Andrea Flores Guevara
San José
Summary
As an accomplished FP&A professional, I have excelled in leading, guiding and developing a global team, while driving impactful financial planning and analysis initiatives. My expertise lies in forging strong business relationships, anticipating partners' needs, and delivering actionable insights for decision-making. My motivation is fueled by opportunities to grow, create meaningful connections with senior management, and aligning financial strategies with business objectives and seeing the direct impact of my work on organizational success.
Overview
18
18
years of professional experience
Work History
FP&A Manager
Zoetis
10.2024 - Current
- Financial planning and reporting: Lead month end close activities and planning cycles, deliver strategic insights and drive financial performance through deep understanding of business operations and financial drivers
- Business partnering and stakeholder management: Build and nurture strong relationships with cross-functional business partners to align financial goals with operational strategies
- Financial analysis: Create insight into overall sites performance from various perspectives involving P&L, inventory, capital, etc
- Financial modelling: Build out financial modeling capabilities for the short-term and long-term planning processes
Senior FP&A Manager
Moodys
06.2024 - 10.2024
- Financial reporting and analysis: supervise the analysis and reporting of financial data, explaining trends and variances to projected scenarios.
- Forecasting/Budgeting: lead the financial forecasting and planning processes, establishing guidelines, templates and timelines to ensure consistency and completeness
- Strategic business support: develop and maintain positive relationships with internal clients and partners, anticipating their needs and offering insights and solutions to challenges
- Team management: lead and manage a group of FP&A professionals to ensure all activities are performed accurately and timely
- Continuous improvement: create a continuous improvement culture in the team by giving them the autonomy and resources to implement their improvement actions
- Achievements
- APAC activities transition to FP&A CoE in India
- FP&A CoE creation in Poland to support EMEA operations
FP&A Manager
Baxter Americas Services
03.2023 - 06.2024
- Global Supply Chain
- Manage a group of 8 or more collaborators, in different geographies, to coordinate and ensure activities are completed, as described:
- Planning activities: Lead the function planning processes (Plan, Forecasts, LRP) in collaboration with key stakeholders
- Financial reporting and analysis: Coordinate month end close activities and participate/lead monthly and quarterly reviews of results.
- Financial support: Perform adhoc analysis for strategic evaluations, financial simulations and excel modeling to provide insightful recommendations and support for management decision making and drive and own global financial initiatives alignment with the function along with updates in global FP&A process
- Business partnering: Act as trusted business partner, leveraging financial and business expertise to drive financial decisions, and effectively communicate of key design initiatives from the Global FP&A Group to key stakeholders / broader organization as appropriate, including Senior Management
- Team management: Develop and guide team reporting under the leadership of this position so that they may achieve their career goals within our organization
- Advancing the operating model: identify areas of improvement in collaboration with team members and key stakeholders, develop and implement a plan to execute those initiatives
- Achievements
- Support new company reporting structure by business (cost center clean up and cost alignment)
FP&A Supervisor
Baxter Americas Services
07.2021 - 03.2023
- Global Supply Chain
- Act as a team lead for a group of three collaborators to coordinate and ensure activities are completed, as described:
- Forecasting/Budgeting activities: Lead the planning processes (Plan, Forecasts, LRP) in collaboration with key stakeholders
- Financial reporting and analysis: Coordinate all month end close activities and participate/lead monthly and quarterly results review, periodic LBE’s working closely with market leadership
- Financial support: Perform ad hoc analysis for strategic evaluations, financial simulations and excel modeling to provide insightful recommendations and support for management decision making and drive and own global financial initiatives alignment with ops team with updates in global FP&A process
- Business partnering: Act as trusted business partner, leveraging financial and business expertise to drive financial decisions
- Team management: Develop and guide team reporting under the leadership of this position so that they may achieve their career goals within our organization
- Achievements
- Lead and support the transition of LATAM and Canada FP&A activities to the CoE located in Costa Rica
Senior Financial Analyst
Baxter Americas Services
10.2017 - 07.2021
- Americas Manufacturing/Global Supply Chain
- Deliver a comprehensive monthly reporting package for management, including month/quarterly reviews of budget/forecast vs actual results
- Lead the forecast and budget cycles for the Americas region: provide guidance, consolidation and analysis of financial data
- Perform strategic ad hoc reporting and financial analysis to assess business performance and facilitate decision making and business support
- Enhance budgeting and forecasting processes through continuous improvement initiatives
- Achievements
- Successful transition of US FP&A activities to CoE located in Costa Rica
- Development and execution of Standard Cost alignment project
Senior Financial Analyst
Fiserv
05.2015 - 10.2017
BP&A Analyst
Citi Shared Service Center
01.2014 - 05.2015
Financial Analyst
Hewlett Packard
07.2011 - 01.2014
Accounting Analyst
Baxter Americas Services
03.2011 - 07.2011
Accounting Clerk
Baxter Americas Services
05.2009 - 03.2011
Accounting Data Processor
Baxter Americas Services
10.2007 - 05.2009
Education
Master of Business Administration (MBA) -
Universidad Latina De Costa Rica
Licentiate degree - Public Accounting
Universidad Internacional de las Americas
Bachelor's degree - Public Accounting
Universidad Internacional de las Americas
Skills
- Adaptability
- Ability to Work Under Pressure
- Leadership and Teamwork
- Problem Solving
- Effective communication
- Financial Planning
- Business partnering
- Team leadership
- Time management
- Decision-making
- Customer service
LANGUAGES
English
Spanish
Timeline
FP&A Manager
Zoetis
10.2024 - Current
Senior FP&A Manager
Moodys
06.2024 - 10.2024
FP&A Manager
Baxter Americas Services
03.2023 - 06.2024
FP&A Supervisor
Baxter Americas Services
07.2021 - 03.2023
Senior Financial Analyst
Baxter Americas Services
10.2017 - 07.2021
Senior Financial Analyst
Fiserv
05.2015 - 10.2017
BP&A Analyst
Citi Shared Service Center
01.2014 - 05.2015
Financial Analyst
Hewlett Packard
07.2011 - 01.2014
Accounting Analyst
Baxter Americas Services
03.2011 - 07.2011
Accounting Clerk
Baxter Americas Services
05.2009 - 03.2011
Accounting Data Processor
Baxter Americas Services
10.2007 - 05.2009
Licentiate degree - Public Accounting
Universidad Internacional de las Americas
Bachelor's degree - Public Accounting
Universidad Internacional de las Americas
Master of Business Administration (MBA) -
Universidad Latina De Costa Rica
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