▪Team Leadership: Manage a specialized accounting team with dual roles in transfer pricing and regional controllership, ensuring accurate and efficient financial operations.▪Financial Oversight: Review and approve critical financial documents, including balance sheet reconciliations and journal entries, while directing global profit in inventory eliminations across business divisions.▪Global Process Owner: Ensure the accuracy and integrity of intercompany profit eliminations embedded in inventory across the global organization. Review, validate, and substantiate inputs from all sites, ensuring compliance with global standards, and provide final sign-off on all figures.▪Process Improvement: Lead initiatives that streamline processes, resulting in substantial cost and time savings annually, demonstrating a strong commitment to continuous improvement.▪Regional Controllership: Provide oversight for APAC and LATAM teams, conducting monthly balance sheet flux analysis across approximately 45 entities, balance sheet deep-dives and AR and bad debt reviews. Ensure timely close processes and maintain open communication with finance and business controllers.▪Technical Expertise: Provide technical guidance on complex accounting treatments to local sites, driving in-depth analysis and resolving critical balance sheet issues. Also, oversee the approval of ERP system access within the APAC region.▪Audit Support: Coordinate and support both internal and external audits, ensuring compliance and thorough documentation. Additionally, oversee collection efforts and the consolidation of regional financial reporting and annual supplemental packages.

▪Led Coordination: Oversaw the transfer pricing team, managing two indirect reports to ensure seamless operations and alignment with global standards.▪Process Optimization: Implemented a ticketing tool to streamline global transfer pricing requests and developed an automated Power BI dashboard to track and analyze team metrics, enhancing visibility and efficiency.▪Regional Financial Analysis: Conducted comprehensive balance sheet flux variance analysis for approximately 45 entities across the APAC and LATAM regions, identifying key financial trends and discrepancies.▪PII Calculations and Submissions: Accurately calculated and submitted journal entries for profit in inventory eliminations, ensuring precise financial reporting.▪Global Financial Reporting: Prepared and consolidated profit in inventory eliminations through meticulous journal entries and HFM supplemental documentation, supporting global financial integrity.

▪ ERP Integration and Balance Sheet Optimization: Supported the integration of new acquisitions into the ERP system and conducted thorough balance sheet clean-up to ensure accurate financial reporting.▪ Financial Analysis: Performed detailed balance sheet flux variance analysis for approximately 45 North American entities, identifying key financial trends and discrepancies.▪ Journal Entry Management: Calculated and submitted necessary journal entries for multiple North American entities, ensuring compliance with accounting standards.▪ BlackLine Administration: Served as the BlackLine administrator for North American entities, maintaining the reconciliation system and monitoring the completion status of reconciliations.▪ Audit Support: Provided essential support during internal and external audits for North American entities, ensuring compliance and thorough documentation.▪ Balance Sheet Roll-forward Tracking: Monitored and tracked roll-forward balances for all balance sheet accounts across North American entities, ensuring accurate financial reporting.Annual Consolidation: Consolidated and prepared annual supplemental packages for North American entities for submission to Corporate, ensuring alignment with global reporting standards.▪ Process Improvement: Led process improvement and strategic initiatives related to accounting for North American entities, enhancing efficiency and accuracy.▪ Accounting Guidance: Provided general support and expert guidance on accounting matters to North American entities, ensuring adherence to best practices.▪ Close Coordination: Managed close meetings with North American accounting leads, reporting on issues and close status to ensure timely and accurate financial close.

▪Team Leadership: Managed a diverse team of 12, overseeing intercompany receivables, payables, cash management, general accounting, and special projects. Provided leadership in role-specific tasks and process improvement initiatives.▪People Management: Conducted 1:1 meetings, developed staff through training and coaching, managed performance improvement plans, facilitated promotions for high-potential employees, and led recruiting efforts to enhance team capabilities and retention.▪Operational Metrics and Tracking: Established and monitored department metrics for efficient workload distribution and tracking of intercompany receivables, payables, journal entries, and reconciliations, ensuring alignment with business goals.▪Financial Oversight: Reviewed, approved, and posted journal entries in multiple ERPs (SAP, JDE, Oracle, Macola, and E1), including invoices, cash and payment applications, adjustments, reclassifications, and accruals.▪Reconciliation Management: Reviewed and approved approximately 1,000 monthly balance sheet reconciliations, including AR/AP, goods in transit, loans, and suspense accounts, to maintain financial integrity. As well as ensuring Intercompany discrepancies were closed during month-end close for reporting purposes.▪Payment Oversight: Supervised and approved intercompany payment proposals, ensuring accuracy and compliance across the team’s work.▪Audit Coordination: Managed ad-hoc requests from internal and external auditors, ensuring thorough and timely responses.▪Process Migration and Improvement: Led the migration of processes from U.S. operations to a shared service center in Costa Rica, driving efficiency and consistency. Spearheaded and participated in global Kaizen, PPI, and process improvement projects across EMEA, APAC, and North America.▪Stakeholder Communication: Presented monthly financial results, including accruals, aging, and trend analysis, to business stakeholders, ensuring clear and actionable insights.

▪ Consolidate the reporting for all Bacardi entities globally for Corporate. ▪ Intercompany Balance Sheet and P&L accounts reconciliations.▪ Netting/Settlement processes between Bacardi entities.▪ Review, approve and post intercompany journal entries for 2 staff.▪ Review intercompany variances and distribute to a team of 8 people for correction. ▪ In charge of audit deliveries for EMEA and LATAM businesses.

▪ Report financial data for 24 legal entities from SAP to Oracle consolidation.▪ Reconcile global numbers for all entities coming from the ERP against the reporting system (Oracle) to identify gaps and address the issues with the corresponding accounting teams tomake sure the reporting is accurate.▪ Execute financial master data changes to the SAP general ledger (maintain CoA).▪ In charge of all audit requests related to Financial Reporting.▪ Escalate reporting discrepancies to the respective areas.

▪ Responsible for accounts reconciliations in a daily basis, and monthly for the BlackLine certification of accounts. Ensuring the accounting procedures are properly aligned with SOX, Internal Controls and Government Regulations.▪ Processing of journal entries related to cash accounting, AP, accruals, FX and AR.▪ Follow-up of reconciliation items with Accounts Receivables, Accounts Payable, Treasury,Corporate and Taxes departments.▪ Intercompany reconciliation process with entities located in Ireland, Argentina, Mexico, Chileand Malaysia. Review manual process and balancing intercompmany accounts at Month EndClose.▪ Costa Rica site leader in automatic revaluation project for all currencies.

▪ Elaboration of debit letters in order to collect money from agents.▪ Agree the payment method by phone calls.▪ Steer different cases to its respective department.▪ Contact customers for improving processes related with collections.