Rodolfo O. Tro, CPA, MBA

Experience

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  UPS

  Jan 2000 - Oct 2002

  Accountant/Financial Analyst

  United Parcel Service, Inc., a package delivery company, provides transportation, logistics, and financial services in the United States and internationally. Market CAP of 66 BillionResponsible for accounting and financial analysis functions for the Supply Chain division of UPS for Latin America, and the Southern Border• Reduced liability accounts by 400 Million by performing analysis of inter-company transactions. Led reconciliation and clean-up of balance sheet for all Gap, Inc. and UPS intercompany accounts. Earned a Gap, Inc. Exceed award for this project.• Compiled and analyzed financial statements for quarterly report to the region, as well as reconciling inter-company accounts on a monthly basis for the entire UPS Latin-American operation.• Reconciled Latin Americas balance sheet on a quarterly basis for Sarbanes-Oxley reporting, reconciled cash and other high risk accounts on a monthly basis for Gap, Inc and UPS. Show less

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  Gap, Inc

  Oct 2002 - Sept 2009

  Finance Manager/Controller

  Gap, Inc. operates as a specialty retailing company. Market CAP of 16 Billion dollars. The company offers apparel, accessories, and personal care products for men, women, children, and babies under the Gap, Old Navy, Banana Republic, Piperline, and Athleta.Controller for sourcing operation (600 Million business) for Gap, Inc. from a financial, legal, and tax perspective for US and Latin America. • Performed strong financial analysis, forecasting, budgeting, and productivity metrics for Gap International Sourcing US, and five countries in Latin America.• Reduced production costs by 25% by designing and implementing a scorecard that ranked vendors by risk and reported to Gap, Inc. CFO on a quarterly basis, providing negotiation leverage.• Decreased yearly operational cost by 2 Million by restructuring and outsourcing Gap, Inc. operations in Latin-America, and providing training and management support to third party accounting firms.• Improved productivity scores by 28%, and payroll savings over 20% by developing Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) at Gap, Inc. to improve productivity and performance for functional teams (Finance, IT, Business strategy, Quality Assurance, Product Integrity, Production, Color Services, etc). • Achieved optimal operating efficiency by developing best practices for internal controls, financial reporting, budgeting, and forecasting, later adopted worldwide by Gap sourcing offices in Hong Kong, Singapore, Korea, Turkey and India.• Reduced financial risk by conducting financial due diligence of key vendors to help manage risk and placement strategy for Gap, Inc. International sourcing, a 2 Billion Dollar business. Show less

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  Florida Sunbelt Properties

  Sept 2009 - Dec 2011

  Founder

  FSP is a real estate investment company that leverages the current economic situation to purchase residential real estate in developing areas and leases them thru a third party property Management Company. This initiative took over a year and a half, and focused on unfinished and vandalized properties in the area of Fort Mayers. The process required the identification of real state opportunities, financing, permitting, and development, of such properties. The end result was a series of duplexes being rented and producing positive income for me and others who believed in the idea. Show less

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  Montachem International, Inc

  Dec 2011 - Jul 2014

  CFO

  Montachem International is a petrochemical distributor of a complete line of thermoplastic resins and related additives to meet the needs of plastics processors worldwide. In charge of managing bank relationships and credit facilities, cash resources, acquisitions, audits, and their overall financial strategy. During this time, I have been able to align the organization, drive sales and earnings up by increasing credit lines, negotiate interest rates and futures contracts, drive costs down, and improve collection efforts.• Established and maintained 40M asset based lending credit line with PNC and Exim bank, as well as several other supplier lines of credits to support fast growth and increase buying/selling capacity of the company• Developed interest rate strategy thru Libor rate contracts to minimize financial cost, generating savings of 320K per year • Created financial due diligence based credit approval process to extend lines of credit to over 800 customers reaching five million per customer• Negotiated currency Swap with international banks, to protect company from exchange rate exposure, in an industry were margins range between 1%- 3%, generating savings of two million dollars per year.• Implemented SAP business one version 8.0 and VOIP communication systems that optimized operations and generated savings in international communications of 5K per month Show less

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  BookSmart

  Jul 2014 - now

  President

  Founded by Rodolfo Tro, CPA, MBA, Booksmart Tax & Accounting Services provides a complete range of financial services to individuals and corporations.Our mission is to partner with our customers in finding ways to improve their business by creating efficiencies, implementing best practices, and ultimately generate the most equity for them.Services:-Tax-Accounting-Consulting-Business Strategy-Valuation -Financial due diligence-IT Support & Implementation-VOIP-Cloud Services-LogisticsPlease visit and Like my Facebook page:www.facebook.com/BooksmartTax Show less

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  CPA Alliance Inc

  Jan 2024 - now

  Chief Executive Officer