Management Consultant
February 2026 — presentDublin · CFO & Enterprise Value · UK and Ireland
Connecting finance operating models, processes and technology to help organisations make change work.
PROFILE & CV · DUBLIN, IRELAND
Horacio Salamanca
My work connects business needs with technology delivery, across finance, payments and AI products. I currently work in finance transformation as a Management Consultant at Accenture.
Professional experience.
Accenture
Visual-IQ
Product & Operations Lead / Technology Consultant
February 2024 — January 2026Remote · Part-time during my degrees until July 2025; then full-time
Partnered with the founders to develop the AI offering and client-tailored software designed to help businesses expand or improve operations. Led the team’s development of four AI products and end-to-end delivery of two web and mobile platforms.
Organised delivery around projects with clear goals, ownership and accountability, supported by roadmaps, capacity planning and performance monitoring. Built room into contracts for agile iteration and experimentation, allowing the team to refine solutions and aim beyond initial expectations.
Falabella
From finance processes and data to product ownership.
Product Owner · Payments Integrator
September 2022 — December 2023Digital retail · Chile, Peru, Colombia and Brazil
Led a technical squad of up to eight across four countries and seven payment processors, coordinating business stakeholders and technical delivery. The team reduced manual refunds by a reported 60% and implemented 3DS fraud validation.
Product Owner · Sales Financial Records
July 2021 — August 2022E-commerce · Chile and Peru
Led a squad of four to launch the finance microservice supporting Falabella.com’s sales records across purchase, fulfilment, cancellation, return and refund processes. Supported the service’s first successful year-end accounting close and the Peru marketplace rollout, receiving Tech Employee of the Quarter recognition.
Data Analyst · Finance
October 2020 — June 2021Finance data and reporting
Contributed twelve data-lake use cases and cloud reporting models. Automated controlling reports and supported rental collections analysis.
Continuous Improvement Analyst · Finance
May 2019 — September 2020Treasury and shared services
Worked on treasury centralisation and finance processes, connecting operating requirements with technology delivery. Developed productivity analysis, service agreements and business cases for finance leadership, and contributed requirements for SAP cash management.
BICE
Investment Analyst
December 2018 — April 2019Equity research
Analysed companies in utilities, electricity and technology to support investment research.
Equity Research Intern
January — June 2018Sell-side research · alongside my finance thesis
Supported construction-sector coverage and automated research tasks using VBA and Bloomberg.
PwC Chile
Financial Instruments Assurance Intern
December 2015 — February 2016Assurance
Supported financial instruments valuation, treasury and audit work in the food and beverage sector.
THROUGH OTHER PEOPLE’S EYES
What colleagues and managers say.
Excerpts from recommendations by colleagues and managers.
Horacio possesses a rare blend of deep technical fluency and an exceptional ability to distill clarity from complexity.
One of Horacio's standout qualities was his ability to translate high-level strategic objectives into actionable plans and engage with different types of stakeholders to lead initiatives to completion.
He is a unique people-focused leader who not only makes others feel genuinely appreciated but also brings out the best in those around him.
His creativity played an important role in proposing and driving innovative solutions to real problems our customers faced.
He consistently translated complex requirements into smart, scalable technical solutions, enabling productive and strategic discussions.
CLASSMATE RECOGNITION · 2025
Best Team Player.
My IE classmates recognised me as Best Team Player in 2025. Being someone people enjoy building with matters to me.
Education & academic work.
International MBA
IE Business SchoolStrategy, corporate finance and innovation, with a focus on digital transformation and leading multicultural teams. A business foundation for evaluating opportunities and guiding change.
MxT · Management of Xponential Technologies
An additional IE programme connecting management and emerging technology through talks, workshops and visits. It challenged assumptions about what technology makes possible, with an emphasis on ambition and turning ideas into practical work.
MxT reflection ↗Kelpfull · Venture Lab
Developed an agrotech concept with Isabella Marsicano for the Venture Lab competition, exploring chlorella-based production on non-arable land.
Venture Lab experience ↗Sailing leadership
Served as IE Sailing Club president, developed the VR Sailing Programme and helped organise the 2024 and 2025 IE Regattas. Competed with the club, including podium finishes.
VR Sailing Programme →MSc Computer Science & Business Technology
IE School of Science and TechnologySpecialised in Advanced AI within the MSc, alongside software engineering, cloud computing and data architecture. Connecting technical choices with business needs and practical delivery.
- AIRz · collaborative capstone →
An agent-powered property search assistant, built with the IE capstone team for Zyonia.
- Continual learning in NLP · academic review →
A co-authored review of eleven methods for reducing catastrophic forgetting in language models.
Master in Finance
Pontificia Universidad Católica de ChileInvestment analysis, valuation, derivatives and econometrics. A rigorous foundation for assessing financial decisions and investigating market behaviour.
- Finance Thesis →
Research into unemployment surprises and Chilean stock returns, including the limits of isolating a news effect.
Business Administration and Economics
Pontificia Universidad Católica de ChileBusiness administration and economics. Teaching assistant across programming, accounting, economics and organisational behaviour.
Academic recognition.
Beta Gamma Sigma membership and top-20% recognition. After a demanding programme, I finished third in my Computer Science cohort—a result that surprised me.
Credentials & languages.
Reinvention with Agentic AI
Accenture · Issued February 2026
AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Amazon Web Services · July 2025 — July 2028
Generative AI Leader
Google Cloud · June 2025 — June 2028
Strategic Thinking
Harvard Business Impact Education · Issued September 2024
Spanish · Native / English · Full professional proficiency
Community involvement.
- Tech Ireland Advocates
Community co-lead, strengthening Ireland’s tech community through networking and collaboration, and raising the visibility of Irish innovation and community voices.
- IE Alumni Ireland
Bringing together a community of more than 200 IE alumni across Ireland.
- IE Sailing Club
Former student president and current alumni board member, supporting the regatta, sustainability and continuity between student cohorts.
- MBA Sailing League
Member of the Growth and Inclusion pillar workgroup.
Personal interests.
Water sports
Regular swimmer and SSI Advanced Adventurer diver, with sailing experience in Chile, Spain and Ireland.
Yoga
Completed 500 hours of yoga teacher training in Rishikesh. An experience that continues to shape my perspective and the value I place on respect.
Choral singing
Choral singing brings together commitment, expression and shared practice. I enjoy the quality we achieve through practising and persevering together.
CONTACT
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About a challenge, an idea, or something we could do together.