Román Barrera

• Oversee Cost performance, close review of the KPI’s and ensuring appropriate cost corrective actions.
• Increasing accuracy and efficiency in financial reporting.
• Mentored junior finance staff members, fostering a culture of continuous learning and professional development.
• Developing and implementing Forecast process.
• Capital Projects evaluation.

• Cost Manager for 2 plants, Arden-NC, and Vega Baja-Puerto Rico, supervising 1 Cost Accountants.

• Oversee a cost control system that effectively and accurately measures costs and production variances and allows for accurate projections of operating results.

• Work with divisional, regional, and corporate peers for the monthly COGS consolidation of Manufactured and Purchased Finished goods.

• Performed ROI analysis, scenario modeling, and provide decision support for future business planning decisions, and investments.

• Guided staff through on-boarding, open communication, training and development opportunities, and performance management processes.

• Led as Capital Expenditure Controller for a new green coffee processing facility.

• Led Commodities yield optimizations through financial modeling and proposing cost-effective options for Purchasing and manufacturing processes.

• Lowered yearly losses by $600k through continual improvement projects like root cause analysis of obsolete materials.

• Reduced Cocoa bean losses from $1.8 MM to $600K by analyzing usages, prices, and substitution variances.

• Produced forecasting models for primary and conversion cost with a 95% level of accuracy.

• Re-structured the local financial team from 9 to 5 team members.

• Performing operations controlling functions and benchmarking for different Products and Regions.

• Applied a new I-Nexus software to successfully track worldwide savings and project workflows.

• Completed ad-hoc costing analysis and financial models for Product Technology Centers.

Partnered efficiently with the Engineering, R&D and Marketing teams for capital expenditure or launching initiatives.

• Experience working in 9 different factories as Cost Mgr, then Factory controller and Finally as Market cost Controller in HQ.

• Supporting SAP implementation for 11 Factories

• Training and coaching 11 plant controllers and coordinating the training for new Cost Managers.