Sandrina Lindo

> Strategic Value Creation: Steering the Value Creation Plan (VCP), identifying and tracking high-impact initiatives to optimize supply chain performance and cost-efficiency. > International Stakeholder Management: Acting as the primary strategic bridge between local operations and international teams to ensure global alignment on supply chain KPIs and sustainability. > Contract Negotiation & Strategy: Leading vendor negotiations and forecasting future operational needs to streamline the end-to-end supply chain.

> Financial Steering & Governance: Orchestrated the month-end closing, forecasting, and budgeting processes for the Supply Chain division, ensuring high-accuracy financial reporting and alignment with corporate targets. > Operational Performance Analysis: Leveraged supply chain data to identify performance trends and cost-saving opportunities, acting as a key financial advisor to the operations team. > Strategic Decision Support: Developed robust business cases and executive presentations to evaluate new investments and operational shifts, providing the financial foundation for senior-level decision-making. > Sustainability & ESG Compliance: Led the financial data gathering and analysis for Sustainability reporting, ensuring the Supply Chain's environmental impact was accurately tracked and integrated into global ESG frameworks.

> Financial Partnership: Strategically partnered with Global Procurement leads to steer the annual budget and rolling forecasts, ensuring alignment with global financial targets. > Governance & Risk Mitigation: Spearheaded the annual risk evaluation for Top Tier Vendors, implementing preventive action frameworks to mitigate financial and operational exposure. > Performance Optimization: Developed advanced cost models to identify key value drivers and acted as the KPI owner for monitoring global financial performance. > Working Capital Strategy: Collaborated with the Cash Director to design and execute strategies aimed at optimizing working capital and improving cash flow efficiency.

> Strategic Business Partnering: Provided critical financial oversight for project teams using Power BI and Oracle NetSuite, ensuring 100% accuracy in high-stakes financial reporting. > Budgetary Control: Challenged project management on variances and expenditure, successfully steering. > Process Engineering: Analysed and standardized business procedures to achieve operational efficiencies and create scalable guidelines for future projects.

> P&L Steering: Led monthly performance reviews with business leaders, translating complex operational data into accurate rolling P&L forecasts. > M&A Leadership: Successfully led the financial integration of a time-sensitive M&A project, ensuring seamless transition and system consolidation. > Systems Integration: Acted as the finance lead for cross-functional BI and ERP optimization (Salesforce, Oracle, Domo), improving data transparency for executive decision-making.

> ​Department Architecture: Built the Global Travel Expenses department from the ground up, coordinating a global SAP Concur integration for 250+ FTEs. > ​People Leadership: Managed and mentored a cross-border team of 2 direct reports (Germany & India), overseeing daily operations and global accounting standards. > Cost Transformation: Achieved aggressive savings targets by implementing robust internal controls and corrective action frameworks for the company's second-largest expense category. > ​Continuous Improvement: Facilitated LEAN/Kaizen (DBS) initiatives to optimize the End-to-End (E2E) cycle, driving significant process speed and accuracy. > Month-End Excellence: Delivered critical monthly AP reporting and provided strategic support to management during the month-end closing process.

> Operational Governance: Managed full-cycle AP operations within a high-volume, multinational environment, ensuring 100% adherence to cyclical financial calendars and corporate compliance standards. > Team Leadership & Mentorship: Acted as a senior lead, providing technical training and guidance to junior team members to elevate department performance and accuracy. > Process Transformation: Partnered with management to drive continuous process improvement and standardization initiatives, reducing manual errors and increasing processing speed. > Month-End Integration: Facilitated month-end closing activities by producing critical AP reporting and variance analysis, contributing to the overall integrity of the balance sheet.

> Change Management: Founding member of the Global Shared Service Center (GSSC) transition team, leading the migration of HQ Germany and UK financial operations. > International Implementation: Directed the SAP R/3 rollout and process transition for the Baltic region, overseeing user testing and system optimization. > Month-End Excellence: Delivered critical monthly AP reporting and provided strategic support to management during the month-end closing process. > Operational Excellence: Standardized procedures that established the foundation for EMEA's financial performance monitoring.