Alvaro Hernan Giraldo

• Influence business decisions focused on Personal Care categories based on financial statements analytics for actuals and forecasts (mid-long term). Provide story-telling insights to improve growth and profitability.

• Lead and participate in regional projects (innovation/renovation projects, competitive assessments, global benchmarks, cost transformation initiatives, reports automation).

• Maximized business opportunities with global/sub-regional/local finance teams highlighting potential risks and mitigation plans. Enhance the use of analytical tools and KPIs to influence business decisions.

✓ Lead the design and use of key analytics to support decision-making creating value insights to the business. Initiatives related to Go-to-Market, portfolio management, and sourcing. Diapers profit improvement ~2pp.

✓ Lead the generation of global benchmarks to encourage constructive discussions with business leaders.

✓ Effective standardization of processes to free up time for value-generating activities. Operational tasks reduction ~20%.

• Lead and drive key processes and strategic initiatives such as Annual Budget, Quarterly Forecast, and Monthly Business Review.

• Provide financial support to key Latin American executives, influencing, and driving initiatives to identify and capture improvement opportunities in the region, categories, and functional structures.

• Support special projects across the region (Joint ventures with key partners, Machine learning).

✓ Significant improvement of the regional forecasting process reducing complexity and improving the quality of the analysis. It was possible to reduce rework by 30% and to 100% compliance with deadlines.

✓ Processes simplification and automation reaching ~20% workload reduction. Creation of key analytics using Power BI for discussions.

✓ Regional Capex process improvement through training and new materials. Reflected in more solid projects and improving ROI indicators.

• Responsible for analyzing business and financial projections of the Baby and childcare category of the Andean Region. Financial business partner of the Director of the Andean category in B2B business.

• Influence decision-making through information analysis, generating alerts, and locating opportunities for growth and profitability improvement.

• Leader of the regional process of financial evaluation of projects (CAPEX).

✓ Successful support in projects such as the sale of the notebook business to Scribe Mexico and the closing of the fine paper business.

✓ Category gross profit improvement ~3pp thru cost reduction initiatives and investment optimization.

• Responsible for the analysis of the P&Ls of categories and sales areas. Work together with the cost team in the review of the standard cost categories and variations of monthly costs. Locate opportunities to improve profitability.

• Build monthly forecasts and rolling forecasts. Control and monitor the implementation of the marketing budget (trade, consumer, and advertising).

• Responsible for the budget and the projections of the pharmaceutical line of the company –North Hub (Colombia and Venezuela). Analysis of the variations of the financial statements actual vs. budget and projections.

• Responsible for submitting financial reports to headquarters and subsequent revision with the steering committee.

• Analysis of monthly sales figures and profit margins. Provide portfolio recommendations related to price strategy and mix. Treasury controls, payment of suppliers, and financial obligations. • Provide growth and profitability recommendations to business leaders and give visibility for potential risks.

• Support in the implementation of the SRM (Supplier Relationship Management) process, through the search for information and data analysis.

• Support cost reduction and new product projects. Responsible for contacting domestic/external suppliers and coordinating experimental raw materials imports.