Experience

Sweet Amber Distilling Co.
• United States
• Beverage Manufacturing
• 1 - 100 Employee
• Director Of Finance

  • Apr 2020 - Present


Powerful Foods

• Director Of Finance

  • Sep 2017 - Mar 2020

  www.powerful.co, Food & Beverage. • Senior-level leader and driving force behind financial operations with full accountability for financial planning, budget development & management, risk management, insurance, and financial analysis among other key areas. • Analyze past, present, and emerging financial data to develop highly-detailed forecasts and deliver key reports to C-suite executives. • Directly oversee and continue to optimize the performance of the company's Controller, providing ongoing training, coaching, and support. • Continually offer data-driven strategies to catalyze improvements in underperforming business areas. • Spearheaded a series of cost-reduction projects that have significantly improved gross margins across all product lines. • Designated as Chief Liaison for asset-based and potential lenders. Negotiated and closed the processes with 2 asset based lenders (former and current) since taking on the role. Show less



Beckon Scientific Inc.

• Director of Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A)

  • Mar 2016 - Aug 2017

  www.beckonsc.com, Life Science. • Brought onboard and given the mandate to drive continuous improvement in business planning processes and execute a series of mission-critical business initiatives that significantly strengthened operational effectiveness. • Relied upon as a strategic business partner to provide key leadership support in operations, resource management, budgeting, and revenue accounting. • Implemented a new reporting process from international subsidiaries to HQ. The highly effective system streamlined data delivery to the CEO and Chairman, which reduced decision-making time by over 50%. • Created new pricing schemes, generated vital financial analyses highlighting key metrics, and delivered highly detailed project valuations. Show less

• Controller

  • Apr 2013 - Mar 2016

  www.powerful.co, Food & Beverage. • Fully owned key corporate financial processes including financial planning, budgeting, accounting, billing, accounts payable & receivable, procurement, and yearend tax return filing. • Prepared financial statements, business activity reports, and a host of other financial reports for internal leadership and outside regulatory agencies. • Designed/implemented the Chart of Accounts from scratch. • Developed a new reporting process to review profitability by line of product and customer. • Created the Bill of Material (BOM) process in the company's ERP system, which dramatically improved inventory management. Show less



Alpina Foods LLC

• Food and Beverage Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Director of Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A)

  • Feb 2011 - Mar 2013

  www.alpinaus.com, Dairy. • Expertly managed/reported all aspects of the overall corporate budget including both operational and capital expenditures in addition to orchestrating all business financial planning/forecasting. • Leveraged key data to identify that exports from the US to the Caribbean netted the highest profit margins and offered the company the most attractive opportunities to drive growth. • Negotiated and secured a highly lucrative brokerage strategic partnership and spearheaded all negotiations with all prospective customers. • Successfully grew export Sales from US to the Caribbean in less than 18 months, increasing company profits. Show less



MTG Servicios

• Mexico
• Human Resources Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• General Manager and Stockholder

  • Aug 2004 - Oct 2010

  http://www.grupomtg.com, company engaged in rendering HR services, such as recruitment and temporary staffing. • Assumed full operational control over the four major departments (Administration, HR Relationships, Personnel Evaluation & Selection, and IT) for a company that provided outsourced HR services to companies across a wide range of sectors. • Directly responsible for establishing the company's strategic plan, annual objectives, and KPI tracking. • Led the team to implement and optimize business processes and multiple new lines of services. • Presented company services to top HR executives for potential customers. • More than doubled sales over two- year period with revenues going from USD $1.1 to USD $3.5M+. • Succeeded in consolidating operations comprised of 20 direct staff members and 200+ overall temporary contractors over a four-year period. Show less



CANTV

• Venezuela
• Telecommunications
• 700 & Above Employee

• Planning Specialist

  • Jul 2003 - Jul 2004

  www.cantv.com.ve, main telecommunications service provider of the country. Tasks:• Operational, value-cost and financial analysis of vendor’s solutions (hardware and software). • Designed pricing schemes, generated financial analysis and project valuation for integral solutions of telecommunications and IT services for corporative clients. • Consolidated and controlled the execution of the annual operative and capital expenditures budgets for telecommunications and IT projects.

• New Business Consultant

  • Jun 2002 - Jul 2003

  www.cantv.com.ve, main telecommunications service provider of the country. Tasks:• Project Leader in the implementation of automatic payment methods in Cantv’s main collection offices. • Member of team in charge of consolidating Cantv’s data centers by designing a cluster analysis in the identification of hardware categories for inventory purposes. • Identification, analysis and development of business opportunities.

• Coordinator

  • Jun 1999 - Sep 2000

  www.cantv.com.ve, main telecommunications service provider of the country. • Selection and preparation of channels for the commercialization of Internet connection packages, and other services for corporate clients. • Development of strategies, design and establishment of goals. • Motivation and supervision of the team of business consultants responsible of key accounts. • Participation as client team member in the project “Developing Marketing Skills”, conducted by Cantv and led by McKinsey & Company. Show less



LAMBDA Consultores Gerenciales

• Consultant

  • Jan 1998 - Jun 1999

  www.lambdainternational.net, firm engaged in rendering managerial, strategic consulting services in areas such as: marketing, finance, operations and organizations. Its founders previously worked at the firm Booz Allen & Hamilton. www.lambdainternational.net, firm engaged in rendering managerial, strategic consulting services in areas such as: marketing, finance, operations and organizations. Its founders previously worked at the firm Booz Allen & Hamilton.