João Paulo Silva Email & Phone Number

Portugal

- Design and Implementation of Corporate Treasury Projects’- Cash, Debt and FX Management and Forecasting- Bank Relationship Management- Design and Implementation of Treasury’s Standard Operational Procedures (SOPs)

Lisbon Area, Portugal

On top of the previous responsibilities, the work as Treasury and Cash Management Senior Assistant at Pestana Hotel Group has the following ones:- Cash Position Reporting;- Very Short Term Cash-Flow Forecasting and Ensure that funds are disbursed in order to meet all responsibilities;- Implementation of new collection methods;- Implementation of collection methods and procedures in new business units;- Optimization/Automation of posting flows between different systems as Metacase and Homebanking and SAP ERP.

Lisbon Area, Portugal

The work in Pestana Hotel Group’s centralized Treasury and Cash Management Department has the objectives of minimizing the costs and risks associated with all in and out financial transactions, at the same time enhancing the unique features of a Turism and Leisure Hotel Group, as well as improving and standardization of collecting, paying and debt managing procedures of a group that extends over 30 companies, 80 hotel units, 15 countries and 3 continents and that is expanding itself fast. Below some of the responsibilities and projects accomplished:- Ensure that all transactions in the hotels are recorded properly;- Daily reconciliation the accounting reports in SAP ERP environment with the bank statement, investigating any differences that may occur;- Ensure that differences are promptly reported and confirm if justifications are valid;- Keep an active relationship with hotel’s and other Central Services colleagues, supporting them with any accounting concern;- Support month-end closing activities for reporting and bank reconciliation;- Create and execute payment processes in different financial systems, as SEPA, Bill Payments, ACH and CHAPS;- Standardization of the Currency Purchase to the final customers at hotels’ Front-Office process;- Creating and Maintaining Financial Instruments at TRM and TRLO modules in SAP ERP;- Predict the liquidity needs of the companies and ensure that they are met.

Lisbon, Portugal

As part of a cross training program between financial teams of Pestana Hotel Group, spent 9 months as Financial Controller of 7 “Pousadas de Portugal”, being requested the successful achievement of the tasks below:- Business Unit Budgets’ preparation, collecting and integrating inputs from all Operational, HR, Financial and Sales teams involved in the business, ensuring that GOP and flow-through objectives are met; - Expenses validation accordingly with budgets predictions and business’s evolution;- Monthly and Annual results preparation with SAP BW;- Business analysis, helping the managers of each unit in decisions making and explaining positive and/or negative outcomes for each unit’s segment in each report;- Auditing revenue posting and collecting procedures, validating if the legal and internal proceedings were being met at each POS.

Madeira/Lisbon

Treasury and Cash Management

Madeira

Financial Department - Treasury and Accounts Payable Teams

Undergraduate, Economics

Activities and Societies: Student's Union of Madeira's University

Entreprise Simulation And Entrepreneurship, Accounting And Business/Management

Simulation of a company´s fiscal year