Luis Carlos Miranda

With over 15 years working experience in North America, Europe, Asia, and Latin America, traveling to over 10 countries. Demonstrated successes in leading automation efforts, excellent communication skills and interpersonal relationship skills including negotiating and relationship management skills with ability to drive achievements of objectives streamlining processes, building financial models, orchestrating the FP&A rhythm (planning, budgeting, and monthly operational review), improving analytical capabilities, developing new businesses, cutting costs and improving profit. Experience in managing teams and working collaboratively with several functions and senior executives in multiple countries, provide coaching and feedback, including responsibility for all employee actions including hire/fire authority and partnering with HR on all aspects of employee relations. Strong exposure to various operational aspects including products, technology, and operations. Proven track record of leading teams to achieve success during challenging situations. Solid technical expertise and meticulous analytics, finance, and accounting. My last 10 years on previous opportunities, I directed a sizable team of 8 FTEs while collaborating closely with commercial, regional finance, and GBS counterparts. 

Committed to nurturing talent and fostering teamwork and growth mindset through people management.

Verizon                                                                   May 2024 – December 2024

Finance Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Finance consultant for the telecommunication company on strategy services for several customers
• Contributed to annual budgeting and produced cash-flow forecasts for capital expenditures
• Performed reprojection and post-mortem analysis on completed and in-progress portfolio deployments. 
• Fostering teamwork, innovation, and community involvement.
• KPI’s analysis to follow the metrics improvements.   

TUI                                                                   November 2023 – May 2024 

Finance Director, Costa Rica, Pavas 

Responsibilities: 

•  Responsible for accounting and control activity for the legal entity in Costa Rica. 
• Ensure actuals performance is recorded in a robust and accurate way and deliver actual with high integrity to the FP&A and central business partnering teams.
• Close co-operation with business services and other functions to effectively ensure timely completion of month-end tasks. 
• Responsible for expense builds related to company-wide legal entity sales, compensation, payroll, budgeting and forecasting. 
•  Responsible for entity level P&L actuals integrity, balance sheet management and accounting cash flow requirements, as well support for forecast/budgeting process.

Digital Services                                                       August 2020 – July 2023 

Finance Consultant 

Responsibilities:

• Private finance consultant for the leisure and travel industry, hotels and vacation rentals.

Citi                                                                                July 2015 – July 2018

Planning & Finance Manager, Costa Rica, Heredia Responsibilities: 

• Working with FP&A teams migrating activities into the site, following US GAAP, IFRS and SOX standards 
• Team & People Management, performance evaluation, and interaction with senior leaders. 
• Developing analytical support by working with client location FP&A teams and their business partners. 
• Leading re-engineering projects to improve productivity, controls and quality of key activities.
• Understanding financial modelling, updating and maintaining complex spreadsheets.   
• KPI´s management review decks for individual Regions & 

Segments.                                                                  

Las Catalinas                                           November 2013 – July 2015

Finance Manager, Las Catalinas, Costa Rica Guanacaste Responsibilities: 

• FP&A management to enhance real estate development. 
• Risk development analysis, internal control deployments, financial cash flow strategy development, responsible for the accounting and treasury team, budget development, forecast and project progress tracking. 
• Accounts payable, receivables, payroll, sales and compensation analytics across several departments.
• Improvements and deployments of internal controls, implementation of financial culture to non-financial departments, cash flow improvements for financial decisions, CAPEX management, OPEX management. 

                                                             June 2010 – October 2013

Millicom International Cellular    

Regional Financial Analyst                       Responsibilities: 

• Analytics on financial statements regional consolidation and budget analysis, monthly business unit result presentation, deployment of new financial policies and internal controls in 8 different Latin-American countries. Regional financials reports, supervision of teams that develop these reports to management. Regional Budgets development, CAPEX tracking, OPEX tracking for CAM, Colombia, Bolivia, Paraguay. 
• Business analytics for the business units, providing strategies for the correct product penetration in the markets. 
• Developing business partnership using quantitative analysis to influence important decisions, especially across go to market business units.
• Data presentations using communication skills to present financial data using detailed reports, charts, and narratives.

2019  MBA, University of South Florida   

2014 - 2016 Project Management Masters, Universidad Latinoamericana de las Ciencias & Tecnología 

2010  -  2011 Lic. Financiera, Universidad Latinoamericana de las Ciencias & Tecnología 

2001 -   2006 Business Administration Bachelor, Universidad Internacional de las Américas