Laura Porfas
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RtR Senior Specialist
San José Province, Costa Rica
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RtR Senior SpecialistEmersonSep 2021 - Jan 2026 (4 years 5 months)• Promote continuous improvement through the reconciliation review and approval process (First Senior Analyst as approver in the GFS).
• Strong partnership with different teams including Controllers, Managers and Directors from United States, UK, Philippines, and India to facilitate cross-functional work and manage team dependencies efficiently.
• Coordinate and lead the Business Units CI quarterly call between USA, CR and Philippines to review some results and get feedback from them about the team’s support.
• Owner of audit requests management process for the team.
• Standardization and improvement process with Power Query and Power BI.
• Active member of Task Force Continuous Improvement support team to GFS depar- Accounting AnalystKimberlyclarkMay 2019 - Sep 2021 (2 years 5 months)• Prepare account reconciliations and follow up to open items
• Approve balance sheet reconciliations in Blackline.
• Prepare, review, and post manual journal entries.
• Developing and implementing of continuous improvement projects with power query
• Execute revaluation process
• Review expense accounts and their allocation by cost centers (Run of Cycles in SAP)
• Close accounts receivable and accounts payable modules.
• Support audit requirements.
• Execute year end balances carry forward process in SAP.
• Preparation of Standard work process (SOPs). - Financial AccountantAmway Costa RicaMay 2018 - Apr 2019 (1 year)• Prepare BSR (Balance Sheet Review) to Finance Manager.
• Upload balances to the Corporation through Hyperion (HFM)
• Prepare annual "Audit Package" for Corporate.
• Accounts Revaluation process.
• Coordinate and prepare audit request/reports.
• Accounts reconciliation process and follow-up for open items
• Fixed assets and projects (asset retirement, project creation, module closure and roll forward preparation for corporate).
• Prepare, review and post manual journal entries such as prepaids, accruals, bank charges, bonus expenses, discounts and Cross billing.
• Inventory module closure. - Accounting AnalystPrysmianJun 2017 - Apr 2018 (11 months)• Accounting accruals and prepaids postings
• Fixed assets process (depreciation, reconciliation, assets projects review, follow up and capitalization).
• Intercompany balancing and Intercompany netting
• Travel and expense process (T&E)
• Accounts Reconciliation process
• Costa Rica taxes (Preparation, presentation, payment of declarations and tax forecast). - Accounting AssistantPrysmianOct 2014 - May 2017 (2 years 8 months)• Prepare forecast process (sales and inventory).
• Costa Rica taxes process (sales and use tax, remittances abroad and payroll withholding taxes).
• Manage of accounts receivable employees and advances to employees.
• Collaborate on physical inventory of Raw material, WIP, Finished product and Fixed assets.
• Accounts Payable postings (imports, freight, general expenses, intercompany invoices and taxes).
• Prepare regional bank reconciliations and accounts payable.
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- Degree in Public Accounting (LicenciaturaULACITJan 2020 - Dec 2021 (2 years)
- Bachelor's Degree in Accounting and FinanceUniversidad Técnica NacionalJan 2018 - Dec 2019 (2 years)
- Diploma in Accounting and FinanceUniversidad Técnica NacionalJan 2015 - Dec 2017 (3 years)
- CTechnical Degree in Accounting and FinanceColegio Técnico Profesional Jesús Ocaña RojasJan 2012 - Dec 2014 (3 years)