Claudia Blanco

• Consolidate E2E CSS SC financials for budgets, forecasts (BP/JU/NU) and actuals
• Collaborated closely with Supply Chain leaders, Finance Directors and controllers, Commercial Finance, MT SC FP&A and tax teams to achieve clear communication and alignment
• Enhanced connectivity and transparency between Supply Chain and Commercial departments
• Led Q Close meetings with site controllers to review results, challenge them and drive accountability for forecast accuracy and consolidation of Risks and Opportunities
• SME for the Signifi implementation – Lead master data validation, and Mock closing.
• Enhanced standardization and forecast accuracy of our SC finance teams through cross-training, including Mentor Workshop and FAA standardization.
• Sponsor of Juarez Finance Campus

o Supply Chain FP&A analyst supporting CSS

o Led business plan and forecasting meetings with controllers and consolidate information to be presented to VP SC OPS and VP Finance

o Led our Q Close meetings with site controllers to review results, challenge them, and drive accountability on forecast accuracy

o Reporting Quarterly results & metrics

o Providing analytics to challenge and shape the business

o Responsible for cost roll-up: components, subassemblies, and finished goods, including overhead and labor rates analysis.

o Delivered ~$2MM on savings, identifying a waste reduction opportunity.

o Led business plan and forecast preparation for plant operation: spending, volume, absorption, and headcount.

o Financial statements reporting

o Analyzed and prepared monthly performance metrics – spending deviations against budget, the total impact for cost not in standard, and manufacturing variances

o Led annual physical inventory and a quarterly cycle count program

o New product cost simulation and validation (router and BOM analysis)

o Led the finance team – supervised, trained and coached new members of the team.

• Budgeting and forecasting preparation and analysis
• Business partnering with BU managers
• Analysis for manufacturing related activity like PPV, MUV, Absorption and Scrap
• Standard Cost setting process (Cost Revision)
• Revaluation Analysis
• Cost Actions validation
• New products cost validation
• Responsible for month closing process, journal voucher entries, account reconciliation

• Directly responsible for overseeing month-end activities, such as monthly accruals, journal voucher entries, and accounts reconciliation.
• Project spending forecasting
• Fixed assets analysis, depreciation, and amortization forecasts
• Intercompany transaction reconciliation
• Budgeting and forecasting preparation and analysis
• Financial statements reporting
• Sales and material analysis