Senior Finance Officer
Citigroup Financial Share Service center, Forum I, San
Total years of experience :10 years, 1 Months
Tel: (506) 25887100
Leading processes to be incorporated of Intercompany, treasury and controllership departments to the Shared Service Center in Costa Rica
Attend meetings in Procomer to know the way of controlling the fix assets coming in and the respective report in free trade zone.
Prepare monthly Intercompany reconciliations and confirm Intercompany balances with subsidiaries.
Record intercompany journal entries including accruals and adjustments to clear intercompany transactions with other affiliates and maintain Intercompany accounts in balance on a monthly basis.
Responsible for accuracy and detail review of Intercompany billing.
Be in charge of treasury and account payables, order to cash
Responsible for daily balancing of intercompany accounts
Leading migration of Intercompany, treasury and controllership departments to be developed in Costa
Rica.
Analyze intercompany balances with other affiliates and coordination of intercompany wire payments and intercompany settlements to comply with Company and/or statutory requirements.
All related to Order to Cash Management among affiliates of Citigroup all over the world.
Develop new employees to get a better performance in their activities.
All related to Order to Cash Management among affiliates of citigroup all over the world.
Balance sheet reconciliation among all affiliates all over the world.
Reconciliation and booking of Latin-American taxes.
Treasury and controllership matters such as cash flow, monthly and quarterly reports.
Balance sheet reconciliation using USGAAP to be sent to US
• Administrate the treasury department in the region, and provide cash to all countries to make a work fluently and controlled.
• Be in charge of all regional payments
• Attend external auditors.
• Provide cash flow and accounts payable management, ensuring that Latin American countries have enough cash to adhere theirs financial obligations according to agreements.
• Bank reconciliations reviews.
• Deal with all kind of payments in the region such as salaries, taxes, parts or new business.
• Make Budget and analysis for monthly expenses.
• Keep good balance in the accounts to cover the company needs.
• Controlling the whole area concerning to money and expenses budget.
• Manage post-audit process to ensure accurate time completion.
• Treasury accounting monthly reporting.
• As Treasurer for Latin America at SITA I designed a strategy to simplify payments in the region, through the use of computer technology which consisted of entering online payments to the banks of each country to facilitate and ensure greater effectiveness in reducing delivery times and costs of the service.
• Using the technique of empowerment, I created an open mind on the staff, to use the knowledge of others, maintaining high levels of motivation and collaboration.
• I Improve time and money requests that was sent from headquarters to treasury department by providing more specific detail of the expenses and investments, that we were going to incur in the coming months creating a better satisfaction in the corporation because they had relevant information that provided more security on the money budgeted.
• Regional Tax payments.
for Central America & Caribbean. Other Support and assist the Regional Controller for Latin-America.
The financial operation was moved to another country.
In charge of Migration of all financial areas to Costa Rica
Migration all financial data from AS400 to SAP
Oversee all accounts, ledgers, and reporting systems ensuring compliance with appropriate IFRS and regulatory requirements and reports consolidated in USGAAP.
Supervise the personnel in each country related to financial matters, (12 countries).
Assist the Regional Controller for Latin-America.
Responsible for the monthly accounting close and the closing consolidation process
Review balance sheet reconciliations, report, analyze and correct variances
Book entries of accounting transactions from Central America and Caribbean.
Financial analysis to make sure the forecast and budget is according to the plan.
Month-end close process and reports to head quarters.
Generating analysis account trial balance or consolidated analysis account trial balance
Supervise accounts receivables and payables from all over Caribbean and Central America.
Coordinate and manage the accounting work according to the accepted accounting principles and Political of Novartis.
Analyze cost of products.
As controller assistant I developed tools to make the reports faster.
Monthly preparation of consolidated financial statements and reporting to head quarter.
Look after the application of the politicians and internal procedures to develop a better control to have a good handle of the operations.
I created financial manuals of procedures for all the countries of Central America and the Caribbean to improve and standardize the business in how to present and implement various financial activities including: control of the expenditure sales expenses budget, marketing expenses budget, management and control of cash and payments.
I influenced in decreasing the collection rates from 120 to 45 days, improving a better cash flow and influencing in the growth of sales through frequent and personal contact with distributors.
Month end financial analysis to make sure all entries was correct.
Control current accounts and direct relation with Financial Organizations.
Control of accounts payables, direct relation with foreign and national suppliers.
Take care of the account payables and receivables in SAP systems.
Analyze the payment commissions to sales agents according to sales report.
Control payables operations with the National Financial System (loans, renting, leasing, and discount of invoices).
Develop and maintain financial and banking relationships with Costa Rica financial institutions.
Cash flow and financial statements Analysis.
I led accounting and financial team, creating a strategy focused on improving inventory movement analysis, invoice discounting, negotiating with national and international suppliers and payment arrangements, managed the company to obtain a positive balance in a short period of time.
I developed a recovery plan in bad debt balance, through frequent and personalized service which favored the reduction in collection rates improving the cash flow from 30% to 90%.
Administrate the treasury department in the region, and provide cash to all countries to make a work fluently and controlled.
Be in charge of all regional payments
Attend external auditors.
Provide cash flow and accounts payable management, ensuring that Latin American countries have enough cash to adhere theirs financial obligations according to agreements.
Bank reconciliations reviews.
Deal with all kind of payments in the region such as salaries, taxes, parts or new business.
Make Budget and analysis for monthly expenses.
Keep good balance in the accounts to cover the company needs.
Controlling the whole area concerning to money and expenses budget.
Manage post-audit process to ensure accurate time completion.
Treasury accounting monthly reporting.
As Treasurer for Latin America at SITA I designed a strategy to simplify payments in the region, through the use of computer technology which consisted of entering online payments to the banks of each country to facilitate and ensure greater effectiveness in reducing delivery times and costs of the service.
Using the technique of empowerment, I created an open mind on the staff, to use the knowledge of others, maintaining high levels of motivation and collaboration.
I Improve time and money requests that was sent from headquarters to treasury department by providing more specific detail of the expenses and investments, that we were going to incur in the coming months creating a better satisfaction in the corporation because they had relevant information that provided more security on the money budgeted.
Regional Tax payments.
Coopesa, Alajuela (506) 24372800
Plan, organize, direct and control all financial and administrative activities of the company seeking a better utilization of resources.
In charge of Accounting, AP, AR, treasury, payroll, facilities, controllership, procurement, logistic, billing departments and support to sales and production departments.
Oversee all accounts, ledgers, and reporting systems ensuring compliance with appropriate IFRS and regulatory requirements.
Coordinate all audit activity
Responsible for daily balancing of accounts and preparations of daily journal entries
Guide and monitor the annual budget and project the financial statements.
Consistently analyze financial data and present financial reports in an accurate and timely manner; clearly communicate monthly, quarterly, and annual financial statements; monitor progress and changes and keep senior leadership
Advise other departments in the formulation, monitoring and implementation of programs that impact the finances of the company.
Attend Internal and external auditors
Present financial reports to the general manager and the board of directors.
Form multifunctional workers, likewise ensure the training and human development.
Set policies, objectives to subordinates to get better results and achieve them.
Improve business costs seeking better performance of workers and results.
Improve warehousing controls and review the obsolescence of products and parts.
Reports and analyzes monthly operating results, provides balance sheet analysis.
Insures the integrity of reports and the general ledger.
Makes significant contribution to growth and profit through active participation in overall entity
in Planning and management.
2011-2012
Oracle Centroamérica, Fórum II Santana, San José, Costa Rica
Senior Financial Order Management (IC3) supporting the LATAM region
Order Department was moved to India.
Post product order booking processes such as:
Order Merges, Partials, Cancellations, Prioritizations, Change Orders, Discrepant Order Resolution, Traffic Redirects, Special Handling, Damaged Shipments, Return Request Submissions, Fee Management
Partner with key stakeholders of: sales, sales operations, partners, contracts, accounts receivable, global process owners, support/service operations, revenue accounting, and supply chain management.
Support the booking of Oracle’s orders, when required.
Provide local language support to the primary booking center.
Coordinate and work with cross-functional teams during Oracle’s quarterly close cycle.
Adhere to and assist in improving quality metrics, KPI’s: quality of bookings, invoices, and credit memos, other adjustments. Identify root cause issues and work cross-functionally to drive improvements.
I created a table of general information contacts for the process of order management (control of purchase orders) in Excel, to facilitate and speed up response times and quality results in the customer service area.
I improve relationships between multidisciplinary staff in the region through more frequent meetings and interact through communication looking for a more effective control and facilitating the migration projects of the corporation to Costa Rica.
I proposed to manage various transitions that were made in Latin America, distributing functions among staff according to their individual characteristics and academic preparation, so that they could meet the needs among the countries in the region.
Leverage strengths of the current finance team members, help to clarify roles and responsibilities and develop and implement training programs in order to maximize and reach optimal individual and organizational goals.
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Degree in Advanced English.
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