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SikaTemporary Regional Finance Manager
Oct. 2019 - Apr. 2020Guatemala areaHaving implemented actions to reduce the Working Capital in USD0.4Million in Guatemala in order to accelerate the loan payments to Head Quarters. Having improved financial figures in terms of ebit compared to previous year.
Implementing internal control improvements among the region.
Morgan Advanced MaterialsRegional Finance Manager
Mar. 2015 - Aug. 2017Guatemala areaHaving avoided US$2Million in tax fines. Worked in the solution with attorneys, tax auditors and the general management.
Having debugged the financial figures (included statutory and corporate figures). The result is the confidence of the business performance. KPMG handed out a clean 2015 audit brief in January 2016.
Cases submitted for US$0.9Million for VAT Credit Recovery from 2006 to 2017 to the regulatory administration.
Implemented a virtual cloud (IT) for Guatemala.
Having implemented IFRS for Colombian site.
SikaRegional Finance Manager
Aug. 2012 - Mar. 2015Guatemala areaImplemented actions such as get a $700k loan, cut expenses, delay dividend payment to Head Quarters in order to improve the financial solvency of the company locally. The results obtained were increasing the EBIT in almost 100% in two years, having paid the loan in 3 months instead of 30 months and the reduction of the Net Working Capital compared annual sales by 6%. Having implemented Internal Control procedures in order to avoid compliance issues.
Home HospitalFounding Partner
Jul. 2012Guatemala, GuatemalaHaving negotiated several accords with multinational and national insurance companies such as Bupa, Palig, BMI, VumiGroup, BestDoctors, El Roble and G&T to treat patients at home. The main referral companies have been Bupa and Palig. Having created multidisciplinary teams to treat patients with different chronic and acute illnesses. The results to treat patients at home include: patient and family quality of life, and expense reduction beyond 70% than treating the patient in the hospital intensive care unit. Besides Home Hospital received an award of the most innovative home health care provider in Guatemala by Global Health & Pharma in three consecutive years (2019-2021, 2023). Having provided occupational health and safety monitors to factories, construction companies and a church since March 2020. The monitors have been focused to avoid accidents thru trainings, periodic visits to the project fields and to attend and emergency when an accident occurs. The above actions and the participation in bipartite committees (according to the Guatemalan regulation 229-2014) have led to contain accidents.
CitiCorporate Budgeting and Planning Manager
Sep. 2010 - Aug. 2011Guatemala areaIncreased the financial figures accuracy among different businesses in order to measure their performance versus budget.
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