Greater Madrid Metropolitan Area
Throughout my professional and personal experience, I have learned that when your work has a positive impact on the society, the level of satisfaction does not know limits. It does not matter how challenging or tight your deadlines are, every accomplishment makes it worthwhile. It is my time to give back to the community. And for that, I cannot find a better way to offer all my effort, experience and professionalism to that cause. Because some people may have not been as fortunate as we are... let's move forward! "Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely" - Auguste Rodin
BOK Financial Corporation is a regional financial services company based in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The company's stock is publicly traded on NASDAQ under the Global Select market listings (symbol: BOKF). BOK Financial's holdings include BOKF, NA, BOK Financial Securities, Cavanal Hill Investment Management, Inc. and The Milestone Group, Inc. BOKF, NA operates the TransFund electronic funds network and seven banking divisions: Bank of Albuquerque, Bank of Arizona, Bank of Arkansas, Bank of Kansas City, Bank of Oklahoma, Bank of Texas, and Colorado State Bank and Trust.
In addition to the finance role, I was in charge of the coordination of external specialists seated in different countries, cooperation with several partners in the country (e.g. US AIDS, UN), agreeing the agenda for in-country missions, project budget control, and elaboration of terms of references for new assignments.
Global Fund is an international financing institution (Non-profit) based in Switzerland. PwC performs the role of Local Fund Agent in around 80 countries in the world. Reporting directly to the Program Officer seated in Switzerland, I developed very autonomously the following tasks, both in English and Portuguese: - Review and analysis of accounting transactions, accuracy of expenditures, review of budgets and audit reports. - Report progress updates on a quarterly basis, and disbursement recommendations. - Supervision of internal controls implemented by recipients of funds: public organizations (e.g Ministry of Health) or International Bodies (e.g. United Nations Development Programme). - Recommendations to management and review of procurement process of goods and services.
Among others, some accounts I was involved in are the following: - Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) in Angola: audit of financial statements reported to SDC Head Quarters in Switzerland. SDC is Switzerland’s international cooperation agency within the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs. - Sociedade de Desenvolvimento de Perímetros Irrigados, SA (SOPIR): public Company created for the administration and supervision of irrigated schemes established by the Angolan government. - BGI Group: within Castle group since 1990, BGI (Brasseries et Glacières Internationales) is the first producer of beer in Angola.
- Audit of financial statements of listed companies in the real estate sector and telecommunications. - Preparation of agreed upon procedures for revision of ratios for financial entities and CNMV (Spanish Security and Exchange Commission) under IFRS. - Review of bank debt restructuring processes and conclusions. Assessment of credits as an expert in the real estate sector, under the supervision of the Spanish Central Bank and guidelines of the Ministry of Economy.
Fusion for Energy (F4E) is the European Union’s Joint Undertaking for ITER and the Development of Fusion Energy. As part of the Contract and Procurement Department, I was involved in the revision of contracts and bidding, assessment of industrial property rights, and presentation of conclusions to top level management in the Agency.