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Delta, British Columbia, Canada

Responsabilities• Execute full – charge bookkeeping functions, including accounts receivables, payables, etc. maintaining a record of 100% accuracy • Efficiency processed accounts payables, accounts receivables invoices and ensured invoices were paid in full and on time while maximizing cash flow• Performed daily bank reconciliation, ensuring financial integrity, leading to zero discrepancies during audits • Leveraged financial accounting skills to prepares accurate financial statements, boosting financial transparency• Execute monthly GST/HST/PST taxes requirements return/ payments on time with 100% accuracy • • Prepared payroll processing tasks, ensuring 100% accuracy and compliance with tax regulations • Executed account reconciliations for timely and accurate financial reporting • Assembled financial data for audits which saved 3 days at year end close

San Pedro Garza Garcia, Nuevo Leon

Responsabilities:• Primary owner of the General Ledger and first contact for GL reports, queries and audits.• First contact point for Business Unit Finance for issues relating compliance and integrity of accounts.• Maintain a robust internal control environment at ledger level and ensure compliance to corporate accounting principles and policies.• Drive efficiency and improve internal controls e.g. reducing manual journals and process exceptions.• Own the month end close and coordinate month end close calendar.• Ensuring balance sheet accounting compliance and consistency of internal procedures with relating internal policies, internal/SOX controls and US GAAP (internal and external audit, compliance).• Review of MJEs and account reconciliations based on DoA, internal policies and ARM.• Coordination/Supervision of activities during MEC in line with MEC calendar.• Follow-up of MEC issues and proposal of resolution.• Preparation of monthly, quarterly and year-end reporting schedules.• Leading regular (BS review, MEC) and ad-hoc calls with business.• Leading internal projects – merge/split of entities, migration to other ERP, leading of UAT, etc.• Promote effective communication between Finance and business through first-hand knowledge of the business owners, processes and issues.• Act as first escalation point for issues that doesn’t get resolved between Finance Teams and business functions.• Successful transition of a share service from Europe to Mexico.• Prepare to SSC Director on a monthly basis updates of SOX 404 results• Extensively relationship with the internal and external audits as it relates to SSC SOX 404• Perform SSC Narratives and Walkthroughs for Internal Audits• Follow up with control owners in the planning, execution, and reporting of SOX 404 results.• Communicate SOX status to Management• Perform SSC Narratives and Walkthroughs for Internal Audits• Support follow up for ARI & URI to identify owners and establishing clear AP

Santa Catarina Nl, México

Responsibilities:• Preparation of financial statements ( US & MX GAAP ).• Release of financial information to US for the consolidation of transnational companies.• Responsible for Domestic Financial Audit.• Be a liaison between Corporate Business Resource and Mexico facility.• Prepare all the account reconciliations.• Maintain important internal controls ( SOX ) in the area.• Be a liaison between Corporate IT team and Mexico Facility.Main achievements:• Update GL interface from SPM (SAP inventory System) to CBS (SAP Financials).• Automatized Account Reconciliation files.• Exceeded Performance Expectations in Employee Rating.

Monterrey Area, Mexico

Santa Catarina, Nl México

Responsibilities:• Preparation of financial statements ( US & MX GAAP ).• Release of financial information to US for the consolidation of transnational companies.• Responsible for Domestic Financial Audit.• Be a liaison between Corporate Business Resource and Mexico facility.• Prepare all the account reconciliations.• Maintain important internal controls in the area.• Be a liaison between Corporate IT team and Mexico Facility.Main achievements:• Complete 2 Monterrey logistic warehouse closing & 1 San Luis Potosi logistic warehouse opening.• Acquisition all Fixe Assets from new Warehouse in SLP (land, building, equipment, etc.).• Intercompany Factoring (AR).• Successful implementation new Inventory System (SPM), AR & AP (all accounting booking).• Be Mexico’s leader in several challenging projects in Caterpillar Mexico with co- workers from a lot of cultures like US, Switzerland, Portugal, Singapore, Australia.

Santa Catarina Nl, México

Responsibilities:• Perform cash forecast for the local facilities (based on the needs for the cash days).• Consolidate all Mexico’s cash needs for the 13 local facilities plus the 8 outside of our shared service group.• Approve wire transfers outside of cash days.• Maintain the local bank relationship and solve any issues on a daily basis (including signer updates).• Be a liaison with Corporate Treasury.• Report on a monthly basis the cash variations to Corporate Treasury.• Keep track all the loan statements and/or create/ update them if necessary.• Responsible for Domestic Financial Audit.• Prepare all the account reconciliations.• Intercompany Netting coordinator.• Release wire transfers in the bank portal.Main achievements:• Automatized loans activity in SAP.• Automatized bank transactions in SAP.• Set up Intercompany Netting System in local facilities.

Master Of Business Administration - Mba

Public Accountant