Natalia dos Santos

Background

About Natalia dos Santos

I grow people and profitability. I accomplish this by spearheading financial strategies, forecasting future financial performance, incorporating discipline to manage costs and cashflow, and implementing programs to develop and empower talent. My background spans across diverse industries including Retail, Manufacturing, Car Rental, Distribution, and Pharmaceutical. I am highly skilled at developing governance frameworks to elevate compliance with international and domestic regulatory and internal control requirements. I help C-Suite Executives and Business Partners achieve their financial goals to drive investment opportunities, operational excellence, and competitive advantage.Career Highlights:• Improved collaboration among operations, sales, and planning teams and mitigated inventory liability while optimizing raw materials utilization for off-price accounts.• Initiated timely and accurate system updates for wholesale planning and inventory, resulting in better visibility of inventory receipts and clearer account expectations. • Developed accrued advertising expense and account receivables forecast models and improved cashflow forecasting.• Created forecasting processes, which enhanced the accuracy of expense projections and real time decision-making. • Conducted profitability modelling to determine the best strategy for allowances and discounts and drove a significant increase in profitability. • Collaborated with technology team to develop a monthly financial package with faster, more accurate reporting with automated analytics, and improved account management and profitability analysis by customer. • Assumed internal valuation leadership of goodwill and intangible impairments, which moved the company away from a contracted third-party relationship. • Built from the ground-up and executed an enterprise audit model with J-SOX control requirements, which drove compliance with the Financial Instruments and Exchange Act.• Spearheaded the financial setup of five new foreign subsidiaries in the UK, Italy, Germany, Japan, and China, facilitating the organization’s expansion post-acquisition with no adverse impact to the business or customers.Specialties:Global Leadership | Financial Strategies | Financial Planning | Forecasting |Financial Reporting | Budgeting | Profitability Modelling | Cashflow Management | Cost Containment | Monthly and Quarterly Close | Pricing Solutions | Data Analytics | Business Transformation | Regulatory Engagement | SOX Compliance | Accounting | Internal Controls | SAP | GAAP | Cross-Functional Team Leadership