PABLO SANHUEZA PRADO

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Executive Summary

Accountant, Finance Engineer and MBA, with 25 years experience in different areas of Administration and Finance, in Chile and abroad, in the Cement and Constructions materials industries. Strategic vision. Experienced in process optimization and restructuring costs. Proven negotiation skills. Experience in implementing ERP (SAP). Specialist management control and budgets. Results-oriented and goal achievement. Leadership in the formation of teams of high performance.

Work Experience

GRUPO POLPAICO 1990 a 2016

CFO 2013 a 2016

  • Proposition and implementation of the restructuring of the companycompany´s restructuring (before the end of the mining cycle), reducing payroll, renegotiating contracts and closing unprofitable operations, achieving savings in fixed cost by USD 8 million.
  • Optimization of Net working capital management and cash flow, aAchieving reduce debt´s reduction by 20%.
  • Renegotiation of the group's financial debt (USD 50 million), achieving savings in financial expenses of USD 0.25 million per year and obtaining biased maturities until 2018.
  • Implementation of a plan to reduce noncore assets (land, machinery and equipment) to finance operating investments, generating revenues of USD 6.2 million.
  • Renegotiation of contracts cement transport, achieving a saving of 5% per year (USD 1 million).

GRUPO POLPAICO

Corporate Controlling Manager2012 to 2013

  • Optimization of the Invoicing process, achieving a reduction of 7 days in the collection process.days sales outstanding (DSO)
  • Implementation of a plan to improve administrative processes, achieving areduce reduction of monthly closing and reporting from five to two days.
  • Implementation of an internal training program training and functions rotation, achieving a reduction in personnel rotation from 20% to 5%.
  • Leadership of the plan to sell scrap and wastes of the production process, achieving revenues of aprox USD 1 million.

HOLCIM COSTA RICA (Costa Rica & Nicaragua)

Corporate Controlling Manager 2007 to 2012

  • Proposition and leadership in the process of issuance and sale of bonds of debt (USD 50 million) to replace bank debt, reaching sales of these by 100% and reducing the financial burden on USD 0,5 million per year.
  • Leadership of aProcess tax simplification process (fFrom 8 to 4 companies), achieving annual savings of USD 0,6 million, through optimization of direct taxation and administrative efficiencies.
  • Training and development of a team of high performance, achieving recognition of Corporate Controlling in Switzerland, as the company with the best reporting process in Holcim Group worldwide.

GRUPO POLPAICO

Head of Management Control and Reporting2002 to 2007

GRUPO POLPAICO(Brazil & Chile)

Assistant CFO and Project Manager "SAP Conosur"1999 to 2002

GRUPO POLPAICO

Head Financial Modules (FI-CO-AA-TR) SAP project Chile 1998 to 1999

GRUPO POLPAICO

Head of Financial and Strategic Area (Business Concrete & Aggregates)1997 to 1998

GRUPO POLPAICO

Head of Procurement (Business Concrete & Aggregates) 1994 to 1997

GRUPO POLPAICO

Purchaser1990 to 1994

Education

2014 - 2014: Senior Management Program – IMD Lausana, Switzerland.

1998 to 1999: MBA – Diego Portales University. Graduated in December 1999.

1992 to 1996:Finance Engineer – Diego Portales University.

1984 to 1988:Accountant, Instituto superior de comercio #2.

Others
  • Intermediate English, intermediate Portuguese
  • Hobbies: Tennis, Soccer, Reading, Gardening.
  • Married, 2 children.