Alejandro Ruiz, CPA

Experience

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  Deloitte

  Sept 2010 - Oct 2013

  Audit Senior

  Perform assurance and attestation services for Caesars Entertainment Corporation, a Fortune 500 public corporation, in accordance with Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP).Participate in all phases of audit, review, initial public offering, and issuance of comfort letters including budgeting, planning, fieldwork, administration and work paper preparation and review.Perform financial statement analysis and testing of Statement of Cash Flows for different corporate structures to assess the reasonableness of account fluctuations.Synthesize large amounts of information obtained through research, interviews with client management, and data analysis of supporting documentation to identify trends and draw conclusions to present to senior management.Analyze and research complex GAAP technical issues for proper accounting treatment and financial statement disclosure and propose solutions to the engagement managers and partners including: ASC 320 – Debt and Equity Investments; ASC 323 – Equity Method Investments; ASC 360 – Asset Impairment; ASC 820 – Fair Value Measurements. Perform a final review of work papers, ensuring all required tasks are completed and appropriately documented in accordance with PCAOB standards, and present all findings to partners and client senior executives.Execute internal control testing plan to test for proper design and implementation of controls and operating effectiveness in collaboration with Internal Audit and in accordance with Sarbanes-Oxley Section 404.Train and develop a team of associates, including on-boarding new staff members, in preparing quality audit documentation to ensure audit deliverables achieve engagement objectives, and successfully cultivating client relationships.Work collectively with individuals of different levels of management in engagements teams of 10+ members. Show less

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  Abbott

  Nov 2013 - Sept 2015

  Senior Financial Auditor

  Lead and manage audits of up to 12 auditors throughout Latin America, Europe, Asia, and the Middle East, including staffing and budgeting activities, establishing project timelines and team work allocation, and coordinating group travel logisticsPerform risk assessment of business processes of commercial affiliates, manufacturing plants, and distribution centers through interviews with management, independent research, and financial statement analysis Perform testing of processes and controls against policies and procedures, providing recommendations of noted control deficiencies, reporting findings to executive management, and monitoring for remediation implementationCollaborate with Information Technology and Compliance audit coordinators in order to maximize audit execution efficiencies across functionsServe as a leader in the audits of Spanish-speaking countries, facilitating communication between members of management and the audit teams, and executing audit procedures in the local languageDevelop a new audit scoping matrix as a planning tool, allowing a better understanding of business processes and control ownership at each auditee Train and supervise external personnel resources, including managing fully-outsourced audits, ensuring quality of documentation and procedures performed are in line with the department’s audit quality guidelinesDevelop and implement an on-boarding program for new hires, ensuring training of all phases of audit is executed prior to initial audit assignment Show less

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  Ainsworth Game Technology

  Sept 2015 - Sept 2018

  Finance Officer Latin America

  Establish controls and procedures for the different financial accounting areas of the Latin America market, both at the local subsidiary and consolidated levels, including inventory, order entry, accounts payable, and accounts receivable; execute the creation and implementation of process workflows, as well as training of up to fifty employees involved in the processes, and monitoring of proper subsequent execution Conduct routine reviews of sales and lease contracts for proper accounting application, monitor the revenue recognition of individual sale and credit note transactions for completeness, accuracy, and cutoffManage the three employees of the Latin America sales order entry team, including training on new sale products and system application developments, conduct weekly sales review meetings, and implement use of order entry parameters to aid financial analysis Improve expense recording process in order to mitigate the risk of potential accounting misstatements through the implementation of preventative and detective controls, including proper classification of capital asset acquisitionsLead the Accounts Receivable team in the customer payments reporting, aging of uncollected balances, provision of doubtful debt, account reconciliations, and collection effortsControl intercompany transactions, including the proper recording of sales to subsidiaries, software licensing, allocation of corporate shared service expenses, and the management of the monthly-required subsidiary payments Coordinate with Deloitte on the completion of the required annual Transfer Pricing studies of the four Latin America subsidiaries in accordance with regulations established by local tax authoritiesFulfill the annual external finance audit requests for the areas in scope with results of zero audit findingsAssist in the annual budgeting process by performing a monthly budget vs actual analysis and providing budget input based on current and future business requirements Show less

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  Weyerhaeuser

  Apr 2019 - now

  • Senior Manager Internal Audit

    Mar 2023 - now

  • Internal Audit Manager

    Oct 2020 - May 2023

  • Supervising Senior Internal Auditor

    Apr 2019 - Oct 2020