ARTHUR ANDERSEN (Official)Accounting Manager (BPO -business process outsourcing)
Mar. 1998 - Feb. 2001Sao PauloArthur Andersen BPO was one of the biggest players in the Brazilian market offering bookeeping and outsourcing services (general accounting, finance, treasury, taxes and human resources) to national and multinational companies. Today this business unit was incorporated into Deloitte BPO and has more than 1,300 employees in Brazil and offices in other states and countries. As the accounting manager of this unit, I was one of the members responsible for starting this activity in Brazil and for the regional expansion, providing outsourcing services to international and national groups of companies in the accounting and finance departments, foreign trade, human resources, tax departments, treasury, credit and collection, accounts payable, registration of foreign capital and several specific and strategic works. During my time there I led several projects with emphasis on:
- the outsourcing of the financial and accounting department of the Tend-Tudo Home Center with 14 stores throughout Brazil, with a US GAAP report for the controlling group in the United States and a team of 15 employees in this customer;
- the outsourcing of the accounting, financial and cost department of Behr Brasil, automotive industry, with complete management of these areas, an internal team of 10 employees and reporting in US-GAAP;
- Outsourcing of accounting and taxation of the packaging industry Inapel Embalagens, one of the largest brazilian packaging companies in the food segment;
- training and professional training, career development and management of the outsourcing team that served the clients;
- the implementation of standard processes of accounting to accelerate the outsourcing activities and the reduction of the operational costs In my departure, the outsourcing team was composed by more than 300 employees.