Sergio Vásquez Vargas
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Spanish Native or bilingual proficiency
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English Full professional proficiency
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Portuguese Elementary proficiency
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Ephraim Rudman
I worked with Sergio while he was with HNS Banco and was extremely impressed with both his professionalism and skill set. He was an integral member of the team and consistently produced high quality material under intense time pressures. He exhibited a broad range of financial skills demonstrating both his business and technical strengths. Sergio is a great team member and a pleasure to work with.
Doug Frattaroli
I had the pleasure of working with Sergio during a divestiture transaction in Chile. Sergio is an extremely intelligent and resourceful individual who works with the highest of integrity. Our transaction would not have gone as favorable had it not been for Sergio's involvement. He was able to handle the day to day initiatives while still keeping perspective on the strategic goals.
Ephraim Rudman
I worked with Sergio while he was with HNS Banco and was extremely impressed with both his professionalism and skill set. He was an integral member of the team and consistently produced high quality material under intense time pressures. He exhibited a broad range of financial skills demonstrating both his business and technical strengths. Sergio is a great team member and a pleasure to work with.
Doug Frattaroli
I had the pleasure of working with Sergio during a divestiture transaction in Chile. Sergio is an extremely intelligent and resourceful individual who works with the highest of integrity. Our transaction would not have gone as favorable had it not been for Sergio's involvement. He was able to handle the day to day initiatives while still keeping perspective on the strategic goals.
Ephraim Rudman
I worked with Sergio while he was with HNS Banco and was extremely impressed with both his professionalism and skill set. He was an integral member of the team and consistently produced high quality material under intense time pressures. He exhibited a broad range of financial skills demonstrating both his business and technical strengths. Sergio is a great team member and a pleasure to work with.
Doug Frattaroli
I had the pleasure of working with Sergio during a divestiture transaction in Chile. Sergio is an extremely intelligent and resourceful individual who works with the highest of integrity. Our transaction would not have gone as favorable had it not been for Sergio's involvement. He was able to handle the day to day initiatives while still keeping perspective on the strategic goals.
Ephraim Rudman
I worked with Sergio while he was with HNS Banco and was extremely impressed with both his professionalism and skill set. He was an integral member of the team and consistently produced high quality material under intense time pressures. He exhibited a broad range of financial skills demonstrating both his business and technical strengths. Sergio is a great team member and a pleasure to work with.
Doug Frattaroli
I had the pleasure of working with Sergio during a divestiture transaction in Chile. Sergio is an extremely intelligent and resourceful individual who works with the highest of integrity. Our transaction would not have gone as favorable had it not been for Sergio's involvement. He was able to handle the day to day initiatives while still keeping perspective on the strategic goals.
Experience
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Self-Employed
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United States
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Financial Services
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400 - 500 Employee
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Senior Corporate Finance Professional
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Nov 2018 - Present
Currently I am working providing financial advisory services to different companies that search to raise funds from the shadow banking system, based on my experience creating funding models from scratch based on SPVs that operates as Private Investing Funds. Also started as an independent business owner on the real state economic sector, applying the same business model. Currently I am working providing financial advisory services to different companies that search to raise funds from the shadow banking system, based on my experience creating funding models from scratch based on SPVs that operates as Private Investing Funds. Also started as an independent business owner on the real state economic sector, applying the same business model.
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eCapital
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Santiago, Chile
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Head of Corporate Finance
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Jan 2013 - Nov 2018
Main responsibilities and achievements were related to the following duties: - Create and run management, control and budgeting processes for the financial companies. - Open facility lines in the financial system to provide funds for the factoring and leasing operations with 9 local and foreign banks up to 7 million dollars. - Design and create several Investing Funds with large local financial counterparties, raising funds close to 50 million dollars. - Raise additional funds with other local investing funds based on liquidity regeneration of assets up to 30 million dollars. - Lead the capital management process with shareholders. - Lead successfully credit rating process, local investment grade assigned (BBB-). - Lead the reporting process to the Board of Directors. - Provided funds to Lima Perú Branch through an innovative financial model and agreement. Show less
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RR Donnelley
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United States
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Advertising Services
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700 & Above Employee
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Director Latin American Shared Services
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Apr 2011 - Jun 2012
Head of the implementation project of a shared services center for 12 latin american countries. Reporting line directly to the Vice President, Global Shared Services, USA. Successful start-up of Chile into the Shared Services Center, implementing on parallel basis a SAP conversion from legacy systems, including running the Corporate control framework and its policies, with the implementation of peripheral applications to support the operation. Successfully managed the first-phase project to add Brazil into the Center, as well. - Process assessment and process flow redesign to deliver services in a control framework for the following areas: Accounts Payable (AP); Accounts Receivable (AR); General Ledger Accounting (GL); Fixed Assets (FA) and Billing. - Service Level Agreement (SLAs) implementation. - Transfer Pricing Agreements implementation and management. - Grants negotiation and management with CORFO (Chilean Development Support Agency) for personnel hiring and training. - Statutory books and USGAAP books reporting under SAP environment. Show less
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Rabobank
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Netherlands
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Banking
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700 & Above Employee
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Head of Operational Risk Management
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Jun 2009 - Nov 2010
Successful implementation of the Operational Risk Model and Framework for the bank under local regulation, Headquarters, and Basel II standards. Among main accomplishments were the creation of the control environment for operational risk, creating policies and procedures, reporting packages and creating from scratch the Operational Risk Committee.- Processes assessment and flowcharts documentation including controls identification.- Annual operational risk assessment process and its reporting to the Board of Directors (Top-Down y Bottom-Up Risk Assessment), including action plans follow up, based on assigned responsible persons and agreed deadlines.- Implementation of an operational loss incidents database and process for measuring losses due to operational risk, Including policy and procedures for mitigation measures (with action owners and deadlines) and reporting.- Implementation, management, reporting and annual certification for KRIs, KCIs y KPIs set of indicators.- Implementation of Capital Stress Testing and its reporting to the Board of Directors and regulators (SBIF). - In charge of the Capital Management process, modeling regulatory capital needs for the bank and its reporting to the Board of Directors. Show less
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BCP Manager
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Jun 2009 - Nov 2010
Successful implementation of the Business Continuity Plan for the bank under Rabobank standards. The plan was successfully tested on February 2010, 8 Richter degree earthquake in Santiago, Chile.- Project management and BCP testing.- Support documentation, policy, procedures, BIAs, RAs, key processes and key vendors identification, personnel training, DRP investment and WARs implementation.
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Head of Internal Audit
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May 2007 - May 2009
Successful development and deployment of Rabobank standards and procedures into the Internal Audit area of the bank.- Annual audit planning (audit universe definition, risk assessment, resource coordination and assignment, audit plan for the Audit Committee approval).- Operational audits execution process (planning, fieldwork, reporting, audit observations, action plans, responsible persons and agreed deadlines).- Successful corporate application implementation for managing audit working papers and resources.- Successful resources coordination with external auditors.- Successful corporate application implementation of audit observation follow-up and closure.- Audit Committee management.- Enhanced control environment as a result of the audit planning execution.- Coordination with regulators on bank’s behalf.- Coordinator of SBIF annual reviews. Show less
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Head of Market Risk
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Jul 2005 - Apr 2007
In charge of developing an enhanced control framework for Market Risk, improving control reporting of the trading desk, and implementation of regulatory changes due to Basel I amendment.- Successful implementation of the following bank policies: Liquidity Management; Fair Value and Market Risk Exposure; all duly approved by the Board of Directors.- Project coordination of the creation and implementation of regulatory files related to Basel I amendment implementation process in Chile.- Implementation of Market Risk Stress Testing reporting to the Board of Directors and regulators (SBIF).- Improvement of the reporting package for the Assets and Liabilities Committee.- In charge of the Assets and Liabilities Committee management. Show less
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Planning and Research Manager
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Jun 2001 - Apr 2007
In charge of the implementation project of the strategic planning process of HNS Banco and afterwards responsible of the selling process of the bank to Rabobank.- Member of the base team that developed the HNS Banco project.- Successful implementation of Management Information System of the bank.- Budget modeling, management and control.- Reporting design and preparation for the Board of Directors and Strategic Committee.- Successful management of the risk rating process and agencies relationships.- Implementation and execution of the regulatory self-assessment reporting process.- Implementation of the Capital Management process.- Execution of the Stress Testing reports to prepare Basel II regulatory implementation.- Local responsible of the due diligence process when HNS Banco was sold to Rabobank, working directly with foreign General Electric partner representatives.- Successful implementation of the due diligence, datatape y dataroom processes. Show less
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Head of Finance
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Jan 2004 - Jun 2005
In charge of proposing an active trading desk to General Electric shareholder, and generate a plan for raising funds for the bank from institutional investors and companies with excess cash-flow.- Successful investing budget proposal for the trading desk, approved by the Board of Directors.- Searched for companies and institutional investors raising funds for CLP 20,000 million.- Implementation of an enhanced control report of the trading desk.- Successful currency mismatch management, increasing revenue for Budget compliance.- Coordination of Combanc (electronic clearance house) implementation in the bank.- Member of the road-show process team that raised CLP 60,000 million issuing time deposits.- Member of the road-show process team that raised UF 3,000,000 issuing a bond facility (note: under Rabobank).- Successful liabilities negotiation for the non-bank companies for CLP 15,000 million, including balanced guarantees support from shareholders negotiated directly abroad.- Opened new sources for funds with CORFO and foreign trade facilities. Show less
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Education
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Universidad de Santiago de Chile
Business Engineer, BA Finance / Economics