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Rio De Janeiro, Brazil

Rio De Janeiro, Brasil

•Payroll support and execute personnel administration routines (admissions, vacations, terminations, electronic timekeeping, absences), benefits.•Check payroll, PLR, 13o salary, charges (INSS, FGTS, IRRF) and union contributions, ensuring compliance with the closing deadline and the accuracy of the information.•Cash Flow Management: Monitored and managed cash flow, ensuring sufficient liquidity for operations. Prepared cash flow forecasts to support financial planning and decision-making.• Cash Movements and Bank Reconciliation: Assisted with posting cash movements to align with bank accounts, maintaining financial accuracy. ensure AP, AR and other departments to ensure timely payments, accurately recording all transactions in the general ledger to reflect actual bank payments.• Accounts Receivable Management: Processed incoming payments and managed customer accounts, ensuring timely collections and reconciliation of outstanding invoices.• Financial Reporting: Prepared and validated monthly financial statements, including balance sheets and income statements, using Power BI for detailed financial analysis.• Tax Calculation and Compliance: Calculated taxes including ISS, ICMS, PIS, and COFINS, ensuring compliance with tax regulations.• Financial Statement Review: Validated monthly financial statements, including balance sheet and income statement, Task force in projects and transaction investigations to ensure financial integrity using integrated systems and Power BI for comprehensive reporting• Accounts Payable Management: ensuring payment of all accounts payable like suppliers of goods, Vendor, purchases of products or services, rental of facilities, water, electricity and gas, telephone, internet, maintenance, and repairs of equipment/facilities.• Ensure all federal, state, and municipal tax payments are made on time• Organized and ensured that all invoices were scanned, registered, and accounted for in the accounting system, with all due approvals

Rio De Janeiro

•Support accounting systems interacting directly with the accounting, financial and planning teams to ensure accuracy of information and its submission to the accounting books on closings.•Support in the implementation of new systems, interacting with teams of Americas, discovery, mapping, improvement, simplification, implementation of processes and Sunset of tools.•Analysis of world processes, interacting with different teams, at distinct levels (PMOs, operations, business area managers), leading business and operational teams, to define and implement products according to world accounting, working towards the worldwide standardization of accounting processes and financial reporting.•Focal between accounting and development team, to for implementation and development of new tools to assist in accounting analysis and reporting to corporation and Central Bank.•Support to TAX/Fiscal team to ensure compliance with local regulations, ensuring tax compliance, Central Bank, internal or external audits.•Quality control to ensure that product is consistent with requirement and to ensure compliance of all supported applications with the company's internal policy and security standards.•Technical Specialist in analysis, description of business processes, and their translation into functional and non-functional IT requirements, use cases, process models, impact analysis, among others, acting as an interpreter between IT and business.•Control and resolution of tickets opened daily by stakeholders.•Definition scope, planning and coordination of tests implementation of new requirements.•Mapping of processes and procedures to support the migration and deployment of the operating system, as well as the preparation of manuals (work instructions) to be used to teach classes on the use of the system to the entire financial team, maintain and disseminate project information to senior management and stakeholders.•Use of agile methodology, using tools with Trello, Jira, Mural.

Rio De Janeiro, Rio De Janeiro

• Support to the sales team elaborating costs for new business and projects focused on maintenance and repair of parts for hardware.• Management of cost analysis to reduce repair, transportation, and storage costs.• Analysis and reconciliation of costs related to inventory, storage, packaging, logistics.• Analysis of the valuation of the inventory.• Analysis of planned budget versus current budget.• Evaluation of result accounting by cost centers.• Interaction with the operation to reduce costs (monthly, quarterly, and annual.• Analysis and calculation of costs for sending to the pricing team.• Knowledge of Protheus (inventory) • Knowledge in SQL as construction and modification of queries, and data extraction from DB2 databases, data extraction via SQL and analysis of results focused on the problem to be solved.• Data analysis in Cognos and construction of dashboards in Cognos,• Brio/Hyperion – Construction and analysis of queries and dashboards in Brio/Hyperion.• Proficiency in the Office Suite, presentations, and creation. (Emphasis on Excel and Power Point).

Rio De Janeiro

• Consolidation of inventory reserves in Latin America.• Management and cost analysis to reduce inventory reserve.• Issuance of management reports for planning and sales.• Control of import and export costs between Latin American countries and the central stock (USA).• Focal point of management reports of inventory reserve reduction for headquarters in the USA.• Interaction with the headquarters and branches in Latin America to prepare the inventory plan and associated costs.• Quarterly executive presentation of the results of the inventory reserve to the executive team.• Creation and analysis of reports using Cognos and Excel for refinement and creation of dashboards based on data extracted from databases such as DB2.

Rio De Janeiro Area, Brazil

• Consolidation of inventory reserves in Latin America.• Management and cost analysis to reduce inventory reserve.• Issuance of management reports for planning and sales.• Control of import and export costs between Latin American countries and the central stock (USA).• Focal point of management reports of inventory reserve reduction for headquarters in the USA.• Interaction with the headquarters and branches in Latin America to prepare the inventory plan and associated costs.• Quarterly executive presentation of the results of the inventory reserve to the executive team.• Creation and analysis of reports using Cognos and Excel for refinement and creation of dashboards based on data extracted from databases such as DB2.

Rio De Janeiro Area, Brazil

• Participation in the migration, development and implementation of processes and systems in billing and contracts in Latin America (Focus on Brazil and Mexico), to achieve cost reduction and agility in the process. • Integration between analysts from Latin American regions in the billing process, as well as training of new employees. • Interaction with other areas such as Pricing, Planning, IT and BackOffice for problem solving and standardization of billing processes. • Check balances in stock of used equipment, via SAP, to issue invoices.• Monthly invoicing of all used equipment sold, ensuring that all invoices from Brazil were sent correctly via the billing system, with the accounting account codes due within the monthly closing.• Interaction with the accounting team to validate the monthly billing in the accounting books. Ensure the accuracy and integrity of revenue reports in accordance with accounting standards.• Creation of manuals to ensure accuracy and effectiveness of the activities conducted by other analysts. • Creation of metrics (KPI's) for monthly billing operation.• Interaction with the accounts receivable team to validate specific types of billing. Including specific information requested by the customer.

Rio De Janeiro Area, Brazil

• Focal point of IBM Bank's accounting for the project of implementing new systems to meet and parameterize the accounting and tax needs.• Interaction with other areas of the company and with local and global accounting teams, ensuring uniformity between all areas involved.• Focal point in the tax area of leasing in Mexico, with the objective of eliminating costs, improving, and parameterizing the needs of the accounting process.• Elaboration of management spreadsheets to demonstrate the entire evolution of the process, ensuring visibility and assisting in decision making.• Preparation of management reports, detailing each relevant difference in the Balance Sheet and the Statement of Income for the Year, being reported to the U.S. headquarters.• Participation in the IBM Financing project to review all leasing agreements issued in the last 5 years, to validate and review all machines and clauses in force in Latin America.

Rio De Janeiro Area, Brazil

• Accounting coordinator of a team with 11 employees, serving the countries of Spanish South America (SSA – Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Peru, and Venezuela).• Responsible for developing the integration between the accounting analysts of the regions of SSA, Mexico and Brazil.• Responsible for the interaction with other areas such as Pricing, Operational Business and Planning, for problem solving and standardization of processes that reflected in accounting. • Responsible for the standardization of accounting processes in SSA. Facilitating the analysis and consultation of management levels• Responsible for the delivery of all reports of the financial statements, reconciliations and analyses within the deadline stipulated by the company.• Ensure the accounting closing process and its respective deadlines, preparing and reviewing schedules with the areas involved, to optimize delivery times and ensure accuracy of reports to support decision making.• Guidance and monitoring of assistants and interns in the reconciliation processes, accounting closing in general.• Contribute to the elaboration of policies and procedures of Accounting and Finance, supporting the elaboration and execution of the respective action plans for implementation, facilitating, and integrating the work of the teams, aiming at the optimization of the efforts to achieve the objectives of the company.• Responsible for training and guidance with accounting ERP (implementation projects and / or systemic improvements.

Rio De Janeiro Area, Brazil

•Accounting analyst at IBM Leasing for Latin America in USGAAP responsible for making entries and accounting adjustments ensuring the accuracy of the balance sheet and result.•Responsible for the reconciliation, analysis, and control of balance sheet accounts according to operational, through the conference of balances and reconciliations based on integrated systems, pointing out their differences and action plan for resolution, with a maximum term of 90 days.•Analysis of accounts and calculation of monthly, quarterly, annual results. For executive support.•Responsible for the monthly closing routine in USGAAP, also supporting planning team to management reports. •Responsible for accounting system of IBM Leasing, ensuring that all postings due in the accounting books, analyzing accounts of each new business offer in the system and participating in implementations / releases with IT group.•Preparation of management reports, detailing each relevant difference in Balance Sheet and Statement of Income for the Year, being reported to the U.S. headquarters. •Analysis of currency appreciation/devaluation of foreign currency accounts. •Analysis and accounting of process for Provision of Doubtful Debtors (general and specific).•Leadership of the new employees of the group, guiding not only in the technical part, but also on values of the company.•Guidance and monitoring of assistants and interns to reconciliation processes, accounting closing in general.•Survey, analysis, support of information for internal and external audits.•Contribution to ensure compliance with USGAAP accounting standards, as well the maintenance and improvement of internal control procedures.•Issuance of management reports, based on the Balance Sheet and result, pointing out the main variations, month, quarter, year.•Focal point in system implementations and procedures according to the company's worldwide standards.

Rio De Janeiro Area, Brazil

• Analysis of depreciations, accounting support in the country (Brazil). • Analysis of inventory movements and ensure that the inventory system was working correctly, from ordering, receiving, shipping and storage of inventory.• Prepare balance sheet reconciliations for relevant accounts and certify integrity.• Interaction with the Slovakia team in solving problems and improving the inventory process. • Asset control, physical inventory, capitalization process and asset write-off analyzing and eliminating outstanding items.• Knowledge SAP online, module Fixed Asset, focal Brazil in the control tool of Fixed Asset.• Creation and analysis of reports using SQL and Excel for refinement and creation of dashboards based on data extracted from databases such as DB2.

Rio De Janeiro Area, Brazil

• Analysis and review of processes to reduce costs for the Service area, obtaining reduction of expenses.• Elaboration of management spreadsheets to demonstrate the entire evolution of the process.• Accounting entries.• Domain of internal systems, SAP - FA and DB2 Queries, SQL.

Bacharel, Contabilidade

Faculdade Moraes e Junior

Master Of Business Administration (Mba), Controladoria E Finanças