Fabio Leonardo A. Email & Phone Number

Colombia

• Work closely with Country Manager to ensure projects are in the best interest of the company and add value with relation to improving business processes. • To provide finance and accounting support to different areas of the company such as Operations, Sales, Customer Service.• Responsible for yearly forecasting and monthly budget follow-up.• To ensure all accounting is in line with required GAAP and Group policy.• To ensure compliance of local taxes law and external audit.• Responsible for cost reporting and relevant analysis.• Ensure the submission and presentation of monthly local results including P&L, Balance Sheet and supporting information.• Development of the finance team.• Responsible for improvements and automatization of Finance Processes.

Bogota,D.C., Capital District, Colombia

• Ensure the accuracy of financial and tax reporting, as well as compliance with laws and regulations.• Establish and ensure compliance with accounting principles, methods and policies appropriate for the company.• Lead the daily operations of the accounting area including monthly and annual closings, accounts payable and receivable, treasury, taxes, property, plant and equipment, reports, cash forecasting and billing.• Lead the accounting team made up of 6 people, monitor its development process and monitor management indicators.• Coordinate activities for the successful execution of the annual audit.• Lead the Company's Risk Committee and support the Sagrilaft compliance area.• Keep insurance policies and associated claims up to date.

Bogotá D.C. Area, Colombia

Responsible to provide accurate accounting and reporting of transactions of the company, to ensure that financial reporting is in full compliance with both local GAAP and Group norms (IFRS, French Gaap, Solvency) accounting principles; to serve as liaison to auditors, regulators and third party service providers to ensure compliance with applicable rules and regulations and to meet required financial filing deadlines; develop appropriate controls and monitor compliance with internal controls. •To manage the timely, proper and accurate reporting of accounting transactions in a manner consistent with both local GAAP and Group accounting principles. Solve inquiries from auditors, regulators, third party service providers and management associated with these transactions.•Prepare monthly financial statements for the local regulator; Superintendencia Financiera de Colombia meeting all relevant deadlines. Provide variance explanations on a monthly basis to management.•Prepare monthly and quarterly financial and regulatory filings, ensuring compliance with statutory accounting principles. Comply with all applicable regulatory filing deadlines.•Provide efficient administrative operations through coordination of accounting, computer systems and administrative staff by setting priorities, assigning work, setting objectives, training, resolving personnel matters, etc.•Establish appropriate controls to assure compliance Group requirements. Ensure that controls are adequate to detect, report and correct irregularities as they appear.•To prepare financial and management information reports supporting both operations of the and its interface with other corporate departments. Maintain information in a current status; design enhancements; identify statistical trends in data, etc.•To direct and manage staff members to assure quality and consistency.

Bogotá, Colombia

Responsibilities: • Responsible for the integrity and presentation of the financial statements for 7 companies, 3 in Colombia and 4 in Central America.• Oversee different Latin and North America processes (Such as intercompany commissions, PP&E sales) • Provide monthly and quarterly expense reporting and variance analysis to functional leaders.• Oversee internal controls and procedures (compliance and corporate policies)• Team up in the implementation of IFRS for companies located in Colombia.• Review financial information on a monthly basis to assure the accuracy of the figures. Investigate variances. (Statutory and USGAAP purposes).• Provide accounting support to multiple functional areas in Latin America.• Deliver financial reports to the government authorities (DANE, UGPP- Unidad de Gestión Pensional y Parafiscales, Superintendencia de Sociedades).• Deliver statutory financial reports to the government/tax authorities.• Effectively manage time with numerous competing priorities.• Communicate and work in a key roll basis with functional entity leaders.• Provide support and training to team members in various areas for IFRS application.Achievements:• I created a data bank of all the reports that companies located in Venezuela, Peru, Ecuador and Colombia must deliver to government authorities. This data bank allowed to have an accurate and clear control of government obligations.• I improved the process of monthly closing review, which made the reviews more accurate and faster.• I designed and implemented a methodology for loading, analyzing and reporting information to Departamento Administrativo Nacional de Estadistica – DANE (National Department of Statistics), which optimized delivery times and information analysis.• Successfully applied for companies in Colombia the analyzes of impairment of assets, materiality levels and treatment of leases, where these three points often when adopting IFRS for first time are the more difficult to apply.

Bogotá

Responsibilities: • Monitor and ensure compliance with commitments and deliverables required by the Ministerio de Comercio, Industria y Turismo (Ministry of Commerce, Industry and Tourism). • Keep track of budget transfers.• Play a leading role in the planning area for the acquisition of new physical infrastructure, estimating sources and costs for the different phases of the project.• Coordinate the update of the Integrated Management System (IMS). • Participate in the development and implementation of the Internal Control Standard model (MECI).• Team with the General Director to organize and develop the redesign of the organizational and personnel structure, and review operating manuals.• Coordinate the implementation of policies related to Social Responsibility.Achievements:• I coordinated and obtained the approval of resources ($ 14 billion COP) for the acquisition and adaption of physical infrastructure.• I led the creation of the Quality Management department of the agency and assembled the team for the area. • I designed and implemented guidance documents and checklists for updating the IMS.

Mosquera, Cundinamarca, Colombia

Responsibilities: • Develop audit programs for the company in the areas of Treasury, Inventory, Fixed Assets, Accounts Receivable and Accounts Payable.• Perform auditing programs and present results to management.• Analyze accounting procedures. Achievements:• I detected weaknesses in inventories controls and portfolio revenues allowing to generate action plans to ensure the integrity of the information.• I designed a control array for management use.

Bogotá, Colombia

Responsibilities: • Record and report on risk and control arrays the results of information validation. • Take part in controls development under the Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) Act 404 for all financial processes.• Ensure and record SAP activities into SOX controls activities.• Develop procedures and instructional manuals for every financial process.• Report progress, problems and customer needs.• Provide ideas that lead to improve the review processes. Achievements:• I developed the Instructional Evaluation of Financial Institutions, and Fixed Assets Physical taking and Valuation, which allowed the customer to reduce operational risk.• I trained on and share with my coworkers SOX methodology, enabling a higher quality of work for the client.

Bogotá, Colombia

Responsibilities: • Take part in consulting, internal control, internal audit, and Sarbanes-Oxley Act. 404 projects.• Upraise and record financial processes.• Perform design and operation tests of internal controls.• Analyze and record risks and controls in business processes.• Verify the compliance with regulations and contracts. • Prepare drafts reports (english – spanish).• Participate in audit projects led by managers from abroad. Achievements:• I identified adjustments that had to be made on the final reports of the audit test performed by the team, before sending them to the client, avoiding communicating non-real information. • I develop appropriate action plans, based on faults found during the implementation of controls by the client, thus ensuring the integrity of information.• I found inconsistencies in compliance with corporate policies of the client, which were communicated to management along with plans for further action, which reduced the risk of breach of laws and statutes of the company.

Bogotá, Colombia

Responsibilities: Analyze and report information related to the debt portfolio of every product of the Bank.

Bogotá, Colombia

Client: Citibank (Citigroup Colombia) Responsibilities:Review and record tax returns and certificates, accounting information, and activities planning.

Postgraduate Diploma In International Financial Reporting Standards (Ifrs)

Bachelor'S Degree, Accounting

Activities and Societies: Out of Town (Group of university immersion for foreign students).