Fernando Aurelio Pablo Villímar

Experience

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  Merinvest

  Jan 1991 - Jan 1995

  Senior Analyst
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  Santander Investments

  Jan 1994 - Jan 1995

  Country Analyst
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  Mercantil Banco - Merinvest

  Jan 1995 - May 2002

  Corporate Finance Analyst

  Roles & Responsibilities• Reporting to the Corporate Finance and Capital Markets Manager.• Responsible to coordinate and assist companies in M&A, Financial restruccturings, Project Finance, IPO’s, Syndicated Loans, Securitization, among other structurings.• Companies and securities valuation for private/public companies.• Coordinate and assist companies interested on Public offerings such as COmmercial Paper, Bonds, stocks, other securities (ADR, GDS).Main achievements:• Project Finance: Financing structure of US$450m to finance de plant for MTBE at the Jose complex. First and full sale of the first Real State Bonds for the Arquina Group of companies.• Financial restructuring: Full and successful restructuring of debtors/creditors of Ron Santa Teresa, the largest rum venezuelan company. This experience was replicated on other bad credits for the Banco Mercantil, leading to 86% reduction of the bad credits provision. Restructuring included sale of the non-core assets, management lookout and assistance, increase or additional guarantees (if available) and Show less

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  Banco Fondo Comun

  Jan 2002 - Jan 2007

  VP Planificación y Riesgo

  Roles and Responsibilities:• Direct Report to the Finance & Risk Director.• In charge of Performance Management, Budgeting & Management/Control of Financial Risks of the company.• Participate at the Pricing Committee (rates definition) for the many products of the bank as per risk & market.• Design and structuring of the optimal financing mix jointly with Treasury & BOD.Main achievements:• Early automation of the Perfomance Management related precesses and KPIs, allowing an increased flexibility and agility to market changes as well as to a faster reply to customer's needs.• Enhancement of the financial margin by automating internal measurements of the aggregate mix of products (risk adjusted), using Hyperium as the banks BI, which lead management to be able to a quicker -even daily- correlation of interest rate definitions and its effects on funding. Show less

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  Latinlists

  May 2007 - Aug 2010

  CFO

  Roles & Responsibilities:• CFO & Company Secretary for Latinlists Holding as well as to the affiliates at Latinamerica.• Direct report to the CEO & the BOD.• In charge of all performance management, Admin processes, financing of the operations, legal, taxes & treasury of the BUs at Venezuela, Ecuador, Argentina y Costa Rica. Main achievements:• Startup of each and all of the countries affiliates in time and budget.• Employees hiring to complete all the local Admin & Logistics in each affiliate.• Joint project with EY to structure the most convenient governance structure as well as all the Trasfer Pricing Agreements. Show less

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  Anglo American - Mantos Blancos

  Aug 2010 - Apr 2016

  • Reporte directo al Gerente General & CFO.• A cargo de Supply Chain, IT, logística de ventas, costos, finanzas y reporting.• Compliance general, Budget, performance control y evaluación de Opex & Capex.Principales logros:• Reducción de costos de US$ 3,1 a 1,8 US$/lb CUf mediante la revisión detallada y exhaustiva de los costos pro procesos así como el diseño de un plan de producción que aprovechara los procesos de bajo costo. • Reducción de costos en los procesos de leaching logró ahorros de US$2mm/año. • Se trabajó en conjunto con Plan Largo Plazo Mina para modificar el perfil de explotación de recursos ajustándolo a nuevos perfiles de precios futuros, lo que permitió mejorar el valor LOM de la empresa.• Colaboración exitosa con el equipo de Finanzas HQ en el due diligence de on Mantos Blancos & Mantoverde para su venta, la que se cerró exitosamente en Septiember 2015. Show less • CFO & Company Secretary para las compañías de Anglo American en Venezuela.• Reporte directo al Gerente General de Venezuela y al CFO en Sao Paulo.• Responsable de Tesorería, contabilidad, compliance, IMpuestos, Supply Chain, Costos y reporting.• Responsable de los procesos de Budget y control ambiental y legal de las compañías en Venezuela.Principales logros:• Mejoras en el governance de la compañía permitieron ahorros en las retenciones sobre el pago de dividendos lo que permitió ahorros de US$8mm.• Revisión y renegociación del impuesto de explotación minera, lo que generó AR por 15mUS$.• Diseño y ejecución de la estrategia para la reducción y salida después que el Gobierno de Venezuela expropió los activos de AA en Venezuela. Conjuntamente con las gerencias de Legal y responsabilidad social se ejecutó la terminación de 1200 empleados y quedar en 8 personas en 3 meses. Show less Role & Responsibilities• CFO & Company Secretary for Anglo American companies in Venezuela.• Direct report to the Country Manager as well as to the CFO of the Nickel BU at Sao Paulo.• In charge of Treasury, Accounting, Controller, taxes, Supply ChainResponsable de las Superintendencias de Tesorería, Contabilidad, Compliance, Impuestos, Compras y Abastecimiento, Costs & Reporting.• Budgeting, Opex/Capex evaluation/approval for the Venezuelan BUs.Main achievements:• Mining tax formula review with the Mining Ministry, as an error was raised in the application of a one of the parameters. This lead to legal claims totaling US$15m in favor of the company.• Downsizing and exit strategy: After the State seized the Company's assets on November 2012, my banking experience prooved to be of use as a backed-up financing facility was structured to comply with the payment of all the remaining balances at debtors/creditors accounts as well as to terminate 1200 employees. This financial structure also allowed to retain 8 key people to collect & sustain an international arbitration against the Venezuelan Republic. Show less

  • Finance / Administration Manager

    Jul 2014 - Apr 2016

  • Gerente de Finanzas y Administración

    Mar 2012 - Jun 2014

  • Controller - Loma de Níquel

    Aug 2010 - Feb 2012
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  Austin Engineering Ltd

  Aug 2016 - Sept 2020

  In charge of Chilean operations & reporting to the CEO in Australia. Leading Safety, Business Development, Operations, Finance, HR, Supply Chain & QA/QC and overseeing Controller and Legal.Among main achievements are: Management restructuring, teambuilding, coaching & micro management allowed the achievement of US$3,8m on FY20 vs. losses of US$3,2m on FY18. Agile & Lean activities served savings & efficiencies that allowed a production record of 22 components vs a historic average of 6 per month.Changes in the values of the company served changes in quality and timely deliveries which favored YOY growth of 35% on sales in FY20 closing in 20% over budgeted figures without injuries.Succesful entrance at BHP (Escondida & Spence) with new products. Show less Director de Finanzas (Contraloría, Tesorería, Costos, reporting, y tax), y Administración (HR, Supply Chain, y Legal).Entre los principales logros se encuentran:• Migracion a IFRS.• Reestructuración operacional para optimizar el control de los negocios de grúas (Austin Arrendamientos) e Ingeniería (Austin Ingenieros) con un único equipo de gerencia.• Revisión exitosa de los contratos en faena (on-site) pues los precios no permitían cumplir las exigencias de las mineras.• Optimización del equipo y procesos de Finanzas (30% savings) Show less

  • Country Manager

    Nov 2017 - Sept 2020

  • Country Manager / General Manager Perú (Interim)

    May 2018 - Aug 2018

  • Director de Finanzas y Servicios Compartidos / Director de Finanzas y Administración- Chile BU

    Aug 2016 - Oct 2017
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  Ecoterra Foods

  Dec 2021 - May 2022

  CFO

  Acting CFO for Ecoterra Group of companies. In charge of Accounting, Treasury, Supply Chain and HR. Main objective was to migrate accounting and operations to SAP Business One.