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São Paulo, Brasil

São Paulo, Brazil

Expanded the role to include Investor Relations (IR) management alongside FP&A responsibilities:- Lead the FP&A function and team, overseeing budgeting, forecasting, and financial reporting processes.- Continuously develop and implement improved financial planning processes and automations to enhance efficiency and accuracy.- Provide strategic insights and recommendations to Clevel and company executives based on financial analysis.- Collaborate closely with executive leadership, department heads and senior management to align financial goals with business objectives, drive performance improvements and growth, also articulate it to investors.- Established and maintain relationships with investors and analysts.- Develop and execute investor communication and reporting, including quarterly results releases, board meeting presentations, and monthly reports.- Manage investor inquiries, requests and ad hoc analysis, ensuring timely and accurate responses to maintain investor confidence.- Navigated through headcount reductions, during economic crises in the tech sector, while managing both functions also maintaining team productivity.- Oversaw another complete company reorganization, leading required restructuring and implementations across multifunctional teams, including a new acquisition and new product.

São Paulo, Brazil

Promoted to FP&A Manager, assuming broader responsibilities in financial planning and analysis.- Led the FP&A function, overseeing budgeting, forecasting, and financial reporting processes.- Played a role in evaluating and integrating three acquisitions from the buyer's perspective.- Developed and implemented improved financial planning processes and tools to enhance efficiency and accuracy, including sourcing and implementing Abacum software only with my team and vendor support.- Provided strategic insights and recommendations to senior management and company executives based on comprehensive financial analysis.- Collaborated closely with department heads to align financial goals with business objectives and drive performance improvements.- Mentored and coached junior team members to foster their professional development and growth.- Led financial reporting and cost center restructuring during a complete company reorganization, facilitating multi-product growth and multidimensional reporting.

Joined Gupy as an FP&A Coordinator, tasked with creating the FP&A area within the company, structuring processes, and assembling the team.- Conducted the budgeting cycle for 2022 and designed the organizational chart for the FP&A department.- Conceptualized the first cost center structure and led its implementation across multifunctional teams.- Collaborated cross-functionally with departments to gather data, analyze trends, and identify improvement opportunities.- Regularly performed ad hoc analyses, financial reporting, forecasting, and variance analysis, providing insights to support strategic decision-making.- Developed financial models for budgeting, business planning and performance evaluation, still in use today.

Brazil

- Conceptualized and founded Farseek, a forward-thinking TravelTech startup focused on disrupting the travel industry through technological innovation.- Spearheaded all aspects of company development, including product ideation, market research and analysis, fundraising, team building, and operational execution.- Developed and executed a comprehensive business plan, aligning company goals with market demands.- Assembled and led a lean, agile team of four professionals, including a Chief Technology Officer (CTO), an attorney, and one additional developer.- Designed and directed the development of the platform, leveraging advanced algorithms to provide personalized trip planning and recommendations tailored to individual preferences and tastes of users.- Navigated the challenges of early-stage startup growth, including product development, and market positioning.- Secured initial funding and laid the groundwork for further investment, demonstrating the viability and potential impact of the TravelTech Innovations concept.- Despite unforeseen challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic, maintained resilience and adaptability in response to shifting market conditions.- Although the full product launch was delayed due to external circumstances, successfully conducted market research, MVP development, user testing, and iteration to refine the platform's features and user experience.- Overcame obstacles with determination and creativity, demonstrating unwavering commitment to the company's vision.

Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil

Activities:- Leader of a team of 2 Analysts and one Specialist (third-party contractor);- Developed dashboards in Tableau to automate reporting of financial and operational performance: Sales, Sales Orders Backlog, P&L, P&L by product, Revenue Mix Analysis and Opex;- Perform ad hoc analysis and create financial models for innovation initiatives, commercial campaigns, and new products pricing;Projects:- I led an automation project with Ludare as a contracted company to develop an SAP application to extract data from key tables based on projects requirements and mappings provided by me and my team. We used SQL to create the ETL and final Data marts on Microsoft Server and were also responsible for Quality Assurance (QA) and Data Validation;- I was the key business user and main stakeholder for an automation project of four reports (Global Products and Sales - GPS) developed with IBM. I was responsible for providing project requirements, communication and updating key stakeholders in Brazil, USA and UK headquarters, performing business validation, data quality assurance and was process/product owner of the application;Reporting:- R3: prepared and updated a presentation for a High-Level Management (C-level and Key Directors / Managers) results monthly meeting;- Balanced scorecard (BSC): responsible for consolidating and preparing monthly updates for High-level Management.

Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil

Activities:- Finance Business Partner for the Franchising Line of Business supporting the VP and Brand Managers in ad hoc analysis, P&L analysis and financial impact during sales campaigns and year close;- Financial modelling, providing analytical support, and validating financial and operational results for new products and innovation initiatives;- Business Intelligence area creation: reports and processes mapping from the whole company, BI process structuring, project management with IT team, SQL code development and Tableau dashboards creation;- Support the creation of the Pricing area through process mapping and structuring and pricing policy writing with support from Internal Controls.Projects:- Support a Master Data process restructuring being a key stakeholder. I helped the responsible team to lead and execute the project with main participation around a new process for items registration, fields requirement and SAP overhaul;- Rights and Royalties process and area restructuring – I was responsible for calculating the values payable to authors and publisher. After mapping the existing manual process and I create a new corporate process and created a excel spreadsheet with VBA automated capabilities and align with all stakeholders and affected team a handover of this activity to the Editorial team;Reporting:- Daily sales, monthly net sales by brand, P&L and a Book of financial and operational KPI’s;- Global Products master data and sales reporting to USA and company headquarters (UK);

São Paulo

I was accepted as one of 8 Trainees in the first Pearson Brazil's program. I received a 5 month all around company training and learned about all areas main objectives, processes, projects and challenges. After that had intensive on the job training in finance of which 4 months I had a specialist role in Tax team and the remaining period in FP&A. In this period my main attributions were: - Responsible for a Tax regulation change project with impacts in SAP and franchising line of business;- Ran a process restructuring and improvement project for Tax team with 7 pillars involving invoice collection process mapping and restructuring, routine, team and goal management tools and frameworks, returns policy rewriting, revenue conciliation reports automation on Excel, invoices issuing oriented policies rewriting;- Book of financial performance KPI’s and P&L reporting;- Participated in the Brazilian BI project lead by IT as the finance business key user;

Brazil

It is a non-profit organization formed by young Brazilian with the objective to bring people into the national debate for a higher quality in education. The main pillars are supporting different local initiatives throughout Brazil; promote events and social media debates, social entrepreneurship and advocacy in National Congress.I created a Management Area focused on structuring processes and information from the whole organization and to implement management frameworks. As Management Director my main attributions were:- Managed a team of 5 collaborator;- Implemented the first goal roll out and tracking systems;- Supported the implementation of the first strategic plan;- Implemented some KPI tracking methods, project management and routine management frameworks;

Brazil

- Lead a team of 4 collaborators;- Responsible for the planning, management and execution of all external projects;- Created a new project in partnership with "Fundação Estudar" called "LabX by Mapa", that was leadership development and training program for local leaders in education, which had classes in 4 major Brazilian capitals;- Was responsible for a national research (with over 10k answers from all over Brazil) done via online forms on the "Voice of Young Brazilians" around their take on national education issues, which resulted in a Manifesto and a release event in Rio de Janeiro;

Brazil

Supported the execution of a national conference for more than 200 students and teacher that took place in Brasilia over a 2 day period with all inclusive catering. The conference was the first of its kind done by a independent organization centered in education and life changing local education projects.

São Paulo, Brazil

I was accepted in the Internship program for Monsanto Brazil as a Finance Intern at the Internal Controls team, later that year I was moved to the Internal Audit team. My main attributions were:- I was responsible for performing a Procurement Continuous Monitoring Program (CMP) by analysing the support documentation from purchase orders, ensuring the alignment with company policies and procedures. Also, support the monthly presentation of results to Procurement and Controllership management;- Assist on the restructuring of Procurement policies;- Support in Internal Audit and SOx audit process for LATAM Hub (Chile and Argentina);- Support in Segregation of Duties (SoD) mitigation controls;

Swansea, United Kingdom

I was responsible for conducting statistical research in a high resolution microscope with flow cytometry device called ImageStream® by Amnis. The objective of the work was to identify cell groups in blood samples through their physical and morphological characteristics and their correct segregation into similar statistical groups.

São Carlos, São Paulo, Brazil

Junior Enterprise (non-profit organization established and managed entirely by undergraduate students) from UFSCar's Materials Engineering Department.As the president of Materiais Junior, my main contributions were:- Lead a team of 40 member and 5 direct report managers;- Lead a full restructuring project for all enterprise areas from project management, management processes, routine management, marketing, sales and HR;- Implemented the first Strategic Plan - was done with full team collaboration and participation;

São Carlos, São Paulo, Brazil

As a Marketing Manager:- I helped recreate the enterprise identity with new slogan, colour pallets and branding strategies;- Created the first product and services portfolio oriented to sales;- Was responsible for the planning and execution of a event for 100 undergrad participants with 4 panellists around life after graduation and work market;- Repositioned the Marketing team as a strategic area for the enterprise with focus on projects and sales instead of student life;

São Carlos, São Paulo, Brazil

As a marketing analyst:- Helped to create marketing campaigns and presentations using Photoshop, Corel Draw and Power point;- Helped to raise sponsorship money to do events;- Helped organize and execute Excel and other short courses for engineering students;

Bachelor Of Engineering (B.Eng.), Materials Engineering, Polymers Science & Biomaterials

Activities and Societies: Junior Enterprise; Scientific research (FAPESP scholarship); UAT (Undergraduate teaching assistant).

Bachelor Of Engineering (B.Eng.), Materials Engineering, Bio Engineering, Business & Project Management

Activities and Societies: Summer Research Intern Exchange Student