FP&A Manager

• Dec 2020 - Present

Senior Financial Business Analyst & Project Manager

• Apr 2013 - Jun 2020

Headed the Implementation of financial dashboards for the IBM, Global Business Services business unit, providing KPI metrics and Predictive Analytics for more than 80K global projects/contracts ($10B annual revenue), using Agile methodologies.Aligned and mentored the Data, Development, Testing and Application Support teams, located across America (US and Costa Rica), Europe (Ireland, Belarus and Poland) and Asia (India). Analyzed, Mapped and Integrated upstream data sources. Performed in depth financial data variance and root cause analysis for complex issues. Generated usage metrics. Supervised the help desk L1/L2 and L3 teams. As SME provided financial and technical guidance to the Project Sponsor. • Enabled 2700 Project Executives, across all continents, as well as Upper Management, to prevent projects from under-perform, and turn (under-performing) projects, back to profitability. Show less

Operations Manager and Application Owner

• Mar 2010 - Apr 2013

Drove the yearly Budgeting and Forecasting Plan process, controlled and optimized spending for ~10 internal global applications serving 90K users, reporting to the IBM CIO Office.Managed Applications Development and Infrastructure teams, ensuring compliance with corporate standards and guidelines regarding data security. Coordinated help desk L1/L2 and L3 teams, and ensured that Sev1 outages were timely solved, performing root cause analysis and driving permanent fixes or preventive actions as applicable. • Achieved ~16% year over year savings thru applications consolidations and sunsets, as well, as maximizing resources utilization while maintaining service level and compliance. Show less

Finance Budget and Planning Lead - ATM Central

• Jul 2008 - Mar 2010

Coordinated the Yearly Budgeting and Forecasting Plan Process, and the Quarterly updates of spending and headcount for the Intel Assembly and Test Manufacturing (ATM) network (CR/US/Malaysia/China/Vietnam), directing 12 analysts from different factories.Consolidated ATM B&P, defined and tracked the ATM spending targets. Prepared and delivered presentations to Senior Management (ATM GM). Led global optimization projects. • Generated $20M savings, by driving ATM Global projects (I.e. consolidating the Die Prep process before reaching the ATM sites), earning an ATM Award. Show less

Financial Capital Analyst

• Jul 2005 - Jul 2008

Controlled the Intel Costa Rica ATM Capital Expenditure (CAPEX) Budgeting and Forecasting Process for the Short, Medium and Long Range horizons.Optimized CAPEX, by forging solid partnerships with engineers from the different operation areas, understanding their needs, processes and tools, and working with them to develop proposals, and obtaining approval from Senior Management, by crafting and delivering sharp presentations, that included rigorous Risk and Financial Analysis results.Coordinated with Intel ATM Virtual Factory (other ATM sites in China, Malaysia and Philippines, and the ATM Central operation in Arizona) and Senior Management, to achieve global capital optimization and demand load balancing between the factories. • Delivered direct savings of ~$80M optimizing Capital Expenditures during this assignment, earning Silver and Gold Intel awards. Show less

Payroll Business Analyst for new engagements and Development Lead

• Jul 2004 - Jul 2005

Coordinated the development of the IBM LA Payroll in house solution, to provide service to external clients. • Allowed the company to provide a lower cost alternative for the LA Payroll Outsourcing operations for several Global Companies. Coordinated the development of the IBM LA Payroll in house solution, to provide service to external clients. • Allowed the company to provide a lower cost alternative for the LA Payroll Outsourcing operations for several Global Companies.

Payroll Project Development Lead and SME.

• Jul 2002 - Jul 2004

Organized the Costa Rica P&G GBS Latin America Payroll Development Team.Provided SME support to the Latin America P&G GBS Payroll Business Team, covering Brazil, Mexico, Argentina, Chile, Peru, Venezuela, Colombia, Costa Rica, Guatemala and Panama. • Migrated the application development and support, from an external vendor, to an in house team, generating approximately $500K in savings a year.

Payroll Business & Implementation Lead

• Aug 1999 - Jul 2002

Implemented the P&G Chilean payroll process migration, from a local system in Chile, to a new regional payroll system, ran from the new Costa Rica P&G Global Business Services center.The project required interaction with the legacy P&G Chile Payroll Team to gather business requirements (including governmental compliance), and lead the (vendor) IT team to develop the solution within the (Oracle based) in house solution (RPS). • Yielded a net 5 FTE savings for the P&G Chile operations, including Payroll process, Management positions and IT resources, as well as improvement in service level to the customers, as the process was migrated. Show less