Professional graduated in Finance and Accounting, within more than 8 years of experience in the Chemical Industry sector. Through these years I have been able to gain experience in Procurement and Logistics, focus on Accounts payable, buying channels and strategies, compliance with local regulations, and recently, design, governance, standardization and improvement of processes across regions.
Great team player, serving as point of contact for external and internal stakeholders, as Finance, Taxes, Internal Control, IT and Supply Chain; developing skills for personnel management with a focus on effective decision-making, drive results, as well as human development.
* Strategically drive the evolution of the STP and T&E processes within and outside of GBS, including operating model progression, productivity plan and automation roadmap.
* Provide strategic planning, consulting and guidance of key Procurement and Finance initiatives.
* Accountable to make key decisions, establish and adjust priorities and drive ongoing engagement and culture for the broader Finance and Procurement.
Reporting to GBS Finance & Procurement Director
Having two direct reports in the GBS organization
Managing two third-party providers that utilizes 30+ FTE's to deliver core STP services
- Strengthen logistics service excellence through collaboration with Supply Chain, Buyers, IT and service providers (3PLs)
- Ensure stakeholder satisfaction levels are measured, maintained and improved
- Ensure service provider scope of services is described accurately and monitored regularly to identify redundancies and/or gaps
- Ensure that agreed Service Level Targets are met on an on-going basis and reported on through service level reports and performance review meetings
- Analyze data and identify trends for performance improvement
- Collaborate with the Category teams to set up a performance improvement plans (PIPs) where needed
- Serves as escalation point for service providers and acts as conduit to Buyers and Supply Chain
- Responsible for ensuring appropriate root cause analysis and sustained corrective actions for logistics service issues in partnership with logistics service providers and internal stakeholders
- Assist Buyers in supplier relationship management activities
- Act as Global Process Owner/Agile Product Owner and collaborate with regional logistics teams to transition to a digital process that is streamlined, automated and provides insights
- Oversee freight settlement and payment processes
- Mentor and guide lateral teams on Procurement, Accounting and Payment processes
- Build relationship with Finance, Accounting and Supply Chain
Expanded responsibilities to take EMEA region
- Act as an ambassador of Source to Pay in the region partnering with the Procurement Regional Lead
- Act as change champion for S2P initiatives in the region communicating the value of initiatives to obtain buy-in
- Support the Change Enablement team in identifying regional stakeholders impacted by S2P initiatives. Provide feedback on communications related to the region
- Support the Change Enablement team in change management and communications strategies for the region
- Identify and keep track of stakeholders in the region
- Support regional training for S2P initiatives, if required
- Provide subject matter expertise to Product (Sub-Process) Owners on the region-specific source to pay systems and processes
- Identify areas of poor process performance in the region and work with Product (Sub-Process) Owners to develop a continuous improvement roadmap
- Work with Product (Sub-Process) Owners, business/operations users, and regional leadership to identify and prioritize improvements
- Identify areas of poor capability adoption (systems, tools, etc) in the region and work with Product (Sub-Process) Owners and Change Enablement team to develop and implement adoption strategies
- Maintain relationships with key stakeholders in the region including Buyers, SPL’s, Category Managers, and Operations leadership
- Present updates to regional stakeholders on S2P initiatives ensuring plans and upcoming changes are well understood
- Lead improvement initiatives at a site, country, region, or global level depending on resource availability and bandwidth
- Establish common ways of working, identify best practices and opportunities for global standardization
- Lead and facilitate regional source to pay stakeholder network to gather the voice of the customer, share information on improvements and KPI performance
- Respond to regional escalations by coordinating a resolution team including Product (Sub-Process) Owners and BPO Provider resources
- Responsible for MRO spare parts buying channels for L1 and L2 Productions lines in Altamira productive site
- SAP key user
- Develop and execute buying strategies for MRO lines
- Help with cutover activities before DuPont spin-off - Blackout forms, migrations of POs in new system, etc.
- Co-leader of the project for the reduction of expired spare parts and reduction of Stock ZERO
- Preparation of contracts to reduce working capital and other savings opportunities
- Planning, execution and monitor of recurrent savings, one-time savings and cost avoidance in Wave platform
- Developing and executing an audit plan to develop new suppliers to supply materials and services for "red service"
- Administrative activities to help buyers
- Continue with invoice exceptions monitor process
- RFI, RFP and RFQ process
Intern with focus on Accounts Payable activities:
- Reduce Mexico RNB accounts (received not billed)
- Identify root cause for unpaid invoices
- Work on invoice exceptions system and training development
- Stablish a weekly process to monitor those invoice exceptions with escalations points of contact
Accounting assistance with focus on Expenses
- Reconciliation of accounts
- Creation of documents for payment
- Review invoices to meet with Tax local laws
- Month end closing activities