Annual sales of 100 million dollars with exports of 50%. Reporting to the Country Business Manager and Finance Director Cereal Partner Worldwide in Mexico. Led finance department including team of three business analysts for the Chile, Peru and Bolivia markets. Organized and drove financial monthly business plan and Oversaw the production of financial results accounts and statutory year end under IFRS. Drove new business initiatives finding efficiencies in cross functional teams.  Reshaped portfolio in two core brands equivalent 40% in Sales. The proposal of R&D and Factory were new sizes of 410g, 610g and 810g. Influenced Country Manager Business and R&D team to reduce in every product by 10 grammes with impact in the first year of 400,000 USD saving.  The head office allocation cost from Nestlé was included some corporate services that the business partially used. Negotiated the services agreement with Nestlé to pay a fair value for the services. The benefits in two years was 500.000 USD reduction.  Influenced trade spend investments of the Commercial team over two years and implemented a tool for pre- and & post- evaluation with sales team called ‘Learning Logs’, with savings of USD 400.000 in the first year.  Managed project with supply chain and distribution areas to implement direct dispatch from Breakfast Cereal Factory to Chilled Dairy Factory to bring industrial sales into compliance with manual process of SAP, the benefit was saving of 80,000 USD in storage costs.  Led implementation of new business model that enabled direct purchases in Factory Breakfast Cereal. Coordinated the team Supply Chain Factory, Treasury and Procurement. Deleted double rework and made savings of USD 200,000.  Complex year 2013 with an unpredictable rate exchange and changes in packaging regulation in Argentina generated a gap of 800,000 USD. Proactively managed costs to take decision and close gaps with sales, marketing and factory team.

Implement centralization of management reporting process of Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Paraguay, Perú and Uruguay in Shared Service Centre at Nestlé Mexico company. Prepared and consolidated management reports to Regional Directors at Nestlé.  Developed and produced monthly reporting of actual results and forecast for CEO & CFO.  Ensured quality financial information is used by the business for decision making and that potential risks and opportunities are anticipated and understood.  Consolidated selected KPIs and reviewed into actionable summary information in order to provide a high-quality data / timely framework, as well as the reliable measurement of the selected KPIs.  Designed management reports using Cognos BI to CEOs and executive teams.  Led implementation of Share Services Centre in Management Reporting in Mexico.

Led Accounts Payable department team of 15 people. Solid understanding of SAP system supporting the business end to end processes.  Led Transfer Payables department from Chile, Perú and Bolivia to Share Services Centre in Brazil. Managed transition, process and implementing KPIs and training to the new teams.  Designed and built an internal control process, integrating and improving the agility in the procure to pay process through, KPIs, master data management and data quality control. The implementation had benefits including reducing waste time.  Project coordinator for implementation of SAP update version at Nestlé Chile.  Data quality implementation, data analysis and master data control in SAP business warehouse.  Consultant in SAP implementation at Nestlé Argentina with focus on module finance & controlling.

 Organised and coordinated monthly period end for different department fixed assets, manufacturing costing, trade receivables, bank reconciliation and trade payables.  Elaborated from SAP the profit & loss statement, balance sheet and accounting analysis and then published the financial reports to the headquarters in Switzerland.  Analysed financial results and variance versus budget and identified and solved problems.  Reconciled partner ledgers and dealt with Partner transactions.