Isabel López Trujillo

isabel@lopeztrujillo.es / Barcelona (Spain)

On a mission to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more

About

Member of the Lead Committee in the process of IPO launching (SPAC transaction), SOX implementation, Tax Compliance, Procedures, Segregation of Duties in all Finance Operations, SEC Reporting, ERP development and Finance Digitalisation.

I have implemented SOX (Sarbanes-Oxley) procedures, establishing all financial and IT controls in a complex environment of change and transformation of the Company. Within this change and transformation, I emphasize the creation of a high-performance financial team with capacity to lead transversal projects of the organization (Project Leaders).

I have participated in the creation of subsidiaries in Latin American (Argentina, Venezuela, Chile, Peru, Colombia, Mexico and Brazil, Europe (all Countries), USA (California, Texas and New York), Asia (China) and Australia, supervised administrative circuits implemented control systems and computer systems (ERP Navision and NetSuite) and established cash policy and reporting in these countries.

Also know taxation and government requirements (legal) movement of capital of each of these countries (double taxation conventions).

I have also work on acquisitions, mergers and sales of businesses, later merging systems (a computer level, accounting, tax, etc ...) and integrating the Group's philosophy to new organizations.

Member of the Management Committee, always very close to shareholders and founders, I have built Business Models for some Companies with different scenarios in different Countries and raised funds up to 30 million euros (Venture Debt and series B and C).

Experience

Wallbox Chargers

VP Finance

May 2021 - present

Managing a Team of +50 people and +20 subsidiaries in 18 Countries of Europe, USA, Asia, and Australia. Reporting Directly to the CFO & Corporate Services Director.
Member of the Lead Committee in the process of IPO launching (SPAC transaction), SOX implementation, Tax Compliance, Procedures, Segregation of Duties in all Finance Operations, SEC Reporting, ERP development and Finance Digitalisation.
Finance Management in all Countries, Culture, Reporting and Tech Tools adoption.

Whisbi

GROUP CFO

4 years 4 months

January 2020 - May 2021 - 1 year 5 months

Member of the Management Committee. Capital Raising, Venture Debt and Series B and C (Total Funds Raised 30 million Euro). Investors relation ship, peaching the Company for fundraising. One Pager Creation, Financial Model and Business Plan creation, modelling different Company Scenarios and Strategies in Europe (London and Munich), USA (California and New York) and Brazil.

FP&A Director

February 2017 - January 2020 - 3 years

Creation of Different Finance Areas (segregation of duties and procedures implementation).
Automation and Digitalisation of all Finance Operations (Implementation of Different Tools: Expense Management -Captio, ERP -Netsuite, HR Management-Factorial, Treasury Management-XRT).
Implementation of Flexible Policies in terms of Remunerations, Compensation and Employee Benefits.

Omega Pharma España

Chief Financial Officer

June 2014 - Ene 2017 May - 2 years 8 monts

Preparation of Accounting and Financial Statements, setting adjustments to IFRS & USGAAP. Reporting.
Monitoring and analysis of the impact of changes in accounting standards and accounting policy setting and its technical application through the ERP (Navision) and SAP-BPC.
Optimizing systems and information management.Capex&Opex control.
Internal Audit.
Establishment of WOCA metrics,cash control and forecast.
Participation and support in operations to change the scope of consolidation (disposals, acquisitions, mergers, spin-offs), developing models to try to identify the best possible financial strategies.
Compliance with the major financial ratios of the Group: debt (drawing up of contracts and control of intra-group loans), solvency funding requirement (up streaming) and cash -flow.
Establishment and optimization of fiscal policy of the company. Supervision and monitoring.
Preparation of all tax returns . Subsidies,Patent Box.
Attendance of Group Tax Inspections (VAT, corporate, withholding & customs).
Supervision of third-party relationships, ministries, Bank of Spain & Public Administration.
Empowered in all Group companies (member of the Board), exercising representation before Courts, Finance and Public Institutions.
Responsible for implementation of Corporate Policies, Code of Conduct, establishment of Company Core Values, ethics and transparency. Responsible for training in Compliance & Privacy for the entire Group in Spain. Implemented global Whistleblower policy and hotline.
Application of all US Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) regulations and UK Bribery Act.
Establishment of :Policies, procedures, forms and due diligence process for third parties in high risk countries, Policy on Contracts, Supplier Code of Conduct, Travel & Entertainment Policy, Policy on Fair Competition/ Anti-Trust, Policy on Obtaining Competitive Information and Social Media Guidelines.
Responsible for all contractual review and operations.
LOPD.

Schibsted Media Group

VP FINANCE

September 2000 - June 2014 - 13 years 10 months

In hierarchical dependence of the Group Finance Director (CFO), managing teams of 6 to 15 people in Spain and 7 different countries of South America.
Participation in the development of group financial strategies. Financing short, medium and long-term optimization of portfolio performance & capital raising.
Participation in operations to change the scope of consolidation (disposals, acquisitions, mergers, spin-offs), developing models to try to identify the best possible financial strategies.
Responsible of the Due Dilligence processes coordinating auditors, lawyers and other third parties.
Compliance with the major financial ratios of the Group: debt (drawing up of contracts and control of intra-group loans), solvency funding requirement (up streaming) and cash -flow.
Responsible of transversal projects within the organization for the optimization of the systems and effectiveness of the procedures and information. Ability to work with multidisciplinary teams in different projects.
Migration of the information through different systems ( ex. Multichannel CRM –Veeva, On Sales with Navision/ ex. Zendesk- For IT ticketing support).
Monitoring and analysis of the impact of changes in accounting standards and accounting policy setting and its technical application through the ERP (Navision) and reporting system (SAP-BPC).
Optimizing systems and information management. Implementation of ERP (Navision), cash control software (Sage-XRT) and others in the subsidiaries. Implementation of cost approval and control software (Scan Visio).