MONICA CABANILLAS SHEPPARD, MBA

adu55v@r.postjobfree.com · 10043 SW 140 St, Miami Fl 33176 · C: 305- 479-5653 OBJECTIVE

FINANCIAL PROFESSIONAL WITH OVER 17 YEARS OF EXPERIENCE IN CORPORATE FINANCE, WITH EXPOSURE TO BOTH RETAIL AND FINANCIAL SERVICES INDUSTRIES LOOKING TO ALIGN SKILLS IN FINANCIAL PLANNING AND ANALYSIS WITH COMPANY LOOKING FOR FAST PACED TEAM PLAYER. EDUCATION

UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI SCHOOL OF BUSINESS Coral Gables, FL Bachelor of Business Administration 2002– Dual Major International Finance & Marketing and Computer Information Systems UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI SCHOOL OF BUSINESS Coral Gables, FL Masters of Business Administration 2009

JAN 2014 -

Present

NEWELL BRANDS – APPLIANCES AND COOKWARE DIVISION (NYSE: NWL) MIAMI, FL DIRECTOR OF FINANCE FOR LATIN AMERICA

Report to VP of Finance and Accounting. Responsible for reviewing all financial statements submitted in Latin America Region. This includes nine strategic business units which cover 23 countries in Central American, South American and the Caribbean.

• Oversee the annual budgeting and forecasting process, inclusive of Income Statement, Balance Sheet and Cash Flow for LATAM’s nine subsidiaries. Consolidate all Latin America financials on a monthly basis and provide VP of Finance and President/ CEO with monthly, quarterly and annual financial projections for the region

• Supervise and provide guidance for the annual budget by communicating assumptions including costing, FX rates, CAPEX thresholds, presentation materials, and profitability/ EBITDA checks to senior executive management, business units leads and HQ department managers

• Support new product development by providing financial analysis including P&L projections, IRR and ROI analysis for all products, prior to testing and then launching of product. This process covers all SKUs in all regions and is broken out into four primary phases with financial checks done at initial product development review and at final phase of the development process

• Collaborate with demand planning by providing long-term financial analysis of SKU specific profitability to improve quality of inventory on-hand and ensure DOH metrics improve. Periodic SKU rationalization of over 5,000 SKUs, excluding parts and accessories

• Monitor Distribution, Freight and Warehousing costs for all LATAM to ensure subsidiaries are in line with prior year or plan and Expenses as % of Gross Sales ratio does not deteriorate.

• Development of business intelligence reporting tool to identify price, volume, FX impact of both gross sales and direct margin, at the customer level and product group and SKU level for nine subsidiaries

• Lead the integration of recently migrated SAP related data into the new Business Intelligence platform. Provide category specific web reports to each category leader for Marketing and Sales

• Support LATAM region with ad-hoc reporting and analysis, for commercial purposes; including margin analysis both customer specific and product specific analysis

• Main lead in continuous development and maintenance of a monthly business review deck for all regions. This includes automatic pulls from reporting system that covers P&L, working capital analysis and cash flow projections to ensure country-wide uniformity and ability to tie to company specific financial statement in local currency and US dollars

• Preparation of appropriation requests related to CAPEX. Manage adherence to the CAPEX budget of each of the nine strategic business units

• Prepare five-year global long range plan as well as the strategic plan that is presented annually to Senior Executive staff and Corporate headquarters

• Continuous coordination with Internal Controls to ensure procedures and processes of affiliated companies comply with corporate policies and procedures JUL 2012 -

OCT 2013

JUL 2007 -

MAY 2012

MTN SATELLITE COMMUNICATIONS MIRAMAR, FL

DIRECTOR OF FINANCIAL PLANNING AND PRICING

Reported to the SVP of Finance and Accounting and CFO. Responsible for creating and monitoring the company’s budget and analyzing debt covenants. Responsible for pricing terms pertaining to contracts with external clients.

• Lead, manage, compile and provide analysis toward all company planning, forecasting and strategic planning activities including budget upload to general ledger system, exporting financial budget, creating and distributing financial reports to department head and senior management

• Supervise and provide guidance and assumptions of the internal strategic budget and communicate assumptions to senior management, business units leads and department heads

• Lead, create and manage adherence to the company’s CAPEX budget

• Develop and fully implement a new pricing methodology to facilitate and ensure timely delivery of external quotes

• Prepare and forecast bank covenants to ensure no risk of covenant breach. Set-up periodic senior management meetings to review potential risk of existing credit agreement

• Prepare external presentations to credit agencies, CEO, board of directors and senior management for both long-term and short term financial projections

• Provide ad-hoc excel modeling analysis to communicate to senior management the profitability of key customer relationships.

• Assist in developing profitability models of new products and incorporating potential revenue targets

ALLIED CASH HOLDINGS, LLC MIAMI, FL

DIRECTOR OF FINANCIAL PLANNING AND ANALYSIS

Report directly to the CEO/President. Responsible for creation and monitoring of company’s budget, forecasting and managing the Treasury department. Oversee Marketing campaigns

• Lead, manage, compile and provide analysis toward all company planning, forecasting and strategic planning activities

• Maintain communication with three regional directors of operation and twenty district mangers by providing the field with finance and treasury related support

• Build top-down company budget as well as bottom- up budget for 211 stores located in 11 states

• Provides analysis of monthly financial results including the interpretation of current month performance information as a predictive tool for realization of full year performance expectations

• Works closely with sales, marketing and operations management in assisting efficient execution of budget and forecast commitments, including communication to management of both progress toward attainment and plans to effect course corrections as necessary

• Supervise and provide guidance and assumptions of the internal strategic budget and communicate assumptions to senior management, regional directors, and district managers

• Supervise rolling cash forecast to senior lenders to determine forecast deposits and disbursements

• Provide ad-hoc excel modeling analysis to senior managers to determine potential profitability of new store openings or divestiture opportunities as well as new product profitability

• Update monthly senior management reports including state comp analysis, revenue trends and monthly field revenue forecast

• Manage maintaining adequate liquidity at various corporate bank accounts

• Manage cash position and maintain relationships with bank commercial representatives

• Develop and maintain banking relationship with various banks

• Coordinate implementation of new auxiliary products or services

• Supervise implementation of new back office processes, including implementation of remote deposit services into store front locations.

• Oversee implementation of quarterly marketing campaigns and profitability of campaign APR 2005 -

JUN 2007

MELLON FINANCIAL CORPORATION NORTH MIAMI, FL

PRINCIPAL FINANCIAL ANALYST/ FINANCIAL CONTROLLER

Report directly to the CFO. Support senior management, including CEO and COO of the Florida Private Banking sector as well as CEO of the Georgia private wealth sector in budget planning process.

• Assist in creation and maintenance of 12 month rolling forecasts and 3 year financial projections for corporate banking Mellon United National Bank and Mellon Private Wealth Management

• Provide ad-hoc analysis to senior commercial loan officers and senior managers to determine potential profitability of future or existing clients

• Consolidate the budget and adjust for inter-company eliminations across all units and incorporating funds transfer pricing

• Provide the budget to Head Office and provide information to Head Office ensuring that the budget is in accordance to the Bank’s strategic initiatives

• Assist senior managers in the budget planning process, by analyzing historical trends and non- recurring items that contributed to revenue generation and expenditures

• Track capitalized expenditures and projected cash flows to determine potential financial impact

• Provide ROE analysis to support line of business lending decisions

• Monitor net interest revenues associated with deposit products and monitor profitability

• Reviewed accounts payable invoices and ensured appropriate classification of expenses and assets.

• Supervised adherence to corporate policies and procedures, CAP, FAS, and SOX requirements

• Supervise QPD collateral requirements and bank’s compliance with Florida State Treasury

• Reviewed investment portfolio related accounts, regulatory reporting inclusive of the FR 2900 and FR 2644 and quarterly state taxes.

• Assist in calculating accrual levels and provide necessary supporting documentation MAR 2003 -

MAR 2005

EPSILON INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT, LLC BOCA RATON, FL

FINANCIAL ANALYST

Reported directly to COO. Responsibilities included providing support to senior management on performance of fund and preliminary financial analysis of specific trading strategies.

• Studied broker market research reports and market information for potential trading opportunities

• Updated financial models and performed preliminary analysis on potential investment opportunities applicable to particular hedge fund strategy. Product evaluation included stocks, bonds, options, credit default swaps, collateralized debt obligations and bank debt

• Reviewed SEC filings including 10Ks, 10Qs, 20Fs, 8Ks, and 6Ks to perform financial analysis particular to an investment strategy. Evaluated high yield, distressed or bankrupt companies to determine possible trading or financing opportunities

• Support trading executions and confirmations inclusive of over the counter products

• Identified and reconciled trade discrepancies and balanced P&L for multiple portfolio strategies

• Represented firm in the coordination and settlement process with global clearing banks

• Acted as primary liaison with broker houses in attaining repo lines and engaging in ISDA negotiations

SKILLS

• Applications: SAP, Power BI, HFM/Hyperion/ INEA, JD Edwards, Sharepoint, Qlik - BI Tool Bloomberg, Factset Numerix, FRX, Axys Advent, Riskmetrics, Documentum, Advanced MS Excel, MS Access

• Languages: Knowledge of Python, Visual Basic 6.0, Java C++, SQL, Visible Analyst

• Bilingual: Fluent in Spanish

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