Experience

moksha8 Pharmaceuticals, Inc

• Finance Director

  • Jan 2021 - Present

• Head of FP&A / Strategic Finance

  • Jan 2016 - Jan 2021



UCB

• Apparel & Fashion
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Business Intelligence & BD Manager

  • Sep 2014 - Jan 2016

• Financial Planning Manager

  • Feb 2012 - Aug 2013

  Financial business partner for two business units. Managed annual budget of $18M with revenues of $39M. Developed new and existing business strategies• Achieved highest performance rating and cataloged as a “Top Performer”. Selected as one of 20 out of 300 employees to study management skills at EGADE Business School and receive diploma. • Increased affiliate net income by 24% from 2011 to 2012. Collaborated with five pharmaceutical partners to conduct business development activities. • Improved efficiency of reporting actual and budget figures efficiency by 80% by implementing SAP FI-CO-PA modules, as well as IBM platform COGNOS system.



Roche Pharmaceuticals

• Brazil
• Personal Care Product Manufacturing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Business Unit Controller

  • Jan 2011 - Jan 2012

  Controller of two business units. Managed annual budget of $20M with revenues of $101M. Developed business partnering approach between finance and marketing. • Identified by the company to be part of the 5% key potential leader pool. (30/600 employees). • Developed cross training with commercial areas: involved in field work, marketing strategies and pricing analysis. • Achieved expense accuracy of 99%, a 7% improvement over the previous year. • Delivered lecture for SAP training in financial modules held in Brazil for 30 Latin american colleagues, which enabled the region to improve their forecasts process by 35% the following year.

• Budget Consolidation and Support Areas Business Analyst

  • Aug 2009 - Dec 2010

  Consolidated and reported forecasts exercises aligned to corporate strategies. Managed the support areas annual budget of $8M. • Graduated as top student in a IFRS corporate training held in Costa Rica among 20 Latin american colleagues. • Executed and implemented a budget process re engineering project, achieving 95% efficiency in all processes related to the budget exercise, an improvement of 19%. • Improved expenses accuracy in the support areas by 6% through planning and executing a strategy to track market audit expenses.

• Production Cost & Variances Analyst

  • Mar 2008 - Jul 2009

  Coordinated and analyzed the costs of 3,500 SKU’s together with the SSC according to corporate manuals and company policies. • Offered full time position after completing six months in two year part-time program based on exceeding performance objectives. Worked full time for one year while completing Bachelor’s degree. • Introduced a strategy for monitoring, controlling and analyzing the production orders in order to reduce the cost variances by 80% compared with the previous year performance. • Assessed the implementation of the Activity Based Costing (ABC Costing) which enabled top management to elaborate manufacturing strategies according to the costs of each product and process.