Vice President And Chief Financial Officer
CurrentGrupo Unicomer is the premier and largest consumer durables retailer and consumer finance company in Central America and the Caribbean, with 16,000 employees operating in 24 countries including Jamaica, Trinidad, Barbados, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Costa Rica, USA, Guyana, Belize, Honduras, Nicaragua, Paraguay, the Dutch Caribbean, etc. Established in the year 2000 to acquire the Central America operations of a Dutch multinational, the Group has managed to grow over 1,300% through organic territorial and product/formula expansions, as well as through acquisitions. I created the HQ Finance department from scratch in 2001, now comprising 30 FTE's, plus 50 in Shared Services. Adopted IFRS in 2001. Built teams that very successfully implemented Oracle Financials ERP and Hyperion, by redesigning all Finance and Corporate Control business processes. Obtained international credit ratings from Standard & Poors and Fitch. Raised over $650mln in funding for acquisitions from regional banks and also headed up all activities for a very successful 144A bond issue of $350mln that has won Latin Finance Magazine's Best Corporate Debt Capital Markets Strategy Award for the Central America/Caribbean region for 2017. Early adopters of MS Office 365 cloud collaboration. Unicomer was added in March 2018 to the Boston Consulting Group´s list of the Top 100 Multilatina companies, and is one of only three such companies in all of Central America. http://www.unicomer.com/