Fernando Suehara

Experience

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  KPMG Audit

  Oct 2000 - Jan 2003

  Auditor

  • Physical Inventory (Stock and Fixed Assets);• Process analysis;• Financial Statement assessment;• Reporting tests and validation;• Prepare and consolidate Audit Working Papers and fulfill the Systems;• Main customers: Mercedes-Benz; BMW, Daimler-Chrysler, Bahia Sul e Cia Suzano (Paper and Cellulose); Fujitsu, Degussa Dental da Amazonia, Banco BCN (Bradesco Group), and others.

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  HP

  Jan 2003 - May 2011

  Accounting Supervisor

  Reporting to Accounting Manager. Responsible for Management and local Accounting (including Fixed Asset Management, Indirect Tax activities and Third party for Income Tax Return and Fiscal obligation)• Internal and external audit• Support and partnership with other departments (business, AR, AP, Treasury, Billing)• Reports, Reconciliation and Journal Entries review (prepared by Accounting team)• As pre-merge EDS (Electronic Data Systems) support the Legal Merge in 2010 (acquired by HP in 2008)• IFRS implementation• SOX (Sarbanes Oxley) implementation• Tax Packages.• FP&A activities: Forecast vs Actuals analysis and explanation focused in P&L Show less

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  CGI

  May 2011 - Sept 2015

  Controller

  Reporting to LATAM CFO (holding in Brazil), leading internal 06 team members (Accounting, Treasury, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Billing, Tax compliance activities) plus Outsourced consulting for fiscal obligation, acting as Oficial Accountant, managing Cash Flow for Brasil, Chile, Peru, Colômbia and Venezuela. Acting as Shared Services Center LATAM Manager implemented in Brazil• Due diligence in Chile, Peru, Colombia and Venezuela;• Implementation of Shared Services in less than one year; Show less

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  Hewlett Packard Enterprise

  Sept 2015 - Oct 2019

  Reporting to Regional Controllership VP (Houston), leadership of 18 directs. Official Accountant for all Group companies in Brazil, Legal Representative and Administrator for authorities (IRS, other Federal, States and City Halls), Statutory Director and Fiscal Council President at HP Prev (actual Value Prev).• Accounting process improvements recognized by internal audit improving the Score;• Overall process improvements changing external audit opinion to unqualified from 2015 to 2019;• M&A, Business splits, legal merge executing Global HPE strategy, ie.: Post Spin off PPS – Personal Computing (HPI 2015/2016), Legal Merge of own factory (HPC – 2016), spin off Service operation (DXC - 2016), spin off SW (ENTCO/MicroFocus – 2017), acquisition and Legal Merge of SGI (2018). Show less

  • Controller

    Jul 2018 - Oct 2019

  • Sr.Finance Manager

    Sept 2015 - Jul 2018
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  99

  Jul 2020 - Feb 2022

  Reporting solid line to the Head of Overseas Accounting, Finance and Operation (China) and dotted line to the LATAM CFO, leading a team of 15 members, being 3 Sr. Managers, 2 Managers, 10 team members. Acting as Official Accountant for all Brazilian entities. Responsible for Local and Statutory Accounting in IFRS and Report for consolidation in USGAAP.• Support to ERP migration from SAP Business One to Oracle EBS during 2021;• Support to the Business for new products and new features of existing products;• Attendance to external and internal audits;• Strong communication with Headquarter for process alignment, discussing a new strategy implementation, reporting and evaluation of complex challenges linked to the business. Show less

  • LATAM Accounting Director

    Oct 2020 - Feb 2022

  • Accounting Director

    Jul 2020 - Oct 2020
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  ADATA Technology Co., Ltd.

  Aug 2022 - now

  Accounting and Tax Director

  Reporting to Global Accounting Director (Taiwan) and dotted line to Brazil’s President, leadership of 13 directs. Official Accountant for all Group companies in Brazil (three plants including ZFM-Manaus), responsible for management/local Accounting in IFRS. Statutory subjects, internal and external audit, fiscal assessment as well. Tax planning and operation, besides reporting for consolidation in Taiwan.• Accounting process improvements. Reconciliation design and implementation;• Overall process improvements recovering controls after Hacker attack and overall data lose. Still getting external audit unqualified opinion;• Hard tax assessment and review, deep diving in controls and calculation, with recognized increase in compliance level by the Governamen; • Working closely with external lawyers and tax experts to explore the maximum Tax benefits, subsidies and opportunities allowed by law (Real tax credits savings about R$ 26 million in 2022, more than R$ 6 million in 2023, besides more than R$ 300 million of tax recovering (with probable gain by the lawyer prognostic), in legal actions already filled waiting for judgement;• Tax planning to reduce Income Tax and Social Contribution;• Team building/development and training of Accounting and Tax team Show less

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  Venturus

  Apr 2024 - now

  Conselheiro Fiscal