Experienced Accounting Manager with a strong background in financial reporting, financial statement preparation, and team leadership. Responsible for preparing monthly and yearly financial statements, including Profit & Loss accounts, Balance Sheets, while monitoring Capital Expenditures. Serves as the main point of contact for external audits, ensuring compliance and accurate financial reporting. Skilled in collaborating with ERP teams to enhance system functionality, implement new applications/modules, and maintain databases. Oversees the preparation and revision of financial procedures and processes, manages Annual Financial Statements for European entities, and performs Impairments calculations. Additionally, leads special projects such as production transfers, fixed asset management, inventory count improvements, and database optimization, while effectively managing and mentoring a team of accountants.
Accounting Manager - MD Luxembourg
Endo Luxembourg
06.2018 - 12.2024
In charge of the accounting monitoring of the Luxembourg entities, member of the board of directors. VAT reviews and approvals. Statutory accounts preparation from USgaap to Luxgaap, review of the eCDF filings, Monitoring the tax returns and ensure the preparation and filings of the declarations to Luxembourg authorities. Review of the preparation of the reports to Banque Centrale du Luxembourg. Review of investments and other strategic transactions, intercompany steps prior board meetings and with the Corp tax team/technical accounting teams. Budget preparation of Lux Operating expenses. Luxembourg main contact of the US team for the Luxembourg transactions. Managing the interactions with Luxembourg external stakeholders. Approving Luxembourg agreements. Ensuring various financial and administrative tasks for the companies.
Chief Accountant - Finance Controllership team
DXC Technology Luxembourg SA
04.2017 - 05.2018
Accounting Experienced Accounting Manager with a strong background in financial controlling, audit coordination, and regulatory compliance. Managed transactions handled by the Shared Service Center in Prague, including general ledger, accounts receivable, accounts payable, intercompany requests, and fixed assets. Ensured accuracy in financial closing tasks, entry approvals, account reconciliations under SOX controls, and variance analysis against forecasts, while conducting USGAAP analysis and corporate tax reporting. Supervised tax filings, VAT, Statec – BOP – Intrastat, and prepared statutory accounts under LUXGAAP. Acted as the main point of contact for external audits and conducted financial statement reviews for the Deputy Controller. Led internal audits for CSSF and oversaw CSSF reporting, while driving process improvements for the Shared Service Center in Luxembourg. Additionally, approved treasury requests for tax payments, ensuring compliance and financial efficiency.
Chief Accountant
NTT (Dimension Data Luxembourg PSF)
02.2013 - 03.2017
Managing the accounting team of 4 people to accomplish with the fixed objectives of the daily accounting tasks (payables, receivables –clients, banks, general accounting: taxes, fixed assets, inventory, Intercompany) Coordinating closing tasks and the accounting reconciliations. Ensuring the follow up of the accounting procedures. Coordinating the Internal Audit towards the CSSF circulars, quarterly and annual CSSF reports, Risk Reports towards the 12-544 CSSF circular
Senior Accountant
Skype Communications Sarl. (Microsoft)
01.2009 - 07.2012
Analysis of financial statements in accordance with US-GAAP Managing the accounting process in the creation of new entities and integration in SAP Preparation of the financial statements for the fiscal year. Coordinate the information for the year-end audit process (PwC) Monthly VAT declarations for Luxembourg, VAT declaration for the Estonian entity. Monthly balance sheet reconciliations and P&L reviews designed a model for the monthly reconciliations for all entities. In charge of the revaluation process at Month end rate for all Skype entities, designed a model to verify the revaluation calculation for the analysis of variances. Month-end accruals calculation. Review of the bank accounts bookings and review of the clearing process Training of new hires and providing technical support to others junior members of the accounting team Establish the written procedures and promoting the update keeping and improvement of processes in the team. Payroll accounting processes for all Skype entities- review and control. Improvement of the process in collaboration with the Payroll Manager
Analysis of financial statements in accordance with US-GAAP Control of Intercompany loans process between all subsidiaries Revaluation at Month end rate of Intercompany balances Ensure that Intercompany accounts are balanced between all subsidiaries. Process the P&L Cross charges between the group as the Intercompany payment process. Reconciliations of the Intercompany payables and receivables and Revaluation of the foreign currencies of the Intercompany accounts Provide regular analysis of accounts payable concerning 40 worldwide subsidiaries. Ensure the reports for external audit team in a proactive and speedy manner. Actively improve the procedures for the efficiency of the process Participate in the new acquisitions of the group.
Accountant
Columbia Sportswear International
01.2005 - 01.2006
Analysis of financial statements in accordance with US-GAAP/ IFRS. Provided regular analysis of accounts payable which permitted a reduction of 90% in the debt ratio (Switzerland and United Kingdom). Financial reports to the Head Office (Portland-USA). Ensured the reports for external audit team in a proactive and speedy manner.
Chief Accountant
Tejidos Superpunto, C.A.
01.2003 - 01.2004
Accounting Controller
Mayor’s Office of El Hatillo
01.2001 - 01.2003
Government
Chief Accountant
Bell Canada International
01.1999 - 01.2001
Communication services
Senior Auditor
Deloitte
01.1996 - 01.1999
Education
Certification of Internal Auditor - Information Security Management Systems ISO 27001:2022
Bureau Veritas
Master in Human Resources Management MHRM - undefined
EUDE European Business School
Certified Accountant Degree - undefined
Santa Maria University
Skills
ERP: SAP, Oracle, JD Edwards, Business Object, Black Line
Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Publisher, Visio, Internet