Luis Gabriel Pineda Quintero PMP®

Experience

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  Casa de Bolsa SCB Grupo Aval

  Jun 2011 - Dec 2011

  Internship - Analyst and Strategist of Economical Markets
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  TDA Supply and Service S.A.

  Oct 2013 - Jun 2014

  Project Administrator

  Responsibilities:• Making of procurement and supply tracing management, materials and tools availability, inventories control.• Update of financial and operational reports directed to managers and main headquarters.• Ensure the information, basis, logs and transactions required by the customer for billing and invoice correct process.Achievements:• I attained the correct invoice process of the developed works and services on time with expected figures.• I solved unexpected issues in the field related to resources availability for project normal progress, allowing me to complete and close the project on time. Show less

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  Stork, a Fluor company

  Jul 2014 - Jul 2016

  Project Controller

  Responsibilities:• Being the connection between operations and finance through the creation of reports that included revenues, costs drivers, KPIs and performance improvement recommendations support for country managers and HQ for strategic decisions.• Update of monthly and yearly forecast financial results, analysis and control against monthly results.• Support and creation of monthly financial closing, delivering feedback and information to projects in charge.Achievements:• I made estimations, analyzed and had meetings with customers about scope changes looking to make contract adjustments to relieve financial negative impacts followed by change orders and change log. It followed the acceptance and recognition of the scope creep that had an impact on financials, with successful claims and settled new formulas and processes for further changes.• I developed continuous operational tracking, direct costs controls and set up new costs breakdown structures according to company objectives and control packages. This led to a financial monitoring according to managers including performance indicators, that allowed the project to have positive financial margins within the next 4 months.• I created a new intelligent automated report that included all the financial, operational and risks performance of the project. This one-page report was used as a standard for the area and was monthly presented to HQ leaders for better controlling processes. Show less

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  Stork, a Flour company

  Jun 2018 - Jun 2022

  Project Controller Leader Peru

  Responsibilities:• Update of monthly and yearly forecast financial results, analysis and control against monthly results.• Development of work and costs breakdown structure, analysis, revenue recognition and the assurance of the closing figures reported in SAP system.• Create and update reports that include revenues, costs drivers, main financial indicators and performance improvement recommendations support for country managers and HQ for strategic decisions.Achievements:• I settled new processes and reports for efficient project controls in the area, working as an integrator between company operations and finance. This led to an aprox 3% margin improvement for each project.• I developed cost structure, resources allocation and processes in SAP for different areas and projects, including communications and training for the right project management standard.• I searched and made root cause analysis for costs deviations (unexpected increases), took some field operations visits, settled some costs and operational KPIs for each project and controlled it through some business analytics systems. This led to costs drivers reductions, achieving USD 250K savings per year in one of the projects. Show less

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  Inchcape Americas

  Sept 2023 - now

  Responsibilities:• Estimations and assessments of Synergies or savings, business cases and financial models related to the merge between companies then reported to stakeholders for budgets and forecast.• Financial and performance controlling of used cars business unit, monthly financial closing, margins improvement, working capital, forecast, budgets, operational processes analysis and KPIs development.• Creation of financial models for investment projects, funding requests from HQ, cost controlling, valuations and execution tracing looking to ensure economic efficiency. Achievements:• I created new processes, templates and assessments for synergies savings controlling since company’s merge, becoming the reference for compliance and best practices within the region. • I developed the financial planning and controlling structure of used cars business unit, as well I was part of the optimization and restructuring of this branch with successful results of this transformation.• I made the financial model of the biggest investment project of the company in Colombia related to Warehouse’s Integration, including business case development, CAPEX funds requests, as well the execution costs controlling according to cash flows expectations. Show less

  • FP&A Business Partner

    Mar 2024 - now

  • FP&A Synergies Coordinator

    Sept 2023 - Apr 2024