Financial Analyst Sales

ANNA-MARIA LEOCI

Telephone: 514-***-**** E-mail: **************@*******.***

PROFILE

Finance Accounting Budgeting Consolidation

Senior bilingual financial professional with extensive experience in corporate finance including global consolidations, budgeting and business planning/analysis acquired in the manufacturing and pharmaceutical industries. Exceptional motivator with broad international and headquarters background. Experience includes several successful company-wide system implementations, restructurings and process improvements. Known for her autonomy, displays strong leadership skills in a team environment. A long-term planner recognized for her strategic vision. Motivated by an environment that fosters innovation and promotes professional development. Excellent communicator, has the ability to work well under pressure.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

EVO PAYMENTS INTERNATIONAL, Montreal 2019 - Present

Financial Analyst

Leading payment technology and services provider

Responsible for supporting EVO’s business and finance leadership through financial modeling, analysis and reporting activities.

Lead the communication with the General Managers of actual results and variances to prior year and to plan/forecast (primarily income statement and capital expenditures), recommendations to improve the quality of analytics and forecasts, and perform ad hoc analysis as appropriate.

Prepare reports for presentation to management on a regular basis (weekly, monthly).

Lead department managers through the budget planning process and documentation of headcount, third-party spending and capital spending assumptions.

Produce monthly reports which include key metrics, financial results, and variance reporting: Analyze cost controls and expenses to identify areas for improvement and ensure compliance with internal controls; provide insightful analysis of business performance and trends, budgets and forecasts, analysis of performance variances, and other related ad hoc financial analyses.

Prepare financial reporting for our capital investments and track actual versus budget differences.

Gain high level of comfort with the accounting system; develop ability to extract financial data on departments in an efficient manner and in a format presentable to management.

AIR LIQUIDE, Montreal 2017 - 2019

Operations Analyst

Leaders in the field of gases and energy technologies

The main purpose of this position is to determine what the KPIs will be, present the findings, influence and drive, process and financial improvement.

• Performs operational analyses: makes sure that the data is pertinent and accurate by analyzing operations and expenses; analyzes and monitors the accounting operations related to the operations

Group and the evolution of key performance indicators and costs; tracks

trends and analyzes the operational KPI’s of the different teams; proposes and recommends

improvements or corrections to his/her immediate supervisor and respective teams in

terms of quality and safety, while reducing operating costs.

• Efficiencies Programs: responsible for the efficiency program for the Process Industries

groups.

• Responsible for operations and project cost reporting: review and ensures the KPI’s

consolidated accurately, timely and with sufficient detail such that the improve actions can

be identified. Assist with customer invoicing as required. For projects,

consolidates the committed costs with accounting reports. Prepares and issues monthly

summary reports to management on project budgets, committed costs and engineering

hours. Ensures overall adherence to approved project amounts and reviewing the capital

requirements for the group

MEDTRONIC, Montreal 2015 – 2017

World's premier medical technology, services company and leader in medical devices.

Senior Sales Compensation Analyst

Responsible for the administration of accurate, timely variable sales compensation plans and participation in the design of effective compensation models.

• Lead the annual compensation plans process: develop compensation models with the key stakeholders in line with the business strategies, produce plans documents, model territory and product structures, build annual sales quotas and communicate programs to the analyst responsible of the computations.

• Create and track of special sales incentive programs requested by business units.

• Review the sales inquiries from field sales management and providing a recommendation to the VP Finance. Assess issues to determine whether additional standard compensation policy(s) is required.

• Provide ad hoc financial analysis to sales management, calculate seller rankings and incentive plan performance to report to Leadership team.

• Constantly monitor and evaluate the compensation processes to accomplish aforementioned functions.

RESOLUTE FOREST PRODUCTS, Montreal 2013 – 2015

Global leader in the forest products industry offering a diverse range of paper, pulp and wood products

Financial Analyst, Sales & Logistics

Responsible for sales of pulp and paper divisions and transport logistics.

• Oversee the continuous improvement of reports, sales and logistics management

tools.

• Cooperate with the sales department, all members of the logistics team and coordinate with them monthly and quarterly forecasts as well as the annual budget, i.e. participate in the various budget phases and review ensuing results.

• Responsible for maintaining the functional aspects of the system (Discoverer) and act as liaison between the finance, information technology departments, the sales teams and the logistics group.

• Generate monthly and quarterly reports; review, validate performance measures and make sure all reports are accurate and complete; analyze volume, sale price variances and measure and analyze transportation cost variances.

• Act as consultant to management in the areas of sales and logistics.

RIO TINTO ALCAN, Montreal 2010 – 2013

Leading international mining group.

Senior Advisor – Planning and Analysis

Primary responsibility and accountability for all aspects of Rio Tinto Alcan's financial planning and analysis.

Consolidated key periodic financial forecasts with assistance from business unit based overseas within tight deadlines that impacted management’s strategic long-term decision making.

With an immediate turnaround once the monthly financial results were finalized on workday 5, generated rollover forecasts for overall RTA that would keep senior management and London appraised of the company’s performance.

Built and analyzed by project detail within very tight time constraints overall RTA Capital Expenditure key periodic financial forecasts which indicated to senior management progress and status of major corporate projects.

Enhanced consistency in the content and format of the reports and templates used for business plan reviews to reflect current issues and needs of executive management.

MATERNITY LEAVE 2007 – 2010

SANOFI-AVENTIS PHARMA, Canada, France, Germany (3 positions & relocated) 2000 – 2007

World leading pharmaceutical provider and R&D company.

Financial Advisor Medical Affairs, based in Montreal 2006 – 2007

Responsible for all of division’s financial management including development of forecasts and process optimization.

Prepared and implemented clinical study budgets harmonizing financial methods and ensuring reporting consistency, which facilitated strategic decision making.

Setup monthly clinical project meetings thereby successfully resolving several on-going financial issues related to reporting consistency.

As key financial liaison, through ongoing meetings and training notably improved cooperation and communication between Medical and Finance departments.

Planned and implemented all financial processes related to actual results, forecasts and analysis.

Trained Medical employees (approx. 50) on processes and tools to prepare financial documents.

Senior Consolidations and Reporting Manager, based in HQ Paris 2003 – 2006

Key finance manager with worldwide responsibility for capital investments, contract sales and working capital.

Within a time span of 6 months after the takeover, drove and successfully implemented corporate-wide consolidation and reporting system for approximately 20+ sites worldwide.

Considerably improved reliability, timeliness and quality of monthly results package, reducing errors drastically and cutting publishing time by 2 days.

Improved departmental spending by approximately 100 million Euros through rigorous analysis of actual versus budget.

Finance Manager, Global Functions, based in HQ Frankfurt 2000 – 2003

Fully responsible for actual, planning and forecast processes. Analysis of results and financial advice to worldwide support functions. Supervised staff.

Reviewed, rationalized and updated cost centre structures allowing accurate reporting to meet tight reporting deadlines.

Developed global matrix monthly reporting and consolidation process for cost centre managers and functional heads that helped them in making decisions in meeting their targets.

Established procedures ensuring that changes in organizational structure were reported in a timely and accurate fashion.

Built partnership between worldwide functional managers and HQ Controlling, and was able to challenge, persuade and influence Senior Executives.

Complete responsibility for consolidation of Industrial Operations profit and loss.

NORTEL NETWORKS, Montreal 1998 – 2000

A leading-edge telecom equipment manufacturer and R&D company.

Financial Analyst

GILLETTE CANADA INC., Montreal 1996 – 1998

Market leading provider of hygiene and grooming products.

Financial Planning Analyst

EDUCATION

Bachelor of Commerce, Major: Accounting - Minor: Finance

McGill University, Montreal, Canada

College Degree in Commerce

Marianopolis College, Montreal, Canada

COMPUTER KNOWLEDGE

AS400, Discoverer, Cognos, Hyperion, Magnitude, SAP, BI, Windows, BAAN, Oracle, Excel, Microsoft Word, PowerPoint and extensive knowledge and experience in internal legacies and implementation.

ACTIVITIES

Board Finance Treasurer

Big Step Daycare, Montreal, Canada

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