Provided oversight of all financial operations, accounting, budgeting, forecasting, and financial planning, including partnership with the ESOP program. Developed forecasts and analyzed financial reports and data to assess organizational performance, identify improvement areas, and drive cost optimization initiatives. Established and maintained effective internal controls, policies, and procedures to ensure regulatory compliance, mitigate financial risks, and maintain legal and ethical standards. Supported the accounting department to ensure proper functioning of all systems, databases, and financial software, improving operational accuracy and efficiency. Partnered with leadership to provide strategic financial guidance and support for major business decisions, mergers, acquisitions, and other strategic initiatives. Served as the main liaison with all external auditors, financial institutions, and other key stakeholders on financial matters. Directed financial reporting for Latin America, including monthly financial statements, annual investor packages, and board-level presentations. Oversaw budgeting and forecasting cycles, achieving measurable improvements in accuracy and timeliness. Enhanced internal controls and risk mitigation strategies, reducing audit findings and strengthening compliance. Optimized working capital and cash flow forecasting, improving liquidity management. Supervised and developed a finance team of professionals, ensuring operational excellence and continuous improvement.

Responsible for managing the financial reporting process including monthly financial statements, annual investor reporting packages, budgets and forecasts. Manage quarterly tax projections and year-end tax preparation processes, including detailed review of tax filings prepared by external accountants. Participate in the due diligence process related to the confidential acquisition of assets and/or new lines of business. Oversee the reconciliation of all ledgers, sub ledgers and accounting records. Lead the budgeting process. Liaison with outside accountants in an outward facing, relationship driven manner. Monitor and improve internal controls. Continually assess, propose and implement improvements to existing processes in the Accounting Department. Take part in the daily controlling duties: analysis and review of cash flows, P&L, Balance Sheet. Conduct and synchronize all the financial controlling activities for diverse service lines. Improve the financial controlling method to optimize business growth and rebound. Elaborate and improve the operational partnership approach to transfer relevant management data to decision-makers. Participate in decisive and crucial financial conclusion. Participate in several projects and assignment beyond the organisation. Be the main point of contact for units managers.

Led multiple finance transformation projects for mid-sized and multinational clients, guiding end-to-end ERP implementation (SAP, Oracle, NetSuite). Partnered with CFOs and Controllers to map financial processes and design automated workflows improving reporting speed and accuracy. Supported system integration, data migration, and internal controls testing, ensuring compliance with IFRS/GAAP. Trained finance teams on ERP best practices, enhancing adoption and improving efficiency. Delivered custom financial dashboards and executive reports, improving decision-making visibility. Advised clients on finance process optimization, cost control, and system-driven risk management.

Managed indirect tax compliance and provided advisory on cross-border transactions. Implemented financial KPIs and cost-control measures, achieving measurable savings. Partnered with BU leaders to identify efficiency and productivity improvements. Enhanced reporting processes, providing clearer insights for executive decision-making.

Responsible for the timely and accurate response to all internal and external sales tax questions related to the products and services sold or purchased by Grainger. Additionally, this individual is responsible for the review and acceptance of all sales tax exemption documentation and is required to directly interact with both internal and external customers to ensure Grainger receives the appropriate documentation. Leadership: Active involvement in development and cross training of subordinate team members. Follows policies and procedures for acceptance of customer provided exemption certificates, identifies instances for process improvements. Follows policies and procedures for resolving customer sales tax disputes, identified instances for process improvement. Manage trends, budget and quantify metrics and major objectives. Elaborate and propose solutions to General Management. Propose initiatives based on relevant KPIs. Control business and operating expenses within BU departments. Manage budget and trends. Seek areas of savings and productivity and make proposals to the Management Committee. Manage the BU reporting, using the internal reporting systems.

Executed intercompany reconciliations and settlements across multiple entities (SAP). Coordinated treasury operations and payroll for regional operations. Improved bank reconciliation and cash flow reporting, ensuring financial accuracy. Supported ERP (MS Dynamics AX) enhancements, streamlining finance operations.

Download Intercompany balances of the month from the Trial Balance for each Company (SAP). Intercompany reconciliation and accruals. Prepare a monthly report of Intercompany Settlement with new balances. Participate with Panama Finance team and Treasury team in the Settlement meeting. After meeting and according with the date determined in the meeting, prepare, require approval and send wire transfers to Treasury (attached all necessary information as support for each wire transfer). Inform to each coalitions sending copy of the wire transfer to let them know the amount that they'll receiving or paying. Book wire transfers in a JE to update balances in the system. Delivery of high-quality service administration, for a defined Market area. Participate in continuous improvement activities related to service administration. VFSLA PAYROLL (Handle VFSLA payroll biweekly). Responsible for bank reconciliations. For all bank within the operation. Responsible for the bank balance tracking and Bank transaction booking. Follow up to ensure timely reporting in order to secure on-time invoicing. Provided documentation requested. Used MS Dynamics AX to map various scenarios. Provided ongoing support and guidance. Assisted with the development of customized browser applications.

Provide assistance to Supervisors and/or leads by: Aid in testing for process improvements, Participate in business continuity tests and Maintain and distribute production reports in Excel. Identify exception types that require improvement to reduce complexity and increase productivity. Identify internal and/or external process breakdown and work to eliminate the root cause of invoice discrepancies. Determine and perform corrective action needed to resolve customer payment discrepancies.