Yazmin Elena Roa A

• Finance & Operations executive leading regional performance across Mexico and Central America.
• Accountable for Opex management, financial planning, and strategic decision-making, while overseeing end-to-end operations including Supply Chain, Customer Service, and Production.
• Drive business performance by aligning financial strategy with operational execution, optimizing cost structures, improving service levels, and ensuring strong governance through internal controls, audits, and compliance.
• Lead cross-functional teams across Finance, HR, IT, Legal, and Operations, fostering a high-performance culture and delivering sustainable growth.
• Led, Consolidated, Analyzed and Reviewed from Mexico and CAM the annual plans and periodic Updates, Strategic Plans and Performances and regional budget.

Managed Opex Management, for financial strategies and direct the activities of the Finance, budget Marketing and Controlling area as budgets and financial projections, internal control, treasury, legal, internal and external auditing, taxes through the tax consultant, staff development, human resources, ethics officer, computer systems and reporting to corporate and regional office.

• Led, Consolidated, Analyzed and Reviewed from Mexico and CAM the annual plans and periodic Updates, Strategic Plans and Performances and regional budget.
• Accelerated and simplified financial planning and analysis processes by eliminating 75% of updates in activation markets, reducing 35% of reports and automating 65% of them. All this resulted in speeding up processes, freeing up time for analysis, increasing Business partner satisfaction and improving associates´ work-life balance. We got the green in the internal audit which is the highest rating at Phibro.

• Managed Opex about 55 million dollars, and I'm in charge of the marketing investment. I prepare the whole Budget for the October Forecast and I was in charge of the MYR Review at Corp. I generate savings with the purpose of covering such resources to bigger and more important marketing investments needed in the Subsidiary, I´m also responsible for the liaison with GFS and Sub Accenture which operates in Argentina. Here in Mexico, I am in charge of the relationship with E&Y which is the company that manages Microsoft's statutory.
• Led, Consolidated, Analyzed and Reviewed $1 Billion sales in Mexico annual plans and periodic Updates, Strategic Plans and Performances and managed a $55+ Million regional budget.
• Optimized and increased accuracy in the planning and investment process with the creation of a spreadsheet tool that the Marketing team used to project sales, gross profit and brand investments and the implementation and training of 50+ multidisciplinary associates in a new process and tool which guaranteed correct accrual registration, PO elaboration, contracting external services and controlling.

• I managed the finance control Department for Consumer and Janssen. At these companies, I was responsible for the Accounting, Tax, Treasury, and payroll, A/P and A/R and Internal Control Department. My main responsibility was to ensure the consolidation of the accounting books USGAAP to be submitted and to be in Compliance.
• I implemented Global Finance Services for Mexico, managing accounting, tax, SOX, accounts payable and payroll departments, and consolidated Janssen, Medical and Consumer in one GFS.
• Increased Mexico consolidation accuracy, standardization and ease of Country analysis by transforming the way planning information was collected, pioneering how actuals were generated, introducing processes to manage Regional Expenses.
• Increased efficiency by taking back Finance shared services from the regional center with no Headcount increase and saving more than $0.4 Million.
• Launched and Sponsored strategic projects such as the cross country and cross sector Project Eagle to centralize Payroll operations, closing legal entity on time, establishing an automated expense report, upgrading SAP.
• Effectively influenced direct and indirect reports to always pursue innovation and challenge the status quo, which resulted in the implementation of best practices, such as: Standard Operating Procedures Framework to provide comprehensive guidance for the development, approval, distribution, accounting and review of practices, as well as a single cross-sector repository platform financial for publication.
• Assisted regional and local finance management in the implementation and stabilization of the GFS for Mexico (May 2012), providing extensive consulting and advisory services on financial reporting processes, including the implementation of the Compliance Program. Developed the strategic plan for Finance consolidation including its Vision, Mission, and Strategic Goals, focusing on building a highly business risk conscious organization.
• Led 5 direct reporting managers and 40 staff members.

• Assisted Compliance Program Owners in addressing compliance risks for 10 focus areas, such as Competition & Fair Trade, Employment & Privacy, Fiscal & Trade, Government Relations (FCPA), Records & Information Management, and Taxation, through formal annual assessments and extensive awareness initiatives in the form of training and communication. In addition, over 100 investigations of alleged compliance violations were thoroughly investigated.
• Guarantee compliance for the region of SOX certification. During the two years, all of the Audits were Adequate including Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic, Trinidad and Jamaica.
• Four comprehensive assessments of the departmental structure and positions profiles were conducted with the objective of aligning roles and responsibilities to new business strategies and to address emerging risks. Resulting from such assessments, strong alignment and constant focus on emerging risks were achieved not only for J&J region. In addition, significant efficiencies were obtained, such as headcount reduction of five positions and cost avoidances/savings due to the elimination of duplicate efforts.
• Developed a highly effective team through continuous coaching and development experiences, including six international audit assignments; implementing recognition and rewards strategies, The effective implementation resulted in an Award recognizing 'outstanding achievements while upholding Credo Values of Business Results, Collaboration And Teamwork and Organizational Development.'

• Managed cost accounting for Lubriderm and Listerine, managed budget and real financial statements, consolidated the account general ledger according to the USGAAP. Bravo Submission Reports and local reporting for McNeil, analysis of variances and Cost accounting proficient.
• Led the mega BPPM in the first rollout of SAP in LA. BPPM included Finance, Controlling, Fixed Assets, Costs, Business Intelligence, Cash Management, Treasury, among others.
• Guaranteed flawless project go live by coordinating activities such as blueprint, training, testing, cutover, etc.
• Ensured achievement of $2.5 Million Project's budget by establishing policies and procedures and controlling investments. Exceeded performance rating every year driven by strong technical financial skills demonstrated during the planning and reporting phases, specifically in data extraction and cost analysis, and clear and concise financial report writing with right perspective.

• Managed the accounting department, consolidated the accounting general ledger according to USGAAP. Bravo Submission Reports and local reporting. Prepared the local and corporate annual tax reports, managed local and corporate reporting; Performed cost accounting, Internal Control and taxes duties.
• Created $0.5 Million in value by participating in the global six-sigma initiative of DSO reduction and led Colombia's Project.
• Optimized the regional Customer Spending by training 160+ multidisciplinary people in 5 countries and creating the Regional Dashboard to monitor countries´ investments resulting in the 'Standards of Leadership Award' for the 'outstanding leadership.'
• Reduced number of Banks and increased negotiation power that was reflected in better bank commissions.