Sr finance manager

Responsible for bringing financial concepts to the procurement team as well as support all directors distribute in more than 10 categories globally on the portfolio and majors KPI (around 3B annually).

Major Contributions: 
•	Responsible to provide a better overview analysis related to COGS to Avon in terms of budget, FCST and actual;
•	Link with hard finance in order to keep the correct alignment and avoid miscommunication with the headquarter
•	Create and improve cost model among region (APAC / EUROPE / LATAM)
•	Bring the financial supplier’s evaluation inside the area 
•	Harmonize the main financial process among Region
•	Working Capital projects improve payment terms (more than 30 days during these years (from 55 days in average to 85 days in average)

Support Regional and Local functional leaders as a strategic business partner in owning, understanding, controlling, planning and optimizing spending decisions as it relates to: i) working capital (inventory days and account payable days); ii) manufacturing and distribution center budget ($900MM); iii) financial analysis evaluation (ROI, Payback - $100MM per year of savings); iv) Procurement for both business (Beauty, F&H and indirect spending - $3bi)
Provide audit / quality control to teams to ensure accurate expense clarification.
Understand all functional cost centers business risks and ops, including key activities,
resourcing requirements, spending patterns, 3P vendor utilization.

Major Contributions: 
•	Leading and develop a senior team with 5 direct reports (supervisors)
•	Harmonization and simplification process in the Region thought avoid and eliminate reports that no-add values and automation reports. (reduce 7 HC to 5 HC among 2 years)
•	Prepare a unique timely and accurate plans, forecasts, outlooks and strategic views for all clusters.
•	Coordinate all re-organization projects with Global and cascade it at clusters level (business service transformation)
•	Support and Challenge all CFC re-org projects, business expenditures and incremental staffing proposals. 
•	Drive cost savings or cost containment opportunities. 
•	Develop user friendly tools that can be rolled out to functional leaders to help bring visibility to their spending and major KPI to making decision.
•	Improve business partnership with Global, Regional and Local Finance and operational team.
•	Deliver around $100MM in COGS and SG&A thought business projects transformation and benchmark across Regional (implement transportation fees, returns, lines optimization)
•	Harmonization projects to standardize concepts among the clusters in order to have DC and Plants comparable.

Responsible to recover finance credibility lost few years ago. Develop the finance reporting pack of the plant and timely report it to headquarters in US. Establish and develop the proper finance staff for the plant.
Estimated budget: $160MM per year

Major Contributions: 
•	Leading and develop a team with 2 direct reports (sr. analyst)
•	Develop and use the finance reporting pack to give visibility on key Plant indicators and take the correct decision for the business;
•	Develop a group of commitment to measure risks and identify opportunities to reduce Plant costs (overhead)
•	Search opportunities to reduce inefficiency in the Plant to have better costs to marketing;
•	Initiatives to reduce Overhead (fixed) and increase variable indicators (by volume produced)

Responsible to eliminate activities non-add values, reduce finance HC/costs and improve close-in activities reducing hours of works.

Major Contributions: 
•	Leading indirect team over several areas (Finance, Sales, Marketing, IT, SC)
•	Review all internal finance process, identify and create action plan to eliminate potential issues during monthly close-in (reduce 2 days of submission)
•	Leading a financial project to move all activities non-add values for one outsource (AR / AP) for all LATAM clusters (project implemented successfully – one outsource based on Chile responsible for all clusters (Spanish language) and the other one in Brazil responsible for Brazil. 
•	Leading a transformation business projects in the AR area (create scoring to Avon’s representatives) creating potential incremental revenue and reduce returns (savings in the distribution area). Project implemented successfully.

Support Regional and Local functional leaders as a strategic business partner in owning, understanding, controlling, planning and optimizing spending decisions as it relates to: i) working capital (inventory days and account payable days); ii) manufacturing and distribution center budget ($900MM); iii) financial analysis evaluation (ROI, Payback - $100MM per year of savings); iv) Procurement for both business (Beauty, F&H and indirect spending - $3bi)
Understand all functional cost centers business risks and ops, including key activities, resourcing requirements, spending patterns, 3P vendor utilization.

Major Contributions: 
•	Standardize and harmonize reports among clusters;
•	Define structure organization and innovation costs to support Marketing and Supply Chain
•	Budget management (actual, FCST, budget);
•	Project financial evaluation (develop set of analysis to validate each business case)
•	Gross Margin analysis (assumptions harmonization)
•	Regional FP&A organization and set of analysis
•	Support to: Marketing, Sales, Procurement, Planning, Manufacturing, Distribution Centers and Local / Global Finance
•	Create a strong cost book process across region (guidelines, standardization reports and criteria, etc)

Several areas in finance, such as support marketing with innovation costs understanding, controlling and optimizing gross margin and operating profit in order to launch profitable products; business partner for manufacturing and distribution center sites; responsible for implement cost contribution analysis tool.

Major Contributions: 
•	Support Mkt team with all categories (color, skin care, fragrance, F&H);
•	Support Mfg Directors and DC with the KPI harmonization and providing analysis for CAPEX
•	Gross Margin control and portfolio analysis (price x taxes x cogs x expenses)
•	Identify Risks and opportunities according current scenario economic (fx devaluation, clusters hyperinflation, labor above inflation)
Support Avon’s executive with strong analysis to making decision.

MBA ADMINISTRATION / ECONOMIC AND STRATEGY BUSINESS MANAGEMENT

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