Jesus Cobos
Mission
Summary
Knowledgeable Finance Professional with solid foundation in optimizing operational processes and driving efficiency improvements. Proven track record of managing cross-functional teams to achieve project milestones and streamline workflows. Demonstrated proficiency in strategic planning and problem-solving, ensuring continuous improvement and operational excellence.
Overview
16
16
years of professional experience
Work History
Sr. FP&A Operations Manager TX/MX Division
Wonderful Citrus
Mission, TX
09.2024 - Current
- Lead the creation and implementation of annual budgets, monthly/quarterly forecasts, and long-term financial plans.
- Lead the preparation of various internal reporting packages as well as board and lender reporting packages.
- Standardize Financial Reports across multi region division operations
- Monitor key financial performance indicators (KPIs), providing variance analysis and actionable insights to operations and Company leadership.
- Construct financial models and conduct scenario analyses to support decision-making and development of strategic initiatives.
- Measure effectiveness of various pricing and marketing strategies and analyze the profitability of store locations, regions, and customer types.
- Collaborate with business leaders to drive revenue growth while optimizing costs to improve profitability.
- Lead Cost Savings Initiatives
- Work with regional and operations teams to ensure financial discipline and alignment with corporate financial goals.
- Provide leadership, mentorship, and training to FP&A Managers and analysts
- Manage Standard Cost update
- Oversee Pricing updates
FP&A Operations Manager
Wonderful Citrus
09.2021 - 01.2024
- Manage P&L and provides variance analysis explanations of Actuals vs Budget
- Update Annual, Quarterly and 10 yr LRP (Long Range Planning) Budgets by collecting Sales volume projections, reviewing assumptions and working together with Operations Department managers to collect labor and Overhead Expenses
- Reviews Weekly KPI's with the Director of Operations and department managers to make sure the company reaches financials goals.
- Establish new KPI’s as needed to drive operational improvement
- Analyze and prepare reports, charts, tables, and other exhibits pertinent business unit operations and overhead performance
- Actively participate as key subject matter expert with operations leadership teams to support continuous improvement efforts by providing trends, recommending actions, and performing sensitivity analyses
- Completes month end tasks as required to accurately close packing house operational modules for month
- Secure highly sensitive and confidential financial data and information
- Review and update standard cost models
- Participates in the design in testing of new systems, automated processes, and reporting tools
- Collaborate with others to develop monthly, quarterly and annual forecasting by enabling the execution of financial policies and procedures
- Study impact of proposed changes in labor and/or materials and recommend changes based on comparative analysis
- Ensures a strong analytical mindset, business process excellence and critical thinking skills
Sr. Financial, Operations & Pricing Analyst
Bettcher Manufacturing Metal Stamping LLC
McAllen, TX
02.2020 - 09.2021
- Overall and primary responsibility is to enhance profitability of the company by the collection, analysis and reporting of key financial data.
- Provide Senior Management with sound recommendations for process and productivity improvements, cost reduction opportunities as well as suggesting for increase sales. Lead and/or assist in implementation of such initiatives
- VAVE Cost Reduction coordinator
- WCM Cost Deployment Pillar Manager
- P&L Variance Analysis
- Inventory Turnover Reporting & Analysis
- Excess & Obsolete inventory analysis
- Conduct profitability by part analyses.
- Customer Price & Volume Sales Variance Analysis
- Department Spending Budget Analysis
- Work with Plant Manager to review department cost and cost reduction opportunities
- Assist with Standard Cost update
- Ad Hoc Financial, Operations and Sales & analysis and special studies for the VP of Finance, VP of Operations and CEO
Product Pricing and Sales Development Analyst
Bettcher Manufacturing Metal Stamping LLC
McAllen, TX
08.2017 - 01.2020
- Support Sales Management in the analysis of product pricing including capacity planning analysis to ensure adequate capacity for the introduction of new products.
- Updating customer price files on a quarterly and as-needed basis under the direction of the CFO.
- Verify that QAD (ERP) is updated consistently with product pricing.
- Ensure that all raw material and component supplier are maintained by Purchasing.
- Preparation of all Capital Expenditure Requests (CER) including financial and operational justification related to new products.
- Coordinate all quotation activities with suppliers related to raw materials, tooling, and capital expenditures for new products. This information is to be provided to Sales and Senior Management
- Coordinate with all levels of management to gather, analyze, summarize reports, analyses, and recommendations in areas such as budgets, forecasts, financial plans, statistical reports, and business forecasts
- Coordinate with the Quotation Engineers to transition New Product quotations to Engineering and Cost Accounting to complete the development of bills of materials (BOM), routings, standard costs, and MRP data.
- Customer Price & Volume Analysis
- Planning Criteria – MRP supervision
- Conduct profitability by part analyses.
- Ad Hoc Financial, Operations and Sales & analysis and special studies for the VP of Finance, VP of Operations and CEO
Product Pricing Analyst/Staff Accountant
Bettcher Manufacturing Metal Stamping LLC
McAllen, TX
10.2010 - 08.2017
- Tracking of capital and tooling projects
- Assure that customers are invoiced appropriately
- Support Controller in implementation of new policies and procedures
- Financial analysis
- Update Material prices on a Quarterly basis
- Account reconciliations
- Accountable for managing, organizing and storing confidential documents
- Review documents containing accounting invoices, employee files, and legal documents and create a highly organized filing system as well as deliver specific documents to management
- Support the staff in generating building infrastructures within the warehouse
- Contact and collect pending finances from customers delayed on their payments
Education
Master of Business Administration -
The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley
Edinburg, TX05-2020
Bachelor of Business Administration - Accounting
The University of Texas-Pan American
Edinburg, TX08-2012
Associate of Applied Science - Business Administration
South Texas College
McAllen, TX05-2010
Skills
- Computer Skills: Oracle Fusion, EPBCS, QAD, Citrix MRP, Microsoft Word, Excel, Power Point
- Team leadership
- Operations management
- Problem-solving
- Inventory management
- Process improvement
- Cost reduction
- Forecasting and scheduling
- Financial management
- Change management
- Budgeting and forecasting
Languages
English
Full Professional
Spanish
Full Professional
Timeline
Sr. FP&A Operations Manager TX/MX Division
Wonderful Citrus
09.2024 - Current
FP&A Operations Manager
Wonderful Citrus
09.2021 - 01.2024
Sr. Financial, Operations & Pricing Analyst
Bettcher Manufacturing Metal Stamping LLC
02.2020 - 09.2021
Product Pricing and Sales Development Analyst
Bettcher Manufacturing Metal Stamping LLC
08.2017 - 01.2020
Product Pricing Analyst/Staff Accountant
Bettcher Manufacturing Metal Stamping LLC
10.2010 - 08.2017
Bachelor of Business Administration - Accounting
The University of Texas-Pan American
Associate of Applied Science - Business Administration
South Texas College
Master of Business Administration -
The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley