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PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE Director of Business Operations, Strategy & Chief of Staff Spain and Portugal at Takeda. Driving high performance Agile organization and business improvement programs. Leading strategic planning process, launch excellence and special projects while coordinating transformation and relentless process reengineering and optimization, paving the way for future readiness and continous innovation. >15 years in Biopharmaceutical Industry. Leading local and regional strategic and finance planning processes and business opportunities analysis supporting decision making. Worked with cross-fuctional teams supporting the excellence in execution of more than 100 product launches and indications across many european countries, with focus on anticipating risks, seizing opportunities and optimizing resources meanwhile assessing new GTM strategies and capabilities building. Specialist in financial modelling and project management. Solid expertise in financial planning & reporting, business strategy proposals and recommendations with complex scenarios and simulations analysis, finance business partnering and big-data and digital visualization projects. Offers international background focusing on delivering results and capturing & realising value in fast-paced global environments. Member of International FP&A trends group sharing/learning practitioners’ best in class practices and technologies. Experience on managing and developing direct team of people as well as leading corporate culture implementation and communication. Exceptional experience with cross functional teams in big international projects. Comfortable on presenting complex information to big audiences and senior leaders. Capability areas: Agile, Trusted Advisor, Connector, Catalyst, effective and pragmatic with attention to detail, ability to influence and push for opportunities, big picture thinking seeking for different scenarios to help decision making, coordination of teams and skills to streamline processes. PMO, Project manager, continuous improvement and innovation mindset, passion for business partnering building strong trusted teamwork relationships. Manager delivering results and growing others, agile collaborations with IT and shared outsourced teams and relationship with vendors and consultants. Highly skilled in Power BI, Power Apps and Power Automate + Copilot studio. Always learning about AI solutions and assessing use cases to drive digital transformation.
• Leading regional strategic finance planning processes with reporting and analysis activities supporting decision making as a trusted finance business partner. • Supporting more than 100 product launches and indications across the region. • Monitoring planning process execution of several divestitures. • Worked on multiple system and processes integration activities and analysis, planning, and execution of the merge Shire/Takeda. • Financial partnership on several restructuring and investment optimization processes. • Continuous analysis and proactive recommendations on investments optimization and prioritization management. • Collaborating on process implementation and analysis of new GTM strategies and capability building. • Continuous improvement on streamlining processes. • Leading and collaborating in international workstreams on new visualization tools implementation. • Monitoring supply chain impacts and collaborating on quick mitigation plans. • Collaborating on agile frameworks design and governance of communities’ implementation in the region. • Leading on regional Finance Vision transformation, managing brainstorming workshops, driving roadmaps execution. • Continuously leading and inspiring on elevating finance function capabilities. • Assessment of finance business planning tools with external providers
• Working with Genetic Diseases, Immunology, Hematology, Internal Medicine and Neuroscience business units. Key member of FP&A DACH region: Germany, Austria and Switzerland. • Cluster financial reporting management and control. Managing and coordinating monthly communications and guidance to country FP&A teams and delivering information to International finance. • Creating and standardizing tools and processes. Implementing new franchise and country KPIs to support decision making • Stabilization of accounting processes after challenging entity integration in Germany (Shire & Baxalta). • Finance R&O scenarios analysis and recommendations on key business cases (Takhzyro launch, Xagrid sick funds contracts risks, Xagrid Analog launch, LOEs, Vpriv extra field force team, Elvanse Adult launch). • Continuous partnering with CLT and General Manager. • Project Polaris SME “IBM business planning tool”. Collaboration in design, testing and helping on the implementation.
• Finance partner for Spain and Portugal Hematology, Oncology and Immunology & HAE business units. Key member of FP&A team with responsibility of supporting CFO with all business units cluster consolidation and reporting. • Considering opportunities for the company to expand or grow; Created price optimization tool for Hematology business to be able to manage by account price situation and react quickly to the challenging environment. • Designed total country portfolio offers tool to help CLT team to design special account strategies. • Creating and optimizing new tools and KPIs to support decision making. • Stabilizing processes after Shire & Baxalta Integration. “Horizontal continuous improvement process owner’s” initiative.
• Finance partnering in the Innovative health business unit, operating Plan and quarterly forecast guidance scenarios • Analyzing key trend variances and production of monthly/quarterly/ad-hoc reporting to the business leads. • Analyzing and explaining current and historic performance, providing effective commercial business challenge to ensure key operational, commercial and financial targets are achieved or beaten. • Leading and providing analytical support on a range of ad-hoc / cross functional projects and strategic initiatives. • Supporting and influencing internal customer groups in all finance and accounting matters, including budgeting, forecasting, expense/investment tracking and control. • Project leader of new business finance planning tool initiative with more than 20 countries involved (from design, process improvement to visualization and execution).
The Global Finance Decision Support Center of Excellence (DS CoE) initiative’s overall goal is to unburden business-facing finance colleagues by centralizing decision support finance activities. DS CoE Europe centralizes support for 52 European countries, and together with the US site, is leading the global finance transformation strategy. • Coordinate European Finance Business Partners in planning, budgeting and forecasting processes in accordance with standard global support model. • Management and development of team members reporting into me. • Project Manager - managing and leading the coordination of big International cross functional teams in various key projects involving senior managers and IT technical teams. • Partnering and coordinating with the outsourcing team in India on optimization of the service delivery model. • Direct Business Finance support to three of the biggest European countries by revenue and complexity: Spain, Germany and the UK as well as experience of liaising with other mid-sized European countries such as Ireland, Austria, Switzerland, Netherlands, Belgium, Greece and Portugal. • Continuous improvement lead, developing new finance models and processes for the business as part of the “best in class” initiatives and data visualization. • Enhancing trusted and integral business partner relationship with the finance commercial community. • Supporting European Crossborder Trade sales between countries providing forecast trend estimations. • Participate and coordinate UAT system enhancement projects. • Month end close finance activities (monitoring team’s sales submission and reconciliation, VEMP analysis, OPEX & OID allocation, DME and Bridge variance analysis). • Ad-hoc Consolidated financial analysis and modeling (SAP BI, HFM Essbase). • Lead operational meetings with business finance leads, following up action plans and looking for opportunity areas. • Costs SME, provide guidance, training sessions and COGS enhancement projects.
• Financial P&L consolidation, report analysis and reconciliation (Essbase & HFM). • Global Markup Exchange project (GMX). Mark-ups of internal costs. • Bulk, royalties, reserves, purchase price variances and revaluations estimation and validation. • Monthly sales analysis and accounting reconciliations (intercompany & co-promotion alliances). • Parallel Trade and OI & OD validation. • Financial business units support analysis (Ad-hoc reporting & data analysis). • Coordination with several international teams to share best practices and to identify system inefficiencies proposing continuous improvement solutions. • Spain SAP ECC R6 migration project (leading business implementation, testing and validation of finance AP & Inventory).
Financial & Accounting Consulting – Start-up Project Designed and implemented a complete accounting system and financial analysis framework for a start-up. Led the development of software requirements and the design of operational processes, definitions, and structures to enable detailed account analysis and the production of key financial reports, including the Balance Sheet, Profit & Loss, Cash Forecast, Cash Flow, and Business Unit performance dashboards.
Staff Auditor – Audit engagements in the Real Estate, Energy, and public/private Concessions sectors, serving clients including ING Real Estate, Sacyr y Vallehermoso, Telefónica, Premier MS Spain, Comfersa, Termosol, Gamesolar, and Valoriza. Key responsibilities: • Conducted walkthroughs and control testing of operational procedures. • Assessed material risks in accounting analyses to determine necessary adjustments. • Performed treasury and tax account analysis and reconciliations. • Applied Spain PGC 2007 standards and International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS). • Prepared customer ageing analyses. • Conducted accrual estimation testing. • Analyzed equity and grant accounts. • Performed variance analyses of expense and income accounts. • Reviewed asset and liability accounts for accuracy and compliance.