César Vallejos Carrera

• Managed day-to-day financial operations (i.e., order-to-cash, purchase-to-pay, record-to-report, payroll, sales compensation, and other processes) within LATAM and Middle East/Africa.
• Monitored budget, variance trends and, revenue worth over $105M, regularly apprising region's President of financial standing.
• Provided executive analysis and insight on key performance indicators along with recommendations to guide management decisions.
• Boosted process simplification, targeting solutions to streamline financial tasks and operations.
• Coached and developed direct and indirect Staff Accountants.

Key Achievements:

• Outlined work plans, determined resources, wrote timelines, and generated initial budgets as part of project scope for setting up finance teams, and meeting local legal requirements to start operations in Panama, Dubai, Chile, and Colombia.
• Set up the Panama office (i.e., furniture, office/computer equipment, network, telephony services, and employee benefits).

• Oversaw finance, accounting, and payroll operations with direct management responsibility for six Staff Accountants.
• Coordinated all internal and external accounting audit reviews – no audit findings or adjustments recorded.
• Presented to senior leadership monthly results with focused emphasis on key performance variance drivers.
• Created process improvements and efficiencies through standardization across the group.
• Supported new business initiatives (e.g., new business model, acquisitions) from a financial perspective.

Key Achievements:

• Earned Outstanding Employee of the Year Award for outstanding performance.
• Outlined work plans, wrote timelines, generated initial budget, and led project for implementing the Employee Expense Management System to replace manual process for expense reimbursements – reports processing decreased from 4 weeks to 5 days.

• Provided tax advisory to local and foreign business clients.
• Prepared tax returns for clients in various industries according to government regulations and requirements.
• Performed due diligence services to multinational companies interested in mergers and acquisitions in Panama.
• Addressed tax inquiries from business clients.

• Monitored, and controlled spending budget of ELD team within HR hub in Panama.
• Reported monthly outsourcing expenses to reflect updated and accurate data during month-end closings.
• Delivered quarterly scorecards with financial results and operations KPIs to HR Directors and VPs.

• Led accounting operations with direct management responsibilities for three Staff Accountants at Hewlett-Packard and Microsoft (assigned business clients).
• Executed core financial processes including month-end closing, vendor setup and payment, operational expenses, administration of bank accounts, and account reconciliations.
• Prepared monthly cash forecasts.