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Digital Finance Advisor and Senior Project Manager with an outstanding track record of 20 years in Finance & Controlling and IT related projects. Specialist in digital finance transformation programs at multinational companies: business process improvement (planning/budgeting, costing models, financial consolidation, period-end-closing, reporting, capital markets, etc) and ERP/EPM implementations (SAP, Cognos, Hyperion, Microstrategy and Murex). Identification of improvement opportunities. Multi-disciplinary team leadership. Committed to meet tight objectives and deadlines. Adaptability in complex project environments. Communication with senior management (C-level). International experience.
PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND
Main tasks and responsibilities performed in projects:
- Finance Digital Transformation: redesign and implementation of finance and controlling processes and systems.
- Program & Project Management: planning, coordination, budgeting control, resource management, risk management, change management, key stakeholders and sponsor management, issue resolution, PPM methodologies (PwC-Ascendant, ASAP, Sprint, etc) and team mentoring. Communication with senior management (C-level).
- Capital Markets: reporting redesign and Front Office applications implementation for Fixed Income, Equities and Derivatives operations (Murex).
- Integration manager for financial processes and systems in M&A projects.
- Presentation/negotiation of commercial proposals and contracts with third parties.
Sectors:
Dec.’18 – Nov.’20 Executive MBA. ESADE Business & Law School. UNIVERSITAT RAMON LLULL / Aalto University Executive Education Ltd.
Oct.’91 – Feb.’96 Bachelor in Business Administration. Faculty of Economics and Business. UNIVERSITAT DE BARCELONA.
LANGUAGES
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND
Main tasks and responsibilities performed in projects:
- Finance Digital Transformation: redesign and implementation of finance and controlling processes and systems.
- Design of Business Blueprints and roll-outs across EMEA + LATAM countries.
- Re-engineering of General Overheads and Industrial Costing.
- Design and implementation of Product Costing processes (standard, actual, full-costing, direct costing, etc).
- Design of Activity Based Costing models.
- Re-engineering and implementation of Planning and Budgeting processes.
- Optimization of the Financial Period-End-Closing.
- Financial Reporting: P&L and Profitability Analysis (products, markets, clients, channels, subsidiaries, etc).
- Definition of Key Performance Indicators (KPI’s).
- Optimization of Financial processes: GL, AP, AR, AA, IM, TR and Credit Management.
- Program & Project Management: planning, coordination, budgeting control, resource management, risk management, change management, key stakeholders and sponsor management, issue resolution, PPM methodologies (PwC-Ascendant, ASAP, Sprint, etc) and team mentoring. Communication with senior management (C-level).
- Capital Markets: reporting redesign and Front Office applications implementation for Fixed Income, Equities and Derivatives operations (Murex).
- Integration manager for financial processes and systems in M&A projects.
- Presentation/negotiation of commercial proposals and contracts with third parties.
Sectors:
- CPG and Retail: Bunge, Nestlé, Revlon, Caprabo, Coca-Cola European Partners.
- Financial Services: Banco Sabadell, Caixa Bank.
- Automotive: Opel.
- Industry & Energy: BSN Glasspack, Schneider Electric.
- Media & Entertainment: Grupo Godó, Bertelsmann.
- Utilities: Aïgues Ter Llobregat.
- EMEA: France; Portugal; Netherlands; Switzerland; Germany; United Kingdom; Ukraine; Romania; Hungary; Egypt; Morocco; Algeria; Lebanon; Nigeria; RSA.
- LATAM: Colombia; Perú; Ecuador; Venezuela.
Dec.’18 – Nov.’20 Executive MBA. ESADE Business & Law School. UNIVERSITAT RAMON LLULL / Aalto University Executive Education Ltd.
Oct.’91 – Feb.’96 Bachelor in Business Administration. Faculty of Economics and Business. UNIVERSITAT DE BARCELONA.
LANGUAGES
- Spanish and Catalan: bilingual.
- English: fluent (spoken and written).
- French: intermediate (spoken and written).
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
- mySAP FI-CO Certificate (2.005). SAP España. Barcelona.
- SAP R/3 FI-CO Certificate (1.998). Partner Academy SAP España. Madrid.
- Skilled at SAP MM, SD, PP and PS (integration with FI-CO).
- MS-Office Skills: Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Project.
Project history
Jan.’14 – Present Bunge. Sant Just Desvern (Barcelona).
EMEA SAP Finance Program Lead. Responsible for leading finance business process improvement/SAP projects and deployment of best practices across EMEA countries: mid/long term finance programs definition and leadership; project management; planning/budgeting/resource management; finance process optimization: accounting operations, cost and profitability controlling, financial planning, month-end-closing, reporting, investment management, credit control and cash management.
SAP projects: complex full life cycle SAP implementations starting from envisioning & architecture through business blueprint setup, solution design, system configuration, deployment and maintenance: FI-CO, Treasury and FSCM. Integration with logistic flows (MM, SD, PP, PS and PM).
Oct.’08 – Dec.’13 Banco Sabadell. Sant Cugat del Vallés (Barcelona).
Finance Program Director. Responsible for the finance & controlling function effectiveness projects and capital markets projects: mid/long term finance programs definition and leadership; business process improvement and financial systems implementations: budgeting and cost controlling process redesign in SAP FI-CO; banking business reporting redesign and implementation in Hyperion-Essbase; financial and regulatory reporting (Basel)/ financial statements implementation in Cognos and Microstrategy; insolvency management/reporting process improvement; financial consolidation redesign and applications benchmarking (SAP BPC, HFM, Cognos); capital markets business process/reporting redesign (Murex) for financial operations tracking (fixed income, equities, derivatives, etc).
Jan.’08 – Sept.’08 Grupo Godó de Comunicación. Barcelona.
Corporate Controller. Financial supervision of the Business Units; business planning; budgeting control; financial month-end-closing coordination; reporting to the General Management; etc.
May.’05 – Jan.’08 Caprabo (Grupo Eroski). L’Hospitalet (Barcelona).
Finance Program Manager. Responsible for the finance & controlling function effectiveness projects - business process improvement and financial systems implementations: yearly finance programs definition and leadership; accounting operations, cost and profitability controlling; financial period-end-closing; financial reporting; investment management; treasury management; balanced scorecards; ERP/CPM systems implementations (SAP FI-CO and Cognos), etc.
March’98 – April‘05 PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC Consulting). Barcelona. Senior Consultant in business process re-engineering and SAP FI-CO implementation projects across EMEA countries.
Jan.‘97 – March’98 GVC Gaesco. Barcelona.
Trader; Financial Investment Analyst; Financial Advisor.
EMEA SAP Finance Program Lead. Responsible for leading finance business process improvement/SAP projects and deployment of best practices across EMEA countries: mid/long term finance programs definition and leadership; project management; planning/budgeting/resource management; finance process optimization: accounting operations, cost and profitability controlling, financial planning, month-end-closing, reporting, investment management, credit control and cash management.
SAP projects: complex full life cycle SAP implementations starting from envisioning & architecture through business blueprint setup, solution design, system configuration, deployment and maintenance: FI-CO, Treasury and FSCM. Integration with logistic flows (MM, SD, PP, PS and PM).
- Budget (yearly): up to 4 M Euros.
- Project Teams: up to 15 FTE’s.
- Main achievements: core model design and deployment across EMEA subsidiaries (roll-outs) following the SAP Roadmap; integration of two new plants in France and The Netherlands; HANA upgrade; SAP implementation in the Lecithine and Biodiesel businesses; new crushing plant setup in Ukraine; finance processes and reporting harmonization across EMEA.
Oct.’08 – Dec.’13 Banco Sabadell. Sant Cugat del Vallés (Barcelona).
Finance Program Director. Responsible for the finance & controlling function effectiveness projects and capital markets projects: mid/long term finance programs definition and leadership; business process improvement and financial systems implementations: budgeting and cost controlling process redesign in SAP FI-CO; banking business reporting redesign and implementation in Hyperion-Essbase; financial and regulatory reporting (Basel)/ financial statements implementation in Cognos and Microstrategy; insolvency management/reporting process improvement; financial consolidation redesign and applications benchmarking (SAP BPC, HFM, Cognos); capital markets business process/reporting redesign (Murex) for financial operations tracking (fixed income, equities, derivatives, etc).
- Budget (yearly): up to 3’6 M Euros.
- Project Teams: up to 20 FTE’s.
- Main achievements: efficiency improvement of the financial statements management/ reporting through the optimization and implementation of CPM/BI systems; design and implementation of a new business reporting model following banking best practices; more transparency in the reporting of customer insolvencies; conciliation/unification of the Treasury business P&L.
Jan.’08 – Sept.’08 Grupo Godó de Comunicación. Barcelona.
Corporate Controller. Financial supervision of the Business Units; business planning; budgeting control; financial month-end-closing coordination; reporting to the General Management; etc.
- Main achievements: leadership of a cost reduction project for all the subsidiaries of the group; launch of new on-line businesses.
May.’05 – Jan.’08 Caprabo (Grupo Eroski). L’Hospitalet (Barcelona).
Finance Program Manager. Responsible for the finance & controlling function effectiveness projects - business process improvement and financial systems implementations: yearly finance programs definition and leadership; accounting operations, cost and profitability controlling; financial period-end-closing; financial reporting; investment management; treasury management; balanced scorecards; ERP/CPM systems implementations (SAP FI-CO and Cognos), etc.
- Budget (yearly): up to 3 M Euros.
- Project Teams: up to 18 FTE’s.
- Main achievements: transparency and efficiency of the management reporting processes through the implementation of a new CPM application (Cognos) for senior and middle management; financial process improvement through SAP FI-CO implementation projects; financial integration with Eroski.
March’98 – April‘05 PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC Consulting). Barcelona. Senior Consultant in business process re-engineering and SAP FI-CO implementation projects across EMEA countries.
- Project Teams: up to 5 FTE’s.
- Main achievements: excellence in process and systems management by undertaking global finance transformation projects.
Jan.‘97 – March’98 GVC Gaesco. Barcelona.
Trader; Financial Investment Analyst; Financial Advisor.
Local Availability
Only available in these countries:
Spain
Main location: Spain
Other locations : all EMEA countries
Other locations : all EMEA countries
