Elias Miera

Experience

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  Whirlpool Europe

  Jan 2000 - Jan 2005

  Senior Business Analyst

  • Responsible for improving financial processes across European factories and sales organisations. Participated in SAP migrations, implementation of eProcurement system, online travelling expense reporting system, etc.• Responsible for measuring, tracking and benchmarking business processes and the efficiency of the Dublin operations in the Financial Services Shared Centre.• Leader of the Operational Excellence SSC team (OPEX). Continuous process improvement through Six Sigma methodology and process standardisation.• Participated on a Requisition to Payment system (R2P) SAP implementation based on the company European headquarters in Italy.• Business process mapping and process re-engineering of the financial monthly closing across all our European national sales organisations and factories. Throughout my experience in the company I visited and studied financial processes in factory and commercial environments all around Europe.• Actively supported executive management investment decisions by building business cases and feasibility studies for investment projects.• On-going internal control monitoring. Liaison with internal auditors.• Co-ordinated as procurement analyst a group of five people, contributing to minimise European operating costs, resulting on overall savings of 1.1 million Euro. Show less

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  PwC

  Mar 2005 - Jun 2007

  Performance Improvement Manager

  • Consulting work in Business Transformation & Performance Management projects. Banking, Pharmaceutical, Utilities, Technology Industries.• Process mapping & performance monitoring.• Feasibility studies.• Responsible for Business Development• Team management

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  Pfizer

  Jun 2007 - Jul 2020

  • Client Partner Finance Business Technology Europe & LATAM regions (Shared Services & markets).• Financial Systems Performance Management, business process analysis & optimization.• Digital Finance: process automation, predictive & cognitive analytics, Machine Learning.• Value Realization lead for financial systems implementation projects.• Operational Excellence program leader for Finance IT organization.• Project lead for regional & global IT strategic Finance Transformation initiatives.• Innovation champion for Business Technology. Show less • Operational Excellence leader for Finance & Business Technology initiatives.• Managing team of internal resources and contractors driving improvement initiatives.• Preparing presentations about program deployment progress to senior leadership.• Reviewing & analysing process data to identify performance drivers.• Statistical and graphical data analysis.• Liaising with Global Finance organization sponsors to identify opportunities and execute projects.• Preparing financial business cases & feasibility studies for projects.• Estimating financial benefits derived from projects completed.• Continuous Improvement methodologies trainer.• Responsible for financial systems outsourcing quality management Show less

  • Director Viatris Strategy, Business Development & Commercial Capabilities PMO

    Sept 2019 - Jul 2020

  • Director International Finance Business Technology

    Jul 2014 - Sept 2019

  • Continuous Improvement Director

    Jun 2007 - Jul 2014
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  Gilead Sciences

  Dec 2020 - now

  • Global ERP optimization lead.• Stabilization & Post Implementation Review Assessments.• Solution adoption, change management & optimization.• Performance monitoring & process health-checks.• Global Process Leadership, system sustainment & demand management governance.• Client partnership with operations leads, requirements gathering, business case delivery & project governance. • Operations Continuous Improvement & process excellence. Internal CI skills building. • Strategic PMO lead, portfolio governance & project prioritization.• Finance transformation lead. Digital Finance, automation, CoE's & analytics.• Innovation championship.• Benefits realization. Show less

  • Director, Global Finance Optimization & Transformation lead

    Aug 2023 - now

  • Director, Business Systems & Processes Improvement Lead, Global Financial Services

    Dec 2020 - Aug 2023