Jonathan De Luna

Expanded role responsibilities include:

• Lead all the controlling, forecasting, and budgeting activities for ATL & PTY hubs ($75M in FY OPEX). 350 FTE operation.
• Preparation and review of monthly results with the Hub Senior Management team for each hub.
• Perform monthly reporting and analysis of all Americas Ground Ops costs (Approx. $3B per year), including monthly presentations for the Regional VP of Ground Ops and VP of Ground Ops Controlling.
• Business partner to Ops Controllers and Ops leaders in the countries, as it relates to analysis of Ground Ops results (55 countries).
• Support quarterly Country Ground Ops business review meetings for Regional CFO.
• Support the Global Ops Controlling team on Finance Projects & initiatives.
• Spearheaded Power BI project to provide real-time visibility on Hub productivity as it relates to Hours and Volume, yielding savings on staff cost of approx. $10M vs budget on a FY basis.
• Led the development of a Power BI report focused on providing monthly visibility on Fleet costs in relation to vehicles and routes for USA, Canada, and Mexico. The report provided visibility to support the decision to reduce vehicles based on current routes and ultimately saved the company approx. $13M on fleet costs (annually).
• Streamlined month-end close process through automation initiatives that increased data accuracy while reducing time spent on administrative tasks.
• Mentored junior finance staff members, fostering a culture of continuous learning and professional development.

• Provide regional Americas Ground Operations Management and Network Ops Controlling with a combined financial and operational experience to understand main operational cost drivers and drive identified improvement opportunities to add financial value to the operation
• Maintain financial and operational systems as well as coordinate and support reporting processes with Americas countries
• Reporting line to VP of Controlling for Ground Ops & Hubs Americas
• Cross-functional link for Finance/Operations/Engineering at Regional level
• Reporting & analysis for Fleet cost in the Americas (€137M per year), liaising with controllers in the countries to better understand Risks, Opportunities and main cost drivers
• Key internal customers Regional VP of Ground Ops & GTWs, and Regional Director of Fleet management.

• Support the decision–making process serving as the regional team/key liaison between finance and the business
• Mainly providing financial planning and business controlling support to Panalpina’s Air Freight and Logistic product in the Americas
• Reporting to the Regional Head of Financial Reporting and Business Controlling for the Americas
• Key role in the interaction with Country Heads of Finance and Regional Finance
• Actively support the month-end, rolling forecasts and budget process for the Americas Region
• Implemented a regional quarterly Balance Sheet Review process for 15 countries in the Americas, ensuring compliance to corporate reporting and accounting policies
• In coordination with local country finance teams, led improvement initiatives within the region to increase reporting quality KPI from 80-96%
• Developed benchmarking indicators across countries within the region, through the setup and implementation of a Regional Finance Scorecard
• Support RCFO with the creation of monthly business update presentations
• Provide overall cost center management including financial project tracking, preparation of period forecasts and AOP and complex cross charges for development and ongoing support of shared projects
• Participate with Regional Product Heads on monthly business calls and reviews with each country within the region as liaison to understand the business and identify areas of opportunities and risks
• Evaluate monthly results per country and product in order to ensure consistency and reasonability
• Performed Business special projects with heavy financial analysis and provide recommendations
• Support other functional areas (such as IT - $10M yearly budget) with forecasts, budget preparation and monthly expenses variations analysis
• Recommend process improvement in all areas of responsibilities
• Implemented new ways to operate by automating existing processes and eliminating manual and non-value-add activities throughout the Americas region
• Key role in the SAP Single Client Wave 6 deployment for ten LATAM countries
• Go-Live of Q1.2018
• Actively participated in the migration of the US Finance Function from Morristown, NJ to the Americas Regional Head Office in Miami, through: 1)Definition of critical tasks and processes 2)Mapping of current processes 3)Once processes were successfully migrated, identified room for improvement opportunities.

• Ensured proper accounting, reporting and analysis of DHL’s regional fleet-wide fuel burn per year or approximately $400M in fuel spend and related taxes
• Improved monthly reporting of fuel expense, by creating a streamlined report that permitted a better monthly analysis of the different KPI’s that drive this cost (Note: Fuel represents 45-46% of the overall expense for the Americas region)
• Spearheaded the conceptualization, testing and implementation of a system that allowed the aviation finance team to streamline the invoice data capture process for fuel related invoices (approximately 4,500 per month), reducing man hours and issues with data integrity by almost 85% YoY
• (3 month project)
• Actively supported the budgeting and forecasting process (for Direct Operating Costs), as well as provided analysis of expense variations against plan and forecast using various statistical, trend and seasonality
• Ensured proper analysis of all fixed and variable cost, such as landing fees, handling, deicing, navigation, etc
• Actively supported the regional quarterly Balance Sheet Review process
• Prepared and analyze monthly P/L, BS reports, providing narratives on variances to budget, LY and prior month.

• Managed the month-end closing process, as well as P&L critique for all assigned business units
• Analyzing and documenting variances against forecast, budget and prior year
• Participated in the quarterly Balance Sheet Assessment process, ensuring all A&L accounts have been properly reconciled
• Successfully managed a team of two general accountants
• In charge of budget and forecast process for assigned business units
• Communicating budget submission guidelines and targets, as well as estimating budgets and forecast amounts based on historical trends and key metric drivers.

• Responsible for the process of Remittance and Settlement (R&S) accounting operations for the Caribbean and Latin America sales distribution system for Agents (between 450-500) and Commercial/Cargo Airlines (about 60)
• Supported the regional yearly planning and monthly financial consolidation and reporting processes for IATA’s local offices in The Americas
• Prepared Hinge Account Reconciliation reports, including journal entries as necessary to re-class revenues/expenses, ensuring the integrity and accuracy of the R&S process
• Managed day to day Shared Service Center Operations according to IATA standards, rules and procedures
• Prepared and update monthly sales forecast models per country per airline
• Analyzed R&S monthly operations in the Americas and prepare power point presentations for senior management.