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Planning Director Assessor, Petrobras Internacional - Braspetro, All Portfolio of Projects

START Date: 
January, 1990
END Date: 
February, 1992

Acted as Director's key aide by detecting and solving management problems. Boosted operational efficiency and controlled risk.
Projects: Diverse E&P corporate oil & gas projects including offshore/onshore field surveys, floating platforms, rigs, production systems, pipelines, flexible drilling pipe plant, storage tanks, etc.
• Actively participated in the implementation of the Strategic Planning process to eliminate the dependency on capital injections by the holding company utilizing complex financial-econometric models and strategic analyses.
• Analyzed expansions, acquisitions, joint-ventures and oil, gas and service contracts.
• Analyzed and devised diversifications in the upstream and downstream, synergies and economies of scope and scale.
• Participated in organizational restructuring and change management with competitive emphasis.
• Evaluated the main businesses performance (projects) and organizational efficiency, to recommended action plans and measures that led to increased competitiveness, reduced costs, and higher organizational efficiency and profit levels. Such plans and measures resulted in improved operational efficiency and CRM, 30% overall cost decrease and 18% rise in competitiveness (bid gains and market shares expansion).
• Redesigned the overhead allocation criteria allowing the identification of low-profit areas, projects and depts.
• Applied prudent risk management when analyzing the company's worldwide projects and investments. Planned project operations, did project finance and schedules, and modeled exploration and production projects (including structure, schedules, resources, operations, finance and expenses - operational and capital) and controlled their performance.
• Consolidated double-currency statements and elaborated the Annual and Quinquennium Activity Plans and Budgets, with quarterly follow-up variance analysis. Issued monthly dual-currency managerial reports and did special analyses.
• Designed & supervise the development of the "Project Portfolio Probabilistic Risk Analysis System" and several other MDS/MIS.
• Did managerial accounting, audited financial-accounting systems and routines with the Corporate Audit Mgt.