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Aurora Mendez Bussell

Aurora Mendez Bussell

Herriman,UT

Summary

Experienced FP&A leader with 15+ years of expertise in financial planning and analysis, budgeting, and management.

Proven track record of driving business objectives through data-driven financial analysis, strategy development,
and stakeholder management.

Overview

12
12
years of professional experience

Work History

Sr. FP&A Business Partner

XLMedia
03.2021 - Current
  • Contributed to monthly processes, including long range planning, monthly budget and forecasting by partnering with business leaders to deliver on the company's financial goals, while maintaining a strong focus on operational performance and analysis.
  • Contribute to the goal of driving profitability by leveraging data and analytics, providing financial insights and analysis, and working with functional teams on a monthly, quarterly and ad hoc basis.
  • Improved forecasting accuracy across the business by implementing best practices, tools, and processes.
  • Forge meaningful relationships with departmental heads to become a trusted FP&A partner by initiating dialogue, highlighting risks, documenting and/or building simulations and sensitivity analyses, and suggesting solutions to problems as they arise.
  • Developed a simulation tool which analyzed the best case and worst case scenarios for a variety of business initiatives, resulting in a decrease in the cost of failure.
  • Manage the FP&A process by leading the budget, forecasting and reporting for North America, and drive execution with senior management by clearly articulating the results and explaining how the results were achieved.

Sr. Finance Manager

Rakuten
03.2016 - 03.2021
  • Managed the planning and budgeting of a $80M USD tech budget by creating and tracking monthly financial reports and presenting the results to the C-Level executives.
  • Improved efficiency for the Global Tech Division by providing tailored financial reports, that report on cost allocation by product and cost scalability, to budget owners and Sr. Leadership.
  • Increased operational efficiency by implementing a monthly review and analysis of the income statement and
    balance sheet, comparing current results to financial plans and prior year results, for all tech cost centers.
  • Prepared, tracked and monitored KPIs and operational trend data for Domo dashboards and other management reporting (i.e., Capex report, cloud costs and professional services spend) to ensure Tech division is always within budget.

Inside Sales Analyst

OOCL
10.2015 - 02.2016
  • Increased customer acquisition by providing a customer-centric selling approach to acquire new business by fostering strategic business alliances and enhancing customer competitiveness.
  • Improved customer experience and reduced customer churn by analyzing current call volume and determining target service loops that require additional training and coaching.
  • Established competitive rates with customers based on prospective shipping volumes, by creating a sales plan by market segment and location.
  • Analyzed and forecasted global daily sales, trade, and traffic metrics across the sales, financial, and customer service departments to drive sales actions.
  • Analyzed target/current customer’s business developments to identify new sales opportunities and increase vessel load factors with data analysis, research, and monthly business reviews with customers.

Senior Market Analyst

Select Estrategia
02.2012 - 10.2014
  • Directed an $8m USD market study to evaluate the World Bank's PROSOFT initiative in Mexico. The study focused on human skills development, strengthening of IT Clusters and the improvement of supporting infrastructure in the IT sector.
  • Developed and successfully implemented a 1$m USD project to help the Monterrey IT cluster find business partners and opportunities in Texas.
  • Coordinated team efforts to produce accurate and timely recommendations to multinational technology corporations such as Microsoft and Oracle, resulting in long-term contracts.

Education

Master's Degree in International Trade & Finance -

International University in Geneva
01.2011

Bachelor's Degree in International Business -

Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey (ITESM)
01.2006

Skills

  • Financial Analysis/Budgeting
  • Market Research
  • Project Management
  • Multicultural Awareness
  • Corporate Communications
  • Strategic Planning

Languages

Spanish
Native/ Bilingual
English
Native/ Bilingual

Timeline

Sr. FP&A Business Partner

XLMedia
03.2021 - Current

Sr. Finance Manager

Rakuten
03.2016 - 03.2021

Inside Sales Analyst

OOCL
10.2015 - 02.2016

Senior Market Analyst

Select Estrategia
02.2012 - 10.2014

Master's Degree in International Trade & Finance -

International University in Geneva

Bachelor's Degree in International Business -

Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey (ITESM)

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