Ricardo Villaseñor.

Finance Test Automation and SAP Transformation

• Coordinate finance-process delivery across SAP S/4HANA planning, testing, deployment, cutover and hypercare; align business owners, IT and implementation partners on priorities and sign-off.
• Maintained FY25 regression support as the dedicated automation resource following team reductions; reported 38% more regression cycles in Q3 versus the prior-year Q3.
• Evaluated an external UAT automation proposal against finance requirements and resource needs; recommended reusable validation libraries to improve development and sign-off.
• Coordinate FIN IT PMO staffing, milestones and reporting with senior finance IT leaders and project managers; trained two interns in business processes and SAP.
• Supported FY26 regression testing with no major or critical issues; expanded coverage to Cadency variants and Greece eBooks, with Treasury in scope.

PPS Customer Services Repair Finance - Latin America

• Partnered with operations across Brazil, Mexico and MCA on consumer and commercial PC and printing repair finance, translating operating metrics into bottom-up financial analysis.
• Supported long-term planning, budgets, flash forecasts, actuals and plan-of-record performance; provided business insights and worldwide service-cost comparisons.
• Calculated warranty and trade cost buckets, SAP loading rates, accruals, reserves and allocations; tracked performance across regions, categories and product lines.
• Applied US GAAP and IFRS knowledge; supported logistics, SOX and external E&Y audits over two years with no failures or major recommendations.
• Led CS Americas RPA and analytics coordination and Latin America automation initiatives, translating finance-user needs into process and system improvements.

Manufacturing Operations

• Managed a 12-person team in Zapopan for at least two years; hired staff and tracked team performance indicators while supporting supply-chain strategies across countries.
• Owned the overall plant budget; led annual forecasting, P&L analysis, standard costing and management reporting, supporting the controller and acting in the controller's absence.
• Participated in leadership meetings with Siemens Mexico and Germany; provided financial explanations and partnered across functions on operating priorities and capital expenditure coordination.
• Reported free cash flow, net working capital and net capital employed; monitored inventory levels, cycles, turns and excess and obsolete inventory across four sectors and 30 product lines.
• Partnered with Procurement, materials and logistics on inventory targets, open purchase orders and reserve analysis; represented Finance in SAP implementation and signed off costing, planning and P&L reporting processes.

Contract Manufacturing

• Analyzed customer and project P&L, margins, financial statement accounts, fixed assets and inventory; supported operational close and reporting requirements.
• Audited inventory transactions and investigated errors contributing to inventory excess; supported KPMG and Sarbanes-Oxley audit requirements.
• Analyzed opportunities to improve recovery of non-recurring engineering costs from customers.