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PERSONAL INFORMATION Sónia Alexandra Parreira
Alves
Luanda (Angola)
00244 945936694 00351 962395147
sonia_a_alves@hotmail.com
Skype parreirita
Date of birth 21 November 1981 | Nationality Portuguese
WORK EXPERIENCE
13/02/2013 – Present Financial Analyst
Ucall | Onda Restauração, Luanda (Angola)
www.ucall.co.ao www.oondah.com
Coordenation of cost control activity of the Company; Budget forecasting, Planning of structure
costs; Monitoring P&L Control information, cost-analysis and projections; Analysing Projects
Profitability; Identify cost improvement opportunities; Supervise and lead the analysis and
management team; Work closely with and support the Finance Director; Work with and support
non finance managers; Management, Pricing, Sales control and Stock control for a high fashion
brand unit (Dresstation Angola)
ERP: Primavera
Business orSector Contact Center
06/12/2010 – 12/02/2013 Senior Accountant - Head Office Spain & Portugal
Hays, Lisbon (Portugal)
www.hays.pt www.hays.es
Responsible for processing supplier invoices and credit notes; Prepare, calculating and reconcile
VAT (Spain and Portugal) and other taxes; Prepare and analyse Fixed Costs provisions; Ensure
the correct accruals are booked monthly; Prepare Balance Sheet Reconciliations; Support the
month-end close processes, hard close and year-end close; Preparing monthly supplier payments
and reconciling accounts; Booking all bank movements and petty cash and prepare Treasury
reconciliations.
ERP: Navision.
Business orSector HR and recruitment services
01/06/2010 – 05/12/2010 Senior Financial Analyst
Best Buy UK Distributions (The Carphone Warehouse Group), Lisbon (Portugal)
www.bestbuy.com
Responsible for supervising and overseeing a staff of accounts payable clerks and the training
and development of those individuals
Supervise Accounts Payable and Banking Teams tasks and organize daily work to ensure that all
SLA’s were accomplished
Support the month-end close processes, hard close and year-end close by ensuring the
completion of timely account reconciliations and balancing under AP and Banking team
responsibility;
Processing of invoices and credit notes of Stock and Non-Stock vendors and prepare the Payment
Run every week;
Produce Weekly Report for local team (including Ageing, Pending Invoices, Cash-Flow and
Vendors
Balance)
Contact with Supply Chain, Buyers and Suppliers to solve Queries and resolving payment
problems and any supplier billing issues.
Building internal and external relationships and interacting heavily with other business
units. ERP: SAP.
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01/08/2009 – 31/05/2010 Accountant (Spain Business)
The Phone House, Shared Services Center, Lisbon (Portugal)
www.phonehouse.pt
Support month-end close processes, hard close and year-end close by ensuring the completion of
timely account reconciliations and balancing under Accounting Spanish team responsibility;
Prepare, calculating and reconcile VAT (Spain);
Prepare and analyse Rents costs (300 stores) and Rates provisions;
Ensure the correct accruals are booked monthly;
Prepare Balance Sheets Reconciliatiions;
Business orSector Trade and Rental of Goods and Services
01/07/2006 – 31/07/2009 Banking Spain Assistant
The Phone House, Shared Services Center, Lisbon (Portugal)
www.phonehouse.pt
Maintaining accounting records and preparing accounts and management information of
Corporate and Online Businesses;
Produce Cash Book Reconciliations and analyse outstanding transactions;
Prepare Balance Sheet Reconciliations as Cash in Transit, Customer Deposits, Active Voucher
and investigate discrepancies between Aptos/Pie system and Crystal Reports;
Ensure the correct accruals according regarding financial procedures are booked monthly;
Support the month-end close processes, hard close and year-end close by ensuring the
completion of timely account reconciliations and balancing under Banking team responsibility;
Prepare and analyse the P&L Report.
Verify the Daily Balances produced for Spain, the Unmatched and Unposted Reports.
Check and validate the UK payments processed into Deustche Bank daily (suppliers,
payroll, intercompany payments through netting system).
Business orSector Trade and Rental of Goods and Services
10/03/2006 – 30/06/2006 Administrative and Financial Assistant
PT PRO Serviços de Gestão SA, Lisbon (Portuga)
www.ptpro.pt
Integration of financial transactions in the accounting system, verification and validation of
suppliers invoices processed and booked and other accounting documents of the international
business between PT Comunicações and foreign and national operators;
Processing of invoices and credit notes of national vendors and book the accruals
according, regarding financial procedures.
Business orSector Telecommunications
01/11/2004 – 10/03/2006 Accountant Assistant
Accounting Services, Lisbon (Portugal)
Classification, coding and booked the financial transactions; reconcile AR and AP accounts;
execute bank reconciliations; preparing Financial Statements and Taxes obligations;
4. UNDERSTANDING SPEAKIN
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WRITING
Listening Reading Spoken interaction Spoken production
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Curriculum
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Sónia Alexandra Parreira
Alves
01/11/2003 – 31/10/2004 Trainee
Henkel Ibérica, S.A. – Suc. Portugal, Alverca (Portugal)
www.henkel.pt
Processing invoices and credit notes of vendors, administrative support, direct contact with
suppliers in the Accounts Payable Department.
Support of the external audits, relationships with the Treasury, Purchase and Accounts Receivable
Departments.
The aim of this traineeship in this multinational company, which reported to Spain was to
give me access to the Ordem dos Técnicos Oficiais de Contas as Accountant certified,
whose goal was achieved.
ERP: SAP.
Business orsector Detergents, cosmetic products and glues
EDUCATION AND TRAINING
15/09/1999 – 20/06/2005 Degree in Accounting
Instituto Superior de Contabilidade e Administração de Lisboa
Management Accounting, Financial Management, Financial Analysis, Corporate and Tax
Law, Financial Auditing, Technical English, Statistics, Economics.
Superior adviser related to the general management of companies. To organize financial
information and to be able to read it and analyse, in order to clarify all financial aspects related
to the company’s performance.
PERSONAL SKILLS
Mother tongue Portuguese
Other languages
English B2 B2 B2 B2 B2
Spanish C1 C1 C1 C1 C1
Níveis: A1/A2: Utilizador básico - B1/B2: utilizador independente - C1/C2: utilizador avançado
Quadro Europeu Comum de Referência para as Línguas
Job-related skills Chartered Accountant (TOC) no. 81281 in Ordem dos Técnicos Oficiais de Contas
Computer skills Knowledge about Windows environment on a user’s perspective and great facility on using
programs such as Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Outlook.
SAP, Navision, APTOS, Pie BackOffice and FrontOffice, Crystal, Business
Objects. Primavera Software.
Driving licence B
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Intermediate Level 2 of Spanish course in Instituto Espanhol (July 2010) Lisbon.
