Juan Joach n

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Palm Harbor, FL 34685 acejz3@r.postjobfree.com

Profile

Seasoned Financial Professional experienced as member of senior leadership

teams. Known for being a strong analytical leader able to provide solutions

and insightful business recommendations to correct the course of

businesses, drive growth and profitability with deep business acumen to

correlate risk and opportunities and transform those into action plans to

either mitigate risk or capitalize opportunities. Solid and progressive

technical experience in all facets of accounting, financial planning and

analysis, operations management, Corporate Banking and Financing and

executive leadership. Performed all key functions within Finance: Treasury

(including AP, AR, and Taxes); Finance for Sales, Financial and Strategic

Planning, Financial Reporting, Controlling and Supply Chain.

. Innovative leader and strategic thinker who motivates and collaborates

with cross-functional teams for success, generates ideas, and delivers

sustained financial results.

. Instrumental in optimizing cash flow and profitability, streamlining

financial processes, enhancing productivity levels, introducing process

improvements, and implementing technology solutions, capital investments,

divestitures, and plant shutdowns, deep business acumen from supporting

Sales, Marketing and Operations (Supply Chain).

. Multicultural and international experience with international assignments

in USA and regional collaboration in Latin America. Bilingual

English/Spanish. Permanent Resident (Green Card holder).

. Complex business processes experience including takeovers and

turnarounds, mergers, acquisitions, business spin-off, due diligence

process, and legal entity creation.

AREAS OF Expertise

Team leadership and change Corporate banking and financing

management US GAAP and Cost Accounting

FP&A Pricing and Reporting (Standard Cost)

Strategic planning and risk Excel, Word, PowerPoint; SAP,

management Business Object; COGNOS; Access; Mfg

Internal control assessment and Pro.

audit Business metrics design and

Budget management and Project implementation

Management

Professional background

Catalent Pharma Solutions -St Petersburg, FL Sep 2013 - Actual

Catalent Pharma Solutions (a Blackstone Group company) is a leading Drug

Development, Advanced Delivery Technology and Supply partner to the global

pharmaceutical industry. A Fortune 1000 company, with over 20 locations on

5 continents, we partner with 90 out of the top 100 pharmaceutical

companies and 44 of the top 50 biotech firms, as well as thousands of small

innovator companies.

Finance Director/CFO

Responsible for overseeing the entire finance function of the North

American business unit. Responsibilities

Include full Balance Sheet, P&L and Cash Generation, develop financial

plans and policies, accounting practices and procedures, and the

organization's relationship with financial communities both internal and

external. Strategic business partner to the General Manager of Catalent St

Petersburg to drive growth in revenue and profitability.

Accomplishments:

. Maximize the use of the Shared Services by assessing the in-scope

activities vs. in site work resulting in a re-engineering of the Finance

organization which meant transferring transactional activities,

reconversion of roles to support business through collaboration providing

business insight, including the creation of a FP&A Mgr position without

additional headcount.

. Led the overhead cost reduction program by 15% of current budget (SG&A

and Operation Expenses) to drive the delivery of the financial targets

against the adverse business performance from market changes.

. Led the conversations to implement a Reduction in Force of 35 people and

Hiring Freeze strategy to ensure the delivery of the financial targets.

. Reconcile and change the Financial Latest Estimate to reflect the most

realistic financial scenario and forced the conversations to implement

actions that could drive the delivery of financial targets. New scenario

included the reduction of Sales Forecast by -11% and EBITDA by -16%

. Adjusted the CAPEX budget by 65% eliminating investments no linked to

growth and Sales.

. Implement a new Financial Planning Process through collaboration and

involvement of all functions vs. in the past it was a finance task.

. Strategic Plan preparation with rationale for changes linking Sales team

and Production Teams in a holistic approach.

. Prepared an Asset Impairment Test due to the significant change in volume

v. prior year.

The Nutro Company, Inc. (MARS Inc USA) - Nashville, TN Sep 2009-March

2013

Finance Director Supply Chain (Mfg, Procurement and R&D) (Feb 2011-March

2013)

Full responsibility for Supply Chain financial activities: Financial

Planning and Reporting including preparing the annual Operating Plan and

monthly forecast review for three plants, cost structure analysis (cost

accounting and COGS analysis), benchmarking, capital investment assessment

(NPV & IRR), monthly quarterly and year end close process, short term and

long term strategic planning process, intercompany transfer pricing, sku

profitability/portfolio rationalization through gross margin analysis, and

internal controls and governance, budget control and month end review,

inventory control and in general working capital management. Support and

lead manufacturing operations & supply chain finance functions in three

plants, two co-packers, with responsibility of the Fixed Assets

additions/investments assessing all capital investment.

Accomplishments:

. Led the transfer to Shared Services of the Fixed Assets accounting by

identifying the transactional activities related to the FA management and

working with the Shared Services area as a result we restructure the

Finance Supply area.

. Led the Cost Saving Initiative DiB (Do it Best) program to accelerate

COGS improvement with focus on commodities, delivering the equivalent to

5% of Net Sales in savings.

. Implement the Product Quadrant Analysis to drive portfolio

rationalization and profitability product analysis with the elimination

of 120 non profitable SKU's and improving mix margin contribution by

0.5pts to Net Sales.

. Improved month end close process from 14 to 8 hrs and closing in 1 day.

. Implemented scorecard for Global Supply Chain reducing labor cost/ton 10%

vs. LY.

. Reduce by 20% the R&D global cross charge for The Nutro Company and

release that budget for local research and development.

. Implement the PQA (Product Quadrant Analysis) for sku rationalization or

portfolio optimization.

. Define and created Cost Push (inflation) calculation and report through

definition of the right methodology.

. Developed new reconciliation model for financial control on Inventories

(FG and Raw and Packs) using a roll forward approach to give clarity to

all inventory movements and transactions within inventories.

. Reduced inventory losses of lamb and venison inventories from US$2.5M to

US$0.5M yoy.

. Improved inventory physical count at plants, reducing from 2 to 1 day of

work by defining a new process. FG inventory accuracy increased from 90%

to 98%, Packs at 99%, and Ingredients from 85 to 92%.

. Reduced NQC (Non Quality Cost) from 5.1% of Net Sales to 2.1% through

implementation of the war on waste program.

Corporate Controller (Sep 2009-Feb 2011)

Responsible for all aspects of the general accounting function including

creating timely and accurate financial statements, internal controls and

good governance, month end and year end close, internal reporting,

financial analysis, revenue recognition, accounts payable, accounts

receivable, payroll processing, and dealing with internal and external

auditors. Full Balance Sheet and Cash responsibility and shared

responsibility with other Finance senior leaders for P&L. Developed the

talent of a team of eight accountants.

Accomplishments:

. Agree and negotiate with Shared Services to support the finance function

as a new created finance function for the Nutro company. A/P, Payroll,

General Accounting (Insurance, Bonus, Travel Expenses, Workers Com).

. Agreed and negotiate SLA (Service Level of Agreement) between Shared

Services and the MARS Petfood Controllership group during the carve out

process of the Nutro Copany.

. Established, staffed, and developed Controlling group for The Nutro

Company.

. Led business carve-out from MARS Petcare USA to independent The Nutro Co

subsidiary.

. Implemented systems and processes to support operating model.

. Defined policies and controls including new Limits of Authority.

. Defined the reconciliation process for all Balance Sheet accounts.

. Defined criteria for accruals and provisions (inventory, bad debt).

. Establish a routine to review and identify the misstatement of financial

position.

. Established an analysis and explanation of the year over year variances

with a roll forward approach.

. Defined the process to consolidate and reporting the financial

information for our global operations (Japan, Greece, Italy and Spain).

. Led the annual external audit reviewing and consolidating all information

required by the auditors.

. Established the monthly review meeting with the shared service team to

review tax provisions, payroll accruals, including the quarterly

reconciliations review.

. Defined a month end close process which later on was improved from four

days to two.

. Achieved clean 2010 and 2011 audits without any significant comment.

. Developed associate talent pipeline in high performance team culture.

Gallup engagement score: 4.03.

MARS Inc. Mar 2001-Sep 2009

Multi-segment (pet food, snack food, drinks, food, and gum), multi-country,

consumer goods American company.

Finance Director / CFO (Sugar segment / LUCAS) - Monterrey, N.L. (Jun 2006-

Sep 2009)

Serve as the strategic business partner of the Unit's General Manager by

providing insightful information that can be translated into action plans

to drive business growth and profitability. Develop the short and long term

financial plans with a risk and opportunity assessment including the

portfolio profitability, business benchmark, a well-controlled business

environment and provide support to deploy the business strategies and

alignment across the organization. Lead the financial functions including

full P&L, Balance Sheet, and Cash responsibility and full Finance

Organization management (A/P, Payroll, Taxes, A/R, General Accounting,

Financial Planning, and Cost Accounting), and Systems. Be an active member

of MARS global and regional finance community as well as co-leader of the

business unit.

Accomplishments:

. Led the 5-year Strategic Planning process, providing successful guidance

to General Manager.

. Zero major comments for audits in 2008 (from 8 to 0 since 2006).

. Led the Merge of the Sugar business with the recently acquired Wrigley

Gum Mexico, including running the full Due Diligence split in 5 work

streams (People, Tax, Finance, Systems and Sales Re-Org).

. Define the SLA (Service Level of Agreement) to support the transition

into the merged unit.

. Turned around business after 2005 takeover to achieve profitability. CAGR

8% YTD, Gross Profit from 22 to 42%, O Profit -4 to 11%, Cash generation

3 to 8%, ROTA 2.8% to 18%.

. Defined succession plan for key positions. Improved associates'

engagement score from 3.5 to 4.97 out of 5 in 18 months (Gallup).

. Led US operation expansion strategy in 2008 with sales growth in US 40%

and profitability improved from 13 to 32% leveraging higher sales volume

with lower fixed expenses to reinvest.

. Implement the OGSM Scorecard to deploy strategy alignment and execution

across the business.

. DSO reduction from 49 to 35 days, (US2.8mio) by strengthening policies,

DSO workshop with sales team, and including into sales force bonus

payment scheme collections performance metrics.

. Governance implementation program to redefine policies and procedures for

Internal Controls supported and validated with PwC and ADONIS system (BPM-

Business Process Management)

. Selected as member of Global DSO (Days Sales Outstanding) Group and

Representative for Latin America to improve DSO by implementing global

best practices and the "Strategic Road Map" for DSO improvement with the

business units in Latin America.

. Implement the Risk Management Quarterly and Annual meetings to manage

risk and opportunities across the business to ensure the delivery of

annual targets and the strategic plans.

. Led the Business Continuity Plan in 2008 across the unit and effectively

tested during influenza crisis.

Financial Planning Manager (Sugar segment / LUCAS) - Monterrey, Mexico (Aug

2004-Jun 2006)

Financial Sales Support Manager (Pet Food and Chocolate) - Queretaro,

Mexico (Nov 2002-Aug 2004)

Treasury Manager (Pet Food and Chocolate segment) - Queretaro, Mexico (Mar

2001-Nov 2002)

Scotiabank Inverlat -Guanajuato and Queretaro, Mexico Sep 1993-Mar 2001

Senior Account Manager Corporate Banking (Central Mexico Region) (Sep 1997-

Mar 2001)

Junior Account Manager at Retail and Commercial Banking (Nov 1994-Sep 1997)

Internal Auditor (Sep 1993-Oct 1994)

EDUCATION

CMA Certification - IMA USA

In Progress

Master's Degree in Administration - Universidad Autonoma de Queretaro -

Queretaro, Mexico 2000

GPA 9.2/10

Postgraduate diploma, Credit and Finance - ITESM Leon Campus, Leon Mexico

1993

Bachelor's Degree in Finance - Universidad del Valle de Mexico, Queretaro

Campus 1993

GPA 9.6/10. Graduated with Honors.

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