Managing Director Consulting

CLAUDIA MEJIA, MBA

**** ********* ***** *****: 954-***-****

Hillsboro Beach, FL 33062 *******@*****.***

SUMMARY

Trusted strategic leader passionate for driving performance and transformation through problem solving, business acumen, analysis, and building effective cross functional partnerships.

Reputation for bridging the gap between strategic/financial goals and operational challenges by implementing tools/solutions, automating, improving processes, and creating a data-driven culture.

Highly adaptable with extensive and transferable cross industry experience with and a natural ability to gain alignment with leaders and stakeholders.

Fluent in English and Spanish

CORE COMPETENCIES

Management Consulting Financial and Strategic Planning Data and Decision Support Analytics and Insights Strategy Change Management Project Management Budgeting and Forecasting Business Analysis and Modeling Financial Management Operations Management Cost Optimization Business Performance (KPIs) Business Intelligence Operational and Process Improvement Vendor & Supplier Relations Software Implementation Cross-Functional Leadership & Team Building

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Ikigai Edge LLC Sep 2021 - Present

Managing Director

Client - Azurity Pharmaceuticals: Led project management efforts to deliver post-integration activities and championed execution of major Artificial Intelligence strategic project.

Partnered with external consultants to align NewCo. strategic operational model and deploy organizational re-structure. Developed cross-functional client relationships through deal execution, ensuring consolidated project milestones, interdependencies, and communication plans were met.

Led governance of synergies attainment (~$24M), tracking, and reporting to private equity

Synergetics Worldwide Installations:

Privately Held Management Consulting Firm Dec 2016 – Jul 2021

Senior Advisor

Responsible for managing complex engagements (worldwide). Identified interrelations and impact within multifaceted situations. Planned, designed, and implemented sound operational models.

Koozie Group ($120M Revenue): Assessed key operational processes, designed future state processes, and delivered plan for implementation resulted in improved productivity.

DFIN: Supply chain optimization and cost reduction (estimated savings 10%)

IMC Health ($0.5B Revenue): Implemented contact center operating model achieving $800K annual savings and improved operational metrics (i.e. abandonment rate down by 70%)

DXC Technology ($25B Revenue Globally): Refined supplier’s consolidation strategy and steered its execution for the South Europe region. Negotiation of pricing and fees resulted on 6% cost savings

Aviat Networks ($240M Revenue) - Developed roadmap for corporate finance transformation and business optimization prior their public offering. Streamlined processes, improving productivity by 10%

ADT Security Services, Inc - Boca Raton, Florida May 2007 – Oct 2016

North America’s leading provider of security and automation solutions ($3.5B- Revenue & 200 locations)

Director of Finance and Operations – Health Business Unit (Feb 2014 - Oct 2016)

Responsibilities include all Business Unit Financial Operations, inclusive of financial planning and analysis, sales performance, and operations. Championed operational functions executed by 30 employees under my supervision. Supported Business Unit President and VP FP&A

Directed the realignment of resources by distribution channels and developed new products pricing strategy driving new customer growth by 17% (2 yr. avg.)

Identified customer attrition drivers through data analysis; Partnered with marketing and customer experience teams to restructure customer engagement strategy, resulting in customer attrition reduction of 400 bps

Redesigned compensation incentives driving sales of more profitable products

Led operational processes’ optimization (yielding a 40% growth in government channel, reduced A/R >90 days by 70%)

Senior Manager, Sales Business Performance and Analytics (Oct 2012 - Jan 2014)

Responsibilities included performance and analysis related to customer growth and sales productivity, headcount planning and asset management reporting. Provided strategic and tactical support to VP of Sales and field sales organization for all initiatives and programs.

Structured a marketing analytics model to right size field staffing needs by market, which led to staffing optimization, recruiting expenses reduction and sales rep’s retention rate improvement

Liaison with IT to develop Asset Management reporting to reduce assets write offs by 50%

Built detailed dashboards and analysis of key metrics, prompting the implementation of more granular productivity programs and best practices assessment

2013 Club Excellence Award Winner

Manager / Senior Finance Manager – Sales Support (May 2007 - Oct 2012)

Responsibilities included sales planning, forecasting, KPIs and dashboards development, reporting and analysis. Provided insightful analytical advice regarding sales performance for 130 offices (+2000 sales professionals) across North America. Led and developed two Managers and four Sr. financial analysts.

Supported $1B acquisition – alignment of financial/ sales metrics, reporting consolidations and assist field leaders with synergies’ execution and integration

Re-engineered sales forecasting methodology, improving accuracy up to 97%

Championed financial modeling to justify ~$10m investment leading to increase in sales productivity by 5%

Marine Harvest, Inc - Pompano Beach, Florida Jan 2005 - May 2007

Marine Harvest is the world’s leader seafood company and larger producer of farmed salmon.

Assistant Controller

Responsibilities included financial planning and analysis, strategic planning, budgeting, forecasting, sales analysis, P&L management, invoicing inventory management

Implemented state of art analysis tool (business objects) that increased accuracy and productivity in the reporting process

Developed and implemented software to improve invoicing turnaround from 5 to 2 days

Reconciled $500k in receivables and recovered 90% of the outstanding balance within 30 days

Premium Quality LLC – Miami, FL July 1999 – Sep 2004

Co-Founder/ Financial Controller

EDUCATION AND CERTIFICATES

Certificate, Complete Data Science - Udemy

MBA, Accounting - University of Phoenix (Fort Lauderdale, FL)

BS, Industrial Engineering - Universidad de la Sabana (Bogotá, Colombia)

PROFICIENCIES

MS Office (Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Outlook, Visio), Hyperion Essbase, Business Objects, Tableau, Smart Sheets.

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