Paola M. Bongio Email & Phone Number

United States

United States

California, United States

Argentina

Argentina

Advisor and consultant on accounting, taxes and financial subjects for companies and entrepreneurs.

Responsibilities: coordination and supervisión of monthly reporting, taxes, forecasting & budget, billing & collections, credit analysis, and any other topic with impact in processes and/or finance . Team leader of a 15 members team. Active participation on strategy meetings and sales meetings.

Manager of 12 young professionals in Consulting Division. Accounting & Reporting of US crude oil movement for BP Oil Corp.

Responsibilities & Achievements:• Migration & Centralization of all tasks related to Account Receivables from Latin America to Houston.• Responsible for billing, collections and revenue reconciliation of transactions billed out of US & Latin America.• Review of Balance Sheet and P&L accounts reconciliations under USGAAP for US & Latin America.• Finance approval of sales service contracts on regards SOX compliances, SOP 97-2 (revenue recognition) and credit check for all new customers.• Coordination and supervision of audit requests for US and LA – audit for IPO.• Training to country controllers and staff on accounts reconciliations, creation of reports, processes, use of Oracle, etc.------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Previous Position: Country Controller (Argentina)Responsibilities & Achievements:• Responsible for month closing, accounts reconciliations, taxes, budget, cash flow, management & corporate reporting.• Coordination of Oracle implementation in Argentina, Brazil, Venezuela and Ecuador working with the IT team. Oracle Training received in Israel during April and June 2006.• Coordination of Internal and external Audit requests for Argentina – audit for IPO.

Responsibilities & Achievements:• Team lead for special projects related to Gulf of Mexico.• Desk migration from Dallas, TX to Buenos Aires.• Inventory reconciliation. Netting with 3rd parties. Offshore production billing. Contract Price analysis and discussion with 3rd parties. Payments authorization.• Fluent interaction with customers, sales department, logistic, contract administration and refineries. • Hurricane Katrina & Rita, year 2005: management and coordination of tasks related to off shore crude oil inventory and accounting after the impact of the hurricanes in Gulf of Mexico. • Training of new personnel in the area.• Important decrease of open items after the migration to Buenos Aires.

Responsibilities & Achievements:• Accounting month close responsible. Tax reviewer. Payroll reviewer. Reporting for management. Implementation of BAS (Buenos Aires Software). FA Inventory coordination. Audits requests. Accounts Payable and Accounts Receivable supervision.

Mba, Business Administration

Leadership, Coaching

Accounting Principles Specialist (N.I.C. - Us Gaap - Local Gaap)

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