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São Paulo Area, Brazil

São Paulo Area, Brazil

• Leadership of a team of ten people to attend the Sales Force (about 400 people) in order entry, price adjustments, control, maintenance and creation of new sales solutions with full customer focus.• Identification of business evolution needs and opportunities such as systems improvements, deployment of new technologies and tools, development of digital solutions for customer area result evolution and the Order to Delivery (OTD) process.

São Paulo Area, Brazil

• Supported the implementation of processes in new ERP platforms (SAP and Sales Force) Brazil, leading the project team in the interfaces with business areas, enabling meeting the needs of the company.• Led the User Acceptance Testing (UAT), checking the accuracy and performance of new models implemented for sales order entry and management, ensuring Service Level Agreement (SLA) corrections, when necessary.

São Paulo Area, Brazil

Reporting to the Global Finance Compliance and to Latam CFO with a team of 3 direct and 6 indirect reports, with main responsibilities:• Led effective and sustainable Internal Control Frameworks within Syngenta, with a reduction from 96 to 56 after risk analysis for simplification and standardization of the controls in the Region.• Developed and implemented risk-based approach to mitigate any potential liability and safeguard company’s assets.• Ensured conformity to Sarbanes-Oxley Act through appropriate design and tests of key controls, even with the challenge of outsourcing by a provider based in India.• Co-managed internal and external audit and drove sustainable and timely remediation of outstanding audit issues, in order to reduce deficits in the future audits.• Created a compliance culture through proper communication with key stakeholders and engaging employees at all levels of the organization.

São Paulo Area, Brazil

• Managed Latin America SBS Organization in planning, consolidating, reporting and controlling shared services costs. • Assured budget and latest estimates information according to global and regional requirements. • Participated in projects aiming to operational efficiency and cost savings, with emphasis on the implementation of Shared Services Syngenta (SBS), with 30% reduction on average in employees/costs in Finance.• Built the annual budget and followed the monthly variations, presenting to the Global and Regional leaders.

São Paulo Area, Brazil

• Developed a new tool to Commercial organization to input sales order with integrated financial information necessary to conduct business operations and support decision making. • Managed new training tool for the entire sales force in the field (approximately 350 people).• Contributed to the control, maintenance and creation of new solutions for sales, , highlighting an alternative financing to farmers with Credit & Collection area.

São Paulo Area, Brazil

• Coordinated Brazil Organization in planning, consolidating, analyzing, validate with the Board of the company and report it to the HQ (Sales, Function Costs, Investments, Working Capital, Income Statement and Cash Flow).• Assured budget and latest estimates information according to global and regional requirements.• Managed Capital Expenditures Control over US$100M.• Performed variance analysis Actual versus Budget and drove actions with business units to deliver targets.• Coordinated the staff to prepare reports and KPIs of Brazil performance (sales, margins, function costs, Market Share, Balance Sheet and Income Statement); presented and discussed it with the Directors.• Prepared and discussed price variance analysis practiced by Sales Force in order to capture more value for the company, with increasing margin (KPI variable compensation).• Created and implemented a single expense system and BVA (financial indicator of business value) for all Latin America model system.• Responsible for reporting Brazil financial results to HQ according to IFRS.

São Paulo Area, Brazil

São Paulo Area, Brazil

São Paulo Area, Brazil

Master Of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Business Administration And Management, General

Bachelor'S Degree, Accounting

Bachelor'S Degree, Business Administration