Experienced professional in Human Resources and Finance Operations with a track record of over 15 years. Skilled in managing and developing projects with efficiency and high quality.
Overview
16
16
years of professional experience
Work History
Global Merges, Acquisition & Expansions Project Manager
Amazon
01.2020 - Current
Collaborate with 25+ business partners and external stakeholders globally by representing and owning the integration work stream for Payroll.
Lead continuous support post-project launch, ensuring newly identified challenges (benefits, compensation, accounting, etc.) are remediated.
Monitor compliance with all regulations, working with the target population to mitigate known gaps, and diving deep to identify and mitigate risks among cross-functional organizations.
Develop all projects in a uniform manner, documenting newly advanced processes for future expansions integration.
Global Controls and Compliance Program Manager
Intel Corporation
01.2014 - 01.2020
Execution of global audits to detect fraud and illegal financial activities performed by internal employees that impacted the Travel, Card, and Expense programs.
Assess code of conduct violations, document the case, gather and analyze data to present the metrics to senior leadership and corporate security, which will be used as evidence to apply the appropriate disciplinary actions.
Data analysis and preparation of the visualization of the investigation results to be presented to senior leadership and key stakeholders, such as Global travel, card and Expense program owners, Internal Audit, Corporate Security, Business HR, and the Risk Management team.
Investigate trends to forecast employee behaviors and proactively minimize risks that jeopardize the ethics and compliance policies.
Key member of the BEN team (Black Employee Network)
Influence and support the inclusion strategy for the under-minority Latin-black population by the creation of a policy that improved the global diversity and inclusion technical hiring goal in 2019
Completed a development opportunity assignment with the Finance group, performing several ethics/compliance and controls duties for the Costa Rica site culture improvement from September to December 2016.
US Payroll Administrator- Reconciliation Analyst
Intel Corporation
09.2008 - 01.2014
Started as a US Payroll Administrator, and then transitioned to the Reconciliation Analyst position; I worked closely with several business partners such as third-party vendors, US retirement team, US production analysts and US charity institutions
Audit and escalation of third-party payments
Responsible of revising several processes such as: bank account information, past due check payments, retirement contributions, etc
As part of my responsibilities, I executed the reconciliation of US payroll reports
As part of my Intel career, I was designated the payroll controls champion where I closely interacted with internal audit, senior global leadership team and different stakeholders in the organization to ensure the adherence to the code of conduct policy
Education
Master’s degree - Project Management
Instituto Tecnológico De C.R
Licenciatura degree -
Universidad Latina de C.R
High School -
Colegio De Limón -Diurno
Skills
Technical Support
Resource Allocation
Project Management
Systems implementation
Data Analysis
Strategic Planning
Root Cause Analysis
Compliance Monitoring
Complementarycertifications
General Business Administration, Universidad Latina
Accounting, Universidad Latina, Costa Rica
Tax Legislation, Universidad Latina, Costa Rica
Languages
English
Full Professional
Spanish
Native/ Bilingual
Timeline
Global Merges, Acquisition & Expansions Project Manager