Maria Belen Ferrari

Experience

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  BDO Uruguay

  Jun 2015 - Jul 2016

  Junior

  Departamento Internacional de Impuestos.

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  Abbott

  Jan 2017 - now

  - Participate as a member of the staff of the LatAm Regional Manufacturing Director, EPD, providing financial guidance and analysis for short-term and long-term strategies for the region.- In conjuntion with the Plant Finance teams, assure development of standard costs and other cost analysis for existing and new products in Compliance with local, International and Corporate policies. Ensure that there is involment with the Commercial groups, Plants, Technical Support, Materials Management and Project Management as required to provide analysis for evaluation of alternatives and effective decision-making.- Consolidation of Operations P&L for all LatAm sites with deep-dive analysis. Show less Sr Analyst in Supplier Relationship Office- Recognize opportunities to secure reduced prices, analyzing and evaluating supplier bids, tenders or quotations. - Analyzing the forecast of internal clients in order to search opportunities of demand.- Assess strategical supplier's raw materials to ensure that they comply with specifications and meet the organization's quality standards.- Negotiate delivery conditions, payment terms in order to improve DPO.- Follow-up the status of POs with suppliers to ensure time delivery. Communicate status of orders with internal customers.- Ensuring and measuring internal KPI's to monitor our performance with internal clients.- Comunicate and Follow-up every supplier change notifications received to our internal clients. Interim Role from May 22 to October 22 as Specialist of searching second sources of APIs for qualification.- Responsible for the searching, negotiation and selection of new APIs suppliers for our LatAm Manufacturing sites. - Working together with R&D, QA, MS&T, Patents & Legal Department to guarantee quality compliance of selected suppliers (audit, qualification plans) in order to avoid shortages of API's. Show less Transfer Price - Pricing List analysis - Massive system loading of Sales Price & Standard Cost to SAP - Full Involment in D.5.6 Proyect. Strong collaboration with the allignment SKUs codification for LatAm manufacturing sites & affiliates. It was a key element to implement TCGM & net cost processes in the region - Montly KPI's analysisReporting- Montly reports to HQ through Oracle system- Annual reports to HQ- Financial reports to Local Government Entities- Montly analysis of variances in P&L and Financial Statement- Annual Cash Flow forecastingCompliance- Full Involvement in Intern & Extern Audits- Developed and Implemented Financial guidances and procedures- Annual control of Fixed Assets Show less - Annual Cash Flow Forecasting- Financial reports to Local Goverment Entities.- Full involment in financial month end-close tasks- Developed and implemented a tool to detect monthly variances in P&L and Financial Statement- Monthly Expense Reports detecting variances- Transfer Price- Assesing monthly KPI's- Monthly cash counts- Annual control of fixed assets- Full involvement in Intern & Extern audits- SAP Book entries of invoices and expenses.- Developed and implemented automatic payments through SAP- Participated in the final stage of Abbott Operations Uruguay start-up Show less

  • Sr. Cost Analyst (SC & SRO Controller)

    Nov 2022 - now

  • Sr. Procurement Analyst

    May 2021 - Dec 2022

  • Accounting and Reporting Specialist

    Jul 2019 - May 2021

  • Accounting Analyst

    Jan 2017 - Jul 2019