SAP Finance Program/Project Manager

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.

• 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. 

- Benchmarking and implementation of ERP/EPM/BI solutions (SAP, Cognos, Hyperion, Microstrategy) leading the full project life-cycle: Analysis, Design, Construction and Implementation + Maintenance. Direct hands-on configuration experience in SAP FI-CO.

- 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. 

International Experience:

• EMEA: France; Portugal; Netherlands; Switzerland; Germany; United Kingdom; Ukraine; Romania; Hungary; Egypt; Morocco; Algeria; Lebanon; Nigeria; RSA.
• LATAM: Colombia; Perú; Ecuador; Venezuela.  

EDUCATION
 
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.