Adriana Fernandez

Experience

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  Jurex Law Firm

  Aug 1999 - Jan 2000

  Corporate, Civil, Notarial and Administrative Paralegal

  Worked with attorneys and case reviewers to resolve legal complaints. Prepared clients for appointments and interviews. Drafted judicial, notarial and correspondence and handled all court mailings.

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  Costa Rican Judicial System

  Dec 2001 - Mar 2003

  Prosecutor of sexual offenses against minors

  Conducted legal research and factual investigation. Prepared discovery documents, interrogatories and responses. Coordinated, executed and summarized depositions. Reviewed and analyzed evidence. Located, interviewed, prepared and scheduled witnesses. Prepared, organized and presented in court room trial exhibits.Helped win one of the most difficult pedophilia criminal trials in Costa Rica back in 2002. Strongcommunication skills, enough evidence and facts in courtroom.

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  Procter and Gamble

  Jul 2003 - Mar 2016

  Corporate Functions Finance Manager responsible for the long range Financial Planning of Latin America Overhead Cost ($0.8B) achieving challenging productivity reduction Glide path over a period of 3FY. Work directly with region President and the CFO to consistently exceed forecasting targets.Led business plan reviews with Finance & Business Vice Presidents of each Latin America market to make sure overhead costs targets were met and 10% of savings were delivered as requested byCompany.Led Process Improvements and Simplification. Improved policy compliance allowing a better service at a lower cost. Show less Led controls assurance across P&G Global Selling Organization (+$80B Sales). Manager in charge of a group of 6 auditors located in different regions of the globe. Successfully managed and supervised global audits and consults. Enabled strong communication and relationship with clients to enable a productive path forward, in politically sensitive environments.Analyze and assess complex markets such as the CEMEEA Global Distributor ManagementOrganization which included an organization of 107 countries, more than 120 distributors and had ahistory of stewardship outages.Enabled the development and deployment of the Global Distributor, Small Market Policies andProof of Performance policy modification to drive control simplification across all regions whilemaintaining strong stewardship.Antitrust - compliance Global Contact for the Internal Audit organization. Work in collaboration withGlobal Legal Department.Improved the Company's Selling Audit program to increase audit penetration and to include newrisks, new policy and potential simplification based on common found opportunities and issues. Show less In charge of executing several global commercial audits with emphasis in marketing and third partycreative agencies.Led several non-standard risk assessment control consults for e-commerce, which was consideredback in 2009 a breakthrough area by the Company and its Leadership since using Internet to sell the Company's product wasn't necessary regulated by the standard policies. The result of these consults enabled the creation of new policies and established the risky areas that needed to be covered immediately to avoid compliance and control issues.Led and conducted different type of global engagements such as follow ups, consults, remote audits for which I usually received excellent feedback from clients (8 out of 8).Participated in fraud investigations in commercial processes and identified red flags (risks thatrepresented up to $1MM per year) during the engagements executed in creative agencies. Show less In charge of the Finance relation between P&G Mexico household categories and Walmart Mexico,considered one of the biggest customers in Latin America.Successfully participated on the 2008 Joint Business Plan creation between Walmart and P&GMexico Sales Force for the Laundry and house hold categories to increase margin by 2 bps.Performed an analysis on Key Value Items which was the ground of a positive negotiation withWalmart and that outlined the items that both P&G and WM needed to invest on. Show less In charge of the Inter-company Affiliate relation for Germany and the Regional Entrepreneur of CEEMEA.Led the transition of the Germany inter-company affiliate accounting business and the inventorybooking processes held in Geneva, Lebanon, Algeria and Israel to Costa Rica in compliance withthe VAT regulations.Identified and solved the GAPS on the Accounts Payable inventory invoices processes that affectedthe measures of the CEEMEA Regional Entrepreneur. As a result productivity improved in 25%.Improved imbalance figures of one of the CEEMEA Regional Entrepreneurs from $4MMUSD to$0.1MMUSD achieving significant progress in operational metrics and goals. Show less

  • Latin American Corporate Finance Manager

    Aug 2013 - Mar 2016

  • Senior Manager Global Internal Audit

    Aug 2011 - Jul 2013

  • Senior Global Internal Auditor

    Aug 2009 - Jul 2011

  • Customer Team Finance Manager for Walmart Mexico

    Aug 2007 - Jul 2009

  • Financial Analyst for Global Gillette Business Unit

    Aug 2006 - Jul 2007

  • Project leader for Europe Gillette Inter-company integration

    Aug 2005 - Jul 2006

  • Affiliate Accountant

    Jul 2003 - Jul 2005
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  Nacionsushi Costa Rica

  Mar 2016 - now

  Franchise co-owner
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  Muñoz Global

  Jul 2016 - Dec 2016

  International Compliance Specialist

  Responsible to develop, implement, manage and promote the Compliance & Anticorruption Practice Area for Muñoz Global, including its compliance program and framework. In charge of overseeing and managing compliance issues for the clients and developing the compliance strategy to ensure that clients comply with the regulatory requirements and that its employees are complying with internal policies and procedures.

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  Bacardi

  Jan 2017 - Mar 2018

  Senior Manager Internal Audit