;•Assist business unit leaders with building their 5-year Strategic Plan.

Porto Area, Portugal

Porto Area, Portugal

Elaboration of the Budget and the Business Plan; assessment of financial viability of investments (NPV, WACC, TIR); post-investiments audits; project Management – SIFIDE; Financial Partner of Own Brands and Generics (reporting to International Group) and interactive work with different areas of company.

Porto Area, Portugal

Preparation of consolidated accounts and individual accounts of 5 entities (reporting to International Group); detailed analysis of costs and variances against the planned performance; elaboration of the monthly performance reports and colaboration in the preparation of Budget and Business Plan.

Porto Area, Portugal

General Ledger Department - Responsible for 4 entities and team coordination; reporting and analyze of IFRS accounts; USGAAP and HGB (local GAAP); preparation of the monthly closing, quarterly and year-end closings – consolidation of accounts; HFM reporting (analyze and validate the reconciliation reports); identify and implement KPI's and Sox Control audits.

Porto Area, Portugal

Porto Area, Portugal

Balanced Scorecard: Conceção E Implementação

Master, Finance

Degree, Business Management