Ivan Rivero Email & Phone Number

California, United States

California, United States

Planning, supervision and managing of business operation. Sales, marketing and production areas.

~ Audited over 20 business units across the corporation in diverse areas including: marketing, procurement, contracting, contract administration, trading, inventory control, retailing programs, and shared services.~ Led and supervised a team of auditors in an inventory control audit. ~ Ensured BU's had adequate processes and controls in place and provided specific recommendations for improvements or enhancements when needed.~ Highly familiar with corporate policies, internal controls and processes, compliance, and SOX.

~ Took leadership of a near bankrupt company and turned it into a financially stable operation within 10 months by implementing tight financial controls, quality assurance measures and new marketing channels.~ Increased revenue by developing new products.~ Expanded the market substantially, including export operations.~ Generated quarterly business plans and strategy aimed to ensure long-term sustainability.~ Through active networking received a grant from non-profit organizations who assist small businesses in their marketing, planning, and production efforts.

~ Managed financial functions including: accounting, treasury, accounts payable, accounts receivable, and compliance. ~ Responsible for coordinating tax planning, and external auditing activities.~ Prepared and monitored budgets for marketing, production, administration and finance. ~ Planned and forecasted sales scenarios to determine overall effect on revenue, cost and cash flow.~ Reported periodically financial information to Latin America regional office and corporate headquarters.

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~ Planned and organized the financial department from company start-up to closure.~ Provided finance support to the project in order to ensure fulfillment of construction contract within firm timeline.~ Supervised accounting, treasury, accounts payable, taxes and billing. ~ Reported financials to corporate headquarters.~ Interacted with external auditors and government entities to assure compliance with statutory requirements.

~ Managed cash, interbank loans and investments in the Bolivian stock exchange.~ Generated forecast for cash needs/surplus and developed short term investing strategy accordingly.~ Developed an automated system to consolidate and monitor branch office budgets using spreadsheets.~ Prepared bi-weekly financial performance reports.~ Created and implemented stock broker subsidiary company, from conception to execution.

~ Assisted in consolidating and following up of country budgets for the region. ~ Performed financial analysis of 9 bottling companies in Chile.~ Assisted in finance evaluation of investment project for a canning plant.

Master; Mba, Business Administrations

Finance, General

Bachellor Of Science, Mechanical Engineering