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Costa Rica

Costa Rica

• Responsible for performing decision support analysis in a daily basis to feed into financial and management reporting – monthly results, budget, and forecasts.• Refine financial and operating statistics to drive consistent and transparent reporting on performance and accountability – price vs. volume/mix, customer segmentation, product category trending, broader market analysis and correlation.• Support cross functional communication with operations and supply chain to ensure coordination across departments.• Identify opportunities for continuous improvement on new analytical tools and metrics, and automating repetitive processes.

Costa Rica

• in charge of accounting measures: policy, procedures, changes, amendments and internal control environment.for Costa Rica Shared Service Center. • Improve the month-end and quarter-end close and reporting process, make sure they are prepared timely, accurate and complete monthly and quarterly financial accounts to fulfill local and corporate reporting requirements.• Review account reconciliations, journal entries, and variance analysis and ensure accounting activities are well supported and documented..• Maintain full ownership of the General ledger to ensure accuracy, consistency, and completeness.• Make analysis quarterly and reports needed by the Corporate Senior Manager for RTR-PTP-OTC. • Prepare and present monthly, , and annual financial analysis, such as year over year variances, actual to budget/forecast, and trend for balance sheet and income statement accounts.• Lead internal and external audit giving follow up to audit maps. (CASRA and E&Y)• Keep control in Cash application procedure and company payments.• Handling the 1099 tax reports for USA and tax reports for UE.

Costa Rica

• Professional project to migrate and implement in SAP Order to Cash for Latam in Costa Rica for Duracell.• Develop process through trainings and get a clear image of the customer needs to make this transition and a start up successfully. • Help to to build metrics, Standard Operation Procedure and controls. support Internal Audits to review the operational processes.• Develop detail process maps of the operation to identify internal controls deficiencies and propose improvement possibilities on processes.• Leads strategic direction and operating plans to drive compliance with financial, business process, operational controls and process flows.• Control of process documentation (SOP, SIPOC, HLPM, Process Maps) for migrated processes in charge. • Work with the migration teams to ensure methodology used around process documentation, business continuity planning, and training and couching are carried out under the scheduled process. • Other - In charge of supporting OTC for the Latam region for Mondelez.

Alajuela

• Plan, organize, direct and control all financial and administrative activities of the company seeking a better utilization of resources.• Oversee all accounts, ledgers, and reporting systems ensuring compliance with appropriate accounting principles.• P&L responsibility ownership.• Coordinate all audit activity, supporting Internal and external audits performed in finance operational processes.• Consistently analyze financial data and present financial reports in an accurate and timely manner; clearly communicate monthly, quarterly, and annual financial statements; monitor progress and changes and keep senior leadership• Business project analysis, and finance analysis. • Present financial reports to the general manager and the board of directors.• Improve business costs seeking better performance of workers and results.• Improve warehousing controls and review the obsolescence parts.• Reports and analyzes monthly operating results, provides balance sheet analysis.

Forum Ii, Santana, San Jose

• In charge of migrating Order management department to Costa Rica from USA for latam countries.• Partner with key stakeholders of: sales, sales operations, partners, contracts, accounts receivable, global process owners, support/service operations, revenue accounting, and supply chain management.• Balance finance analysis of possible clients.• Project management support for the migration process..• Coordinate and work with cross-functional teams during Oracle’s quarterly close cycle. • Adhere to and assist in improving quality metrics, KPI’s: quality of bookings, invoices, and credit memos, other adjustments. Identify root cause issues and work cross-functionally to drive improvements, according with SLAs.• I improve relationships between multidisciplinary staff in the region through more frequent meetings and interact through communication looking for a more effective control and facilitating the migration projects of the corporation to Costa Rica.• Leverage strengths of the current finance team members, help to clarify roles and responsibilities and develop and implement training and control programs in order to maximize and reach optimal individual and organizational goals.

Forum I Santana, San Jose

• Part of the leading team for the migration processes to be incorporated in SSC of Global Intercompany billing, treasury and controllership departments in the start up of the Shared Service Center in Costa Rica.• Attend meetings in Procomer to know the way of controlling the fix assets coming in and the respective report of free trade zone.• Monthly Intercompany reconciliations and confirm Intercompany balances with subsidiarie, intercompany journal entries including accruals and adjustments to clear intercompany transactions with other affiliates and maintain Intercompany accounts in balance on a monthly basis.• Be in charge of treasury and account payables during the startup.• Analyze intercompany balances with other affiliates intercompany settlements to comply with Company and/or statutory control requirements and according to SLAs.• Reconciliation and booking of Latin-American taxes.• Balance sheet reconciliation and reporting SEC Banamex.• Give support to site controller.

San Jose

• Administrate the treasury department in the region, and provide cash to all countries to make a work fluently and controlled through bank reconciliations reviews.• Be in charge of guiding the treasury departments during the ICS annual audits conducted by External auditors and perform regular follow up on completion.• Provided cash flow and accounts payable management, ensuring that Latin American countries have enough cash to adhere theirs financial obligations according to agreements.• Deal with all kind of payments and review that all documents were in order.• Made Budget and analysis monthly expenses..• Keep good balance in the accounts to cover the company needs.• Controlling the whole area concerning to money and expenses budget and identify internal controls deficiencies and make improvements.• Lead and supervised audit process to ensure accurate time on completion.

Torre Mercedes, Paseo Colon, San Jose Costa Rica

• Oversee all accounts, ledgers, book entries and reporting systems ensuring compliance with appropriate regulatory requirements and consolidated reports.• Migration of all Finance Areas of consumer divition to Costa Rica.• Analyze financial information to assist management in increasing profitability; make recommendations towards business decisions with company policies and procedures.• Finance planning and for sales and marketing business projects.• Responsible for the monthly accounting close and the closing consolidation process. • Review balance sheet reconciliations, reports to head quarters, analyze variances.• Forecasting and budgeting monthly support and analisis, supporting sales and Marketing cluster leads in each Country .• Control inventory in our warehouse in Panama and logistic transfer costs analisis to the region.• Supported and assisted the Regional Controller for Latin-America in during the closing process• Monthly preparation of consolidated financial statements and reporting to head quarter.• Look after the application of the politicians and internal procedures to develop a better control to have a good handle of the operations and support Internal audits in all process.• I created financial manuals of procedures for all the countries of Central America and the Caribbean to improve and standardize the business in how to present and implement financial internal control activities.

Mba, Finance, Business Administration

Activities and Societies: Actividades culturales

Mba, International Trade

Posgraduated Course, Small Business Development Tools

Licenciatura In Business Administration With Emphasis In Finance, Business Administration