Victor Ramirez Email & Phone Number

Barcelona Area, Spain

*Drive Financial Planning: Interlock, Budget and Biz Bottoms-up process, Flash, Outlook.*Drive Financial Execution of P&L and Spend targets across the business. *Collaborate with the Business teams deploying Best Practices and leveraging them across the organization.*Drive Revenue Growth and Cost Savings initiatives.*Manage Opex budget at Program Level ensuring successful execution on a quarterly basis.*Coordinate Region Finance teams to comply with financial targets and deliverables.

• Lead financial budget process for WW functions (General Mgmt., Strategy, Delivery, Supply Chain, Care-Centers, PWP Install team)• Drive process improvements with WW functions and regional teams• Coordinate and support regional and WW teams to get alignment and achieve financial targets• Drive deployment of financial commitments and guidance• WW costs and expense control• Improve financial capabilities to support the decision making progress and translate into higher profitability of the businesses• P&L analysis by business• Consolidation of GSS P&L per business and region• Capex flash management and actuals tracking• HC and TCOW analysis and planning• Make sure appropriate cross-charges and accruals are booked at MEC • Give financial advice on Project Investments with focus on ROI, Revenues, GM, cost avoidance and actuals tracking• Improve Balance Sheet management with focus on inventory by business• Provide financial support to business and category leads to achieve top line and bottom line targets• Partner with CSS finance to understand cost drivers and look for improvement opportunities • Partner with FP&A team to optimize expense management• Coordinate O&O items for GSS• Coordinate funding agreements with other organizations• Make sure proper financial structure is set-up to support WW functions• Present GSS Actuals and Flash to senior management

• Led financial consultation and support to the Sales and Solution teams along each E2E deal lifecycle. Drive Due Diligence, hold Customer Invoicing Workshop, propose contractual verbiage to optimize ES cash flow and bottom line.• Led cross-functional project teams in order to come up with process improvements and document procedures. Yellow belt certified by improving 5% gross margin in Lain America deals.• Drove FAM operational model. Optimize Resource Planning.• Identified financial risks and perform bid assessment. • Complied with FAM & HP policies & procedures, especially in global business.• Partnered with Tax and Legal departments to set-up final Contract Terms and Agreements.• Ensured linkages across the regions.• Proactively took initial steps on Order Acceptance, Billing and Invoicing, and Master Data set up.• Influenced on the practical implementation of the Revenue Recognition in Compass/SAP.• Coordinate a team of 5 specialist consultants.• Provided initial FAM startup leadership. Ensures successful transition to the Financial Ongoing team.

Guadalajara Area, Mexico

*Led planning and analysis of OpEx across product lines in portfolio and presented in executive management reports.*Managed Portfolio Planning & Actuals process. Partnered with Marketing Planners, Supply Chain managers, FSC workforce, and Labs R&D Engineers to drive and influence Portfolio Bottoms-Up roll-up as well as accomplish financial targets.*OpEx Cube Design and Development to enable financial information by program.*Performed Financial Model simulation to analyze potential scenarios on the long-term business portfolio.*Partnered with the NPI team to Operationalize long term finance plans by product family.

• Coordinated migration and implementation of ERP (Baan IV to Baan V). • Led annual plan and its quarterly-monthly conversion. Drove results reviews with ops directors and corporate. • Performed weekly cash flow and coordinated payments with the accounts payable team.• Implemented and monitored cost accounting systems and controls to make processes more efficient.• Deployed "road maps" and key metrics for America and Europe. Performed Audits on each plant.• Leader in cost reduction initiatives (savings of excess and obsolete by $25,000 USD via kaizen).• Supervised financial month end. (5 hrs. reduction via lean office and six sigma implementation).• Responsible for internal and external audits. Compliance with SOX and US GAAP.• Supervisor of 7 cost accountants. Responsible for providing training and coaching to staff.

• Implemented a system tool for purchase price variance and freight recovery ($5,000USD per quarter).• Product mix and productivity analysis. Quote analysis.• Determined standard cost and break even points. Calculation of production costs.• Analysis of waste, excess and obsolete, material returns. Cycle count support.• Analysis of inventory turns, inventory revaluation impacts, inventory levels by warehouse.• Analysis of bills of materials, engineering changes, work orders. • Elaborated complex financial models. Analysis of key indicators of operations.• Balance sheet accounts reconciliation. Provisions calculation.

Master Of Business Administration (Mba), Business Administration And Management, General, Master

Bachelor'S Degree, Accounting And Finance, 97