SUMMARY+

• A forward - thinking and reliable project management professional with a wide array of expertise including master data management, system implementations, financial planning, cash flow administration, strategic planning, capital appropriations, and innovation. With an objective approach to challenges, identifies opportunities as well as evaluates alternatives, risks, and roadblocks.
• Fluent in English and Spanish.
• Promotes understanding of various countries in systems and global design to maintain best practices and support worldwide.
• A creative producer who is not afraid to challenge the status quo and creates novel solutions while fostering a collaborative environment.
• Driven to achieve results in a team setting and exceed expectations to ensure the long-term success of an organization.

SAP ERP platforms, SAP PCM, Retail Link, Lombardi, Enterprise Location Master, HOST, STHD, SNSS. SALE, Baan, Agile, Leankit, Microsoft Office Suite, Accounts Receivable, Accounts Payable, Accounting, Application Support, Financial Closings, Data Cleansing, Budgets, Financial Analysis, Financial Accounting, Financial Planning, Financial Statements, Profit and Loss Management, Budget, Forecasts, Cash Disbursement, Cash Investments, Fixed Assets Accounting, Fixed Assets Administration, Credits Administration, Data Quality, Data Remediation, Database, Documentation, Data Mapping, Electronic Payments, Amortization Tables, Profit Centers and Cost Centers, US GAAP, Invoicing, Change Management, Systems Integration, Capital Appropriation Projects, System Support, Reconciliations, Sarbanes Oxley Act, Payroll, Problem-solving, Merchandising, Operations, Pricing, Retail, Project Management, Purchasing, Retail, Testing, HPQC, Training, Strategic Planning, Remedy 7, Workflow, Query Man, QMF, Innovation, Leadership.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Bentonville, Arkansas

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Led Location Master team regarding implementation of Location Master Data Management application for Costa Rica, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Honduras, Guatemala, and China.
• Directed reporting and consolidating efforts associated with large-scale acquisitions and demand to integrate target company's legacy systems into company systems.
• Managed in-house and off-shore process testing to ensure compliance with business needs, proper execution of changes by technical team, and satisfaction of required timeline for delivery.
• Designed and implemented technical team workflow to drive system's functionality through comprehensive plans.
• Executed detailed mapping of initial load, ongoing load, and feeding consuming systems. Designed financial planning approach to view IT business at domain level.
• Understood needs of each country and accounted for them in new system, while maintaining global design.
• Provided regular support to Mexico, United States, Canada, Argentina, China, Japan, Great Britain, Costa Rica, Honduras, El Salvador, Guatemala, and Nicaragua with favorable feedback from different regions.
• China project went live three days ahead of schedule and presented minimum hypercare issues.
• Won an innovation Hackathon contest on the Customer Service category: developed a customer localization tool within stores to track path on company app to help customers find any item in aisles.

Confidential

Project Manager

• Led Location Master Team regarding implementation of Location Master Data Management application for Mexico.
• Classified and capitalized overhauled stores within fixed asset division of accounting. Calculated deferred income tax rate for group.
• Presented several analyses of financial statements that stemmed from new and current generally accepted accounting principles both from Mexico and international entities, such as Financial Accounting Standards Board, Securities and Exchange Commission, and International Accounting Standards Commission.
• Managed overall Accounting Direction’s budget, including following up on monthly expenses, projecting salary increases, and making expense saving suggestions.
• In charge of managing all company vehicles.
• Informed series of compliance changes throughout organization.
• Developed software that enabled auctioning cars and trucks assigned to managers, executives and operative areas that resulted in steady cash flow and profits in selling transportation assets.
• Pioneered Walmart’s first global transformation that started in Mexico to implement the application that managed all stores and administrative departments world-wide. 

Confidential, Chicago, Illinois

Accounting Analyst

• Financially controlled the most significant capital appropriation project the company had in decades: the construction of a 167-million-dollar plant in Monterrey, Mexico. Optimized coordination, control, and analysis of related party transactions between parent company in United States and subsidiaries of Mexico and Brazil.
• Collected, booked, and remitted necessary information and documentation to allow monthly closings as scheduled and reduce e reconciling items between entities.
• Completed detailed analysis by type of operation between international United States and international from Brazil from beginning of operations.
• Adjusted and wrote off entries by $1,700,000 at end of fiscal year.

Confidential

Financial Analyst

• Prepared G&A budgets and forecasts. Performed cash flow administration duties, including payroll and accounts payable to vendors and investments.
• Calculated and controlled specific capital appropriation projects from systems integration area.
• Provided financial base to understand P&L involved to implement systems and consult solution to different companies

Confidential

Finance Director

• Managed issuance of financial statements. Headed of financial planning. Administered cash flow, including investments and accounts payable.
• Hired and supervised external auditor for financial statements certification.
• Led thorough financial review of school financial statements and introduced new auditor to detect past inconsistencies.