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Possibilities, put into practice.

Your business,
out of the spreadsheet.

I help small and medium-sized companies replace notebooks, spreadsheets and guesswork with connected systems: purchasing based on real demand, orders, inventory, invoicing and reporting. Deeper planning, budgeting and specialized models are my specialty too.

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Manuel Lopez · Finance/operations transformation & applied innovation

Ideas, working in practice

A benefit program, connected

Grupo+Tres’s Odoo portal connects purchasing, fulfillment, and invoicing. Launched September 15, 2026; 1,032 orders recorded by September 21.

Workforce planning, checked

Employee-level cost engines deployed across three organizations, with personnel costs reconciled to planning-model ledger totals.

Experience across scales

Portfolio coordination within Apple Services Finance and global SAP BPC planning leadership at AIG, brought to hands-on delivery for smaller businesses.

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Systems I’ve worked with

Whatever your system, I know how it works and how to make it work for you.

From a business challenge
to a working solution.

FP&A systems

Implement and improve Vena, workforce models, management reporting, and the integrations behind them.

Finance & operations automation

Connect existing systems and redesign the handoffs between data, people, and everyday operations.

Practical AI

Expand your team’s capabilities through tailored workshops and identify where AI belongs within a solution.

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Why work with me

The process.
The system.
The people.

Ideas become valuable when they improve how a business works. I bring an industrial engineer’s perspective, hands-on implementation, and experience leading teams of more than 40 people.

From executive priorities to the needs of the person using the system, I help connect the decisions that make a solution work.

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What would you like to work better?

A planning model. A disconnected process. A team ready to put AI to work. Tell me what you’re trying to improve, and we can explore the next step together.

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