Castelldefels, Catalonia, Spain
Hands-on senior finance professional who enjoys solving puzzles and find practical solutions including the use of BI tools to help drive value creation. Translating complexity into business logic allowing for effective partnering with all lines of business. Accustomed to work in a multicultural environment and able to successfully lead virtual and cross-functional teams/projects under time pressure. Over 15 years of experience in managing financial business planning, reporting, analytics and control. Consolidated management reporting, group standardization of key metrics and insightful data reporting consistency to achieve accurate business analysis.
• Business partnering across functions to understand the data and insights needs and translate these to the technical data and visualization groups; • Key operational and financial reports rationalization, digitalization and automation • Lead of standardization of KPIs and drivers in order to enable planning and analysis a driver-based approach;
Within the Financial Planning, Budgeting & Analysis Department responsible for: • Manage and optimize the quarterly reporting process as the Key Broadband contact to the LGI headquarter office (Denver), supporting the 10-Q and 10-K processes, • Ensure consistency in (non) financial reporting across the group to enable comparison between entities, • Perform benchmarking, identifying best practice and support implementation worldwide, • Supervision of data maintenance, quality and updates for business and reporting requirements, • Acting as a point of contact to Sr. Management to answer questions and provide ad hoc analysis, • Acting as specified point of contact within Broadband Finance and act as liaison between the operating companies (CFOs & Financial Team) and departments within the Corporate offices, • Ensure Trade Working Capital is effectively managed and controlled both at the entity level and well as centrally, • Work closely together with the Corporate Financial Control group to ensure that the entire Broadband operation is capture from a Capex and Opex perspective and the controlling of that.
Managing a pool of analysts at the Financial Planning, Budgeting & Analysis Department, main responsibilities: • Responsible for the team planning (managing time and resources) spreading the workload and ensuring that all the deadlines are met at the required level of quality. Furthermore supervising the department process documentation, and other administrative responsibilities, • Acting as specified point of contact within Broadband Finance and act as liaison between the operating companies (CFOs & Financial Team) and departments within the Corporate offices, • Coordinate and supervise the actual reporting processes and the required deliverables and relevant analysis, • Supervision of data maintenance, quality and updates for business and reporting requirements, • Supervise accurate and timely recurring periodic (weekly, monthly, quarterly) financial and non-financial reports and relevant analysis, • Preparation of the Liberty Global Operations (former UPC Broadband) Division Management Review; monthly presentation of operational results discussed with the Senior Financial Management of LGI (Europe and Denver). Acting as a point of contact to Sr. Management to answer questions and provide ad hoc analysis, • Supporting Quarterly Disclosure process by providing the division’s consolidated figures related to non-financial and certain financial data like revenue and costs. Also acting as point of contact to the global financial reporting team and investment relation team to provide and review related wording and footnotes for the 10-Q and 10-K forms, • Ensuring timely and accurate inputs from the Group in compliance with US-GAAP, SOX and Liberty global defined policies,
• Ensuring timely and accurate inputs from the assigned operating entities for actual reporting, budgeting and forecasting, in compliance with US-GAAP, SOX and Liberty global defined policies, • Analysis and documented follow-up of actual monthly financial performance, including KPI’s and explanation of variances compared to prior year, prior month, budget and forecasts, • Produce accurate and timely recurring periodic (weekly, monthly, quarterly) financial and non-financial reports and relevant analysis, • Supporting the preparation of the monthly UPC Broadband Division Management Review presentation and other ad hoc analysis and presentations for senior management team,
• Supervising and controlling the daily administration and accounting for the multi-currency and multi-company European holdings of the Bacardi Group, • Preparing the submission and analysis of periodical reporting, intercompany reconciliation and month-end and quarter-end closings • Monitoring and forecasting group loans/interest and netting transactions, • Preparing cash flow forecasting & working capital management • Participating in the companies costs and treasury budgeting, and consolidation process • Participating in various ad hoc projects; like creation of reporting procedures for the branch office in Geneva (Switzerland), ERP implementation, investment analysis, year-end management presentations, cost of sharing process, and many more.
Planning, Budget and Results Department
Treasury and Financial Risk Departments