Sergio Serrano Bonilla

Main Purpose of Role: Unlock value creation supporting Analytics, Projects, Automation and Standardization efforts for RTR. This position is critical to develop strategies to optimize our processes, identify working capital opportunities from an accounting lens, reduce manual work and drive the execution of continuous improvement projects with attractive value creation paybacks.

Key Accountabilities:

•Contribute to the achievement of Value Creation and Productivity targets through proactive analysis, idea generation, recommendation and implementation activities that results in clear and significant profit improvement

•Support the execution of value creation initiatives, through automation, transformation and standardization, strongly supported by the OPEX team

•Work under strong partnership and engagement with the GBS OPEX and Champions to continuously improve processes and innovate current set of reports and analytics

•Lead and develop analytical capabilities for the RTR function through trainings, aiming to accelerate analytical skills

•Lead and/or participate in LAO meaningful projects to continuously improve and enable business transformation

•Support ad hoc financial analyses and projects

•Ensure application of efficient and effective financial and operating controls and report whenever Corporate Financial Policies or instructions are not being followed or appear inappropriate

Main goal: Lead continuous improvement projects for different areas, analyze the processes of the areas, identify gaps, and redesign the process to improve it by identifying waste, as well as identifying efficiency. Or if a process is broken, intervene to control it. Lead KAIZEN workshop where they look for improvements in a specific process. Lead the culture of continuous improvement within the GBS, lead the training for the management system as well as the different ways of innovating with leadership through continuous improvement.

Functions:

•Serve as regional GBS Continuous Improvement Consultant providing expert guidance on Lean/Six Sigma

•Lead leadership/coaching process standardization initiatives aimed at increasing effectiveness, efficiency, and knowledge.

•Teach and coach continuous improvement to adopt such mindset and the “new way of working” in the regional GBS organization by providing expert guidance of management systems (visual management, standard work, leading standard work), problem solving in 4 steps and execution of the DMAIC project.

• Responsible for identify improvement opportunities under CI mythologies related to the process fixed assets for EMEA region (24 countries), achieving compliance with the main CIP indicator of having up to 10 projects past due monthly to meet up to 0% past due monthly, this was possible thanks to a SPS initiative.

• Documentation: I was responsible to create all the documentation (SOP) aligned to CI structure for this documents related to fixed assets process for EMEA region creation for EMEA region.

• Approval of reconciliations of accounting accounts in the Black Line system, managing to maintain our monthly rating above 90; also achieving an empowerment and knowledge of the accounts we have in our charge.

• Support for Banks Kaizen event in which the work teams are guided by mapping their processes, defining opportunities for improvement, making measurements of the main indicators (open items) managing to move from having up to 15 open items per region to close with zero open items for several consecutive months: identifying best practices and planning the execution of action plans. Also, in this Kaizen we save 10K and in less than six months we standardize the process banks.

• Responsible for Manual Journal Entries KPI