About me
I'm a data and financial analyst based in Canada, who loves helping businesses make the right decision by finding meaningful insights in their data.
I analyze data and create visualizations
Results-driven Data and Financial Analyst with a solid academic background in accounting and data analytics, eager to contribute to data-driven decision-making in a dynamic business environment.
Proficient in leveraging analytical skills to interpret complex financial and business data, create insightful reports, and provide strategic recommendations for performance improvement. Adept at utilizing cutting-edge tools and methodologies to support management in optimizing financial processes and driving sustainable growth.
Passionate about delivering actionable insights to drive business success and enhance financial decision-making.
My Skills
I believe that learning never stops, and I am interested in learning new technologies and programming languages to help me generate more insights from raw data.
Experience
2021-2023
St. Clair College
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT - (CAREER BREAK)
Completed an intensive Data Analytics for Business program, focusing on visualizing and interpreting past, present, and future data patterns to provide meaningful insights for data-driven decision-making. Acquired a strong foundation in data collection, curation, encoding, and storage to facilitate large-scale data manipulation and analysis, essential for solving business challenges and predicting future trends. Gained proficiency in a variety of data analytics tools and techniques, enabling the efficient mining and repurposing of data sets to extract valuable insights for strategic decision-making.
2017-2020
Upsistemas
Internal Control Specialist
Coordinate and plan the Internal Control System. Analyze and evaluate the different processes that make up the company to support the Risk Management System's implementation and assess the implemented controls' efficiency. Lead and ensure the development of the audit plan in line with the Company's Policies and Processes.
I participated in the implementation of MS Dynamics 365 as an assistant to the project manager. Part of my role was to parameterize security roles and profiles and do data quality assurance (cleaning data, dealing with missing and inconsistent data, reconciling data) so that the migration was successful.
2016-2017
Athenas Food
Senior Accountant
Preparation and presentation of Financial Statements and Financial Analysis. Preparation of budgets/forecasting and analysis of compliance with them. Calculate and analyze the cost of the meat products.
2013-2016
Summun Energy
Internal Control Analyst
Develop and execute the assigned internal control audit plan (Operational, financial, and recurrent) according to the established annual planning. Prepare and present the improvement plans for each audit carried out to the process owners and perform the audit's closing. Promote the good practices of the processes and the fulfillment of the internal policies using evaluating and raising controls in the audited processes and assure the implementation of the methods.
2011-2013
Agpa Consulting
Audit Coordinator
Define the Financial Audit Plan per the materiality presented in the Financial Statements of each company in charge. Supervise and review the outcome of the findings obtained by the assigned auditors, validating the working papers and supporting documentation that supports those observations. Prepare recommendations report according to the results of the audits, including guidance on evidenced Internal Control vulnerabilities.
Education
Data Analytics for Business - 2023
Post graduate certificate
St. Clair Collage
Windsor, Canada
Assurance and Internal Control - 2014
Post graduate certificate
Pontificia Universidad Javeriana
Bogota, Colombia
Accountant - 2013
Bachelor’s Degree
Universidad Militar Nueva Granada
Bogota, Colombia
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