Summary
Noel Garcia is a finance and FP&A leader with nine years of experience driving financial control and strategic planning for global tech operations, currently heading Financial Control at Rakuten Mobile. He combines deep accounting and budgeting expertise with data-driven automation — building KPI visualizations, AI-enabled reporting and chatbots that supported multi-million dollar cost savings across 2020–2022. A former founder and product manager, Noel blends startup engineering discipline with corporate rigor, having led mobile app development, market research and ROI-focused product innovation. He has managed P&L for dozens of business units across regions, standardized payment and reporting processes for Asia, Europe and the US, and led a 20-person multicultural team. Trained as a CPA with an MBA and industrial engineering background, he is equally comfortable in audit, forecasting models and ML-based consumption forecasting. Colleagues know him as an energetic, public-facing strategist who turns complex cross-functional problems into repeatable playbooks.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Technical, Industrial Engineering and Quality Control, Technical, Industrial Engineering and Quality Control at Kita Kyushu Techno Cooperation Agency - JICA
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM)
MBA, Management, E-business & Finance, MBA, Management, E-business & Finance at The University of Sheffield
English, Spanish, Japanese, German