Raymundo Ruiz

• Forecasted trends and recommended improvements based on financial risk analyses.
• Managed day-to-day operations within [Number]-person finance department for [Type] organization.
• Evaluated project applications and verified with outline specifications to approve, reject and recommend adjustments.
• Improved resource utilization with data management systems, reducing costs through strategic coordination and contract analysis.
• Assisted with recruiting, interviewing and hiring new department employees.
• Analyzed financial data regarding product performance and customer performance and developed reports for key stakeholders.
• Monitored budget and revenue trends, compiling reports for company leadership to inform decision-making.
• Generated financial and operational reports to assist management with business strategy.
• Verified compliance of financial policies and accounting procedures against federal regulations.
• Enhanced internal control systems and procedures to mitigate risk and support opportunities.
• Analyzed financial statements against forecasts to prepare high-level variance analysis.

•Acted as company's Liaison in project to outsource transactional accounting functions (AP, AR, GL, Payroll) to Shared Service Center for all Zeiss legal entities in North America.

•Led staff of analysts developing them into high-performing team, recognized as benchmark for professionalism and effectiveness within the company and amongst other Carl Zeiss affiliates.

•Directed Annual budget process and quarterly rolling forecast with focus on achieving top-down guidelines, engaging with functional areas for buy-in from key stakeholders. Overall budget time reduced by 1/3 by streamlining core processes and keeping management engaged.

•Led International cost reduction project by coordinating idea generation sessions, creating implementation plans and tracking results. Project core target was to reduce costs by 7% compared to previous year; results for exceeded targets.

•Acted as finance liaison for M&A, pressure-testing business plans, supporting due-diligence process.

•Steered monthly financial reviews with executive staff to summarize state of the business and translate conclusions into actionable measures.

•Simplified and modernized financial reporting package centered on reports automation, reducing prep time over value added analysis. The package contained relevant financial information such as management P&L with variance analysis, expense variance analysis by cost center, bridge analysis for gross profit and operating expenses, dashboards and business scorecards.

•Prepared Annual financial presentations for Board meetings on behalf of CFO and quarterly company-wide meetings on behalf of CEO. Designed high quality charts based on target audience ranging from Board of Directors to individual contributors participating in company-wide meetings.

•Acted as Deputy Risk Coordinator for the company supporting implementation of management oversight regarding business risk management.

•Attended biyearly International finance conferences at corporate headquarters in Germany to ensure use of modern, standardized finance tools and business practices including IFRS.

•Redesigned cost center structure based on corporate guidelines to achieve meaningful balance of detail Vs. relevancy for expense management and transparency in financial reporting. Meaningful P&Ls by profit center were produced.

•Led integration of FP&A functions after Merger of Carl Zeiss Meditec Inc. and Carl Zeiss Surgical Inc.

•Steered CO module team during SAP ERP implementation.

•Led implementation of SAP-based project controlling model for R&D.

•Led implementation of Cognos Planning Analyst tool.

•Coordinated international forecast process for units/revenue/margin for 16 countries 2 manufacturing sites 3 strategic business units.

•Led monthly forecast meetings between operations, sales&marketing and finance.

•Prepared monthly price-volume-mix analysis (PVM) by product with executive summary.

•Conducted monthly expense analysis for SG&A functional areas.

•Supported quarterly forecast process and annual budget process for revenue, gross profit and SG&A expenses.

•Managed the following departments: Accounting & Payroll, FP&A, Treasury, Credit & Accounts Receivables, Order Administration, Warehouse & Delivery; steered these areas through asset optimization project recognized among Zeiss-Subsidiaries.

•Prepared monthly financial analysis for the company's P&L, presented financial results to managing director.

•Performed internal and external monthly financial reporting, completed annual audits without findings.

•Coordinated and followed up monthly executives meetings and by-yearly board meetings.

•Coordinated Annual Budget .

Carl Zeiss AG is multinational leader in optics, contributing to technological development for over 170 years. Zeiss is present in semiconductor, automotive and mechanical engineering industries, biomedical research, as well as eyeglass lenses, camera and cinematography lenses, binoculars, planetariums and medical technology. Carl Zeiss Meditec AG is subsidiary of Carl Zeiss AG. It manufactures tools for eye diagnosis and medical lasers as well as surgical microscopes for neurosurgery, dentistry, gynecology and oncology. Listed in TecDAX at German Stock Exchange (AFX) with more than 3,500 employees Carl Zeiss Meditec generated revenues of more than 1.6 billion €.

•Led re-engineering project focused on redesigning internal processes with customer oriented emphasis.

•Led annual operating expense budget and coordinated annual sales budget for Chemical Products Division .

•Selected as a participant of a group of young prospects groomed by the CEO for enhancing leadership skills.

•Interned in Headquarters in following areas: Corporate Finance, Corporate Controlling, Pharma Marketing, Chemical Division Order Processing for Latin America.

•Supported Execution of market studies on-site and ad-campaigns in Eastern Europe (Poland, Hungary).