Being responsible for: Record to Pay, Order to cash, Record to Report, Cost accounting, Taxes and Internal Control. Supporting Procurement as well ad interim during the past 8 months. My goal is to ensure stability and quality of finance operations, while at the same time driving productivity through standardizing, streamlining and simplifying our finance processes, data and systems, on a cross-divisional basis.To provide best in class financial, administrative and business support to achieve the company's strategic, business and financial objectives. To ensure Novartis maintains it's position as best in class in the field of effective internal control.•My purpose is to deliver accurate and transparent financial reporting on the Novartis Group's current activities on a timely basis to both internal senior Management and our external stakeholders. •Accounting Thought leadership: •High quality and pragmatic accounting policy setting, interpretation and guidance•Business focused guidance on transaction related matters•Financial statements reviews to protect assets and provide clear insight•Compliance Management: •Ensure High Integrity, effectively and efficiently•Provide compliance guidance to other functions•Accounting Services: •Processes / systems/ controls that are :Standardized, Automated / Integrated,Harmonized and Efficient •Strong Governance (SLA’s and KPI Management)•Best in class outsourced and internal financial services•Manage all financial internal control compliance activities•oversee the status of all Internal Audits, ensuring timely resolution of issues•Management and Financial Reporting: •Integrated, standardized management & financial reporting systems◦Business Focused◦Relevant, timely & reliable•Reporting on financial KPIs, performance of processes, FRA dashboards, etc.•Responsible for the budget and execution of divisions: Corporate and Novartis Business Services.

Responsible for Accounting, Costs, Financial Reporting, Taxes and Internal Control for all the business units of Novartis in Colombia: General Medicines, OTC, Oncology, Sandoz, vaccines, Animal health, Ciba Vision and Corporate.To provide best in class financial, administrative and business support to achieve the company's strategic, business and financial objectives. To ensure Novartis maintains it's position as best in class in the field of effective internal control.•My purpose is to deliver accurate and transparent financial reporting on the Novartis Group's current activities on a timely basis to both internal senior Management and our external stakeholders. •Accounting Thought leadership: •High quality and pragmatic accounting policy setting, interpretation and guidance•Business focused guidance on transaction related matters•Financial statements reviews to protect assets and provide clear insight•Compliance Management: •Ensure High Integrity, effectively and efficiently(NFCM)• Automate where practically possible•Innovative Risk management •In Market Compliance reviews (BPCR)•Provide compliance guidance to other functions (e.g. HR, NP4 and Purchasing)•Accounting Services: •Processes / systems/ controls that are ◦Standardized◦Automated / Integrated◦Harmonized◦Efficient •Strong Governance (SLA’s and KPI Management)•Best in class outsourced and internal financial services•Manage all financial internal control compliance activities•oversee the status of all Internal Audits, ensuring timely resolution of issues• provide support covering SOX/NFCM /Internal Control compliance and Fraud Awareness.•Management and Financial Reporting: •Integrated, standardized management & financial reporting systems◦Business Focused◦Relevant, timely & reliable•Reporting on financial KPIs, performance of processes, FRA dashboards, etc

Responsible for the monitoring of compliance with policies and procedures within the Organization for the industries Pharma, OTC, Sandoz, vaccines and Oncology, updating the controls of the operating cycles adjusted to the SOX compliance, implementation of COSO in the audit plans, responsible for addressing visits regional and global audit, direct contact with PWC, permanent support to the Organization to define exception handling.

I was responsible for the coordination of the processes for the entry of the accounting information in the system, analysis of financial information and compliance according to the schedules established by the Group, with the high standards of quality, as well for the internal control. I have knowledge in SAP modules FI, controlling, MM and BW system.I had the chance to be CFO ad interim for 1 month.

Supporting the area with processes such as inventories; Property, Plant & Equipment; Accounts Payable; Accounts Receivable, Taxes. Entering information in the system, performing analysis of the financial information and compliance internal controls. I have knowledge in SAP modules FI, controlling, MM and BW system.

Working as accounting assistant taking areas of vital importance for the company such as the cash, investment, customers, inventory, property plant and equipment, deferred, financial obligations, vendors, provisions and Profit and loss accounts At the same time brought my knowledge on taxes developing reports to banrepublica, reports of DIAN, reporting to Superintendence of companies. Additionally I performed control of budgets, analysis of financial statements, monthly preparation of annexes to report to Headquarters, among others.

I worked as Auditor where I was part of multifunctional teams on external audit, financial advisor, tax audit and internal control, doing reviews in several economic sectors, auditing, performing financial analysis, tax reviews and providing to our clients recommendations to improve their processes.