Head Of Finance Latin America South (Statutory Director)
Current Acting as CFO, leading the financial team and overseeing the quality and compliance of accounting, accounts receivable, and accounts payable processes, as well as ensuring adherence to general accounting procedures FP&A (including month-end closing and reporting), Accounting and Tax, providing leadership, direction, and management to 20+ headcounts. Responsible for Tax quality access to general tax laws and normative rules and all procedures being followed in Brazil. Defining the annual planning/budget as part of the Region management team and ensuring that subsequent tenders, biddings, and pricing were aligned with the pre-defined strategy. Also, in charge of monitoring and defining/approving the key contractual clauses with potential financial exposure such as payment terms, bonds & guarantees, insurance, early termination, and other penalties & discounts. Managed to setup a high-performance team by integrating different finance areas, creating synergies which allowed a headcount reduction without miss the excellence on the deliverables. Strong interaction with other global finance function, such as Tax, FP&A, including Treasury, to work and lead strategies such as legal entities rationalization, tax planning and cash repatriation and balance sheet exposure.ACHIEVEMENTS Successful negotiation on the replacement of a bank guarantee resulting in a USD 81m cash collateral release. +USD 1.0m saving on importation tax as a result of a strategical tax planning. Implementation of the BRZ transactional Finance team within the Service Share Center in UK which allowed Region to receive significantly better support.