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Beatriz Ruiz Velasco De La Garza

Mexico City,CMX

Summary

My primary skills are leadership, communication, and digital and cultural transformation. I am a banking expert with over 30 years of experience, looking for a permanent balance in financial achievements with control and the right ways of doing business. I generate virtuous and motivated work environments, generating successful, proud, and motivated teams to multiply successes. My intuitive and close leadership skills have allowed me to implement a profound, fast, and effective transformation of the areas I have managed. Establishing a balanced system of empowerment, oriented to the growth of teams, structuring a conscious governance system that makes innovation and transformation at the core of every daily activity to create synergies between teams and achieve the proposed goals and objectives. I love interacting with the people who are part of my work teams, learning, challenging them, teaching, challenging them and certainly celebrating successes.

Overview

32
32
years of professional experience

Work History

Operation Head, MD

Citibanamex
07.2019 - Current

Responsible for the operational strategy of the bank through effective communication with businesses, control, and global areas, ensuring service levels and adherence to policies and procedures.

This is achieved through 12 direct report areas, including Core Operation, Transactional Services, Contact Center, Operational Back Office of over 1250 branches and 10 thousand ATMs, Market Operational Back Office, Commercial & Corporate Banking, Consumer Banking, Complaints & Clarifications, Credit and Debit Card Authorization Levels, Fraud Prevention and Collections, all of which adhere to a control system that has ensured all audits in the last three years with positive ratings

DGA, SVP Operaciones

Scotiabank Mexico
07.2017 - 06.2019

Responsible for the operation of Grupo Financiero Scotiabank Mexico, implementing operational strategy, efficiency, operational processes, Fraud Prevention, Collections, Branch Back Office, ATMS, Credit and Debit card issuance and authorizations, Logistics, Real Estate, SMEs, Commercial Business and Corporate Banking operation through the BSC, Bank Complaints and Disputes, Accounting Reconciliation among others.

VP, Divisional Consumer Head Territorio Bajío

Scotiabank Mexico
05.2015 - 07.2017

Responsible for the consumer business in 120 branches distributed in 7 states of the Mexican Republic: Querétaro, SLP, Aguascalientes, Guanajuato, Zacatecas, Hidalgo, Edo de México.

Executive Director, Business Service Center

Scotiabank Mexico
11.2011 - 04.2015

This new department, was built under my leadership, played a crucial role in the operation, administration, and control of the acquisition, placement, and financial services of all the bank's legal entities clients, in the four lines of business of the bank. In this position, I developed an expertise in the creation and modification of end-to-end processes, a function that is integral to our operations.

Director of Corporate Strategy and Commercial Prog

Scotiabank Mexico
01.2009 - 11.2011

Responsible for defining and implementing the Commercial/Business Banking business strategy from budgeting, monitoring, and compliance, as well as developing, updating, and implementing commercial banking products.

Director of Medium-sized Companies.

Scotiabank Mexico
11.2005 - 01.2009

Responsible for the definition and execution at a national level of the growth in the medium-sized business customer segment, that is, companies with credit requirements up to 10 million pesos and institutional business credit programs, as well as the cross-selling of the bank's products, seeking to root them in the bank and improve their customer experience.

Director/Subdirector Business Manager Northern Div

Scotiabank Mexico
10.2000 - 11.2005

Business Subdirector of the Northern Division (Nuevo Leon, Coahuila, Tamaulipas, Durango, Chihuahua, Sonora, and Baja California Norte), responsible for defining and executing the business strategies of the branch network and business centers in the northern part of the country. In 2002, I was appointed Business Director of the Northern Division.

Branch Manager

Scotiabank Mexico
06.1998 - 10.2000

Responsible for the management, operation, and coordination of the Tecnológico de Monterrey branch, achieving among the best branches in the north of the country both for its results in income, customer growth, and audits with favorable ranking as well as for the leadership obtained with his team.

Commercial Banking Executive

Scotiabank Mexico
09.1994 - 06.1998

Responsible for establishing credit lines for companies and their integral attention to all financial services.

Development Fund Executive

Scotiabank Mexico / Comermex
10.1992 - 09.1994

Responsible for obtaining financing and government guarantees/collaterals through Nacional Financiera and their administration and management.

Education

Diploma - Leadership of Senior Management Teams

Duke University
Durham, NC
04.2017

M.D. - Finance

Tec De Monterrey
Monterrey, Nuevo León, Mexico
06.1996

BBA - Accounting

Tec De Monterrey (ITESM)
Monterrey, Nuevo León, Mexico
05.1992

Skills

  • Strategic Vision
  • Leadership & Influence
  • Innovation & Change Management
  • Operational Excellence
  • Stakeholder Management
  • Analytical and Problem-Solving Skills
  • Excellent Communication Skills

Timeline

Operation Head, MD

Citibanamex
07.2019 - Current

DGA, SVP Operaciones

Scotiabank Mexico
07.2017 - 06.2019

VP, Divisional Consumer Head Territorio Bajío

Scotiabank Mexico
05.2015 - 07.2017

Executive Director, Business Service Center

Scotiabank Mexico
11.2011 - 04.2015

Director of Corporate Strategy and Commercial Prog

Scotiabank Mexico
01.2009 - 11.2011

Director of Medium-sized Companies.

Scotiabank Mexico
11.2005 - 01.2009

Director/Subdirector Business Manager Northern Div

Scotiabank Mexico
10.2000 - 11.2005

Branch Manager

Scotiabank Mexico
06.1998 - 10.2000

Commercial Banking Executive

Scotiabank Mexico
09.1994 - 06.1998

Development Fund Executive

Scotiabank Mexico / Comermex
10.1992 - 09.1994

Diploma - Leadership of Senior Management Teams

Duke University

M.D. - Finance

Tec De Monterrey

BBA - Accounting

Tec De Monterrey (ITESM)
Beatriz Ruiz Velasco De La Garza