Gustavo Guerrieri

Provide financial forecasts and long-term planning to ensure sustainable growth. Oversee the preparation of accurate financial reports, including income statements, balance sheets, and cash flow statements. Lead the development and management of the company's annual budget. Manage relationships with banks, and financial institutions. Maintain internal controls and compliance with auditing standards. Major achievement: As the Country CFO, I successfully led a transformative initiative to rebuild the finance team, aligning it with the company's strategic goals. This milestone involved restructuring the team to enhance efficiency, foster collaboration, and implement a robust cost optimization framework.

Supervise and support administrative staff or office assistants. Facilitate team communication and collaboration. Negotiate with suppliers for cost-effective purchases. Ensure that office complies with health and safety regulations. Plan and organize company events, meetings. Oversee office communication and technology. Major achievement: office cost of rent reduction by 10%.

Support workforce planning, recruitment, and retention strategies. Identify and develop leadership potential within the organization. Implement strategies to improve employee productivity and satisfaction. Develop and update policies to reflect organizational needs and legal requirements. Major Achievement: work environment survey design, implementation and development of actions that brought significant increases in the KPIs .

Manage and monitor HR budgets, including payroll, benefits, and training expenses for WestLatam Region. Ensure compliance with legal regulations in payroll and other HR financial matters. Track HR metrics, such as turnover rates, employee satisfaction, and headcount changes, and provide actionable insights to senior management. Achivement: Implementation of a budgeting tool for employment cost and headcount.

Preparation and coordination of the regional Business Plan. Analysis fo monthly variations for Regional G&A expenses. Operating expenses allocation by business, account and cost center. Monitoring of the regional balance sheet exposure. Working Capital Usage analysis. Use of debt forecast. Interests costs allocations by business unit. Major Achievement: Regional implementation in SAP of budget control for operating expenses and production costs.

Preparation and monitoring of the annual budget and its updates. Functional in charge of the BO Analytics management tool. Preparation of internal and external ad hoc reports (head office). Major Achievement: Continuous training for middle managers and those responsible for different business units in best practices for preparing and controlling their budgets.

Profitability analysis of new products and line extensions. Profitability through agreements with social welfare organizations and other institutions. Development of strategies and price proposals for tenders and verification of compliance with internal commercial policies. Preparation and monitoring of the annual budget and its deviations. Consolidation of financial reports. Monthly presentation of results to the Board of Directors. Functional in charge of the Hyperion management tool (OLAP Cubes). Major Achievement: key role in design, implement and training of Hyperion (reporting tool for local sales & operations).

Analysis of Intercompany accounts and Balance Sheet. Account reconciliation. Fixed Assets/Depreciations. Key user for local expenses & budgeting tool. Major Achievement: Through the administration of the local expense system, I was able to optimize the expense approval workflow and its accounting records, thus obtaining a significant reduction in accounting closing times.