MIGUEL ANGEL VARGAS

Global leader in sustainable pharmaceuticals, enzymatic antibiotics, and active pharmaceutical ingredients, driving financial transformation and long-term corporate growth.

• Led comprehensive budget management, overseeing labor and non-labor expenses, including payroll, benefits, and bonus allocations to optimize financial resources.
• Spearheaded budget forecasting and financial planning, ensuring compliance with annual and quarterly financial targets while mitigating operational risks.
• Managed Net Working Capital (NWC) and Free Cash Flow (FCF), ensuring CAPEX investments and inventory levels remain aligned with operational efficiency.
• Directed AP reconciliation and financial compliance monitoring, ensuring all OPEX non-labor expenses adhere to budgetary requirements.
• Led Balance Sheet (BS) reconciliations, delivering EY audit-compliant financial statements with precision and transparency.
• Oversaw transfer pricing strategies, coordinating financial alignment across subsidiaries to optimize tax efficiency and global financial reporting standards.
• Managed costing structures and BOM evaluations, ensuring accurate inventory valuation and profitability optimization.
• Conducted NRV analysis for inventory assets, executing precise valuation adjustments within COGS calculations to maintain financial integrity.
• Implemented strategic inventory control measures, including E&O inventory tracking and BOM audits, ensuring financial sustainability and risk mitigation.
• Presented financial KPIs, deviation analysis, and risk evaluations to stakeholders, driving strategic action planning and corporate growth initiatives.
• Managed Power BI & SAP financial analytics, optimizing data reconciliation processes for high-level reporting and performance tracking.
• Led the execution of EBIT targets, ensuring all financial operations align with strategic risk management and cost-efficiency objectives.

International financial leadership in automotive and lightweight materials, specializing in profitability growth, financial transformation, and cross-border business strategy.

• Developed and presented full-year financial budgets and quarterly forecasts, integrating market analysis and corporate objectives.
• Conducted weekly financial data validation and risk assessments, reporting key insights via flash reports to executive leadership.
• Led scrap reporting, cycle count audits, inventory turnover evaluations, and BOM structure audits, mitigating financial risk.
• Managed P&L, G/L Balance, and FCF reports, delivering comparative analysis and strategic recommendations to senior management.
• Directed financial operations for two corporate entities, consolidating financial results at the global level.
• Evaluated new project launches, overseeing cost cards, margins, labor, maintenance, and CAPEX to optimize financial performance.
• Conducted monthly production demand reviews, assessing contribution margins, operating income, and pricing strategies for sustainability.
• Ensured alignment with USGAAP and IFRS during financial statement reviews, presenting risk mitigation strategies to the board.
• Participated in an advanced finance and controlling program in Attendorn, Germany, enhancing corporate financial measures and control systems.
• Led budget-controlling initiatives, securing breakeven EBITDA for 2021 through strategic financial adjustments and efficiency measures.

Leading financial operations within automotive interior manufacturing, overseeing global corporate strategy, financial transformation, and profitability optimization.

• Led full-year financial budgeting, presenting strategic financial insights to the Board of Directors, ensuring alignment with corporate objectives.
• Developed and managed financial scorecards (KPIs) and risk analysis frameworks, delivering weekly P&L reviews with deep performance evaluations and action plans.
• Spearheaded Net Working Capital (NWC) and Free Cash Flow (FCF) forecasting, providing 15-week financial outlooks to corporate treasury leadership.
• Directed multi-entity financial consolidation, overseeing five global financial entities and reporting results at the corporate level.
• Managed P&L, Balance Sheet, and Free Cash Flow reports, ensuring compliance with USGAAP, LUXGAAP, and SOX regulations.
• Presented Annual Audits to KPMG Luxembourg, achieving a zero-finding performance audit with top-tier financial reporting efficiency.
• Oversaw inventory control metrics, implementing scrap reporting, cycle counts, inventory turnovers, and BOM audits to mitigate financial risks.
• Led cost analysis for new projects, evaluating cost cards, margins, labor strategies, maintenance investments, and CAPEX allocations to maximize profitability.
• Developed monthly production demand forecasts, assessing contribution margins and pricing strategies to enhance customer program sustainability.
• Directed financial operations in Luxembourg as a Financial Analyst, handling multiple legal entities and consolidating global financial results.
• Played a pivotal role in continuous improvement projects, contributing to a 17% EBITDA increase in 2018 and securing $3M in hard savings.
• Conducted weekly operations risk reviews, identifying financial vulnerabilities and executing strategic action plans to mitigate monetary impacts.

Executive leadership within global manufacturing and pharmaceutical industries, specializing in corporate finance transformation, strategic growth, and long-term sustainability.

• Led full-year financial budgeting, integrating standard cost updates, raw material price analysis, HR headcount assessments, asset capitalization, and global cost allocation to optimize corporate financial performance.
• Presented financial budgets to the Board of Directors & Investors at Vienna corporate headquarters, delivering strategic insights to guide long-term business decisions.
• Spearheaded monthly production demand analysis, aligning manufacturing volume behavior with product margin optimization and cost-efficiency strategies.
• Conducted inventory performance assessments, tracking turnovers, WIP, cycle counts, and identifying inefficiencies for corrective action. Provided materials department with insights on inventory control and risk mitigation.
• Directed financial analysis for new projects, overseeing CAPEX investments, maintenance cost evaluations, and fixed asset management in full compliance with SOX and USGAAP regulations.
• Managed weekly risk assessments, establishing countermeasures to mitigate financial deviations and enhance operational alignment with budget targets.
• Led cost reduction initiatives, achieving a 25% decrease in manufacturing production costs through efficiency improvements and financial restructuring.
• Supported sales & marketing teams, analyzing new product pricing strategies, quotation evaluations, and processing costs, ensuring profitability and competitive market positioning.
• Oversaw SAP finance module reporting, ensuring financial transparency and leveraging data analytics to strengthen business decision-making.

• Hired to work in a cost reduction analysis; supported by the knowledge or leading in operations such as inventories, labor and manufacturing expenses. Besides, the implementation of cost reduction programs for all aspects into infrastructure plant. Responsible for all reporting sales margins, costs and account receivables.
• Active member of the Kaizen cost reduction program. Reporting at least two hard savings monthly. Those savings are reflected as a worthy benefit into the statements.
• Weekly tracker plan for all expenses; mainly focus on the top offenders such as manufacturing and labor. Achieving best expenses manage, reducing operational costs. Coordinate and tracking the past dues, payment terms for all receivables.
• Financial analysis, according to SOX complains. Besides, the consolidation according USGAAP, MXGAAP.
• Support the activities related to manufacture processes (workorders, standard cost updates, revaluations, inventory balances).
• Quotes development, using financial information / analysis / simulations to set the costs of all the new projects since Launching stages to ramp up and sustaining programs.
• Launching off-site visits to operations lanes, improving cost reduction along with the reduction of not value add actions.
• Achievement of 15% reduction of manufacturing costs.

• International assignment insight of India, working for a transition coaching program related to all collection activities, besides the training around 20 people in the use of finance ERP modules (shared service activities).
• Leading Americas Guadalajara site, empathizing team activities, coordination and accuracy between Mexico's - India's.
• Improvement of all process in collection; creating roadmaps specially focused in ERP handling.
• Coordinate the cross-cultural barriers between American & Asian culture. Using leadership skills, teamwork and 'know how' improvements.
• Implementation of strategies to boost the transition, re-evaluating the plans, improving the targets and approaching the goals.
• Best achievement in collections and accounts payable metrics, which improved the FCF and NWC numbers.

• Assignments included the financial analysis of accounts, cash flow balances and monitoring the AP portfolio. Active participation and support for all treasury modules migration to SAP. Due to migration, the supervision of accounts settled. Besides migration, the analysis of corporate investment portfolios, powered by daily reviews of interest rates %.
• Powering some manuals and reports needed to support and prepare the migration to SAP.
• Coordinating AP controls durance transition, such as terms, payments and cash flow sufficiency.
• Supporting activities and reports in NWC and cash flow controls with daily trackers but reducing the unnecessary expenses.
• Finance analysis of portfolio investments, mutual hedge, forwards to leverage strategies and cover monetary fluctuations.