Patricia Muñoz Lara

• Worked closely with organizational leadership and board of directors to guide operational strategy.
• Prepare budgets and forecasts, providing insightful analysis to support business decisions.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to align financial strategies with overall company objectives.
• Established departmental performance goals and provided feedback for underperforming areas.
• Generates monthly business review with detail explanation and analysis of the countries.
• Business Partner with commercial, sales and marketing teams align with them to support them in the design of the strategy providing financial support.
• Implemented innovative solutions to solve complex problems, resulting in increased productivity and streamlined operations.
• Facilitated cross-functional collaboration for improved decision-making processes within the organization.

• Assist the CEO's to identifying P&L risks and opportunities
• Generates monthly business review with detail explanation and analysis of the countries.
• Manage budget, trends and forecasting process for México, Colombia, Caribbean and Central America.
• Analyze variances between actuals, forecast, and plan.
• Design & prepare recurring reports and dashboards for key metrics across the manufacturing organization.
• Prepare and present insightful analysis to support leadership in decision-making.
• Create and measure KPIs to ensure industry-leading manufacturing performance.
• Built successful forecast during period of regional instability.
• Served as critical partner during trading terms discussions to support local growth while moving inventory and reducing returns and liquidations.
• Gained strong leadership skills by managing projects from start to finish.

• Provide decision making and business support to the Local Board and act as her business partner, providing ideas and suggestions to achieve the business goals.
• Provide leadership in delivering and improving financial results: Revenue, Operating Profit & Working Capital.
• Provide thought leadership and contributes to expanding the knowledge base within area of expertise which includes developing new methods, techniques and criteria for developing strategy analysis and recommendations.
• Develop and implement an inhouse dashboards to see finance KPI's like revenue, expenses and profit; by client and total agency; in order see the financial status of the agency.
• Develop and submit annual financial budget and monthly financial forecasts.
• Business partner with the agency CEOs in order to achieve the business goals.
• In charge of treasury, accounting and financial planning teams.
• Lead internal and external audits.
• Managing Working Capital.
• Improve 25% efficiency results in the internal audits vs 2017.
• Implement an inhouse dashboard to see the finance status of all the agency accounts.
• Reduce 20% (1mio) in personnel cost with a new model of business.
  

• Budget/trends management and forecasting.
• Assist the CFO in identifying P&L risks and opportunities.
• Analyze variances between actuals, forecast, and plan.
• Business Partner with supply chain and operations team.
• Deliver accurate monthly dashboards for the business unit.
• Support manufacturing financial processes, with ad-hoc analysis, in order to accomplish the goal business.
• Performs variance analysis between actual, prior and standard costs.
• Assist to coordinate transfer prices.
• Successful integration with the demand planning team Luxe Division.
• Successful ERP(Compass) implementation for DPP division.
  

• Financial Control and support to the enabling areas.
• Responsible of the personnel cost of all the company.
• Monthly meetings with Directors and Managers showing the company results, deviations and recommendations.
• Analyze variances between actuals, forecast, and plan.
• Business Partner with Finance, HR and Legal team.
• Consolidate all the financial reports.
• Reports to headquarters and local management.
• Savings of 3 Mio MXP in Operating Expenses.
• Designed and implemented an in-house planning tool for personnel cost budgeting.
• Reduced payroll calculation time by 80% and avoiding external outsourcing cost.
  

• Support in the budgeting planning and financial forecasting process

• Prepares monthly and quarterly KPIs for plant management and Directors and assists in the development of new KPIs.

• Reporting monthly operational financial data (cost and profitability) to highlight the opportunity costs of production deficiencies

• Analyze data and create financial models for Managers and Executive team members

• Provide recommendations on ways to improve financial status

• Conduct regular variance and trend analyses and report findings to senior management

• Identify opportunities for process improvements