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Tomas Alvarado Ugalde

San Jose

Summary

Experienced professional with a bachelor’s degree in business administration with more than 7 years of experience in the Shared Services Center sector.

Recognized for a solid understanding of SAP and Cadency, coupled with proficiency in PC skills, including Excel, PowerPoint and Word. Adept at resolving queries and contributing to projects, deployments, and system enhancements.

Possesses strong analytical and critical thinking skills, excelling in unstructured environments. Committed to delivering exceptional customer service in a multi- cultural context. Demonstrates initiative by proactively identifying issues and implementing effective solutions. Embraces challenges, consistently meeting deadlines independently.

Overview

8
8
years of professional experience

Work History

PAYMENT ANALYST

Pfizer
06.2024 - Current

• Ensure compliance with MAPP policy, Country Annexes, Country Profiles, and other policies related to healthcare professionals, medical associations, and business parties’ engagements.

• Ensure proper contracting documentation and accurate fair market value (per applicable FMV calculator) meet all requirements. Ensure contracts and funding confirmation letters are properly signed off before engagements.

• Create payments, monitor progress, handle unexpected situations, and register payments in several tools within expected times.

• Create and maintain vendors in MDGS and Ariba, and provide necessary follow-ups as needed.

• Support market colleagues with inquiries regarding payments (vendor, invoice, payment, payment blocks or rejections, among others).

• Follow up with markets on event confirmation, invoice upload, incorrect/due invoice, among others to complete payments within expected times.

• Liaise with Legal and Local Compliance to get approvals for exceptions and recommendations for questionable documentation.

• Support with system issues troubleshooting for transactions, creating tickets, and following up with the technical team.

• Create creative and interactive training material for new users as well as to refresh processes and key concepts among experienced users.

• Follow up with markets on pending open tasks, policy deviations, event confirmation, reconciliation requirements, among others, to ensure a thorough end-to-end process.

• Act as the lead tester for the new payment tool and develop additional tools for vendor monitoring and payment tracking.

Specialist, Balance Sheet Center of Excellence

Pfizer
10.2021 - 06.2024
  • Execute internal audits to rectify process errors and prevent future problems.
  • Create reports to drive continuous improvement initiatives.
  • Communicate all the findings across different levels of the organization to recommend corrective and preventive actions.
  • Accountable to analyze, create and assign the accounts to the proper reconciler and reviewer.
  • Diligently review and rectify the account balance mismatches between SAP/Cadency.
  • Execute the activation and deactivation of user accounts in accordance with security and access protocols.
  • Monitored Service Manager queues, addressing queries raised and ensuring timely resolution.
  • Maintain a proactive approach in identifying opportunities for process optimization and automation.
  • Uphold a commitment to data accuracy and confidentiality in all user and reconciliation management activities.

Senior Billing Analyst

Re:Sources, A Publicis Groupe Company
07.2017 - 10.2021
  • Accountable to analyze, audit and distribute the invoices for different methods according to the client needs assessments of each client.
  • Ensure to have an active and continue communication with the appropriate stakeholder and departments involved.
  • Provide prompt resolutions to Accounts Receivable Team and clients, related to the invoices with issues.
  • Prioritize workload distribution assigned, give follow up open items and contribute to accomplish goals and metrics for our department.
  • Wide experience in migrations of new processes from US/CANADA.

Education

Bachelor - Business Administration (Accounting)

Universidad Santa Lucia
Alajuela, CR
08-2020

Technical Degree - Data Analysis

Universidad Hispanoamericana
Heredia, CR
01-2025

Skills

  • Attention to the details
  • Stakeholder Communications
  • Training Leadership
  • Customer Service
  • Problem Solving
  • Deadline Adherence
  • Improvement Projects Participation
  • Teamwork

Technical Skills

  • SAP
  • ARIBA
  • MDGS
  • Navigator+
  • Cadency

Languages

English
Full Professional
Spanish
Native or Bilingual

Timeline

PAYMENT ANALYST

Pfizer
06.2024 - Current

Specialist, Balance Sheet Center of Excellence

Pfizer
10.2021 - 06.2024

Senior Billing Analyst

Re:Sources, A Publicis Groupe Company
07.2017 - 10.2021

Bachelor - Business Administration (Accounting)

Universidad Santa Lucia

Technical Degree - Data Analysis

Universidad Hispanoamericana
Tomas Alvarado Ugalde