Lucia Laureiro

Divisions under management: Accounts Payable, Invoicing, Commercial Back Office, Intercompany.

• Achieved departmental goals by developing and executing strategic plans and performance metrics.
• Increased team productivity by implementing streamlined processes and effective communication strategies.
• Facilitated successful cross-functional collaborations for the completion of key projects, fostering strong working relationships among team members.
• Optimized resource allocation by conducting regular performance evaluations and providing personalized coaching for staff development.

• Manage a team of 9 direct reports covering cash management activities for several countries: Argentina, Peru, Ecuador, Angola, Bolivia, Colombia, Netherlands, US.
• Leading a treasury transformation project which main goal is transforming actual heterogenous landscape into state of the art treasury processes. Gain efficiency though operational improvements by process changes, new tools and partners.
• Co-lead the centralization project that took place on late 2021: develop a local team and transfer all treasury activities from all regions to Uruguay. Manage stakeholder's different interests aiming project success.

Key responsibilities: cash flow management activities: funding, payments, collections, financing and investing. KPI´s reporting: working capital management. Projects: implementation of process improvements in SAP environment, automation focus. Global connectivity project design, evaluation and execution. M&A: treasury take-over activities.

Key responsibilities: booking and payments of all invoices related to BASF South American companies, 25 direct reports. Reporting: KPI´s, team performance. Projects: payment and invoice booking automation. Project Americas: Montevideo SSC set-up. Team set-up: hiring and training. Planning and execution related to the transfer of activities from local companies to Montevideo´s SSC.

Tasks: fixed income, equities and derivative settlements through Clearstream and other banking platforms. Execution of client’s orders. Daily portfolio and cash flow analysis. Corporate events control. Compliance tasks.

Tasks: fixed income, equities and derivative settlements through Euroclear and other banking platforms. Swift. Position and margin account control.

Tasks: accounting, controlling and reporting

Support audit procedures at different companies.