Experience

Dinoxx

• Brazil
• Industrial Machinery Manufacturing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Partner & Director of Finance and HR

  • Dec 2020 - Present

  Direct oversight of financial, administration and compliance matters in support of strategic planning, prioritizing of project resourcing, objective setting, P&L and cash forecasting. • Led the cultural Data Driven evolution for creating performance metrics (KPI’s) and attributes in the journey of professionalizing the start-up company • Implemented Cash Flow, P&L and Data Governance structuring for forecasting and actual control. Also, integrating Cash Flow, P&L and Balance sheet • Led Monthly, Quarterly and Yearly P&L board meetings • Led Tax & Equity project implementation generating savings of R$2.2MM 2021, and forecasting R$3.3MM in 2022 • Pricing & Profit strategies sales discount, warranty and poor-quality generating opp. of R$1.5MM opp. for margin increase • Reduction of Bank and Payment Financiers interests over sales of 5% points, generating a saving of R$1MM in 2021, and forecasting R$1.5MM in 2022. Show less



Ingredion Incorporated

• United States
• Food and Beverage Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Internal Audit Manager NA - Local USA

  • Dec 2018 - Dec 2020

  Responsible for managing financial and operational compliance audit projects, while providing expertise in internal control and auditing standards, requirements and performance criteria. In addition, will also provide internal control consulting services to management and staff, major input to the development of the annual Internal Control Risk Assessment and Internal Audit Plan, as well as training, coaching and supervision to the global Internal Audit team.

• PMO ZBB and FP&A - Expat in Argentina

  • Jan 2018 - Dec 2018

  PMO of ZBB (budget all expenses at zero-bases) - Responsible for developing enhanced expenditure controls and visibility regarding deviations versus target, as well as creating budget guidelines to support effective cost control. In addition, the implementation of Matrix Budget Management, managerial methodology for planning and budget control that provides cross vision and objective analysis.FP&A: Closing routine - Monthly and Quarterly reports and presentations to the leadership team and CEO.Forecast - Weekly, monthly and quarterly process management/ Budget - Annual P&L term projection/ Business partnering - Support to Sales, Mkt and InnovationZBB project includes more than just cost smart reduction strategy, it works as top-down culture movement in which the main idea would be implementing Employee’s Owners Mindset for controlling and managing their own cost center expenses. Focused in Opex actual versus target deviations, budgeting all expenses at zero-bases. US$2.4 MM optimization in the first year in Argentina and US$4.4 MM for Brazil. Show less

• Pricing and Profitability, South America - FP&A

  • Jan 2017 - Jan 2018

  Serve as the Finance Business Partner for the Sales, Marketing and Innovation areas, supporting the development of strategies to maximize sales and profit.Support as pricing proposals, incentive plan design, and revenue and profit forecasting analysis.Results driven for more efficient utilization of resources and lead to higher profit levels at key strategic accounts.

• Corporate Strategy - Expat in USA

  • Mar 2016 - Dec 2016

  Responsible for gathering and interpreting competitor's information, such as objectives, assumptions, strategy, capabilities, news/releases and acquisitions. Provide both an offensive and defensive strategic context to identify opportunities and threats. Profiling coalesces all of the relevant sources of competitor analysis into one framework in the support of efficient and effective strategy formulation, implementation, monitoring and adjustment.

• Global SOX Compliance, Data Governance & Special Projects - Expat in USA

  • Dec 2015 - Dec 2016

  Leadership and implementation of Ingredion’s critical compliance program. As such, play a key role in the management of our compliance program, and therefore contribute to the critical success of our short- and long-term business goals and objectives.Primarily responsible for the management of the global Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) compliance program through continuous improvement and the development of efficient and effective testing protocols; and developing, implementing and monitoring data governance policies, procedures and tools to ensure the highest level of data quality across the organization.Responsible for managing data governance activities between data stewards and IT to ensure timely response to business requirements and to ensure a consistent framework for financial reporting and business analytics, and provide guidance and support for data governance activities for system implementations. Show less

• Senior Internal Auditor

  • Mar 2014 - Dec 2015

  Lead internal audits, including operational, financial and compliance audits. Maintainall organizational and professional ethical standards. Based in Sao Paulo, Brazil, primary responsibility for conducting reviews within Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Uruguay, Colombia, Peru, Germany and Chicago.- Perform Global Quality Assessment and Improvement Program - Quarterly Internal Assessments (QAR) based on the Institute of Internal Auditors (IIA) Standards.- Report Internal Audit Quarterly Follow-Up Reporting process - Communicate the quarterly findings follow-up globally & with key members of the Finance and business community and complete the required process & reporting to the Global Audit Committee Meetings.- Responsible for communicating the COSO 2013 implementation in South America. Show less

• Internal Auditor

  • Nov 2012 - Mar 2014

  Plan and execute independent financial and operational audits to ensure that key businessrisks are identified and managed appropriately and that the company’s system of internal controls is operating effectively. Based in Sao Paulo, Brazil, primary responsibility for conducting reviews within Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Uruguay, Colombia and Peru, while supporting other global audits as needed.



KPMG US

• United States
• Financial Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• External Auditor

  • Nov 2010 - Nov 2012

  Analyze financial and accounting position at customers ensuring amounts are correct and reliable. Analyze financial and accounting position at customers ensuring amounts are correct and reliable.



Mercedes-Benz Caminhões e Ônibus

• Brazil
• Motor Vehicle Manufacturing
• 700 & Above Employee

• After Sales analyst

  • Jun 2006 - Nov 2010

  Provide support to the Dealers of Mercedes – Benz in Brazil with rules of Warranty and instructions of how to charge the costs from the provider, responsible to analyze and make sure that the claim will be registered and evaluate if it can presents a problem in the future to the company. Provide to the Headquarter, in Germany, a control Statistics about the costs spent during the year with warranty, providing information enough to check if the costs are in accordance to the budget expected. Provide support to the Dealers of Mercedes – Benz in Brazil with rules of Warranty and instructions of how to charge the costs from the provider, responsible to analyze and make sure that the claim will be registered and evaluate if it can presents a problem in the future to the company. Provide to the Headquarter, in Germany, a control Statistics about the costs spent during the year with warranty, providing information enough to check if the costs are in accordance to the budget expected.