Guillermo Vazquez

• FP&A, accounting, financial consolidation and reporting (IFRS and local GAAP) and audit process lead for Telefónica Digital & Telefónica I+D merger, a new company with over €100M in revenues, €400M in assets and +1000 employees
• Managed team of 15 direct reports supported by external BPO
• Executed financial merger, delivering one-off €3M and recurrent €250k savings
• Developed 3-year digital transformation plan for Telefonica Group Corporate Accounting and Reporting
• Implemented 10 digitalization measures, including automated accounting via Robotic Process Automation (RPA), data analytics and process mining & automation with MS PowerPlatform
• Implemented SOX-compliant ICFR over project-based Record-To-Report (RTR) process.

• FP&A, accounting, financial reporting (IFRS and local GAAP) and audit process lead for 10 legal entities in Spain and UK
• Managed distributed (Spain, UK) team of 8 direct reports supported by external BPO
• Updated intangible assets depreciation plan resulting in €100M audit risk clearance
• Led the transition of 6 UK entities from Oracle Financials to SAP (R3&R4-HANA), achieving 30% savings
• Fulfilled 6 corporate operations delivering €70M profits through synergies and profitable divestitures
• Created excellence center for finance operations in Spain, achieving 40% cost savings
• Redesigned Record-To-Report (RTR) processes achieving 20% faster financial closing
• Executed business carve-out for inception of 4 legal entities in Telefonica Tech Group.

• FP&A, accounting, treasury, tax, financial reporting (IFRS and local GAAP) and audit process lead for German legal entity
• Managed a distributed (Germany, Spain, Latin America), multicultural team of 10 direct and 40 indirect reports
• Maximized cash flow through tailored collection strategies achieving collection of €950M aging receivables from worldwide customers in 18 months
• Stabilized current assets, achieving €500M audit write-off penalty clearance
• Managed customer credit risk, reducing bad debt ratios by 50%
• Redesigned Order-To-Cash (O2C) and Record-To-Report (RTR) financial processes, leading to more accurate and stable revenue recognition
• Implemented Purchase-To-Pay (PTP) systems transition from SAP Ariba to GEP
• Implemented enhanced budgeting, controlling, and forecasting processes supported by Business Intelligence (BI) tools (Microstrategy).

• FP&A, accounting, treasury, tax, financial reporting (IFRS and local GAAP) audit and sourcing process lead for Spain legal entity
• Managed a team of 5 direct reports and supervised legal and HR areas
• Executed network infrastructure refurbishment program, clearing €10M risk in penalties to third parties
• Negotiated supplier contracts worth €60M
• Executed project finance programs worth €25M with Spain regional governments for telecom network infrastructure deployment and operation
• Implemented strategic business plans, objectives and KPIs, driving business back to profitability
• Automated Order-To-Cash (O2C) processes for enhanced customer life cycle management.

• B2B/B2C sales and marketing of fixed wireless telecom services
• Designed and launched B2C fixed wireless internet service, achieving a 200% customer base increase
• Implemented retailer branded, fixed-line voice and internet B2C service, reaching peak €14M yearly revenues.

Product manager direct access services, in coordination with sales, operations, IT and finance, achieving business plan goals in terms of customer and revenues.

Litespan product range systems engineer. Later Litespan product manager, providing support to tendering teams worldwide.

Specification, analysis, design and implementation of IT systems for customers in various sectors (telecom, aeronautics, energy).