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Leonardo Phoyu

Leonardo Phoyu

Trophy Club,TX
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Walt Disney

Summary

Proven success in overseeing and streamlining key financial activities of organization along with developing robust processes to drive several procedural improvements.

Well versed in providing exceptional leadership to various personnel, including Senior Leaders and multiple financial analyst teams, ensuring achievement of set financial goals.

Track record of improving customer experience by fostering strong relationships with clients and stakeholders.

Skilled professional with an extensive background and deep knowledge of market challenges and variations along with innovating ways to achieve targets within set timelines across highly fast-paced environments.

Overview

13
13
years of professional experience

Work History

Director FP&A

SABRE
08.2021 - Current
  • Closely liaise with senior leadership team to formulate long-term financial and strategic plans to maintain financial stability.
  • Deliver accurate value-added information to senior leadership to influence decision-making. Responsible for creating annual budgets and forecasts along with overseeing financial analysis, modeling, forecasting, and reporting efforts to ensure efficient financial operations across more than 10 teams across organization
  • Improved significantly financial reporting by overseeing operations and provided corrective feedback to achieve daily and long-term goals
  • Worked closely with organizational leadership and board of directors to guide operational strategy.
  • Managed daily operations while overseeing multiple locations to foster increased productivity.
  • Managed over $2B revenue including transactional, SaaS and Product Revenue streams
  • Established departmental performance goals and provided feedback for underperforming areas
  • Monitored expenditures to mitigate risk of overages

Senior Finance Manager

SABRE
05.2020 - 08.2021
  • Led financial planning and analysis for key organization of company, while performing all responsibilities related to establish strong partnership with commercial organization regarding financial analysis, strategy, and business development.
  • Provided exceptional leadership to team of two managers and four analysts through world-wide coordination with all regions along with reporting financials to Corporate Finance and Investor Relations, including monthly forecast, KPI metrics, cash flow, and business performance.
  • Executed organizational restructure by establishing new financial structure for systems, defining and simplifying structure for new business units, and allocating key KPIs to enable good visibility on key areas of for senior leadership, including setting +10 profit centers, +20 organizational nodes & +300 cost centers

Finance Manager

SABRE
05.2015 - 05.2020
  • During these years, performed manager position including all financials for most of regions world-wide including global strategic accounts
  • Spearheaded all aspects of company’s top business functions, including execution of financial planning processes and supervision of analyst teams.
  • Collaborated with all regional leaders and teams globally as well as reported to Corporate Finance with financials for more than $3B revenue.
  • Managed operationally biggest business unit of company along with ensuring complete transparency of financial information by designing additional reports on key sectors and expense items.
  • Monitored budget and revenue trends, compiling reports for company leadership to inform decision-making.

Finance Manager

Sabre Global Services
09.2010 - 05.2015
  • Performed control over delivering exceptional financial support to center of 900 employees, including financial analysis, budgeting and forecasting, procurement, and accounts payable activities by increasing timing on payment terms for more than 30 days aligned with contracts.
  • Led definition, execution, and supervision of costs allocations based on shared costs involving +10 locations, while focusing on Uruguayan teams, as well as influencing all territories across globe.
  • Established as financial key-point of contact with external stakeholders as banks, national institutions, and government offices.

Education

Master of Science - Corporate Finane

Universidad Catolica, Montevideo, Uruguay
08.2010

BBA - Accounting And Finance

Univesidad De La Republica, Montevideo, Urugauy
09.2003

Skills

Financial Planning & Analysis

Budget and Forecast management for annual and Multi-year business plans

Process Improvement & Problem Resolution

Business Management & Development

Strategic Creation & Execution

Team Leadership

KPI Development & Reporting

Cash Flow Management

Stakeholder Engagement & Customer Satisfaction

SAP / Hyperion

Languages

Spanish
Native or Bilingual

Work Availability

monday
tuesday
wednesday
thursday
friday
saturday
sunday
morning
afternoon
evening
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Timeline

Director FP&A - SABRE
08.2021 - Current
Senior Finance Manager - SABRE
05.2020 - 08.2021
Finance Manager - SABRE
05.2015 - 05.2020
Finance Manager - Sabre Global Services
09.2010 - 05.2015
Universidad Catolica - Master of Science, Corporate Finane
Univesidad De La Republica - BBA, Accounting And Finance
Leonardo Phoyu