Diego Villagomez

This company assembles audio parts for vehicles and provides to the assembly companies such as General Motors Ecuador, General Motors Colombia and General Motors Venezuela; as well as Sofasa in Colombia (Renault).

I manage the Finance, Accounting-Costs and I.T. departments.

I was in charge of updating the accounting for the year 2014, applying IFRS and costs structures. I am in charge of preparing the monthly financial information and reports for the Directors of the company. I am reorganizing the costs system in order to use standard costs for the production of the two assembly plans of the company.

I was in charge of all the process in order to obtain the approval of the Superintendency of Companies and the Quito Stock Market for issuing USD 4 million of public debt. In charge of the relation with financial institutions managing the current debts of the company and using the different products of the banks.

As a corporate auditor I was in charge of planning and develop corporate, financial and operative audit in the companies of the group. The group has different type of business such as industrial, commercial and services. The group bills near to USD 150 million per year with more than 100 stores around the country. ICESA Group (Almacenes Japón, Orve Hogar, Istore, Casio Store), Corpmunab Cia. Ltda. (imports and whole sale distributor), Mabel Cia. Ltda. (Casio representative in Ecuador), Sunsetrading (Tiffany jewellery representative in Ecuador), Huasicorp (business advisors), Motoensab S.A. (motorcycles assembly plant).

After Hutchison withdraw from the concession of the port in Manta-Ecuador I was in charge of the coordination of activities related with finance, and accounting in order to have everything ready to present the financial information to the Manta Port Authority in Ecuador.

I was also in charge of coordinating the work of the external auditors in Terminales Internacionales de Ecuador (the company in charge of the concession of the port in Manta-Ecuador).

I participated in the coordination with HPH´s local lawyers in Ecuador in relation with the legal and negotiation process with the government after HPH withdraw from the concession.

I was in charge of making the corporative internal audit in HPH´s business unit in Barcelona-Spain.

When HPH started running the concession of the port of Manta-Ecuador I was hired as Finance and Administration Manager. I was responsible of the following departments: Finance, Treasury, Accounting, Costs, IT, Customs Administration, Purchasing and Administration.

Being a new company I was in charge of defining the organization chart of the departments I was responsible for the definition of functions and procedures for each position.

I organized the process for defining the functions and procedures manuals as well as the local internal policies of the company.

I was responsible for preparing the financial reports for the head office in Hong Kong. Reports such as: weekly and monthly cash flows, monthly comparisons between current data vs. budget and forecasts, forecast and budget quarterly reports.

On a monthly basis I sent a detail of explanations regarding the variances when comparing the current data vs. the budget figures and previous year figures.

I was also in charge of negotiating the purchases of the company in coordination with the purchasing department.

I was in charge of the relation with the local finance institutions and coordinated with the head office all aspects related with the external financing. I coordinated also with the head office the international insurances of the fixed assets of the company and the fixed assets received in the concession contract.

The coordination of the legal aspects of the company with Hong Kong was also part of my responsibilities. (corporate, tax, labour)

I created local formats in excel in order to prepare the detailed information required to input in the head office´s financial reports. This helped in order to save a lot of time when preparing the monthly reports and variances explanations.

I coordinated the process for implementing an ABC Cost software in the company for managing the services costs of the port. In order to do this, it was defined the detailed functions of the personnel, it was also defined the activities and drivers as well as the KPI for the control.

I was part of the Quality Directors for implementing the ISO 9001, ISO 14001 and OHSA 18000 in the company. The qualification was performed by Bureau Veritas.

On a quarterly basis I participated with the General Manager of the company presenting to the Board of Directors of HPH the budget and forecast information.