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1. MARIA ANDREU, MBA, CIA
449 Esplanade Drive
Miami Springs, FL 33166
Ph. (786) 562-9246
E-mail: tag2458@gmail.com
INTRODUCTION Strong leader, unafraid of challenges and responsibility. Highly motivated professional with
knowledge and experience in diverse fields and industries,including computer, real estate,
medical, banking, and recreational. Experienced Audit Manager with over 40 audits completed.
Process improvement expert. Strong people and communication skills. Excellent logic,
organization, leadership and analytical skills; as well as business intelligence.
EDUCATION City University
MBA Business,Finance and Managerial Leadership Majors
New York University
BA International Relations
COMPUTER SKILLS SAP Expert, Financial & Reporting Systems, command of hardware and software, including but
not limited to: Hyperion, ESSBASE, Macro creations, QuickBooks, Quicken, Taleo, Business
Warehouse (BW), Rubrics, Strong communication, process change,management and leadership
skills
LANGUAGES Spanish, Portuguese,Mandarin, German, French, Italian
CERTIFICATIONS CPA, Certified Internal Auditor, CIA
Black Belt Mastercertified (as well as Green Belt certified) in Six Sigma
EXPERIENCE
November 2015 to
Present Consultant
Project Director, working on a project based environment, implementing controls,managing
financials for small businesses to large corporations including companies such as Citrix and
World Emblem.
March 1996 to Hewlett-Packard Company Miami, FL
November 2015 SeniorFinance Manager (2008 – 2015)
Internal Audit Manager (2003-2008)
Finance ManagerII Latin America Region (2000-2003)
Finance ManagerI Latin America Region (1998-2000)
Financial Analyst Latin America Region (1996-1998)
Controllership responsibilities for the preparation, implementation, and execution of financial
controls for the Bank of America account awarded to HP on a world-wide level.
Perform balance sheet management for the account,including general ledger account
movements, worth in excess of $659M in revenue and $396M in expenses. Grew Gross
Margin from 24% to 42%.
 Leader and manager of a team of 105 senior and junior managers and individual contributors.
 Responsible for Profit & Loss (P&L) Statements, Financial Reporting, Financial Planning and
Analysis (FP&A).
 Prepared budgets by establishing schedules; collecting,analyzing, and consolidating financial
data; recommending plans.Preparation of monthly Forecasts.
 Regular reporting and commentary on Global Operations and Trading Expense financial and
metric performance (% of Revenue, cost per unit, margins) by Global Business Unit, by
Product Category - Actuals,Budget, Forecasting, ASPIRE, Cost Reduction Plan of Record -
to Global Logistics Function, Global Operations Leadership, and GBU Operations and
Regional GBU Supply Chain Customers.
 People management of a 35person Finance team with two Finance leads responsible for
financial leadership, control and cost improvement of LA Global Operations and Trading
Expense costs annualspend ofover $350M.

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 Supported over 1200 people within Operations and Logistics functions directly supporting
senior management in Americas.
 Achieve budget objectives by scheduling expenditures; analyzing variances; initiating
corrective actions.
 Provides status offinancial condition by collecting, interpreting, reporting financial data
through the company ERP System.
 Provide financial analysis tools by collecting, analyzing, and summarizing data and trends
which in turn guides the entire leadership team to data driven business improvements.
 Leadership role in successfully migrating organization from a standalone company into multi-
divisional structure.
 Led financial decisions by establishing,monitoring, and enforcing policies and procedures.
Manage accuracy and productivity of day-to-day activities of accounts payable/receivable,
cash disbursements,invoicing/billing, credits and collections, payroll, inventory, fixed asset
records, cost accounting,and operational reporting.
Safeguarded assets &assure accuracy by implementing, monitoring & enforcing disciplines
of internal controls across depts.
Maximized return, limited risk, increased margin by over 20% in the divisions controlled.
Assure financial plans are consistent with organizational goals.
Complies with federal, state,and local legal requirements by studying existing and new
legislation; anticipating future legislation; enforcing adherence to requirements; filing
financial reports; advising management on needed actions.
Control operational requirements by scheduling & assigning employees; follow up on results.
Interface with outside audit firm and regulatory agencies as necessary.
Safeguards operations by keeping financial information and plans confidential.
Responsible for the preparation, implementation, execution and reporting of Operational and
financial internal audit plans, ensuring all audit were GAAP compliant.
Responsible for preparation, implementation, execution and reporting of SOX audit plans.
Demonstrated ability to influence non-direct reporting areas through financial leadership and
deployment of key horizontal (across all business groups within HP) projects and processes
that brought over 2% savings in a 1-year time period.
In house Auditor for Financial and Logistics Operational Areas, resulting in reduction of
Trading Expenses by over $2M during a 1-year period, and managing expenses to an all-time
low in less than 2 years, while maintaining or improving the operational levels and quality.
Reduction of 8% spending with no people cuts through management of optimization.
Worked Healthcare Solutions Group with the Sales and Support/Services areas, managed
Revenue of $60M, and costs ofover $12M, including compensation and distributor
commissions. Worked the Targeting, Forecast, and Planning / Quota Setting Processes.
Successfully maintained expenses below target for over 2 years.
Directly responsible for successfully winning more than $5M in new business in 8 months
through development of new business leads and needs throughout emerging market countries.
Project Team Leader for the implementation, testing and training of all financial systems,
including the pricing systemin the Latin America Region and Asia/Pacific. Successfully
managed pricing for all Product Lines for entire region.
Working for the Latin America Region Headquarters Servers Division, implemented, installed
and trained staff on several productivity building tools to entire headquarters office. Also
created and maintained several time-saving web tools.
Responsible for Order Fulfillment monthly metrics, Business Fundamental Tools, Customer
Satisfaction Survey data gathering and analysis, HOSHINS and Delivery Cycle information.
June 2001 to Selum Six, Miami, FL
February 2016 Director of Property Management & Investment Relations
People management responsibilities.
Responsible for financial and operational management of single and multi-family properties.
Managed properties on a national level spanning the Mid-West,Central and Eastern states.
Created financials, KPIs, investment analytics, ROI, and property growth potential analysis.
Managed Yardi Genesis and Voyager to maintain proper controls over properties.
October 1989 to Credit Suisse First Boston, New York, NY & Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken, New York, NY
February 1996 ManagerReconciliations & Investigations

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People management responsibilities.
Responsible for the reconciliation, investigation, preparation, implementation, execution of
financial back office for all FX and MM deals performed globally.
REFERENCES Furnished Upon Request