Marcelo A. Romero

Experience

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  Local Tax & Accounting consultant firm

  Mar 1985 - Dec 1990

  Consultant

  Responsible for customer´s taxes, personnel salaries, social charges and general admin activities while studing at university.

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  Cargill SACI

  Aug 1992 - May 2002

  Respónsible for budget control, variations and result statements, management of company resources across Argentina & Brazil and searching activities for regional opportunities Responsible for human resources administration, internal control functions, budget control and communication with government and external organizations. As Supervisor, preparing documents and reports related to fiscal credit reports, handling fixed assets administration for the Oil Division at Cargill SACI

  • Project Manager Assistant

    Jul 2000 - May 2002

  • Tax and Fixed Assets supervisor - Local Controller GOSC Plant

    Aug 1992 - Jul 2000
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  Cargill de Venezuela

  May 2002 - Dec 2004

  Assistant Controller - Food Business

  Managing the administrative processes at all Cargill´s industrial plants in Venezuela. Responsible for fixed assets inventory, budgets and personnel (32 employees). Managing internal controls and procedures. Developing operating and department budgets and analyzing deviations.

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  Cargill Inc

  Dec 2004 - Oct 2010

  Responsible for the identification, design and implementation of business process controls in the SAP and Tartan application portfolio. Managing the time and resources allocated within a managed business process. Planning and executing audits projects on a worldwide basis. Assessing business risk, supervising all aspects of assigned audit projects, assessing compliance with Cargill Policies and external regulatory requirements. As Audit Rep I was responsible for submitting projects proposals based on assessments conducted in the Region in accordance with Corporate Audit´s standards and guidelines

  • Business Process Controls Specialist

    Aug 2008 - Oct 2010

  • Audit Consultant & Audit Rep LATAN

    Dec 2004 - Aug 2008
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  Cargill Inc.

  Aug 2016 - Feb 2017

  Financial and Management reporting in compliance with local and US GAAP requirements, Develop customer solutions, Manage Balance sheet positions and transaction processing, responsible for establishing and maintaining effective internal controls, transaction processing and for supporting staff to achieving business goals. I have led a core decision team for almost a year as part of my Controller role. The team is accountable for ensuring the business (Malt) is timely delivering quality products to our customers, P&L budget is achieved and an "end-to-end" execution spirit is instilled at all levels of the LATAN organization Show less While maintaining my current responsibilities as Regional Controller for the SA Malt Business at Cargill I was engaged in a Regional Assessment for a ERP implementation. Main responsibilities were: Validate Scope of assessment - Ensure the business areas that are in scope are addressed by the project - Ensure active, effective participation of Business Process Owners, SMEs and IT Resources - Define and coordinate workshops - Identify value drivers for the implementation of the ONE CTRM ERP solution - Build the business case for building the CTRM ERP solution - Lead and oversee execution of the work plan working with Project Management role. Show less

  • Regional Controller

    Oct 2010 - Feb 2017

  • Business Process Lead - ERP Regional Assessment - Special-Temporary Assignment

    Aug 2016 - Nov 2016
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  Cargill SACI

  Feb 2017 - Jan 2019

  A&F Transition Lead - Argentina, Paraguay, Uruguay & Andean Region - SAP & BI Deployment Role

  Responsible for planning, executing and managing the implementation of the new A&F (Accounting & Finance) organization in the sub-region. This role includes the support on the new organization design, set a process & approach for the processes to be design considering a multi-country and multi-enterprise approach. As development area includes the project management´s area as well gaining knowledge of the finance regional team, its current operations and at the end be more knowledge about opportunities on de future state design. Have added BI and SAP deployment experience between the Malt Business at Cargill. Show less

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  Autônomo

  Feb 2019 - Jan 2020

  Independent Consultant
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  Boortmalt

  Jan 2020 - now

  • Global Internal Control Manager at Boortmalt International

    Feb 2022 - now

  • Controller LATAM / Regional FP&A at Boortmalt

    Apr 2020 - Feb 2022

  • Finance Support

    Jan 2020 - Apr 2020