Carlos-Gustavo Almeida

Carlos-Gustavo Almeida

Résumé

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Carlos-Gustavo Almeida Redrovan

Born 10th July, 1964, in GuayaquilCity

Ecuadorian nationality

Married, 2 boys (17 and 13 years old)

Address: Ciudadela Guayacanes Mz. 15, v..#2

Phone number: 04-2825265 / 09-8060183 (celular)

Hobbies: Enjoy taking for a walk with my family, going to the gym, and reading business books.

MEMBERSHIPS

Member of the Phoenix Club (English community in Ecuador)

Member of the local Accountant’s body (PastVice-President)

Member of the Institute of Accounting Investigations (Instituto de Investigaciones Contables), and Former National Technical Secretary and Director, Past Secretary and Professional Education Director.

EDUCATION

Escuela Superior Politécnica del Litoral

Master of Business Administration, 1995

Universidad Estatal de Guayaquil

Certified Public Accountant (CPA), 1990

Colegio Mercantil

Bachelor on Accounting and Administrative Sciences, 1982

Languages

Fluent in Spanish and English

MAIN PROFFESIONAL OBJECTIVE

To consolidate my career in a solid and prestigious company. During my working experience I have managed and leadership all the Administrative and Financial departments and I also participated as member of the Board of Directors, we had taken full responsibility for the companies and I am ready to grow up to the next professional level as General Manager.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

2006-Actual SUL AMERICA, COMPAÑIA DE SEGUROS

Administrative and Financial Manager reporting to the General Manager and the Regional Financial Manager. I take full responsibility for the whole company, excepting Sales area, during the General Manager absence.

Sul America employs approximately 200 employees with 11 regional offices around the country and annual sales by US$20 millions. Actually is ranked 5th place by premium sales.

I am responsible for the Purchasing area, Maintenance department, general services,and callcentre. I am also responsible for the Accounting, Treasury, Credit & Collections, budgeting and financial analysis departments. Presentation of the annual budget to the company’s shareholders.

To date I can mention some achievements as follows: Savings initiatives by around US$200,000, restructuring of the Treasury and Customer service departments in order to improve the service level and reducing the clients complaints, implementation of the national call centre, To get a local line of credit with a bank by US$2.5 millions and streamline of the Accounting department in order to accomplish with the legal reporting dates.

2004-2006 BRISTOL MYERS SQUIBB, CONTROLLER

Main Representative of the financial area into the site, reporting to the Financial Latin America Vice-president with location in USA and presenting the annual budget directly to the America’s Operations President. The local plant produced around 18 million units and 280 sku’s.

I managed the Cost Accounting and Reporting Department, Internal Control, Budget and financial Planning and leadership for cost reduction initiatives.

• Personal responsibility for the fulfilment of the operationalresults, including the Standard product costs, expenses and inventory level.

• To maintain the operations internal control within the head office standards and according with the local legal requirements. Business processes review in order to identify improvements opportunities and to develop superior business solutions.

• To provide financial and analytical support to the Plant management team, including the analysis and reporting of the monthly results and variations, quarterly projections, annual budget and long-range business plans.

2002-2004 FINANCIAL AND ADMINISTRATIVE MANAGER, BRENNTAG ECUADOR S.A.

Brenntag Ecuador is the local subsidiary of Brenntag in Germany and main distributor in Ecuador of chemical products for industry. As Financial and Administrative Manager I took responsibility for the whole financial and administrative operation into the Country and I reported directly to the Regional General Manager with responsibilities on Venezuela, Colombia y Ecuador. The local company has sale by US$40 millions and employed 100 workers located in 5 sites around the country.

I was responsible for the following Departments: Human Resources, Information Technology, Credit & Collections, Accounting, Budget and financial planning. Total 20 people.

Some important achievements are: Restructuring of the local financial debt with banks through getting an international line of credit with substantial reduction in the interest rate, outsourcing of the Information Technology department, restructuring of the Credit and Collections department including the selection of a Manager with excellent level and reducing the bad debts to minimum percentages. Together with the Sales Mangers we reached the budget and financial goals.

1990-1999 CONTROLLER, UNILEVER ANDINA - CORPORACION JABONERIA NACIONAL

Acquired by Unilever, a global manufacturer of Food, Household, Personal and Skin Care Products. Sales in Ecuador by US$100 million, advertise and distributes 24 brands, employs 1300 people and market leader or second in every product category.

I Managed 4 Areas and 20 people: Organization and Methods Department (responsible for the company policies and procedures) Accounting, Taxes and Accounts Payable, reporting to the Corporate Finance Director. Initial position: Controller, then I was promoted to Corporate Controller and finally I worked as Financial Manager of the ice cream division supervising the Treasury, Credit & Collections, Internal Control, Fixed Assets and Reporting Departments. Member of the Ice Cream Division Board of Directors.

Some achievements: Automated the Accounting process and shortened monthly financial reports elaboration time from 22 days to 1 working day, Improved managerial information quality implementing the Value Creation, Activity Based Costing and Standard Cost Models, Strengthened internal controls, Created the Corporate Intranet automating the Accounts Payable Process and reduced the number of internal client and supplier complaints to zero in 4 months,

1989-1990 INTERNAL AUDITOR, EVEREADY DEL ECUADOR S.A.

Chief of the Internal Auditing Department reporting to the Company’s President. Engaged of develop the annual audit plan and its execution, in order to guarantee strong internal control and adherence to the local and international company’s policies and procedures.

Some Achievements: As result of the internal auditing reports three sales offices around the country were closed due to frauds detections, total compliment of the Annual Audit Plan and follow-up of the recommendations until their successfully implementation.

1982-1989 SENIOR AUDITOR, DELOITTE HASKINS & SELLS (ACTUALLY DELOITTE & TOUCHE)

As Senior In-charge, during 7 years I developed and conducted a lot of financial, internal and operative audits in different types of organizations: industries, banks, ONG’s, commerce, etc. Responsible for the official firm’s bulletin news and instructor in many local and international seminars for clients and staff. I was assigned for almost three months to the Chilean office and developed the audit of two forest companies.