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Oudenaarde, East Flanders, Be

Oudenaarde, East Flanders, Be

o Manage Corporate Finance Staff directing them on the preparation of journal entries, reviewing financial information and finding solutions to problems on daily operations. o Manage and review US Corporate close in SAP, organizing the closing process to enable a four business day period close in SAP.o Prepare and review reconciliations, journal entries and analysis on different accounts for the Corporate Entities and Global Consolidation.o Create files and reports in ADP to load the payroll information in the system (SAP), including quarterly payroll reconciliations. o Full P&L analysis for Consolidated Corporate entities, analyzing trends and variances versus budget.o Manage the monthly Consolidation Process extracting information from SAP to load into HFM, booking consolidation entries and researching for out of balances and variances.o Prepare monthly internal and external financial reporting and analysis for management.o Create Corporate monthly forecast and prepare annual budgets working together with the different departments to build departmental budgets, consolidation and presentations to management.o Coordinate the preparation of Statutory Financial Statements in Luxembourg and Belgium, working with the accountants, external auditors and lawyers in those countries to make sure the accounts are filed on time.o Assist the Corporate Controller in various ad-hoc reporting and analysis for management.o Assist the external Auditors providing information and coordinating with other regions to get the information requested related to their entities.o Create and maintain global reports in SAP to help on the analysis of financial information.

Oudenaarde, East Flanders, Be

• From October 2005 to May 2007 I was part of the Core Team in charge of the SAP implementation in Canada and USA doing the following activities:o Configuration of Fixed Assets Module in SAPo Basic configuration for Accounts Payableso Development of Business Process Procedures and Configuration Documentso Conducting and documenting integration tests for General Ledger, Accounts Receivable, Accounts Payable and Fixed Assetso Security Role Testingo Support the loading of the General Ledger and open items for A/R and A/P for Canada and 17 US entities.o Support users, training them and helping to prepare entries, fix errors and find solutions to problems on daily operations in SAPo Helping to coordinate the Period End Closeo Basic BW and BW-BCS reporting for consolidation purposes• In Mexico my principal functions were:o Responsible to perform internal audits of payroll, taxes and retail storeso Implement Internal controls in Retail Stores in Mexicoo Coordination and supervising of periodical physical inventories in retail storeso Coordinate the External Audit and Transfer Price Studyo Supervise cost estimations for products quotations o Perform gross margin analysis and profitability analysis from Latin America regiono Prepare Financial Analysis for new projects in Latin America like the opening of new retail stores o Coordinate and supervise annual Tax reports to Corporate and the local Governmento Responsible for recruitment and payroll department

• I was responsible to plan and conduct financial audits and reviews in accordance with Mexican GAAP and US GAAP• Evaluation of process designs and tested internal controls• Create Financial Statements and periodic reporting packages• Responsible to prepare annual Tax reports

Master'S Degree, Socioeconomic Evaluation Of Investment Projects

Specialist In Finance

Bachelor'S Degree, Accounting