Highlights:

Skills:budget, planning

FP&A Manager 03/2022 - 01/2024
Sobeys Inc, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia Canada
Industry: Retail
• Coordinated and consolidated a $7 billion sales budgeting and forecasting for six business units, collaborating with diverse leadership and aligning financial information with long-term goals.
• Approved financials for annual $33M savings initiatives. Collaborated with the Strategic Sourcing team to ensure accurate reporting visibility of initiatives and cost-saving opportunities. • Prepared monthly periodic variance analysis reports, ensuring departmental accountability and controls were in place. Partnership with functional VPs or directors in identifying risks and opportunities against budget. • Consolidated expenses budget of over $1 billion across 5.600 cost centre/account combinations, reviewing operational contracts to identify cost reduction in SG&A. • Reduced data-gathering time by five hours/month through optimized Excel templates, allowing analysis flexibility and easy identification of expense discrepancy drivers. • Led a team of financial analysts in conducting data review, identifying drivers and trends to provide actionable insights to management.--
Senior Financial Analyst 02/2020 - 03/2022
Sobeys Inc, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia Canada
Industry: Retail
• Produced weekly reports for over 850 pharmacies, ensuring business leaders had relevant, accurate, timely information and variance analysis.
• Produced weekly reports for over 850 pharmacies, ensuring business leaders had relevant, accurate, timely information and variance analysis. Piloted report to capture COVID sales for over 400 stores implemented within a week. • Established reporting process improvements that cut time by 10 hours weekly, strengthening management and reducing risks. • Facilitated Store Performance Dashboard project, providing analytical support with graphic design, formula validation, and Tableau data integration. The final product allowed each store manager to access exclusive and customized data and evaluate performance against targets. • Created Standard Operating Procedures with detailed instructions to reduce the learning curve required to fill the position by two weeks, ensuring superior training and career development.--
Coordinator, Finance Administration 07/2018 - 02/2020
Nova Scotia Public Service Commission, Halifax, Nova Scotia Canada
Industry: Government
• Managed an $18 million department, performing monthly closing activities, invoice coding, journal entries, and expense reconciliation, ensuring accuracy and compliance with corporate policies.
• Authored operational expenditure Dashboard. Participation in committees that promoted client service delivery by 13% and enhanced workplace safety initiatives. • Directed a team to maintain a database of equipment specs. Increased monitoring of assets under the responsibility of employees from 29% to 80% in 4 months. • Influenced procurement and finance compliance with regulations. Monitoring accounts payable and corporate credit card policy reduced accounting non-compliant processes by 20%.--
Procurement Consultant 10/2014 - 01/2017
F Alonso Consulting, Santos, Sao Paulo Brazil
Industry: Consulting
• Refined operational processes, workflows and systems to drive efficiency, reduce cost and enhance productivity for different industries (logistics, retail, wholesale, and manufacturing).
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Strategic Sourcing Manager 12/2007 - 06/2014
Anglo American plc, Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo Brazil
Industry: mining
• Spearheaded a Global transformation plan, establishing a Global Shared Services department; led 10 cross-functional leaders to implement a centralized system for master data management, spending, and contract management, resulting in increased operational efficiency and cost savings of $1.5 million annually.
• Acquired capital expenditure assets and raw materials and implemented long-term legal contracts with vendors. Negotiations achieved ~10% cost savings. • Developed cost drivers financial modeling on a USD 250 mi/year portfolio to support effective decision-making. • Mentored a 3-member team accountable for maintaining a dashboard for staff performance and departmental financial targets. Influenced a culture of holding teams liable for results.--

Sobeys School of Business 06/2002 - 06/2004
Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
Degree: Master's Degree
Major:Business Administration
MBA

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