ROBERTO GARCIA SAMANIEGO

Contador Público con 8+ años de experiencia en la industria de IT

• Company: Hewlett Packard Enterprise

• Period November 2020 to present
• Position  Finance Manager, Controllership
• Activities: Responsible to coordinate 12 people on my team developing several activities as Balance Sheet Review from Tier 1 countries, Account Reconciliations of Prepaid, deposits and Warranties accounts as well Accrued liabilities. Supervise process as Pre tax earning (PTE), Return of Value added Cost (ROVAC) and IC billing monitoring; Support Local audits from AMS countries, mainly Colombia and Argentina. Supervise and approve Contingency journal entries and supervise month end close activities regarding the process that we own (escalatables). Constant support to teams worldwide on topics related to Balance Sheet analysis from Americas Region and support from a Country Finance View. Help the people I lead to develop their careers in order to reach next level outside of the organization. 

• Period: July, 2018 to November 2020
• Position: Senior Financial Analyst I, BSR Lead
• Activities: Review Accrued liabilities, Prepaid Expenses and Deposits accounts from AMS Region, assuring the quality of the review and fulfilling the KPI´s (no red or orange flags) placed as objectives of each fiscal year. WD4 Leader for the AMS region, as focal point I´m on charge to maintain the correct development  of all the activities during the day each month; give support and maintain communication between the requestors, the GCG and the team assigned in order to avoid any potential issue and keep in place the SOX guidelines. Involved in the Region BSR for AMS, with constant communication with the financial practices team related to all the narratives and explanations of every AMS country. Responsible of the monthly report of Escalatables of the Team, presenting in the EMEA and AMS forum related to any open topic related to escalatables and present each month to the upper management the detail of the them that were founded during each month by the team. BSR Vertical Lead for the US, responsible to provide from the beginning to the end of the process the explanations of the variances within the Phase for the country, presented to the FP team, Country Controller and the Upper management. Responsible of AMS BSR template Creation, process done two times per quarter and responsible to disburse to the AMS Vertical Leads as well to the Financial Practices team. 

• Achievement: Account reconciliations, no Fail accounts keeping the same line with the KPI´s aligned to the objectives. WD4 process has not had any complain from the requestors smooth transitions within the process. AMS BSR template creation, 2 audits each year with no complains of issues reported from the IA team. BSR Region with good results, no complaints received from Financial Practice team as well as responsible of the US BSR lead. 

• Period: July, 2015 to 2018.
• Position: Financial Analyst III
• Activities: Reconciling liabilities accounts mainly from the US and MCA following the AFM and Quality assurance guidelines along with the US GAAP and the Local Laws. Backup reviewer of Liabilities, Fixed Assets and IC accounts. Follow up and solving escalatable issues. Provide explanations, details and aging per SOX requirements to Local, Region Controllership and Financial Practices from the accounts that I´m BSR owner during the two Phases of each quarter. BSR vertical lead from Mexico responsible of the requirement of the information with the BSR owners about the accounts flagged, developing the analysis and further review of the narratives of the whole accounts of the Balance Sheet. Responsible of presenting the analysis and information to Local, Region Controllership and the Financial Practices Team. Provide support to the accounting and Financial Practices teams in the performance of the Region BSR Support to the performance of the MCA BSR Support to local controllerships regarding to E&Y audits.

• Achievements: During the split and spin offs that HPE has had, assured no OBS issues in the account ownership keeping the risk to zero of P&L impacts. A high level of Pass rates regarding to the QA account and JV´s samples (no fail accounts in the last 2 years). Take the ownership of the Mexico BSR assuming the role of Vertical Lead with no major issues during the reviews. Helped the accounting team to Pass seven accounts with sever QA issues and reducing the aged escalatable items that caused most of the issues in the accounts. Reduce of the escalatable amounts in the accounts of my ownership working aside the different Expenses Team and the Business Units, helping them to understand the appliance of the QA guidelines 

• Company: Industrias WET LINE S.A. de C.V.
  • Period: Februray, 2005 to May, 2012
  • Position: Sr. Buyer-Planner
  • Activities: Purchase of direct, indirect and raw material of the company (dedicated to the manufacturing of Gel for Hair) managing more than 500 products. Responsible of the week and monthly planning of the production, assuring the adequate level of inventories and assuring the on-time arrival of the materials in order to avoid any delay on the production. Negotiations with suppliers in order to find the best prices to reduce costs.

• Achievements: Developed the plan of delivers with the suppliers in order to have a dynamic system to reduce the time on the warehouse; reduce the inventory level to one week on the on-demand products helping to have lower warehousing costs. Lower the time delays on the lines of production having the adequate level of inventories. Win to win negotiations with the Suppliers with consignment inventories and emergency stocks in their warehouses. Develop of new suppliers through QA audits in order to have more competitive costs and increase the quality of the products. Help to develop the KPI´s of the area in order to obtain the ISO certification.

• Bachelor’s Degree Public Accounting

Universidad del Valle de México Campus Lomas Verdes

Average: 9.60