MARIA CECILIA SUSTRICK

May 2022 – Present

• Manage end-to-end execution of annual audits for PRPSC and BBVL entities, ensuring compliance, and timely submission of audit deliverables.
• Record key financial transactions, including expenses, wire transfers, and tax filings; investigate and resolve outstanding reconciliation items.
• Prepare quarterly balance sheet analyses for income tax accounts, and perform monthly account reconciliations.
• Compile and submit annual reporting requirements for Puerto Rico's workers' compensation insurance.

June 2018 – May 2022

• Prepared monthly tax filings for Canadian entities, and quarterly tax filings for UK entities.
• Managed end-to-end audit processes for BVCTM and BVPCE entities (2020–2021), ensuring accuracy and compliance.
• Assisted the tax team in preparing annual corporate income tax declarations for Saudi and Canadian firms.
• Prepared intercompany settlements for BVPCE, and conducted corresponding withholding tax (WHT) analyses (2018–2019).
• Recorded key financial transactions, including expenses, wire transfers, and tax filings.

• Company Overview: Global provider of electronic payment and transaction processing solutions for financial institutions, retailers, service providers and individual consumers
• Supported the Accounting Director by performing month-end close procedures, accounting for Cash, Accounts Payable, Accrued Liabilities, Inventory, accounts reconciliations, and supervising the accounts receivable accountant.
• Prepared Weekly and Monthly Bank Reconciliations (15 Accounts).
• Ensured concurrent recording of cash receipts from all retailers for both Australia (AU) and New Zealand (NZ) business segments.
• Performed Weekly Invoice validation of major suppliers.
• Managed the rebate claims account for both NZ and AU, coordinated with the local team for claims that lack documentation, monthly and yearly review of rebate accruals with the Accounting Manager of both business segments.
• Prepared and assisted with general ledger (journal entries) analysis and analyzed and assisted with month and year-end reports.
• Assisted the Accounting Director in developing efficient accounting and reconciliation processes.
• Assisted with external and internal audit process and provided all necessary worksheets/data.

• Company Overview: Wholly owned Subsidiary of General Mills – one of the leading consumer food companies
• Supported the Accounting Manager by performing month-end close procedures and accounts reconciliations.
• Supervised (1) Accounts Receivable staff and (1) shop accounting staff in day-to-day accounting functions.
• Reconciled and updated some balance sheet accounts which had been backlogged for more than 2 months.
• Ensured real-time posting of cash receipts from shops sales and accounts receivable trade and non-trade which resulted in an expedited month-end bank reconciliation procedure.

• Supported the Assistant Accounting Manager by performing month-end close procedures and accounts reconciliations. Assisted the Accounts Receivable Supervisor in managing the accounts receivable.
• Resolved and cleaned up various customer’s accounts which then decreased the total Days Sales Outstanding and reduced the provision for bad debts.
• Screened, monitored, and evaluated trade promotional expenses leading to a positive impact to the Profit and Loss Statement.
• Reconciled and updated various balance sheet accounts which had been backlogged for 8 months.
• Created a monitoring template for monthly trade promotional claims & payments which safeguarded company assets and resources.
• Assisted in the preparation of monthly reports required by the HQ.

• Company Overview: Wholly owned Subsidiary of Fresenius Kabi AG, a leading international healthcare company focusing on products for the therapy and care of critically and chronically ill patients
• Supported the Accounting Manager in managing accounts receivable and inter-company accounts with affiliates.
• Performed month-end close procedures and accounts reconciliations. Worked with cost accountant and business unit heads on monthly sales forecast.
• Redesigned, maintained, updated cash advances monitoring and conducted regular follow ups on unliquidated advances; As a result, employees were more compliant to company policies on cash advances.
• Conducted regular Accounts Receivable review with major distributors and projected monthly collection target which helped the sales team achieved their Daily Sales Outstanding target.
• Improved the monitoring templates of intercompany cross charges and payables and conducted regular follow ups. Accordingly, receivables from affiliates were collected on time and treasury department has prompted to fund maturing payables to affiliates.
• Enhanced monthly sales estimates template which aided business unit heads in the analysis and reduced the amount of time spent by the Finance Director in assessing the sales estimates committed by all business units.
• Assisted the Cost Accountant during month-end closing in ensuring the accuracy of the uploaded sales data which sped up the checking of the generated cost of goods sold report.
• Managed the fixed assets account. Recorded additions and disposal, and responsible for asset tagging.
• Calculated and recorded monthly depreciation expenses, prepared the monthly and yearly fixed asset analysis.
• Worked with external auditors for the year-end audit.

• Company Overview: Astrazeneca is a biopharmaceutical company which provides innovative medicines
• Assisted the General Accounting Manager in the month-end closing procedures.
• Performed accounts reconciliation for various Balance Sheet Accounts which had been back logged for 6 months.