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Kevin Cardenas

Kevin Cardenas

Data Analyst

Quantum Corp.

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Understanding Data Science

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Certiprof Lean Six Sigma White Belt

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Quantum | Sep 2023 - Present

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TE Connectivity | Dec 2022 - Sep 2023

Financial analyst II

● Fixed assets manager & capital investment project coordinator for 2 sites, Hermosillo and Empalme plants, coordinate all capital investment projects with the value stream managers to ensure financial viability before approval, adherence to budget and to company policy during investment and ensure materialization of the resulting assets and their correct depreciation and traceability. ● Handled and presented to corporate monthly Construction In Process report containing all investments, its current state, its expected capitalization date and the tracking of expenses, informed on any deviations from plan or violations of company policy and ensured proper actions taken to correct them. Responsible for depreciation of assets, ensuring proper cost center distribution and its accuracy on SAP, handling transfers of assets intercompany and to third parties internationally. ● Responsible for presenting an annual projection on depreciation, as well as each quarter and explaining any variances during reconciliation at month end. Report directly to corporate and actively participate in weekly and monthly meetings with North America CFO and corporate management. Self driven agenda with excellent decision making and high accountability.
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Younger Optics | Aug 2021 - Dec 2022

Financial Analyst

● In charge of tracking finances for a main manufacturing division of 800 employees and 2 supporting divisions of 100 employees each, deliver daily insights to the divisional manager as well as the CFO and COO, present and explain MTD financial reports, variances and monthly projections, keeping track of all expenses on all accounts and adhesion to budget, daily calculate PPVs and support the divisional manager with analysis on saving opportunities and provide reports on what-if scenarios. Deep down analysis on accounts such as payroll or utilities as required. ● Recosting of products and preparation of annual budget. ● Present cost reduction projects, deliver insights and track the implementation of these via KPI tracking and physical audits, dedicated at least 1 hour daily to perform physical audits on warehouse, kaizen spaces and production floor. ● Handle month end closing process and reconciliation of variances to identify seasonality and improve projections, end of fiscal year closing process for a whole manufacturing division. ● Automated a spreadsheet to calculate variances and estimate total consumption of resin on molding machines individualized per machine with an accuracy above 90% resulting in savings of $45K yearly in raw materials and 4,860 man hours yearly.

Szertegia Contact Center | Aug 2018 - Aug 2021

Junior Financial Analyst

● Provided management-level consulting with Google Spreadsheet dashboard development; Dashboards with automated processing to determine KPIs requested by board members resulting in savings both monetary and in man hours invested reducing them by 12 hours per week. Migrated all company excel files to google spreadsheets for real time analysis, coworking, version control and cloud back-up. ● Solved financial viability issues for projects by implementing lean solutions, trained team mates to work on constant improvement; Held daily, weekly and monthly meetings with heads of departments and directors to review KPIs, financial results and follow up on saving plans. ● Restructured the base employees bonus system to achieve a 20% reduction on costs of bonuses and increase the floor productivity by 14%.

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Licenciatura, Finanzas, generalUniversidad de Sonora | 2021

About Me

Kevin Cardenas

Bachelors degree in Finances worked as a financial analyst for 2 manufacturing companies, then switched into a tech working remotely as a data analyst. Tech enthusiast.

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