Led and direct all Americas Business Unit cost estimating team and new business pursuit, as well as Leading quotes worldwide such as US, Mexico, Brazil, Czech Republic, India, Turkey etc.- Maintain relationship with current customers, facilitating the communication with the company, clarifying doubts and building up a relationship that allow to receive more feedback on quotes submitted.- Develop continuous improvement initiatives to ensure effectiveness during quotation process. - Work with costing team in implementing consistent estimating standards and process.- Conduct special studies related with pricing feedback vs competitors, lost business analysis, or standard costing.- Contribute to the development of complex real cases, in order to respond to internal and external changes, and adapt to market requirements as well as maximize the usage of internal resources.- Work with engineering team to analyze new RFQ’s to identify if there are potential risks to the company due to special requirements from customers and defining if the RFQ really fits in the company strategy.- Challenge costing hypotheses, reconciling process, tooling, labor with existing projects / products.- Be proactive in proposing convergence or improvement plans on quotation group as well as deploy new process, Cost Models and procedures within the Business Unit. - Work with sales team preparing project financials dashboards for CEO and CFO.

Performed project monitoring on pursuit phase to collect and audit Cost data from a multidisciplinary team (Engineering, Purchasing, Manufacturing, tooling, etc.) following progress to deliver a competitive quote on time- Analyze Customer documentation identifying detail information that will serve as baseline for accuracy in the quote.- Participate in Customer workshops to explore cost optimizations developing cost models for same product with different designs.- Facilitate and coordinate team meetings worldwide to ensure effectiveness in communication and facilitate data flow between different regions.- Support Sales team during cost breakdown preparation, or customer meetings to present the quote offer.- Creation of database containing detailed costing information for the purpose of improving accuracy and efficiency during quotation.- Co-Lead Initial Launch activities with Project Manager on award business.- Monitoring of award business in specific phases as TKO, OTP, PPAP in order to receive feedback and apply lesson learns in new quotes.

Oversaw the cost control systems, managed and interpreted cost audits and prepared cost accounting reports for presentation to upper management.- Responsible for expenditure tracking, analyzing and monitoring monthly incurred cost, by projects or departments. - Conduct detailed analysis for program financial data assessing the status of deliverables, invoicing, account receivable, accounts payable- Collaborate with engineering team to ensure customer tooling program payment in timely manner.- Preparing monthly reconciliations and provide to top management, variance analysis between budget and current.- Develop cost breakdowns by programs, customer or by product identifying opportunity areas or considerable deviations in actuals.- Calculate Annual Overhead and Labor rates.- Investigated cycle counting variances and resolved issues working with the production/materials manager to locate and dispose of obsolete inventory- Set standard costs for all products and directed the implementation of cost accounting methods and activities- Create, maintain and audit standard cost and inventory transactions in vanguard system.- Coordinate and schedule activities on Physical Inventory.

- Record Monthly GL entries and accrued cost.- Prepare Account reconciliations.- Fixed Assets Control- Lead Sarbanes Oxley Audits in Chihuahua Mexico (4 locations) identifying deviations and providing proposals to align activities to the certification requirements.- Audit Inventory transactions (receiving, shipping, negative inventory value, adjustments etc.).- Ensure accuracy of Inventory Module and costing.

- Met with all new hires to explain benefits, guidelines and procedures. As well as performed, training period evaluation.- Conduct orientations to foster positive attitude toward organizational objectives.- Serve as link between management and employees, helping resolve work-related problems.- Monitoring of Internal services to employees (Payroll, Cafeteria, transportation, medical service etc.)- Coordinate company events to enforce employee’s recognition.