GABRIEL RODRIGO ZIMERI
Miami,FL
Summary
Versatile Senior Manager specializing in Finance and Strategy, skilled at planning, implementing and overseeing key improvements to drive business growth and efficiency. History of cultivating an open culture with free exchange of information. Pursuing new professional challenges with a growth-oriented company. Bilingual: English / Spanish.
Overview
8
8
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Senior Manager (FP&A)
Restaurant Brands International
11.2023 - Current
- Provided strong leadership to enhance team productivity and morale.
- Improved overall financial reporting by streamlining control processes and reporting structures.
- Led cross-functional teams to achieve project milestones and deliver high-quality results.
- Supported executive decision-making by presenting insightful recommendations based on rigorous data-driven analyses.
- Enhanced financial reporting accuracy by streamlining data collection and analysis processes.
- Leveraged advanced Excel skills to automate manual tasks, increasing efficiency within the finance department.
- Mentored junior FP&A analysts, providing guidance on best practices in financial modeling, forecasting, and analysis techniques.
Manager (FP&A)
Restaurant Brands International
05.2022 - 10.2023
- Crafted excel models to analyze and deliver process improvement recommendations with the FP&A teams
- Worked closely with cross-functional teams and leadership to ensure clear guidance on closing and forecast process deliverables
- Create and analyze Popeyes domestic and global monthly, quarterly and annually financial reporting with key business metrics and insight commentary to help leadership team with precise decision making
- Present monthly, quarterly and annually closing and forecasting financial results of P&L and KPI’s that drive the business forward to upper management with high level variance explanation vs budget and vs prior year
- Identify risks and opportunities through data analysis and present to leadership
- Directed one financial analyst with training on topic such as currency conversion, key metric calculation, deep understanding of the P&L, company and industry main topics and forecasting logic methodology
- Create, analyze, and present Popeyes global budget on a yearly basis in conjunction with regional teams to receive precise insight on operational details
- Create quarterly financial results for external reporting and provide detailed analysis to help prepare the investor relations team and leadership team for successful earnings call
- Achieved departmental goals by developing and executing strategic plans and performance metrics.
Lead/Senior Financial Analyst (FP&A)
Carnival Corporation
03.2021 - 04.2022
- Analyze performance variances vs PY, Budget, Fcst for all 9 brands key business metrics such as pricing, cruise occupancy, ticket revenue and capacity levels to provide c-suite executives with future looking insightful reports for precise decision making
- Consolidate and analyze all 9 brands Capex on a quarterly basis, dissect information and present to leadership team
- Act as a liaison with the brand’s revenue management team to ensure data is delivered on time, accurate, and swiftly resolve any discrepancies with the team leads while ensuring compliance and stated financial guidelines
- On a quarterly basis, work under tight deadlines to create and deliver data driven business performance reports in which c-suite executives relay to provide transparent results to stake holders and deliver a successful earnings call
- Collected data and developed detailed spreadsheets to identify trends and create revenue, profitability, and expense forecasts.
Senior Financial Analyst (Revenue Management)
HBO Latin America
03.2018 - 03.2021
- Critically analyze and report to supervisor overall trends and identify key drivers such as subscriber’s gain/loss, retail price increase, and FX fluctuation impacting the monthly revenues to assess any risks or opportunities
- Working under tight deadlines, create and deliver revenue/subscriber performance reports that provide upper management with a clear view on business performance
- Create and deliver revenue performance reports for upper management on strict deadlines to give a clear view on business performance
- Optimize excel models to validate invoicing calculation processes as well as to assure revenue recognition
- Analyze contracts/negotiations which improved the billing cycle and recorded revenues in compliance with USGAAP
- Modeled revenue recognition process using Visio to map end to end workflow and identify opportunities for improvement which enhanced operations and allowed an increase in the workload of 20%
- Review, analyze and confirm with other departments (sales, regional offices, legal dpt.) appropriate interpretation of agreements to ensure correct invoice issuance to maximize revenue and mitigate risk
- Increase productivity times 15% by developing and automating customer calculation spreadsheets that are used to record revenue and trained effectively junior team members
- Manage over $600M revenue in the forecast monthly
- Analyze the forecasting model comparing actual and budget data every month to assist upper management with precise decision making and recommendations
- Create revenue forecasting presentations for executives with insightful comments to outreach the long-term strategy
- Create and manage month/year-end reconciliation reports based on revenue/subscribers which enables upper management to better assess the company performance
Financial Operations Analyst
Campbell Williams Inc
03.2016 - 02.2018
- Forecast client portfolio performance using various financial simulation modeling, and provide ongoing detailed analysis of moving markets and mutual fund trends/performance which increased YoY return on investment of 30%
- Prepare over 30 client-facing Excel and PowerPoint portfolio performance reports including detailed market analysis and individual client analysis for Senior Relationship Managers to ensure transparency and customer satisfaction
- Redesigned and improved invoicing system for clients which reduced invoice completion time from two weeks to three days
- Support Senior Relationship Managers in the day-to-day client portfolio management (Portfolio exceeds $30MM)
- Interact daily with clients and supported them with account openings, account maintenance and served as a general point of contact for support issues
- Keep up to date with the latest market data and trends
- Conducted ongoing in-depth market research of companies’ key financials and market trends/macro environments
Education
Master of Business Administration - Executive MBA
Duke University
05.2026
Bachelor of Science Degree - Industrial Engineering
University of Miami (College of Engineering)
Coral Gables, Florida12.2015
Skills
- Excel
- PowerPoint
- Word
- PowerBI
- Outlook
- OneStream
- Hyperion
- Essbase
- QuickBooks
- Visio
- Oracle Peoplesoft
- Cross-functional Team Coordination
- Strategic Planning
- Operations Management
Certification
Six Sigma Green Belt Certification, 01/2022
Awards
Applause Award, HBO Latin America Group, In recognition of outstanding effort in the accomplishment of our business objectives through commitment, dedication, sacrifice and hard work, 12/2020
Timeline
Senior Manager (FP&A)
Restaurant Brands International
11.2023 - Current
Manager (FP&A)
Restaurant Brands International
05.2022 - 10.2023
Lead/Senior Financial Analyst (FP&A)
Carnival Corporation
03.2021 - 04.2022
Senior Financial Analyst (Revenue Management)
HBO Latin America
03.2018 - 03.2021
Financial Operations Analyst
Campbell Williams Inc
03.2016 - 02.2018
Master of Business Administration - Executive MBA
Duke University
Bachelor of Science Degree - Industrial Engineering
University of Miami (College of Engineering)
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