Manuel Jesús García Vila Email & Phone Number

Almería, Al, Es

El Ejido

Subsidiary of leading Israeli micro irrigation systems company NaanDan Jain owned by Indian group Jain Irrigation listed in Mumbai Stock exchange with revenues over $1.2 billion.Main responsibilities:* Build strong relationships with key stakeholders, MT, and team members to ensure the best possible personnel performance and work maturity skills.* Direct the full planning and control cycle (FP&A).* Supervise all accounting, financial, and treasury functions and practices and monitor the preparation of fiscal records, tax statements, financial reports, and statutory reporting. * Manage and develop a team of 8 people including IT and payrolling.* Prepare business cases for investments, software selection, and implementation.* Provide leadership to IT in collaboration with headquarters to achieve harmonization where possible. * Lead the IT PMO in implementing business process improvements. * Act as a business partner to the Managing Director and Management Team members.* Ensure and monitor local legal, corporate, and IFRS compliance.* Analyse and optimize risk management including risk reporting and monitoring.* Prepare and facilitate (quarterly and statutory) financial audits working with internal and external auditors.Results:* Contributed to completing a turnaround from a loss-making situation to a profitable operating company.* Launched and implemented non-recourse instruments resulting in strong sales growth. * Implemented OneRate to improve risk control in sales.* Managed software migrations to SAP Business One and SAP ECC.* Implemented KAT Treasury to automate importing of bank transactions and bank reconciliation.* Introduced and implemented digital signatures for orders and delivery notes.* Digitalized our work environment with Solpheo software.* Locally developed an IFRS16 tool and a fixed assets software tool to control, monitor, and report from subsidiaries to headquarters resulting in a global rollout.

Almería

Main responsibilities: * Responsible for management and financial accounting, treasury, year-end closing, taxes (company tax, VAT, wage tax), reporting, audits and IT.* Manage the accounting department (4 employees).* Compile monthly and quarterly financial reporting and management information for our board of directors.* Ensure compliance by setting up control policies and procedures aligned with Spanish legal and government requirements for our industry.* As project lead, manage a project to select, install and implement new ERP software.* Build and maintain contacts with the external auditor, tax advisor, banks and lawyers.Results:* Maintain the financial administration in control and implemented Jet Reports to speed up monthly closings and reporting. * Restructured and streamlined the financial administration.* Prepared the financial administration for migration to Navision.

El Ejido

Highlights:* Contributed to restructuring and streamlining the internal organization.* Conducted negotiations with trade unions, banks, local growers and other stakeholders to resolve (old) issues and improve working relationships.* Manage programs and projects to grow the business in Europe and Africa.* Led the merger process between 2 acquired companies.

Almería Y Alrededores, España

Highlights:* Lead the full P&C cycle including analysis, and (monthly) reporting.* Managed the implementation of ERP software (Navision).* Developed and implemented the company’s pension plan for Spain.* Contributed to an international logistics project in the Netherlands.

Master Of Science - Ms Msc., Business Administration

Pide, Postgraduate Business Administration And Management

Bachelor Of Business Administration - Bs Bsc., Business Administration

Especialidad: Agregación y Análisis de Estados Económicos y Financieros. Organización, planificación y revisión de contabilidades.