Daniel Espínola Torres

Daniel espínola torres

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  • Timeline

  • About me

    Finance Director at Sodexo Hong Kong

  • Education

    • Fundação getulio vargas

      2015 - 2017
      Master of business administration (mba) strategic business management
    • Universidade federal do paraná

      2008 - 2014
      Bachelor's degree economics
  • Experience

    • Grupo barigui

      Mar 2008 - Jun 2019

      • Direct report to the Business Director, built and lead a multi-task team of eleven people, responsible for the Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A), Business Planning, Stock Management, CRM and Marketing.• Responsible for supporting all financial and business planning activities, including quarterly budget, forecast, monthly closing results and management reports to ensure alignment with strategic goals and objectives. Introduced the complex Zero Based Budgeting (ZBB) process, resulting in a 19.1% reduction in variable expenses.• Working together with the Controller, reformulated the company’s budget process changing it from annual to quarterly (due a fast-paced market) and breaking it down into individual departments budgets before consolidate them into one overall corporate budget, improving the budget accuracy• Introduced the financial modelling approach on the company’s Financial and Business Planning, improving the efficiency of budget and forecast process through Scenario Analysis (optimistic, pessimistic and realistic), resulting on a change on the way the company used to take its decisions in departments such as Procurement, Supply Chain, HR.• Spearheaded the creation and automation of management and monthly closing reports through BI tools (using Tableau, SQL and Advanced Excel), improving the accuracy of the numbers in a timely manner.• Acting as a Business Partner in ad-hoc projects, headed process improvements collaborating cross functionally with different departments to understand needs and identify opportunities to drive business results and achieve financial goals. Played an important role on the development of a new CRM process (increasing the client retention index in 48,4%) and on the introduction of statistics analysis in customer surveys (increasing the Customer Satisfaction Index from 9.02 to 9.45, making it higher than the national average). Show less

      • Financial Planning and Analysis Manager

        Feb 2014 - Jun 2019
      • Senior Business Analyst

        Aug 2011 - Feb 2014
      • Business Assistant

        Mar 2008 - Aug 2011
    • Sodexo

      Nov 2020 - now
      • Finance Director, Hong Kong & Regional Commercial Finance APMEA, LATAM & Brazil

        Apr 2024 - now
      • Financial Director

        Jan 2023 - Apr 2024
      • Financial Controller

        Nov 2020 - Feb 2023
  • Licenses & Certifications

    • Business intelligence applied on digital marketing

      Aldeia coworking
      Jul 2016
    • Workshop: neurobusiness and design thinking applied to business management

      Isae
      Sept 2016
    • Data base and sql

      Udemy
      Nov 2017
    • Basics of cost management

      Fgv online
      Mar 2017
    • Project scope management

      Fgv online
      Jul 2017
    • Balanced scorecard

      Fgv online
      Mar 2016