Mariana Freire Email & Phone Number

• Partner with Marketing, Commercial and product innovation teams in order to provide financial support and become a trusted advisor to the business in a challenge environment;
• Acting as a leader in a monthly reporting, presentation and analysis for business areas, including variance analysis and key metric reports that support strategic and operational decision making;
• Review and analyze financial outlooks throughout the year and provide financial commentaries on the associated risks and opportunities aligned with senior leadership;
• Lead the development of strategic plans, 3 year budget and forecasts for assigned business areas that are aligned with the achievement of the organization strategy;
• People management

• Finance management of the Go to Market strategies (trade channels) and identification of new pockets of top and bottom-line growths;
• Providing financial advisory on Joint Business Plans with Key customers across Brazil;
• Elaboration of annual Commercial Policy review and exception documents analysis and formalization;
• Management of Working Capital (Brazil Pharmaceuticals Trade Receivables) – without any relevant case of overdue (higher than 1% of sales);
• Leading, performing and presenting to senior leadership net sales actual, comparing with Budget and YTG forecast – revenue over €160M year;
• Coordination with Compliance Team in order to understand possible optimizations and risks related to Commercial Policy;

Rio De Janeiro, Rio De Janeiro

• Elaboration of OPEX risk and opportunities dashboard;
• Performing and presenting monthly reports to support decision making;
• Leading of OPEX mindset change by Zero Based Budgeting program with 10% of OPEX saving in year 1;
• Lead Car fleet model change that was a multi area project working with several business areas (HR, Purchasing, Fleet, Tax), impacting more than 500 employees in Pharma and Consumer Goods markets;

Rio De Janeiro, Rio De Janeiro

• Develop, elaborate and communicate plans and Budget with Marketing Team;
• Report on financial and operating results of the Business, analyzing and explaining variances to plan.

• Gather and analyze financial data;
• Establish standard costs and investigate variances vs actual costs;
• Forecast and analyze costs of processes, labor and inventory;

• Creation of Internal Control area for plant and develop and control KPIs based local policies;
• Focal point for Internal Control (Brazil plants – RJ and SP) for Americas Zone and Headquarter;
• Mapping, writing and reviewing local processes and policies.

Master Of Business Administration (Mba), Finance, Audit And Controlling

Bachelor Of Business Administration (B.B.A.), Business Administration And Management, General