Simera Professional Key (SPK)

Daniel S

Colombia

Cost Accountant

$ 6,700/month

9 yrs exp

This candidate is a highly experienced finance and accounting leader with extensive background as a Financial Controller across multi-country LATAM operations. He brings strong expertise in IFRS and US GAAP, financial consolidation, audit coordination, and accounting governance, combined with hands-on experience leading financial closings, budgeting, and cash flow management. His background in ERP implementations and financial process optimization further strengthens his ability to enhance repor…

Skills

  • Accounting
  • Adaptability
  • Agile Project Management
  • Communications
  • Finance Reporting
  • HR Management
  • IT Management
  • Leadership
  • Management
  • Microsoft Excel
  • Multitasking
  • Payroll
  • Product Management
  • Project Management
  • Teamwork
  • Ad Management
  • ATS Management
  • Budget Management
  • CRM Management
  • Digital Project Management
  • Microsoft Exchange
  • Microsoft Office 365
  • Microsoft Office Suite
  • PR Management
  • Production Management
  • Property Management
  • Sap Business One
  • SAP C
  • TeamWorks
  • Communication
  • Financial Reporting
  • Internal Controls
  • Team Leadership
  • Cross-functional Collaboration
  • Bid Management
  • Compliance
  • Team Work
  • Lidership
  • Comunicación
  • UI Design
  • Budget management
  • Managment
  • comunication
  • Project Manager
  • Multi-task
  • Social Project Management
  • Project managment
  • Communicative
  • Microsoft Office
  • Multi-Tasking
  • Process Optmization
  • Adaptabilid
  • financial controlling
  • project mnangement
  • controller
  • Legal Project Management
  • AI Design
  • Leathership
  • Good Communication
  • internal Control
  • Accouting
  • project managmenet
  • adaptabilité
  • Communication.
  • Adaptability.
  • multi tasking
  • leadership,
  • Hybrid Project Managerment
  • IT Project Management
  • PMO and Project Management
  • Process Automation
  • Project managemet
  • Working under time pressure
  • adaptabilty
  • Communication Tools
  • Effective Time Management
  • Complex Project Management
  • Adaptabiity
  • Global Team Leadership
  • adpatability
  • Teamworker
  • Cross functional Collaboration
  • ghg accounting
  • Cross-Functional Team Collaboration
  • controlm
  • Cross-functional Coordination
  • ERP Management
  • Working Under Pressure
  • Crossfuntional Colaboration
  • Project Management,
  • Cross-Functional Collaboaration
  • Cross-Cultural Collaboration
  • P&L Management
  • management
  • Cross-Functional Collaboration & Oversight
  • Communcation
  • B2B Management
  • payrolls
  • Adabiility
  • Adaptabilility
  • tax compliance
  • DNS Management

Daniel S

Colombia

Cost Accountant

$ 6,700 /month

9 yrs exp

This candidate is a highly experienced finance and accounting leader with extensive background as a Financial Controller across multi-country LATAM operations. He brings strong expertise in IFRS and US GAAP, financial consolidation, audit coordination, and accounting governance, combined with hands-on experience leading financial closings, budgeting, and cash flow management. His background in ERP implementations and financial process optimization further strengthens his ability to enhance repor…

Skills

  • Accounting
  • Adaptability
  • Agile Project Management
  • Communications
  • Finance Reporting
  • HR Management
  • IT Management
  • Leadership
  • Management
  • Microsoft Excel
  • Multitasking
  • Payroll
  • Product Management
  • Project Management
  • Teamwork
  • Ad Management
  • ATS Management
  • Budget Management
  • CRM Management
  • Digital Project Management
  • Microsoft Exchange
  • Microsoft Office 365
  • Microsoft Office Suite
  • PR Management
  • Production Management
  • Property Management
  • Sap Business One
  • SAP C
  • TeamWorks
  • Communication
  • Financial Reporting
  • Internal Controls
  • Team Leadership
  • Cross-functional Collaboration
  • Bid Management
  • Compliance
  • Team Work
  • Lidership
  • Comunicación
  • UI Design
  • Budget management
  • Managment
  • comunication
  • Project Manager
  • Multi-task
  • Social Project Management
  • Project managment
  • Communicative
  • Microsoft Office
  • Multi-Tasking
  • Process Optmization
  • Adaptabilid
  • financial controlling
  • project mnangement
  • controller
  • Legal Project Management
  • AI Design
  • Leathership
  • Good Communication
  • internal Control
  • Accouting
  • project managmenet
  • adaptabilité
  • Communication.
  • Adaptability.
  • multi tasking
  • leadership,
  • Hybrid Project Managerment
  • IT Project Management
  • PMO and Project Management
  • Process Automation
  • Project managemet
  • Working under time pressure
  • adaptabilty
  • Communication Tools
  • Effective Time Management
  • Complex Project Management
  • Adaptabiity
  • Global Team Leadership
  • adpatability
  • Teamworker
  • Cross functional Collaboration
  • ghg accounting
  • Cross-Functional Team Collaboration
  • controlm
  • Cross-functional Coordination
  • ERP Management
  • Working Under Pressure
  • Crossfuntional Colaboration
  • Project Management,
  • Cross-Functional Collaboaration
  • Cross-Cultural Collaboration
  • P&L Management
  • management
  • Cross-Functional Collaboration & Oversight
  • Communcation
  • B2B Management
  • payrolls
  • Adabiility
  • Adaptabilility
  • tax compliance
  • DNS Management

Cost Accountant

B. Braun Medical
February 2021 - August 2021

Responsible for financial controlling, cost analysis, and reporting for the Colombian subsidiary. Oversaw validation of payroll and operating expenses, import process audits, and intercompany reconciliations to ensure compliance with corporate and local standards (IFRS and LATAM GAAP). Led the preparation of management reports, variance analyses, and financial statements. Conducted comprehensive audits of Shared Service Center (SSC) processes in Accounts Payable, reviewed and optimized import cost processes, managed payroll validation and general expense control. Prepared and analyzed local financial reports, led compliance reviews, coordinated monthly accounting closings, and reconciled complex intercompany transactions. Designed and implemented Power BI dashboards and supported corporate reporting to headquarters through TM1. Achievements include streamlining import and cost control processes, improving accuracy and timeliness of monthly financial closings, and enhancing management decision-making through automation.

Senior Accountant

Deloitte
May 2020 - January 2021

Led and managed accounting and payroll operations across Colombia and Peru, ensuring compliance with US GAAP and IFRS standards for over 75 entities. Provided timely and effective accounting solutions, supported process optimization, and ensured regulatory compliance across multiple jurisdictions. Oversaw the implementation and migration of accounting systems for more than 60 clients. Coordinated regional initiatives, financial indicators validation, and reporting processes, including the preparation and review of Income Tax, VAT, and Withholding Returns, as well as municipal tax obligations. Achievements include successfully implementing global accounting standards across 75 entities, leading the deployment and migration of accounting software for 60+ clients, ensuring full compliance with payroll, tax, and accounting regulations, and coordinating multi-country projects.

Senior Consultant

Digital Ware
November 2019 - March 2020

Managed the payroll implementation processes for various clients, including follow-up on requests and cases. Reviewed purchase orders, scheduled and executed activities, reviewed payroll calculations, and parameterized systems using PMMA methodology. Supported information migration in databases. Conducted training for payroll system processes, reviewed, settled, and audited payroll for over 1000 employees. Reviewed Plant processes. Achievements include efficient payroll implementation leadership, exemplary client support and issue resolution, streamlined purchase order review, precise scheduling and execution, thorough payroll calculation reviews, effective parameterization using PMMA methodology, seamless data migration, comprehensive payroll system training, and enhanced plant process reviews.

Payroll Analyst and Accountant Analyst

Abbott Laboratorios
May 2016 - July 2019

As Payroll Analyst, coordinated and prepared Colombia and Ecuador payroll processes, reviewed compensation and benefits, handled corporate and fiscal payroll audits, managed government entity requirements, and supported human resources and social security payments. Performed reconciliations for headquarters and fiscal accounting review. As Accountant Analyst, supported, planned, organized, controlled, and executed additional accounting activities. Programmed and controlled billing processes, supported intercompany billing, generated billing reports, prepared expense indicators, analyzed financial information, validated and monitored budgets and indicators. Supported financial reporting to headquarters, reviewed imports, managed CXP process under IFRS and USGAAP, presented magnetic media, reviewed billing for VAT, income, and ICA taxes, and prepared periodic financial reports.

BPO Analyst

Edgewell Personal Care
September 2015 - May 2016

Carried out accounting closings under local IFRS and USGAAP regulations. Prepared and presented closure reports, financial statements, and additional accounting notes. Validated accounts receivable, reviewed provisions for purchase orders, and reviewed municipal and district taxes. Prepared and presented tax returns, including income provisions and ICA. Reviewed documentation for supplier creation, monitored internal regulations, and analyzed costs. Reviewed balance and result accounts, attended corporate and national audits, controlled cash flow, managed exchange regime, and presented Banrep and DIAN reports.

Prevention Analyst

Liberty Seguros
June 2013 - September 2015

Led billing processes nationwide, provided supplier service, executed and monitored budgets, and analyzed compliance indicators. Verified accounting information for the preparation and presentation of reports, invoicing, and transmission to the financial superintendency. Responsible for reconciliations and verification of accounting figures, provided information to control entities, and verified and analyzed expenditures in the prevention area. Coordinated and controlled billing processes, ensuring compliance with established service contracts and managing all daily operations of the billing area.

Accounting Analyst

IAC Gestión Administrativa
July 2011 - March 2013

Analyzed and verified medical accounts, validated accounting information for financial reports and statements. Controlled portfolio, monitored high-cost billing, and managed, reviewed, accrued, and debugged payroll processes, fixed assets and depreciation, deferred and amortizations, inventories, petty cash, and investments. Handled medical costs, provisions, and bank reconciliations. Managed banking and financial operations, prepared and supported national and departmental tax processes, processed payments to suppliers, managed office tools, and handled invoicing causation. Provided information to superintendencies, responded to tax audit requirements, managed and filed accounting supports, and directly participated in and coordinated monthly accounting closings.