Guacyra Placona

• Managed requirements for initial deployment of Anaplan for FP&A use case covering revenue forecasting, budgeting, headcount planning and financial statement reporting
• Led end user enablement process which included Anaplan platform training and documentation
• Configured and automated integration of operational and financial data from NetSuite, Rippling (Payroll) and Snowflake into Anaplan using REST APIs and WorkivaData chains
• Designed and implemented financial data structure for revenue accounting entries automation leveraging technologies used by Data Science team as Dbt, Snowflake, Git.

• Act as a liaison between the business and the development team to ensures accurate translation of business requirements into the automation of corporate FP&A forecast process leveraging Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning technologies and Anaplan as the customer faced platform
• Design of Anaplan model enhancements and new features and work closely with development team during all stages of the implementations (Design, Implementation, Testing and Deployment)
• Ensure integrity and accurate translation of data from different source models to Anaplan (SAP, Azure Data Lake)
• Evangelize Anaplan best practices to optimize and scale the models.

• Delivery of Anaplan solutions to meet business needs, working cross-functionally to resolve process inefficiencies & find opportunities for automation;
• Work closely with regional finance, regional CFOs, and other members of the global finance organization and provide ad-hoc deep dives on pressing business issues.
• P&L Management and financial support to Commercial Finance team: lead the quarterly/annual forecast process for Local and Travel International Business (12 countries, $1.2B/year in Billings, 75% of total Groupon International Business), working along with Commercial Finance to identify critical P&L levers and to build a solid business plan aligned to central finance objectives.

Main Projects: Orthopaedics Centre of Excellence in partnership with private company (Johnson & Johnson), Implementation of new Pricing Model for Services (Value Based Pricing) and Lane Fox PPP.

Main Responsibilities: Coordination of Regional Forecasting process, Support on implementation of Reporting Systems (QlikView & TM1): assist in the preparation of ad hoc reporting & performance analytics - GP analysis, Price volume, Budget vs. Actual reports.

Main Responsibilities: business planning and monthly S&OP annual Budget process for Levant, North Africa and French West Africa, support in the monthly closing and report variances and commentaries to the Local Business and Corporate Finance, finance representative in the S&OP.

Main Responsibilities: local R&D investments monthly forecast and control for iPhones and iPads (US$ 50MM/year), new products financial support for local cost adders, Apple Care Pricing and Country P&L coordination, support in the Apple Care QBR Performance presentation.