Fernanda Viña

As the Chief of staff to the COO I'm responsible for owning and leading high-impact, cross-functional projects and initiatives that enhance business performance and drive growth ensuring a smooth collaboration across the different operations teams and stakeholders with special focus on the company’s strategic goals.

• Strategic Planning & Advisory: Partner closely with the COO and Operations leadership to facilitate strategic planning processes, providing insights and guidance for developing both short and long-term operational strategies.
• Performance Management: Drive accountability by tracking key initiatives, measuring performance, and ensuring benefits realization to support the COO and Operations leadership’s success.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Build strong partnerships across Finance, GTM, Product, and other teams to align on goals and execute the Operations strategy effectively.
• Business Optimization: Identify and act on opportunities to optimize processes, eliminate inefficiencies, and improve overall business outcomes.
• Data-Driven Insights: Collaborate with the Data Team to create reporting and dashboards that provide actionable insights into business performance and support strategic decision-making.
• Executive Support: Prepare analysis, presentations, and documents for the COO and broader leadership team, including materials for Board meetings and strategic updates.

• Lead and manage the global payroll implementation program, ensuring alignment with organizational goals, compliance with international regulations, and successful project execution partnering with product and engineering teams to deliver excellent features to amplify the company's growth maximizing customer satisfaction
• Championed continuous improvement initiatives by conducting thorough analyses of existing workflows, identifying bottlenecks and redundancies that hindered progress toward established targets.
• Facilitated stakeholder communication, leading to improved alignment between business objectives and program goals.
• Established clear performance metrics for tracking program success, enabling informed decision-making processes throughout each project's duration.

• Spearheaded change management efforts during organizational transitions, minimizing disruption while maintaining focus on key objectives.
• Optimized resource allocation, ensuring projects were delivered within budget and scope.
• Enhanced client relationships, providing exceptional service and understanding their needs for tailored project solutions.
• Analyze payroll data to generate insights, drive decision-making, and prepare regular status reports for senior leadership.

• Responsible for implementation of multiple payroll or portal projects
• Responsible for managing assigned team or project deliverables
• Manage Client relationship to conduct and analyze Requirements and Processes during Business Process Review Workshops
• Identify process gaps and solution the design
• Document business requirements as well as workflows and interface data flows
• Maintain and update Project Documentations including Business Process
• Manages and conducts data conversions, data validations and system Testing
• Conducts parallel runs for 100% accuracy before go-live
• Adhere closely to project deliverables and timelines to ensure delivery within schedule and quality
• Provide presentations and training sessions to clients
• Supports client and operations during initial live period(s) and transition to the operations department
• Managed schedules, accepted time off requests and found coverage during peak periods
• Evaluated employee skills and knowledge regularly, training, and mentoring individuals with lagging skills.
• Coached team members in techniques necessary to complete job tasks.
• Trained new team members by relaying information on company procedures and product requirements.

• Built and Expanded Global Payroll Operations
• Led large cross-functional projects to prioritize, develop and launch new products
• Collected quantified & prioritized product-related challenges to be considered by product and engineering in future development
• Drove top company launches and global rollouts
• Built industry-leading solutions to complex problems with high dependencies
• Worked flexible hours across night, weekend and holiday shifts.

• Owned large, complex, cross-team, and cross-functional projects independently
• Contributed to the projects' strategy and prioritizes project cross-team
• Role model for great HR, scoping, and execution
• Owned strategic insights that impact their project teams
• Identified unmet needs that the original project request may not have included: interview/survey stakeholders, shadow examples, and create master notes to reference during project build-out
• Provided project mentorship to new team members
• Created project decision making frameworks to guide the team as a whole
• Advocated for our projects within their mission.
• Helped cross-functional teams prioritize their needs as it relates to the goals of the project execution
• Effective communicator and capable of explaining what/how we prioritize

• Maintained company compliance with local, state, and federal laws, in addition to established organizational standards.
• Maintained payroll and benefits for employees in various locations and diminished financial discrepancies through expert program management.
• Evaluated employee onboarding programs and presented strategic improvement recommendations to upper management.
• Maintained human resources regulatory compliance with local, state and federal laws.
• Maintained payroll and benefits for employees in various locations, minimizing financial discrepancies through detailed program management.

• Founding Member of EOR People Operation activities
• Supported Expansion Program for the company
• Completed paperwork, recognizing discrepancies and promptly addressing for resolution.
• Developed strong communication and organizational skills through working on group projects.

• Individual Income Tax & Social Security Compliance for international assignees (Expatriates, Short Term Assigments, Localized personnel).
• Cost Effective Income Tax, Social Security & Immigration Planning complying with all applicable requirements & regulations.
• Tax season coordination and follow up. Frequent contact with Tax advisors in more than 35 locations around the world for annual tax return process.

• Individual Income Tax & Social Security Compliance for international assignees (Expatriates, Short
• Term Assigments, Localized personnel)
• Cost Effective Income Tax & Social Security Planning complying with all applicable requirements & regulations
• Tax season coordination and follow up
• Frequent contact with Tax advisors for annual tax return process.

• Provide information on cash inflow by making collection projections
• Make the collection estimate program analyzing customers current accounts and payment terms
• Ensure the follow-up, registration and timely collection of the customers' accounts receivables
• Supervises cash inflow by controlling collections support documentation.

• Provide information on cash inflow by making collection projections
• Make the collection estimate program analyzing customers current accounts and payment terms
• Ensure the follow-up, registration and timely collection of the customers' accounts receivables
• Supervises cash inflow by controlling collections support documentation.

• Prepare Economic Proposals for Expatriates
• Prepare the benefits and compensation budget for Expatriates and Short Term assignments personnel
• Consolidate the bonus and salaries increase cycles
• Maintain SAP information update and accurate
• Give support to Global Mobility Leaders regarding compensation's issues (makes basic economic proposals to define conditions, calculates end of assignment/ fidelity bonus.)

• Provide support to the annual process of reviewing the salary scales in each of Tenaris’ locations, working very close with the regional compensation offices to analyze the market surveys and define the strategic positioning and the salary structure in order to keep the external competitiveness in each country where the company operates
• Observe core processes through on the job training, project assignments and training activities
• Analyze information and prepares different deliverable as reports and processes.

• Prepared, rewrote, and edited pieces to improve readability and impact.
• Reviewed articles for grammar, spelling, punctuation, syntax, accuracy, and compliance with quality standards.
• Determined readiness of written pieces, made changes, and obtained approval for publication.