Carlos Rey

Experience

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  Medicard

  Jan 1996 - Jan 1999

  • Director of Finance

    Jan 1996 - Jan 1999

  • Director of Finance

    Jan 1996 - Jan 1999
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  Telus Mobility

  Oct 1999 - Jan 2001

  Project Control Analyst

  Prepared capital budgets ($500M) and forecasts in Engineering Department. Wrote-up authorizations for Capital Expenditure. Issued and tracked Purchase Requisitions through Project Control and Materials Management Departments. Managed tracking of labour and equipment costs for all capital projects. Prepared month-end entries and variance analysis report, collaborating with Project Manager in Engineering Department to identify opportunities and risks. Created new operating process for Capital authorization purchase request, reducing processing time from 10 to 5 business days. Show less

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  Bell Canada-Bell Mobility

  Jan 2001 - Oct 2004

  COA Cost of Acquisition, Manager,

  Supported Long Range Planning, and Channel Management Groups. Developed Retail Activation and Cost of Acquisition Segmentation Projects with the Channel Management and Marketing departments. Built Cost of Acquisition (COA) and Cost of Maintenance (COM) budgets ($850M), and completed regional forecasts. Consolidated all the COA & COM National reports for VP meetings. Worked closely with Bell Distribution, (Compensation Group) to ensure provision of efficient and accurate information. Prepared analyses and accruals for Up-front Commissions, Mail in Rebates, and Bonuses and Residuals. Created monthly and quarterly reports. Created a Business Metric report for Senior VP of Finance.Reduced duration of month-end financial reporting process from six days to four days through creation of new reports in Essbase.Implemented an Essbase model that filtered the data to perform a better quality analysis. Received Innovation AwardCreated a Metrics page for the Month-end packageReduced the Month-end Package from 30 to 17 pagesIdentified and corrected an accounting error, which yielded a savings of $500k Show less

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  Bell Canada-Sympatico (Internet Services

  Oct 2004 - Oct 2005

  Sr. Financial Manager

  • Promoted to implement and create financial reports in Essbase for the business unit leads and c-level executives• Developed strategic analyses to access new business opportunities, new initiatives and revenue streams (Sympatico-Music; Services Bundles)• Improved bottom-line performance by capitalizing (8%) R&D• Modeled financial scenarios (NPV, ROI, IRR) for Internet Service Provider and Portal to identify opportunities, make recommendations and create operating processes for potential projects Show less

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  Sony Pictures Entertainment

  Oct 2005 - Apr 2011

  • Promoted to manage the business analysis for the Sony Pictures supply chain across Canada• Reduced inventory levels by 2MM units by: a) turns from 1.9 to 2.9 annually through analysis of “blow up” promotions and inventory age; b) minimizing obsolescence through re-package, destruction and cross border transfer• Led forecast and replenishment processes and implementing a new tracking process to reduce product returns from customers• Reviewed and re-negotiated existing supplier contracts which resulted in an increase of $2.5MM in Gross Profit Special projects as required Show less • Winner of the Corporate Award of Excellence for the Business Objects Data Warehouse Essbase implementation• Provided analysis and business case development that ultimately increased Gross Profit of major customers (Loblaws, Best Buy and Wal-Mart) by $2.0MM • Increased Revenue over CAD $5M by creating a weekly Revenue Sales Report to monitor leads and reduce returns. Review weekly and check customer billing• Winner of the Edge Award for re-engineering the reporting process leading to reduction over 200 work hours every month • Implemented an effective process strategy that reduced returns from 62% to 29%• Directly supervised a team of two employees Show less

  • Senior Manager, Supply Chain

    Jan 2009 - Apr 2011

  • Senior Manager, Sales Reporting

    Oct 2005 - Oct 2009
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  Alliance Films Inc

  Apr 2011 - Jul 2012

  Manager, Business & Customer Analysis

  • Designed, developed and presented new & existing P&L business to Senior Management for a large Retail customers; Wal-Mart (reduced 11% returns by reviewing and improving the initial shipment process by store size), Best Buy & Future Shop (increased net sales $0.8MM by improving replenishment process), HMV (designed “new 2011-2012 rebate deal” by increasing front store placement and sales by $2.3MM)• Developed the analysis that led to annual savings of $0.7MM through elimination of the least profitable promotions• Led the IT implementation of a business reporting tool to track and forecast Sales by customer. This reporting tool brought for the first time to the company customer and promotional profitability results to Senior Management. Show less

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  Samsung Canada

  Oct 2012 - now

  Manager, Sales/Business Operations

  Strategic Planning/Analyses• Manage team analysts, including Sales Support Analyst, Bid Desk and Inside Sales Team• Quarterly/Semi-Annual/Annual Strategic Planning for IT Business Division• Current month/3CMF forecasting• Budget forecasting and profit simulation (CMF + 3MF, guideline with BM, CBM, SCM)• Assist in developing short, mid, longer term strategy development• Work with all IT Marketing PM’s to track product support and expenditures• Monitor the accuracy and efficient distribution of reports, dashboard and other intelligence essential to the salesSales Operations• Work directly with key sales leaders to ensure Salesforce data hygiene, ensuring accuracy and completeness so that the data effectively drives analytics and insights.Use Salesforce to lead, manage and report sales operational metrics that support business operations and decisions (ie. sales and marketing tactics, segment analysis, lead generation, constraints in the funnel etc)• Analyze overall sales performance metrics to proactively identify opportunities for optimization and improvement of sales processes• Maintain EB Checkbook to monitor division Sales Deductions and Marketing spendIndustry/Market Analyses• Macro trends analyses; Global, Industry and Canadian market trends and identification of opportunity space• Competitor Analysis• Retail and B2B Market trendsManage and continue to optimize the technology tools and software by continuously reviewing the changing needs of the business and aligning the technology accordingly Show less