• Member of the BeLux Management team responsible for €150M facility management contracts in Belgium and Luxembourg. Support operations to deliver long term profitable growth, manage risk & disputes, negotiate contract terms, and deploy and promote commercial best practices. Involved in local deals shaping and client negotiation, including commercial modelling and payment mechanisms.- Support to Sales, Transition, Projects and Procurement teams in agreements set up, financial reviews, governance and process standardization.

• Leadership for operational excellence and compliance within the BeLux market. Responsible for maintaining and enhancing continuous improvement of operational and financial processes in order to protect the reputation of the company’s business and thereby reducing risk of material non-compliance issues with respect to compliance matters, including: business licenses, insurances, contracts terms and conditions, GDPR, contract set up according to scope of regulated services (bi-partite vs tri-partite agreements), compliance with external laws and regulations, company and client policies and procedures development and implementation.• Project Manager (PMO) for several projects in BeLux: legal entities merge, migration from Oracle into a new Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system (AX Dynamics), new expense report system (ExpenSys) implementation, ISO certification (9001, 14001 & 45001), Professional of the Financial Sector (PFS) License application in Luxembourg in order to increase Facility Management (FM) services portfolio, new Target Operating Model (TOM) to implement new way of working with a new organizational structure.• Main contact with external lawyers in order to independently review and asses (legal) questions with respect to compliance matters and negotiations.

• Created sales strategies, including webpage (http://www.homestylists.be) to attract new customers and increase sales.• Launched from scratch the digital marketing (search engine optimization, search engine marketing, social media, content management, traffic acquisition, web analytics) and publicity.• Pricing and client’s commercial offers as well as supplier selection and negotiations.

• Global Process Owner (GPO) in charge of the global standardization, risk mitigation, improvement and compliance of Country Finance Services processes (Balance Sheet monthly reconciliations, external audit support and management, statutory reporting, tax). • Cross-team work with country managers globally and Finance Transformation teams to assure successful and smooth ERP migrations and transition of activities and accounting transactions from countries to the three regional business centers (EMEA, ASIA, AMERICAS). • EMEA PMO leader for divestiture projects (mergers and acquisitions) of the company leading IT, Finance, Sourcing, HR, Operations & Legal activities and teams. Member of the steering committee leading the Automotive division divestiture. Led legal entities separation for the GWS division divestiture to CBRE (employee transfers, supplier and customer contract changes, operations licenses and permits transfers, legal entity creation, opening and ending Balance Sheet audits and separation).

• Audited all business units in the America’s region (US, Canada and Latin America) ensuring compliance with corporate and business unit policies & procedures as well as regulatory requirements. Scope of reviews performed included: IT risks, quality of internal and Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) controls, accuracy of financial and management reporting (US GAAP), efficiency and effectiveness of operations, business systems, sourcing processes and vendor management. Responsibilities included building and monitoring of mitigation action plans and planning of audits based on a risk based audit plan.

• Accounts Payable (AP) and Travel and Expenses (T&E) accounting department head for a $500M business across Latin America.• Also supported in turns the Account Receivables (AR), Project Accounting (PA) and General Ledger (GL) teams, including month-end closing, revenue and cost analysis, unbilled & unearned revenue balances reviews and follow up.• Managed a team of 15 people, including recruitment, performance reviews, coaching, promotions and other HR aspects.• Successfully closed and complied with all regulatory requirements of internal/external audits and the Department of Justice of the United States (US DOJ).• Implemented a new expense reporting system (GATES) reducing employees reporting time (employee debt) from 180-360 days to 60 days, improving also it’s mapping to the ERP to have a correct reporting and assured the compliance for all JCI business units.• Part of the top ten financial leaders in Mexico; and selected out of 40 individuals in the Automotive Experience (AE) Shared Services Center (SSC) in Juarez to create the SSC in Monterrey, Mexico for the Building Efficiency (BE) business Unit.• Developed web databases (eRoom), improving with this the inquiries, follow up and communication times between Sales and Financial teams.• Lead the migration of T&E activities into the SSC from different regions as well as organized, stabilized and streamlined processes such as vendor master management, expenses reports, reimbursements, employees’ advances, credit cards & reconciliations for Latin-America with a scope of 12 countries.• Participated in the compliance audit to Johnson Controls Peru, auditing all areas and departments in order to correct/improve processes, allowing with this the move finance activities to BE SSC in Monterrey, Mexico.

• Responsible for Accounts Receivable at the AE (Automotive Experience) division at SSC Juarez, Mexico, managing more than 100 customers in the US & Mexico with 20 production plants, reducing aged debt in 50% in 1 year, managing cash application, customer payments and statements, general ledger vs. sub-ledger reconciliations, aging report creation, balances of trade (BOT's) between AR and AP for non-paying customers and forecasting.

• Performed the market study to determine the city region, target market and investment needed to build a new exclusive events center at the city.• Managed the recruitment, selection, training and supervision of employees (30 employees approximately)• Performed negotiations with governmental agencies/bodies to obtain permissions to open and operate the enterprise.• Performed the strategic planning and publicity campaign for the opening of the indoor and the outdoor bar and also planned the promotion campaign through radio and public relations in order to maintain and increase sales in covers and consumption achieving greater attendance of clients VS allowed capacity (Allowed: 800 VS Attendance:1200) and position the concert hall as the choice of preference of clients vs. competitor businesses.• Organized events and concerts (artists: Nicho Hinojosa/Mexican and Enanitos Verdes/Argentineans) in order to increase sales, maximize earnings and get the most profit of the building during days it was closed.

• In the top three sellers in the national sales ranking.• My suggestions to get a better follow up with customers were implemented in all the sales teams in the north of Mexico.• Leader in work objectives accomplishment by maintaining a quarterly planning of activities and sales analysis (YTD & month vs. month) achieving as a result the company sales goals.• Responsible for the regional sales of two product lines of the company.

• Created and managed commercial campaigns for masters, university degrees and high school of Tecnologico de Monterrey in magazines, radio & TV.• Leader of the high performance group in charge of coordinating weekly meetings to follow up on goals and objectives progress.• Increased student retention from high school to university of Tec de Monterrey in 30% compared to previous years.• Increased the number of students enrolled in 20% over the previous year.• Organized several cultural & social events to attract potential students and promote Tec de Monterrey brand.

• Managed a new project in the company (GlobalSpec) in order to get potential clients to the company.• Performed cost-benefit analysis for projects and presented them in a weekly basis to executive management to discuss about their profitability.• Performed strategic market analysis and research for new automotive sensors in order to decide the feasibility and analyze risks to manufacture them and enter into new business markets.• Reorganized the data base & system used for Change Management process making it more cost & time efficient.