María Flores

Professional Spanish with more than 17 years of experience on accountancy and finance sector. My experience as an international accountant helped me improve my numerical skills, communication, and interpersonal abilities. I am comfortable working with figures daily and with a perceptive mind; I quickly understand the significance, essence, and potential of a situation. I enjoy the challenge involved with keeping several activities running smoothly simultaneously and had learned the importance to work within a team.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Finance Director, International Learning Authority SL, Barcelona.

May 2019 - Currently

inlea started in Barcelona in 2005 providing sales specialists for clients in the technology and education sectors. Progressively, inlea incorporated experts in law, technology, digital marketing and business development, becoming a 360º consulting firm operating in 50 countries and with seven office locations in the USA, the UK, Canada, Brazil, India, Russia and Spain. Now, inlea supports business growth, corporate innovation and the international expansion of its clients by providing best-in-class advice and leading-edge legal, business, tech and staffing solutions.

• Oversee, review, and adhere to the budgets for each business department.
• Assist in company-wide budgetary planning.
• Ensure that all the company's financial practices are in line in statutory regulations and legislation in each country we are operating.
• Analyse the financial climate and market trends to assist senior executives in creating strategic plans.
• Interpret complex financial information and provide updates and information as needed to AC in each country the company is based.
• Monitor cash flow, accounts, and other financial transactions.
• Supervise financial assistants and other employees in the facilitation of day-to-day operations, including tracking financial data, invoicing, payroll, etc.
• Prepare official reports on a monthly and annual basis.
• Seek out methods and practices to minimise financial risk.
• Contract auditing services to ensure financial monitoring is up to date.
• Oversee subsidiaries financial statements for the group company to ensure all the legal compliance aspect are cover in each country.
• Create and maintain relationships with service providers and contractors, including banking institutions and accountants.
• Update and implement financial policies and procedures. ERP, Project Management and CRM.
• Maintain a policy manual for the finance department.
• Work with human resources employees to secure candidates who will be an asset to the finance department.
• Establish and implement a training program for new finance employees.
• Manage and supervise the accounts and financial statements for our clients. As well and supervising the taxes and coordinate with our team to give the best service provided to ensure the work has been done on time and in a professional manner.

International Accountant and Payroll Manager, Polyglot Group Europe SL, Barcelona.

July 2017 – April 2019

Polyglot Group is a team of passionate and professional consultants who assist businesses to expand and optimize their local operations, providing them with pragmatic and cost-effective HR Consulting & outsourcing, Recruitment, Language and Business Solutions across all industries and countries.

• Managing and overseeing the daily operations of the accounting department.
• Monitoring and analysing accounting data and produce financial reports or statements (P&L, Balance Sheets).
• Establishing and enforcing proper accounting methods, policies and principles.
  Accounts payable/receivable overseeing.
• Cash receipts and payments.
• General ledger auditing.
• Payroll implementation, collection, calculation, and entering of data for Spain, UK and France.
• Treasury collection.
• Budgeting and Cash forecasting.
• Revenue and expenditure variance analysis.
• Capital assets reconciliations and Fixed asset activity.
• Credit Controller and debtors’ activity.
• Monitor and analyse accounting data and produce financial reports or statements.
• Establish and enforce proper accounting methods, policies and principles.
• Coordinate and complete annual audits.
• Provide recommendations.
• Improve systems and procedures and initiate corrective actions.
• Assign projects and direct staff to ensure compliance and accuracy.
• Meet financial accounting objectives.
• Establish and maintain fiscal files and records to document transactions.

Finance Accountant, Urban Pubs and Bars ltd, London.

Nov 2014 – July 2017

Urban Pubs & Bars is a Hospitality company in London founded in 2014. The ethos is acquired the best sites and recruit exceptional operators who are passionate about food and drink. Establishing the right offer and investing in the right areas is a key, while devoting time and attention to the team that operate those sites is a major part of that investment.
 

• Helping in Management account process, as internal auditing of general ledger accounts or finance analysis requested by the FD.
• Balance Sheet.
• Weekly bank reconciliation for 13 sites on sage.
• Month end journals and employees’ expenses. 
• Analysing cash disbursements.
• PDQ reconciliation and amex reconciliation in a weekly basis.
• Posting revenues, amex fees and credit cards payments.
• Performing cash management functions.
• Summarising financial data and reporting to the Finance Director and helping in many other responsibilities in the business, as managing and supervising small Finance team. And supervising performance of Managers in our sites.
• On charge of the training of the accounts payables performance and ensuring that all accounting allocations are appropriately made and documented and signed at the end of the month.
• Overseeing accounts payable and accounts receivable.
• Payroll over 200 employees.
• Supplier’s payments and cash book daily payments by BACS and Chaps.

 Accounts Payable Clerk, Panorama Tours, London.

Jan 2013 – Nov 2014

Panorama Tours is a Travel Agents & Services. 

• Performing day to day and processing of accounts payable transactions to ensure that municipal finances are maintained in an effective, up to date and accurate manner. 
• Solely managing supplier accounts with a turnover of £2m a year.
• Accurately processing and batching a high volume of supplier invoices for payment on Sage Line 50. 
• Reconciliation of supplier statements, raising cheques and credit card payments.
• Dealing with supplier queries and liaising with other colleagues to solve them in a timely and professional manner.
• Summarizing supplier payments and discounts information to be used by the Financial Controller and General Manager.

Accountant, KLOCKNER & CO, Madrid.

June 2006– February 2011

In the steel and metal distribution, Klöckner & Co is one of the world’s largest producer-independent companies. 

Account Payable from June 2006 – June 2008

• Processing purchases supplier’s accounts.
• Looking after their calls and solving enquiries in professional manners.
• Analysing supplier’s accounts on a monthly basis and reports to the management team. 
• Producing these reports through the software SAP and AS400 and reporting results of accounts receivables or any outstanding accounts. 
• Analysing and implementing different financial solutions to improve our financial cycle and increase the company revenues. 
  • Integrating bank operations into SAP Software and outstanding accounts.

Accounts Receivable from June 2008 – February 2011

After improving considerably, the department results and achieving all the targets, I was promoted within the company to the Treasury Department.

• Daily allocation of receipts to customer accounts; bank transfers and checks.
• Resolve all problems for clients, copy invoices, proof of delivery, credit notes, and liaise internally to progress any problems that are being handled in any other department.
• Report to management on outstanding issues and inform them early of potential debtor’s problems.
• Cash allocation and reconciliation.
• Monthly interests pay out.
• Payments of suppliers and clients through transfer in e-banking.
• Monthly and yearly closing.

EDUCATION & PROFESSIONAL TRAINING

ACCA Student

BA Business & Administration, University Complutense of Madrid 

Language speaking: Spanish (mother tongue), English (Professional Level), French (Beginner Level), Catalan (Intermedium Level).

Systems

Excellent Level of Use of the following software: Microsoft Office (Excel, Power Point, Word, Access), Microsoft Outlook, SAP, AS-400, Sage Line 50 Accountant and Payroll software, Contaplus, Nominaplus, A3 software, Consolidation Financial Statements, Zonal retail system.