1) Over 20 years of progressive financial and corporate IT systems career serving NextEra Energy and Florida Power & Light's varied business partners in Finance, Accounting, Tax, Regulatory Affairs, External Affairs, General Counsel, Internal Audit, Corporate Security and other corporate business units
2) Deep understanding of utility regulatory financial and tax systems including rate case preparations and filing, revenue requirement, tax basis adjustments, tax depreciation, deferred taxes, tax accrual, sales and use tax, income tax filings, fixed assets, repairs, enterprise asset management, general ledger, accounts payable, accounts receivable, cash management, inventory, and business to business communication
3) Large scale project management and successful track record of on-time and on-budget delivery
4) Expertise in leading collaborative cross-functional teams to develop integrated multi-system solutions
5) Full life cycle implementation experience from project planning, architecture to construction and deployments
6) Management of multi-million dollar budget inclusive of vendor management
7) Working with executives and directors delivering bottom line results
Director, IT Business Solutions Enterprise Finance @ • IT Director for Enterprise Finance applications at NextEra Energy, Inc. Responsible for all end-to-end Finance systems (application agnostic), application development and support across NextEra Energy (NextEra Energy Resources, Florida Power & Light) inclusive of SAP ECC Finance, PowerPlan, UIPlanner Models, etc. Overall staff of 35 employees, contractors, and consultants From May 2015 to Present (8 months) Group IT Manager @ • IT Group Manager for Enterprise Finance applications at NextEra Energy and Florida Power & Light
• Team Leader and architect of a Six Sigma team that reduced the monthly financial closing calendar hours allocated to closing PowerPlan (FPL’s CWIP & Fixed Assets system) from 36 to 18 hours (industry best in class), a 50% improvement, eliminating by 95% the number of penny transactions generated and improving work life balance & employee engagement, and direct savings of over $1M with another $200k of yearly indirect savings
• Implemented the UIPlanner Financial Forecast, Regulatory, Cost of Service, Revenue Forecasting and Rate Design Models for FPL Finance and Regulatory Affairs reducing the preparatory rate case filing time by 35% with over 75 ready to file automated MFRs
• Team Leader of the high exposure SAP ERP Financial Mid-Year Conversion project. The MYC solution successfully posted offsetting entries in SAP ECC to “clear” the monthly postings made by the legacy Walker GL system and it re-classed them into the new SAP accounting structure in ECC via new mapping tables and conversion logic. It generated new management reporting (account, cost center and/or WBS-level) information within the BI Management Reporting Cube. The MYC team was the last SAP project team to be created and the first to implement!
• IT Sponsor for the Clause (Riders) Automation project implemented the 5 very complex Clauses (Capacity, ECCR, ECRC, Fuel-FPSC, Fuel-FERC) and associated FPSC Filing Schedules and management reports From March 2008 to May 2015 (7 years 3 months) IT Manager @ • Led team that implemented the Regulatory Information System that fully automated the Florida Public Service Commission high exposure Earnings Surveillance Reports, rate case Minimum Filing Requirements (MFR’s), the preparation and production of the Federal Energy Commission (FERC) Filing Schedules and provided "What If" capabilities for rate reviews and impact to Return on Equity (ROE)
• Worked closely with Corporate Tax to develop and deploy application that analyzes and captures indirect or mixed services costs that are capitalized for book purposes but can be expensed for federal income tax purposes with a substantial but confidential annual tax savings
• Implemented system changes to take advantage of the US Congress' "Jobs and Growth Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2003" for a 50% Bonus process to accelerate depreciation for the first year of an asset with a tax savings of $56M
• Team Leader of PurFEcting CATS Quality Improvement Program (QIP) Team that won the Finance, IM Lead Team QIP Cups and the Southeastern Electric Exchange (SEE) Industry Excellence quality awards From April 2002 to February 2008 (5 years 11 months) IT Project Manager @ • Responsibilities included the overall project management of several large system implementations including a new enterprise wide miscellaneous Accounts Receivable CARMS), Financial Management Information (FMIP) and utility specific Asset Management (PowerPlan) systems
• Led the formulating of implementation strategy, project plan, schedules, and ultimate implementation with a staff of over 25 employees and contractors/consultants
• Responsibilities included collaborating with other business units and Accounting/Tax in an effort to analyze the associated accounting treatments and processes in order to provide added value recommendations
• Successfully led complex Y2K system integration for assigned financial systems applications From January 1997 to March 2002 (5 years 3 months) Miami/Fort Lauderdale Area
Nova Southeastern University Leo Quintana is skilled in: Business Process Improvement, Enterprise Software, Project Delivery, SAP ERP, Process Improvement, Software Project Management, Accounting, Business Process, Application Architecture, Change Management, Integration, Utility Accounting, PowerPlan, UI Planner, SAP Implementation