Fernando Rodriguez

• Responsible for the financial oversight of six manufacturing sites across the Americas, with total sales exceeding *€150 million**. These sites operate in diverse therapeutic areas, including compression vascular, wound care, advanced wound care, and orthopedics. The sites under my leadership include:
  
  - PC Reynosa (Mexico)*
  - PC Cali (Colombia)*
  - PC ETX (Colombia)*
  - PC JoviPack (USA)*
  - PC Hickory (USA)*
  - PC Hydrofera (USA)*
  
  Key Responsibilities:
  - Financial Leadership: Guide, lead, and supervise the financial performance of all sites, ensuring alignment with business objectives, financial goals and corporate standards.
  - Cost & Efficiency: Drive cost optimization initiatives, monitor capital investments, and identify opportunities for profitability enhancement.
  - Continuous Improvement: Lead efforts in continuous improvement, supporting operational excellence and the execution of key financial strategies.
  - Team Management: Oversee local site controllers and a unit controller for the largest site, ensuring effective financial stewardship and performance tracking across all locations.
  
  My role is focused on optimizing financial outcomes, managing cost initiatives, and driving capital expenditure decisions to meet the evolving needs of the business, ensuring each site's financial health and contribution to the overall success of the organization.

• Dual role as Logistics Manager and Controller, where I not only expanded my leadership and soft skills but also made significant contributions to operational improvements. I led a team of 20 individuals, coaching and guiding them in areas outside my core expertise, which allowed me to grow and enhance cross-functional collaboration.
• Key Areas of Responsibility & Achievements:
  
  Controlling & Financial Planning: Oversaw financial planning, budgeting, and forecasting, aligning financial objectives with operational goals.
  Cost Department: Implemented cost control measures, driving operational efficiency and optimizing resource allocation.
  Production Planning : Coordinated production schedules, improving throughput and minimizing delays.
  Warehouse Management: Led improvements in inventory management, reducing operational bottlenecks and enhancing fulfillment accuracy.
  Foreign Trade & Customs Clearance: Managed compliance with international trade regulations and customs clearance, ensuring smooth cross-border operations.
  Customer Service: Strengthened customer service processes, ensuring timely deliveries and enhancing customer satisfaction.
• Key Achievements:
  
  Reduced Back Orders: Successfully reduced the level of back orders through better production planning, improved communication, and optimized inventory management.
  Enhanced Communication & Visibility: Improved communication and visibility across the leadership team, ensuring that all departments were aligned and informed of key issues and performance metrics.

Plan, direct and supervise all local processes, policies and procedures:

• Responsible for the financial monthly closing process
• Management reports to the Corporate - Balance Sheet, Profit and Loss Statement, Working Capital
• Work as the main person in charge of Internal and External Audit
• Responsible for financial projections
• In charge of inventory, expense control and cash flow
• Work as a commercial partner with the business supporting strategic decisions
• Knowledge of International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS), Transfer Pricing, invited as a corporate internal auditor
• Valuation of investment projects

• Coordinate production and distribution costs
• Prepare monthly closing, settlement, and analysis of variations, P&L Commented
• Prepare quarterly forecast and budget once a year, follow-up of execution
• Reconciliation between FI and CO modules, CO-PA implementation module with global IT
• Preparation of management reports, balance scorecard
• Responsible for master data
• Upload the results to Hyperion and AARO
• Reduced construction time from standard cost by more than 80%

• External advisor in the management of public finances
• Reports Bank balances and monitoring of the investment of Surplus Liquidity
• Analysis of each municipal income and monitoring of budget execution
• Consolidation of management and financial reports
• Implementation of various income application, online collection projects and ongoing relationship with 14 banking entities
• Advice, analysis, and control of municipal treasury processes: (bank reconciliations, Payments and Collections), which allowed generating recommendations and / or alerts for necessary improvement
• Consulting and analysis of agreement projects and their possible impacts

• Analysis and reconciliation of sales and costs on a monthly basis
• Reconciliation and analysis of margins
• Presentation of transfer prices, settlement of intercompany margins
• Construction of the latest best projections and budgets
• Price analysis
• Evaluation of new products
• Master data management
• Control of administrative and promotional expenses
• Provisions management
• Construction of cash flow statements, direct and indirect method

• Construction of the P&L by Sub-brand of the Andean Region
• Control and monitor business investment and administrative expenses
• Construction of budget and latest best projections
• Reconciliation of margins
• Development of scorecards by categories
• Evaluation of the SPI and SPD plan
• Evaluation of net sales by SKU
• Analysis of growth in sales and organic growth

• Carry out closing of cost department for Peru subsidiary
• Standard calculation of cost, budget and estimates
• Control and management of fixed assets
• Inventory calculation under FIFO methodology
• Present cost of sale and explain deviations
• Financial control of inventories for Andean Region
• Corporate reports
• External audit reports (PWC, KPMG)

• Prepare consolidated statements of account for the Andean region (Colombia, Peru, Ecuador and Bolivia) with other subsidiaries and between regions
• Bank reconciliation of the main current account of Colgate Palmolive Colombia
• Prepare and present reports of reconciliations and open items
• Preparation of report between subsidiaries of export closure month by month
• Reduction of time by 60% for the consolidation of an account statement for the Andean region through Macro in visual basic