Ana Nieves

Served as finance partner and single point of contact between Finance and Procurement Business Leaders. Managed annual budgeting and forecasting, conducted spend analysis, and ensured procurement compliance with company policies and regulations.

Partnered with business leaders to drive accurate forecasting, budgeting, and financial performance. Owned Opex project budgets across multiple R&D initiatives, including headcount planning, and performed core FP&A activities including variance analysis, accruals, expense modeling, and management reporting in compliance with SOX and internal control requirements.

Supported management of Active Cosmetics division with 100M+ in SG&A operational expenses. Developed training and process documentation, performed forecasting and annual business planning, and provided recommendations on cost challenges.

Provided day-to-day FP&A support to functional leaders, created KPI dashboards translating large data sets into clear narratives, and supported implementation and upgrade of IBM Financial Planning tool (TM1).

Developed marketing dashboards to provide executive view of company's KPIs. Performed ad hoc analysis of projects, collected and evaluated data, and identified actionable product opportunities through customer analysis leading to decreased early churn.

Managed 30M+ Capex budget and teamed with business partners to ensure projects complied with a healthy ROI. Analyzed capital investment business cases for over $9 million and supported PWC team in Oracle financial system implementation.

Worked under the direction of the Senior Financial Analyst to analyze budget input information from each department and deliver company's operational expenses targets.

Junior financial analyst in the finance department.

Bachelor's degree in Business Administration with a major in Finance and a minor in Foreign Languages.

Pursued a Bachelor's degree in Business Administration with a major in Finance and a minor in Foreign Languages.