ricardo araya Finance & Accounting Manager | Accountant | Business

Record to Report Team Lead

Lonza

Sep 2025 - Current (1 year 2 months)

-Improved inventory account reconciliation compliance: of 82 accounts, identified 32 non-compliant and reduced them to 13, significantly increasing control effectiveness under AICO standards and supporting accurate site cost reporting.
-Developed and maintained performance dashboards to provide financial transparency, identify trends, and support site leadership with data-driven insights aligned to operational objectives.
-Conducted detailed financial reviews of recurring journal entries; analyzed 456+ supporting documents and corrected 105 entries, strengthening accuracy and compliance with Group policies—key to reliable closing cycles across sites.
-Led month-end close activities, ensuring timely execution of key controls a

Inventory Project Manager

Pfizer

Apr 2024 - Jul 2025 (1 year 4 months)

- Led the ERP System implementation (SAP S/4HANA) and inventory integration for newly acquired companies, managing over $2 billion in inventory movements.
- Led cross-functional stakeholders across finance, portfolio management, supply chain, and operations to drive system alignment and post-merger harmonization (Reduced inventory errors by 40%).
- Created analytics tools to track GMX performance, capacity constraints, and reserve calculations (standardized 100 Legal Entities).
- Led project to increased ERP integration efficiency by 30%, and elevated SOX audit readiness.
- Led Innovation Strategy and his execution. (More than 5,000 hours of efficiencies across Inventory and Fixed Assets Department).
- Utilized busi

Inventory Supervisor

Pfizer

Jul 2019 - May 2024 (4 years 11 months)

- Managed global inventory reporting across 4 regions, achieving 100% SOX compliance.
- Closed $25M in aged balances and standardized GRIR and CIP processes.
- Led a team of 14+ staff and implemented real-time dashboards for executive insights.
- Oversaw construction project metrics and financial tracking for CIP team.

Supervisor

Amway

Jun 2018 - Jun 2019 (1 year 1 month)

-Managed Account Receivable and cash account reconciliation for 14 markets across LATAM and North America.
- Recovered $9M in unreconciled transactions by implementing streamlined cleanup strategies.
- Reduced audit response time by 35% and improved receivables reporting accuracy and consistency.
- Applied business coaching techniques to lead a team of 15 professionals, fostering a culture of excellence that significantly improved operational quality and overall team performance.

Accounting Supervisor

Auxis

Jun 2016 - Apr 2017 (11 months)

Renuncia para cursar una maestría en España.

Auxis Consulting and Outsourcing. Costa Rica (June 2016 - April 2017)
Senior Migrations Lead (January 2017 to April 2017)
• Design, document and implement in Auxis the accounting requirements for new clients. (Clients: Revlon, Conde Nast, Viax).
• Establish functional training to ensure that multiple team members can support client specific activities (Accounting and Excel Courses).
• Review activities, process and improve performance and efficiency for all assigned clients (Activities: conciliations, journal entries and intercompany procedures).
• Review activities, process, improve performance and efficiency for all Auxis Financial departments and Human Reso

Accounting Team Lead McAfee Integration (2015-2016)

Intel Corporation

Mar 2015 - May 2016 (1 year 3 months)

• Trained abroad as a McAfee employee during 3 months in Texas, to ensure a complete business and accounting understanding.
• Key point of contact between Intel and McAfee.
• Handle intercompany outages and reconciling items clean up, before balance conversion entries (McAfee balances into Intel balances).
• Provide technical support to reconcilers, reviewers, business process management experts, and entity and intercompany accountants.
• Support of supervisor activities:
- Staff meetings, strategic sessions and objectives follow up (Resources distribution, assessments reports)

Accounting Team Lead (2013 - 2015) Closing and Reporting Department

Intel Corporation

Nov 2013 - Mar 2015 (1 year 5 months)

• Provide technical and operational coaching regarding open items resolution, Sub ledger production, and effective communication with business partners.
• Review reconciliations, account monitoring process and balance sheet review. (Treasury, Latin America, US legal entities accounts).
• Perform Peer Review Audits.
• Support and coordinate external Audits (E&Y)
• Provide trainings to new hires on key accounting and operational policies.

Desk Accountant

Intel Corporation

Oct 2008 - Dec 2012 (4 years 3 months)

• Perform reconciliations, account monitoring and Balance Sheet Review for Treasury, Latin America and US legal entities
• Provide accounting information to external Audits (E&Y)
• Accountant for Insurance Legal Entities. (067 and 103).
• Accountant for Intercompany accounts (067,103,101,199, 391)

Other roles/ Responsibilities (2012-2013):
• Account Monitoring Global Process Owner (SOX control):
• Monthly global process monitoring.
• Support annual internal and external audit.
• Prepare and present annual OPS Review.
• Analytics team member:
• Provide technical ideas, in order to standardize the global analytics.
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