São Paulo, Brazil
• More than 19 years of professional experience in German multinational industries, in Finance area: Mainly FP&A, Product Supply Finance, Accounting, Auditing and Costs. • Strong performance in Financial Statements management and preparing financial reports. • Experience in project development, digitalization and harmonization. • Leader of the Bayer Group Report team for Headquarters. • Strong performance as FP&A | Business Partner in Bayer acting as LATAM Controller. • Accountant, with fluent English and advanced Spanish.
• Active member of the LATAM Finance Leadership team; • Key role in financial management supporting the organization in meeting shareholder expectations; • Transparency in performance and the balance of risks and opportunities among countries in the region; • Coordinate the regional planning process, while ensuring an accurate assessment of impacts and business alternatives; • Business partnership for FBP countries and global Performance Management team, technical assessment and standardization across countries and regional financial analysis; • Enabling effective financial steering in line with business strategic objectives, supporting the LATAM region with the financial governance, consolidation for all planning cycles and actuals reporting. • Regional Finance PMO leading the implementation of all Finance related projects in the region. • Governance over all Finance regional planning cycles and provides guidance over all actual reporting and prepares all consolidation of the region. • Managing governance/guidance of all planning cycles aligned with Global/Regional PS & Commercial operations including Plan, Forecasts, Estimation and jump-off processes; • Consolidation of all regional financial KPIs, to ensure accuracy, reliability and predictability of the coming results; • Engage with stakeholders to assure the needed business insights to enable effective planning and steering; • Reporting and communications to regional/global Finance leadership the consolidated regional figures (actuals, estimations, forecasts and budget); • Secure that controlling processes are fulfilled according to the applicable calendars and guidelines; • Manage all planning process, Estimates, Forecasts and Actuals reporting, supporting all Heads with transparency of costs development and identification on main deviations as well as bringing insights on possible mitigation measures; • Supports global/regional controlling projects.
• Conduct LATAM financial planning processes in close cooperation with the FBPs and the global commercial operations performance management team; • Connecting local and global teams on technical aspects for problem solving and standardization, being responsible for technical recommendations and daily decision making on operational issues; • Evaluate country financial analysis / clusters and forecast recommendation, considering the business and market situation, changes in accounting treatments and targets for the region; • Perform financial analysis and consolidation for regional P&L; this includes finance and business update communication for forecast, estimate, budget and targets for P&L and support for cash flow analysis; • Provide financial basis and modeling to support short to medium term decision-making on operational plans and regional performance balance; • Prepare regional performance prospects for LATAM leadership and present them to global interfaces • Run ad-hoc requests to analyze regional performance, opportunities and risks
• Preparation and monitoring of OPEX (Operational Expenses). • Financial Planning including all forecasts, budgets and estimates. • Total control of Personnel Costs with HR, including open positions. • Elaboration and maintenance of apportionment cycles for all corporate expenses and the derivation of total OPEX for the P&L. • Reporting from Controlling to Headquarters and Board (Templates and Presentations). • Controller responsible for the division's CAPEX – actuals, planning, project creations, reports, provisions. • Ambassador of the DataOne Planning Package global planning tool • Regional SME LATAM – Cost Accounting Directive
• Accounting leader process and controlling with Controller. • Accounts payable, accounts receivable, billing, intercompanies, GAPs, report product cost analysis, sales projections. • Responsible for all closing and reporting routines. • Revenue closing.
• MERCOSUR Reconciliation for posting bank statements. • INRECON (reconciliation between Intercompanies of the Henkel group). • Participation in the processes of harmonization of processes in Finance in Latin America. • General reconciliations such as tax, banking and provisions. • General ledger entries, including payroll. • Reimbursement system for employees (RDV) Mercosur. • Invoice verification: accounting for invoices for productive and unproductive material.