Jorge Velez

- Lead the finance organization for a €1.5B industrial business across WEMEA & LATAM, acting as a strategic business partner to senior leadership on performance management, capital efficiency, governance and transformation. - Drive finance transformation across the region by deploying automation, AI-driven solutions and Power BI-based executive reporting in SAP environments, strengthening transparency, decision support and productivity. - Improved liquidity and capital efficiency by more than €2M across challenging and emerging markets, helping stabilize cash performance in volatile business environments. - Secured €5M+ in recurring annual savings through grants, subsidies and tax optimization initiatives across multiple countries. - Built and led a high-performing, multicultural regional finance organization, redesigning the functional setup to enhance divisional synergies and agility while fostering accountability, collaboration and continuous improvement.

- Repositioned Group Controlling as a strategic business partnering and decision-support function, partnering with senior leadership on performance management, corporate planning and value creation. - Played a key role in the “Get on Track” restructuring program, supporting executive decision-making while strengthening financial transparency, performance visibility and financial discipline across the organization. - Led the global implementation of a standardized costing model, enhancing profitability analysis, commercial steering and decision quality. - Drove the development and global roll-out of a finance ERP blueprint, creating consistent reporting structures and scalable finance processes. - Introduced a top-down budgeting and target-setting approach based on ROCE, reinforcing capital allocation discipline, performance accountability and long-term value creation.

- Acted as finance lead for a €75M manufacturing operation, with responsibility for P&L, working capital, performance steering and operational finance in a high-volume production environment. - Partnered with plant leadership on cost control, productivity, operational KPI steering and financial decision support to improve manufacturing performance. - Led cost optimization and procurement initiatives, including supplier consolidation across multiple plants, delivering €1.2M in annual savings and improving cost discipline.

- Led financial steering of a €200M manufacturing business unit, supporting pricing, investment decisions and commercial decision-making in a highly competitive industrial environment. - Drove cost optimization and productivity initiatives, delivering measurable savings through cross-border brokerage improvements (€500K) and overtime reduction (€200K), while strengthening plant-level efficiency and cost discipline. - Supported capital investment decisions and business case evaluations, improving financial discipline, return visibility and the quality of operational decision-making.

- Selected for a high-potential rotational program across Controlling, Operations, Logistics, and Sales, building a strong foundation in financial and operational management 4rd Station – Reutlingen, Germany. Controlling Central Department 3rd Station – Juarez City – Logistics 2nd Station - Juarez City – Reporting Finance 1st Station – México City – Sales Central Department

- Gained hands-on experience in accounting, cost control, and financial processes within a multinational manufacturing environment