Willemstad, Curacao, Curacao, Netherlands Antilles
Phone: xxx-xxx-xxxx
Email: xxx@xxxx.xxx
Looking For: Accountant, Auditor
Occupation: Business and Finance
Degree: Master's Degree
Career Level: Fully Competent
Languages: English, Spanish, Dutch
Highlights:
Skills:teamwork, problemsolving, analytical, audit
Financial Officer 02/2017 - current
BK Group Curacao N.V., Willemstad, Curaçao Netherlands Antilles
Industry: Trust
- compilation of financial statements
- review v=of financial statements
- tax preparations
- analytics
?Coordination of financial planning and succession planning to ensure control and asset preservation of a broad client portfolio
?Coordination and supervision of offshore trust information
?Tailor-made financial solutions and guidance to ensure asset preservation
?Bookkeeping of accounts; prepare journal entries and perform account reconciliations and subledgers, account analysis of current vs prior year, research on fluctuations and discrepancies
?Provides financial information to management by researched and analyzed accounting data
?Compilation of financial statements based on GAAP/ IFRS
?Review of financial statements based on GAAP/ IFRS
?Tax preparations
?Discretionary management and trust accounting of private equities
?Act/ assigned as proxy holder for payment approvals of clients.--
Manager Internal audit 01/2016 - 12/2016
Banco di Caribe, Willemstad, Curaçao Netherlands Antilles
Industry: Bank
-Leading team on external audit preparation
-Leading team on internal audits
? Financial audit: Leading teams on preparation of the audit of the financial statements for assigned entities. Decision-making and problem solving on issues encountered with direct communication to external auditors. Review of quarterly figures and Review of the Central Bank Reporting (CoA)
? Operational audit: Leading teams on multiple engagements on operation effectiveness of bank internal procedures.
?Review of Policy and procedures to mitigate risks on the operation effectiveness of relevant banking processes
?Planning and organization engagements (Internal audit year plan)
?Writing Internal audit reports/ Memo’s (Financial audits and Operational audits) and reporting to the Senior Manager--
Senior Associate 01/2012 - 12/2015
PwC, Willemstad, Curaçao Netherlands Antilles
Industry: Audit firm
- External audits < substantive procedures >
- Internal control engagements
- Leading team on site/ review work performed by team
?Assurance: Audit engagements on several typologies, such as Oil & Gas industry (IFRS), Pharmaceutical company, Pension funds, and several Service-oriented companies (IFRS for SME/ DutchGAAP)
?Interim procedures: performed compliance with internal control procedures by examining records, operating practices and documentation
?Substantive procedures: performed substantive testing to detect material misstatements on posted accounting transactions (on assertion level)
?Risk Assurance services: ISAE3000 Internal Control engagements for a local bank where procedures are performed to obtain reasonable assurance whether internal controls are operating effectively for relevant (significant) processes. ERM (Enterprise Risk Management) Maturity-scan performed at a Pension fund.
?Led teams on client site visits and performed review of documented work by junior associates and associates--
Assistant accountant 07/2008 - 12/2011
Grant Thornton, The Hague, South Holland Netherlands
Industry: Audit firm
Audit engagements on several typologies, such as Entertainment industry, Theaters and festivals, Production companies, Pharmacies and Service-oriented companies
Interim procedures and substantive procedures performed on clients
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The Hague University 09/1999 - 07/2004
The Hague, South Holland, Netherlands
Degree: Bachelor's Degree
Major:Business Economics
Business Economics