Financial Manager

Guillermo Perez-Vega

Bethesda, Maryland **********@*****.*** 703-***-****

GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY FINANCE EXECUTIVE

Results-driven and experienced global finance executive with deep knowledge of financial strategy, direction, and analysis in the technology industry. Able to define clear direction with actionable and measurable targets and energize teams to achieve results. Comfortable navigating large, global organizations to develop effective cross-functional relationships. Extensive experience in risk management, financial controls, overseas delivery centers, SaaS delivery, and business re-engineering. Focused on improving profitability, financials and cash flow. Familiar with digital transformation strategies with extensive experience in financial integration. Experience in building strategic global relationships with commercial and government clients with hands on working experience in thirteen countries on five continents.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

DXC Technology (Formerly Computer Sciences Corporation) 2006 – July 2020 Tysons Corner, VA

Global Consulting Operations and Workforce Management Lead 2017 – July 2020

Oversaw day to day P&L and operations of $500M+ global technology consulting business with focus on margin improvement and sustainable growth.

Directed P&L improvement initiative to reduce expenses, increase efficiencies and improve revenue generation resulting in:

oincreased consultant billability from 77% to 80% in one year.

oreassignment and sharing of resources across organizational boundaries to reduce bench by 5%.

o$8M quarterly increase of revenue with no additional labor costs.

Managed spans and layers program that transformed the Labor Pyramid Index (LPI) from 18% to 25% in one year resulting $10 M in cost savings to the P&L.

Drove a program addressing resource allocations, resource costs, and travel that delivered $12M in yearly savings which increased margins from 16% to 20%.

Participated in the selection and launch of a new workforce management solution which was utilized to automate employee assignments to projects across the globe.

oProvided operational and financial knowledge needed to validate the tool would be beneficial to the business.

oCreated financial model to articulate cost savings in using the tool.

Launched a training site for consultants, enabling newer and seasoned employees to quickly shorten learning curves when engaged on new initiatives with new clients. This site was widely adopted across the global organization.

Industry CFO – Global Industries - Diversified Industries 2015 –2017

Divisional CFO of a $2.5B+ global P&L with four major industry offerings: Energy & Natural Resources, Consumer, Transportation, and Communications & High Tech.

Built strategic relationships with regional finance leaders to ensure accurate financial results across all global regions for the business.

Consolidated and presented regional and global financial projections and results on behalf of the division. These were reviewed monthly with the president of the Global Industries group and quarterly with the CEO.

Led regional efforts (pricing strategy, additional revenue identification, and revenue leakage identification) that resulted in revenue gap plan achievement of $100M per year, and allowed the business to achieve its stretch goal for revenue.

Supported and drove transformation efforts and managed cost saving efforts (resource reallocations, increasing resource utilization, and workforce optimizations) that yielded $50M per year.

Finance Director 2006 – 2015

Provided financial leadership in a variety of businesses, increasing responsibility to larger and more complex organizations.

Insurance, Software and Solutions (IS&S)

Finance lead of a $700M+ Insurance, Banking, and Healthcare technology and BPaaS business, with focus on driving P&L results in a business environment that is constantly evolving and requiring rapid strategy realignment. At the time, the company had taken on major transformation efforts which changed the go-to-business model and removed layers of management over the period of 18 months.

Partnered with the division president and executives to drive accurate forecasting and results, cost savings initiatives and proper revenue recognition.

Managed software capitalization and revenue recognition strategies that resulted in $10M additional profit improvement per year.

Worked directly with division management and sales to ensure accurate and profitable pricing and timely revenue recognition for every software or services related deal.

Structured deals to maximize upfront license revenue of $20M per year.

Directed financial forecasting and results reporting activities for 7 diverse unique business ranging from $50M to $200M.

Provided monthly financial reporting in business review meetings with the group president.

Corporate Planning and Reporting

Supported Infrastructure Outsourcings business financial reporting process across all industry verticals. ($6B revenue in 92 countries, 40,000 plus employees). Briefed the sector’s CFO on preparation for monthly CEO reviews.

Developed effective and timely relationships which allowed for smooth management of monthly global consolidation of financial results across 5 continents and industry verticals.

Coordinated the division’s submission of financial results to the CEO, Quarterly Business Reviews, Watch List, FAS5, 10Q, Tax, Shareholder reporting and Management Book.

Supported Annual Budget, Mid-year, and Rolling Forecast process, ensuring accurate target distribution and coordination of timely reporting.

Directed budgeting, forecasting and reporting processes across all regions.

Cloud Computing

Finance head for the launching of CSC Cloud offering incubator. Developed the financial process blueprint to develop and fund a Cloud offering around the world, while also having a day to day focus on the hosting business that served 100 plus customers in different industries and grew to $00M in revenue within one year.

Developed the 5 Year plan that secured CEO funding approval.

Negotiated innovative financial plans with providers to minimize cash flow impact.

Provided direct support in the development of our Cloud Offering Strategy by working in close partnership with the executive team, pricing team and sales.

Set up in country reporting using international Financial Reporting Standards.

International Delivery Operations

Finance lead for 5 Delivery Centers around the world: Asturias, Spain; Guadalajara, Mexico; Montreal, Canada; Santiago, Chile; and Sofia, Bulgaria; reporting to the Group VP of Finance. Oversaw a staff of 10 finance professionals.

Directed the budgeting, funding cycle, capital requirements, disbursements, and pricing processes, ensuring cost effective offshore work.

Developed a financial transfer mechanism between off-shore operations and various business units, resulting in predictable and stable inter-company expense transfers.

Focus on SOX compliance requirements (Billing and revenue recognition, contract management, recruitment, time reporting, treasury policy, international taxation), ensuring 100% compliance annually.

Ensured compliance of corporate policies and procedures (authority matrix, international tax transfer rate, cash management, funding process, and monthly financial reporting).

Developed, implemented, and managed a rate card system.

Acquisitions / Partnerships/Strategic Investments

Supported business case investment process as well as acquisitions with a focus on cash flow maximization and optimal capital strategy.

Hildebrando, Mexico – $2.5M annually - March 2009 - Part of the team that negotiated the master service agreement that CSC signed with Hildebrando to implement a near-shore center in Guadalajara, Mexico

Object Builder Software (OBS), Bulgaria - $15M – September 2008 - Led the financial integration of OBS Bulgaria operations into CSC on time and at 10% lower than budget

First Consulting Group (FCG), Vietnam - $365M – January 2008 - Managed the Financial Integration of FCG as planned per schedule

BOOZ ALLEN HAMILTON

McLean, VA

Associate – Economic & Business Analysis Group 2005 –2006

Provided Consultation expertise in the areas of real estate, planning, benchmarking, and pricing for federal government agencies, Nonprofit and private companies

Developed benchmarking standards for facility costs, rentals and renovations across different industries

Implemented strategic project funding prioritization processes based on client’s specific requirements to match their company’s mission

Project manager for investment on maintenance cost

CB Richard Ellis / ExxonMobil

Fairfax, VA

Finance Manager 2001 – 2005

Managed a team of five financial analysts to provide high quality financial analysis regarding commercial Real Estate transactions and Engineering projects for ExxonMobil to facilitate Divisional President Investment Decision Making Process.

Led financial related operations supporting $400 million annual Capital Investment budget ExxonMobil deployed in the USA, the Caribbean, Central America, and South America in gas stations.

Developed and presented Business Cases to ExxonMobil management indicating potential new asset locations, upgrade requirements, and divestment candidates.

EDUCATION

Georgetown University Washington, DC

Mc Donough School of Business

Master in Business Administration

Concentration: Finance and International Business

University of Lima Lima, Peru

B.S. in Industrial Engineering

Honors: Ranked 1st of graduating class of 302.

Highest GPA in the history of the Industrial Engineering School

Recipient of full scholarship

OTHER

Bilingual in English and Spanish (native language). Working knowledge of Portuguese.

Proficiency in SAP, Hyperion, MPSI, GINA+, Microsoft Office (Excel, Access, Power Point)

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