Hi, my name is…
…Ricardo. I grew up in Caracas, Venezuela, and right after finishing high school in Venezuela I moved to Marburg, Germany, to study economics. After finishing my bachelor’s degree I went to business school at ESCP Europe in Paris, Madrid and London. Before joining Roche, I gained experience in several consultancies in Germany. In January 2017, I joined Roche’s Finance Perspectives rotation programme.
Joining this programme is the single best career decision I have made in my life. I started working as a consolidation analyst for our Diagnostics Division in Switzerland. Afterwards I moved to Buenos Aires, Argentina, where I worked as a Finance Controller and was the finance lead for a regional business case. My third rotation was in South San Francisco, where I was a Finance Business Partner for our Pharma Technical Development department. In my fourth assignment, I was an auditor for APAC and Middle East based in Singapore; this experience brought me to countries I never thought I would go to, such as Vietnam, Pakistan, and Saudi Arabia. Finally, I moved back to Switzerland, where I did my final rotation in our Pharma Center of Financial Insights. What a journey!