Division Finance Officer
Purchase, Ny, Us
Direct and support overall financial management for GeoCentral Division (Colombia, Venezuela, Caribbean and Peru) including: financial planning and analysis, treasury, budgeting, forecasting, risk, tax and regulatory reporting and compliance. Report to Division President and LAC CFO. Oversee 5 Direct reports. • Achieved durable internal controls in all countries, with no material audit findings during tenure.• Partnered with Country Manager to produce strategic business cases and related financials for transformational initiatives for Colombia’s 5 year plan, which were presented to Board of Directors, and resulted in incremental funding awarded for this market.• Developed and maintained a tool to monitor “pay for performance”. Model subsequently recognized as the most comprehensive within the Region for deal tracking and analysis purposes, and became the model on which others are based.• Analyzed and coordinated new pricing actions, which on average added 2% of incremental annual net revenue growth towards objectives for the Division.• Developed “bottoms up” financial model to account for and track personnel expenses, enabling detailed scenario forecasts and sensitivity analysis for workforce and resource planning. • Coordinated Risk Management efforts for the Division, with emphasis on high risk Venezuela. Pivotal role in cross functional team that purchased real estate in Venezuela as part of our “hedging” strategy that resulted in Foreign Exchange related gains to the Company of >$30MM. Received the CFO Award (2nd of 2 CFO awards earned) in recognition of this effort.