Diego Olano Romero

Develop and manage financial models for the valuation of energy purchase and sale contracts for the electricity markets of Peru and Chile with the aim of proposing innovative structures for new businesses, keeping our exposure to the spot market controlled, and generating added value in the contract operations.

• Duties:
• Provided ongoing analysis of electricity markets in Peru and Chile
• Conducted ongoing analysis, monitoring, and evaluation of energy purchase and sale contracts at a regional level.
• Controlled the regional portfolio's exposure to the spot market.
• Established and fostered commercial partnerships with various market participants.
• Proposed continuous improvements in energy purchase and sale contracts based on financial indicators.
• Achievements:
• Created predictive models for gross margin in Peru and Chile.
• Closed a renewable energy certificates purchase contract until 2028.
• Developed contract evaluation model for regional energy purchase and sale.
• Generated synergies with the commercial department by conducting a comprehensive assessment of potential clients and their energy hedging costs.
• Assisted in the sale of financial energy to a well-known international bank.

Responsible for managing three industrial businesses (Mortar, Light Prefabricated, and Heavy Prefabricated).

• Duties:
• Prepared budgets and financial projections for three businesses.
• Conduct economic evaluations of businesses to facilitate decision-making.
• Prepared and presented monthly business results and key performance indicators (KPIs) at operations committees in the provinces.
• Identified major cost deviations to correct them for the following month. Focused on product recipes, raw material costs, accounting provisions distribution, and human resources allocation among businesses.
• Focused on achieving the annual goal of maximizing EBITDA by seeking savings.
• Responsible for analyzing and reporting business data on dosages, raw materials, maintenance, energy, provisions, fixed costs and variable remuneration.
• Collaborated with plant managers in various provinces and the industrial operations manager, ensuring streamlined business operations.
• Achievements:
• Generated an additional EBITDA of 1.5MM through the utilization of provision mechanisms.
• Consistently achieved an accuracy rate of 85% in projecting end-of-month results.
• Created control dashboards and a results visualization board.
• Increased prefabricated business's economic results by S/ 0.4MM annually through rectifying transport area's freight distribution.
• Guided a team of two interns to gain valuable experience at Cementos Pacasmayo.

Managed the company's expense and investment budget.

• Duties:
• Coordinated on a daily basis to prevent budget issues, managing order requests, budget transfers, hiring new employees, and travel expense requirements.
• Prepared operating expenses and investment budget for presentation to management and vice-presidency.
• Analyzed profitability of new investments and restructured budget to finance operations.
• Achievements:
• Achieved an outstanding rating in the annual 'Service Quality' survey, reflecting positive perceptions of my functions by internal users.
• Met the internal regulatory deadline by completing the expense and investment budget ahead of schedule.
• Led automation of budget enablement and release request process.