Aura Yaneth Garzon Rodriguez

Professional Profile & Core Responsibilities

Manage, analyze, and report the financial data of a Geo Unit to ensure the accuracy of the financial statements. Support decision-making and ensure compliance with tax regulations.

Key Responsibilities:

Month and Year-End Closings: Preparation of journal entries, accruals, and adjustments.

Reconciliations: Review and reconciliation of balance sheet and income statement accounts.

Financial Analysis: Variance analysis of expenses and revenues, and validation of P&L statements.

Asset and Liability Management: Maintenance of fixed asset registers, accounts receivable, and accounts payable.

Audit and Compliance: Preparation of documentation to support internal/external audits and ensure compliance with local and international accounting standards (e.g., IFRS or US GAAP).

Ensure the control, recording, and valuation of the physical and accounting fixed assets within the Geo Unit. Key functions span the entire asset lifecycle: additions, disposals, physical inventories, depreciation calculation, and reconciliation with the accounting and tax departments.

Key Responsibilities

Asset Tracking and Control: Maintain and update the fixed asset database and physical inventory records.

Depreciation and Amortization Calculation: Apply financial and tax regulations to accurately reflect asset wear and tear.

Accounting Reconciliation: Ensure physical asset balances match the general ledger and financial statements.

Physical Inventories (Cycle Counts or Annual): Conduct field verifications to confirm asset existence, location, and condition.

Disposals and Write-offs: Process and remove assets that are obsolete, damaged, or sold from the system.

Compliance and Audit: Prepare data and documentation for internal or external audit reviews.

Ensure the accuracy of inventory valuation and the control of production or distribution costs by identifying variances, losses, and savings opportunities to maximize business profitability.

Key Responsibilities:

Cost Structure: Calculate and update standard manufacturing costs (raw materials, direct labor, and manufacturing overhead - MOH) or landed/import and purchase costs.

Variance Analysis: Compare actual costs against budgeted standard costs. Explain price and usage variances at each month-end close.

Inventory Valuation: Apply and audit the company’s valuation methodology (FIFO, LIFO, or Weighted Average Cost).

Monthly Cost Closing: Execute the month-end closing process for the cost and inventory modules, ensuring cost of goods sold (COGS) and variance entries are accurately recorded.

Strategic Analysis and Reporting:

Key Performance Indicators (KPIs): Design and analyze critical metrics, including days inventory outstanding (DIO), inventory turnover, inventory record accuracy (IRA), and scrap or shrinkage percentages.

Systems and ERPs: Intermediate to advanced management of SAP cost and inventory modules, and advanced Excel (pivot tables, VLOOKUP/XLOOKUP, logical formulas, and basic macros).Data Analytics: Leverage Power BI to build dynamic financial reports and dashboards.

Provide professional outsourcing services for the Oil & Gas sector, ensuring all accounting and financial procedures for assigned clients. Responsible for reporting, Service Level Agreement (SLA) compliance, month-end closings, and the preparation of financial statements.

Key Achievements:

Quality Assurance & Continuous Improvement: Evaluated compliance with BDO policies and procedures to ensure high-quality service delivery. Identified process gaps and inefficiencies through continuous improvement assessments, implementing corrective actions and updated best practices.

Oil & Gas Expertise: Gained deep operational knowledge within the Oil & Gas sector, mastering Joint Venture Accounting (JVA), joint interest billing (JIB) / joint account settlements, and the end-to-end accounting lifecycle unique to the industry.

Execute financial and operational audits for non-profit organizations (NGOs) and human rights foundations focused on social transformation, equity, and democracy building.

Key Achievements:

Process Optimization: Conducted cross-departmental assessments to identify inefficiencies, implementing internal controls and action plans that improved organizational productivity.

Compliance & Policy Design: Designed and deployed regulatory-compliant policies and procedures, establishing continuous evaluation mechanisms to mitigate operational risks.

Continuous Improvement: Established internal audit methods that identified process gaps, updating best practices to ensure strict alignment with legal frameworks.