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Karla Gutiérrez Pérez
SSC Head/ FP&A Sr. Manager/ Finance/ Budget and Forecast/ Internal Control and Compliance
LÁZARO CÁRDENAS
Summary
Results-driven Finance Director with over 26 years of extensive experience in financial and accounting roles across national and international companies. Successfully managed multiple entities simultaneously, overseeing GL/AP/AR teams in daily transactional operations. Proven track record in enhancing finance analysis to control costs and expenses, while focusing on process improvement to support business operations at all levels. Skilled in sales and expenses budgeting for organizational success.
Overview
28
28
years of professional experience
2009
2009
years of post-secondary education
4
4
Languages
Work History
Americas Head SSC & Site Manager
GUERBET/ GEL
01.2023 - Current
- Company Overview: The Shared Services Center in Mexico, supports nine different entities in Americas about the operation and transaction activities, focus on the daily business with the bear of five team leaders in the areas of Internal Control, General Accounting, Accounts Payable and Receivables. Full team integrated by thirty people, working for the internal customers and HQ in France.
- Continually review and monitor accounting practices to ensure actual results are accurate and compliant.
- Oversee statutory accounting and tax filings for multiple legal entities through the local firms.
- Working together with the GL teams to prepare and/or review required monthly, quarterly, and annual financial reports and ad hoc requests for the internal customers.
- Review account reconciliations with the leader in charge of each area to ensure accurate financial reporting.
- Supervise internal controls to ensure compliance and company policies.
- Support and/or lead all audit-related activities including internal audits, statutory audits, tax audits, and others as needed.
- Pro-actively work with the FP&A and Commercial teams to drive good decision-making, thorough strategic analysis, and effective project execution.
- Schedule a calendar for all the activities (GL/AP/AR) and the time assigned to each one, with a detailed and specific follow up to the progress or delays, creating a plan on how to solve the pending, reducing the adjustments in the plan with the same quality expected to accomplish with the KPI´s set up every year.
- Implementing controls over the current activities for the local company to tie with the internal procedures.
- Driving and align the activities according to entity needs/requirements within the SSC for entities to support and report to corporate according to the schedule.
- Most recently I was part of the team to implement SAP4HANA for the nine entities, working together with other internal and external teams to complete the transformation according to the plan and have all the procedures and local requirement in place.
- The Shared Services Center in Mexico, supports nine different entities in Americas about the operation and transaction activities, focus on the daily business with the bear of five team leaders in the areas of Internal Control, General Accounting, Accounts Payable and Receivables. Full team integrated by thirty people, working for the internal customers and HQ in France.
S&C Manager
GUERBET/ GEL
01.2021 - 01.2023
- Participating on the SSC transition to Mexico.
- Supporting all the areas in the training progress and assess the different steps to be completed for the go live.
- Schedule a calendar for all the activities and the time assigned to each one, with a detailed and specific follow up to the progress or delays and creating a plan on how to solve the pending, reduce the adjustments in the plan with the same quality expected.
- Implementing controls over the current activities for the local company to tie with the internal procedures.
- Driving and align the activities according to the parallel progress in the three towers with both SSC.
- Synchronizing the advance according to the needs inside the organization and the timeline, reaching the goal for corporate with a smooth transition.
BPI Manager
GUERBET/ GEL
01.2020 - 01.2021
- Responsible of projects though the LATAM region to optimize the processes and look for an implementation according to the local needs and corporate requirements.
- Partially in charge to run activities related to startup for a new office in Mexico: Facilities, services, furniture, vendor development, HR and payroll support, treasury.
- In charge of the accounting, taxes and local regulations for the company that would oversee the new SSC in Mexico.
- Develop together with the director, the SOPs for the activities that will be transfer for the prior SSC to the new one Mexico; creating the structure for the three main towers: R2R, O2C and P2P.
- That will oversee six countries providing the internal service.
FP&A Sr. Manager
MARKEM IMAJE
01.2015 - 01.2019
- Monthly financial consolidation working with Controllership HQ in EU.
- Follow up to AR, Customer Service, and treasury supervision with controller area, with the Commercial team, creation of business proposals for key customers.
- Create the annual budget for revenue and expenses.
- Monitor and control of sales forecast on a monthly and quarterly basis.
- Expenses review to identify savings.
- Comparison Budget/Forecast/Actuals for revenue and expenses.
- Designed and implemented for the first-time procedure manuals for FP&A and customer service that allowed to reduce reprocessing in purchase orders of 5 to 4 days.
- These same procedures were included in ISO 9001 -2015 certification process.
- Performed controls in the accounting closing process that reduced response time to controllership and shared service center that significantly improved the financial analysis to be more strategic controlling the forecast and monthly results on expenses.
- Contributed as a FP&A leader, in the analysis of prices with Marketing to introduce controls for annual increase.
Project Leader for SAP Implementation -Simultaneous position-
MARKEM IMAJE
01.2017 - 01.2018
- Weekly report progress to HQ in France.
- Clean up and update of customers, suppliers, inventory accounts and backlog database for the correct transfer of the beginning balances.
- Coordinated, the implementation of SAP, in a timely manner, leading seven internal and external headcounts focused on specific modules.
- I successfully promoted change management in the organization through the reinforcement of the procedures as part of SAP implementation.
Regional Finance Planning Coordinator
ROCKWELL AUTOMATION
01.2014 - 01.2015
- With overall responsibility of budget control and sales forecast of the LA region - Mexico, Argentina, Chile, Peru, Colombia, Venezuela, and CA-, for the Project BU.
- Monthly and quarterly monitoring of P&L results by country.
- Reporting revenue, orders, expenses, and their comparison with the budget for two Regional Offices for a business with an annual value of 130 MUSD.
- I did the cleaning of projects with delay in closing and delivery through the finding of pending activities to be performed in the administrative process.
- As a result, 50% of the issue projects, were recognized two months before the prior closing date estimated.
General Accountant Supervisor for México and CA
ROCKWELL AUTOMATION
01.2013 - 01.2014
- Responsible for the monthly closing in the region, furthermore the report of the intercompany accounts and the final closing of inventories by product type.
- Ensure the complete record of transactions within the period belongs to according to internal processes and policies.
- Keep tracking on internal processes involving finance and controllership area.
- 550 MUSD annual revenue for all companies in the region.
- I set up a prior review process for the Balance Sheet Review with the most representative accounts, which result in an efficiency effect for deviations explanation to corporate.
- I successfully migrated the PA and fixed assets process to the shared service center in Poland successfully in a period of 3 months.
- I reduced the PA volume for intercompany and local vendors by 30% thought weekly control reviews to confirm the invoicing process was taking place in time.
Finance Analyst for México and CA
ROCKWELL AUTOMATION
01.2008 - 01.2013
- In charge of annual budget for revenue and annual expenses for finish good BU's.
- Integrate actual revenue by division vs. forecast and budget.
- Tracking to annual budget of the region detailing the deviations and causals.
- Tracing to Funnel and Front Log with the local sales team for the big projects quoted and won.
- Consolidated order and revenue information by BU and sales region, which allowed the manager to identify regions with the best sales and focusing efforts on the lowest performing and mapping the goals in each one according to the target market.
- Monitoring in more detail for finance and marketing budget with prompt follow up to external service suppliers, keeping the +/- 3% target.
- I was selected as member of audit global team to do the mandatory review to Southern Cone.
Cost Analyst for projects
ROCKWELL AUTOMATION
01.2006 - 01.2008
Treasury Analyst
ROCKWELL AUTOMATION
01.2003 - 01.2006
Treasury Analyst
CNI Canal 40
01.1998 - 01.2002
Education
Executive postgraduate - Analysis and Finance Planning
ITESM
Master - Business Administration
Universidad de las Americas
Accounting degree - undefined
UNAM
Skills
Collaborative team management
Interests
I love swimming and traveling
Timeline
Americas Head SSC & Site Manager
GUERBET/ GEL
01.2023 - Current
S&C Manager
GUERBET/ GEL
01.2021 - 01.2023
BPI Manager
GUERBET/ GEL
01.2020 - 01.2021
Project Leader for SAP Implementation -Simultaneous position-
MARKEM IMAJE
01.2017 - 01.2018
FP&A Sr. Manager
MARKEM IMAJE
01.2015 - 01.2019
Regional Finance Planning Coordinator
ROCKWELL AUTOMATION
01.2014 - 01.2015
General Accountant Supervisor for México and CA
ROCKWELL AUTOMATION
01.2013 - 01.2014
Finance Analyst for México and CA
ROCKWELL AUTOMATION
01.2008 - 01.2013
Cost Analyst for projects
ROCKWELL AUTOMATION
01.2006 - 01.2008
Treasury Analyst
ROCKWELL AUTOMATION
01.2003 - 01.2006
Treasury Analyst
CNI Canal 40
01.1998 - 01.2002
Master - Business Administration
Universidad de las Americas
Accounting degree - undefined
UNAM
Executive postgraduate - Analysis and Finance Planning
ITESM
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