JAIME CASCO
*** ********* **. **** ***, Atlanta, Georgia 30309
Cell: 404-***-****; ************@*****.***
Career Focus
Certified Public Accountant with 5+ years extensive experience executing full financial statements, operating
and quality audit reviews. Experience in working for a big four Consulting and Auditing firm; additional
experience in Financial Services entity.
Summary of Skills
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CPA certified Proficiency with Microsoft Excel, Word, Power
Point and web based reporting tools,
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Cash flow reports Proficiency with database tools as IDEA and
ACL
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Budget development Experience working with CRM and Accounting
Software as SAP and Oracle
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Operations analysis Experience with conflict resolution
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Financial reporting Negotiation skills
• Expertise in full balance sheet and income
statement certified audits
• Auditing methodology proficient
• Bank reconciliations
Accomplishments
Auditing
• Extensive experience with Financial Statements audits, reviews, compilations and audits for Banking,
Oil & Gas and Services Companies.
• Conducted fieldwork audits in accordance with the firm methodology and Auditing Standards.
• Knowledge of planning techniques, tests and sampling methods involved in conducting audits.
Process Improvement
• Achieved financial analysis review improvement by settling standard procedures to obtain accurate and
reliable information from data warehouses.
Reporting
• Implemented processes that utilized all the general ledger accounts for auditing and financial manager
reports.
• Prepared complex financial statements and interim/annual reports for banking, oil & gas and service
business.
Accounting Skills
• Operated computers programmed with accounting softwares to store and analyze information.
Data Verification
• Checked figures, posting documents for correct entry, mathematical accuracy and proper coding.
Professional Experience
Senior – Internal Audit
April 2010 to April 2011
INTERNATIONAL BANK FINANCIAL GROUP, Quito – Ecuador
• Participation in audit planning activities including: estimating the hours allocated to each project,
analyzing audit strategies and developing risk assessment.
• Development of quarterly financial audits.
• Responsible for undertaking the analysis of significant accounts in order to assess the company’s
liquidity and analyze the changes in bank balances; review policies for financing and working capital.
• Perform analysis of accounts receivables, clients, and demand and long term deposits in order to
identify peaks and evaluate ratios.
• Issuing of audit reports to the headquarters and to the audit committee with findings and
recommendations.
Senior Associate – Assurance and Advisory Business Services
November 2006 to April 2010
ERNST & YOUNG, Quito – Ecuador
• Participation in audit planning activities including: estimating the hours allocated to each client,
identifying the needs of Senior Management and the shareholders of each company, creation and
training of audit team.
• Responsible for developing audit strategies in order to identify significant processes and understand the
business; identify controls and develop tests to verify their effectiveness; evaluate internal control and
segregation of duties. Also responsible for the design of procedures for the a nalysis of significant
accounts.
• Responsible for undertaking the analysis of significant accounts in order to assess the company’s
liquidity and analyze the changes in bank balances; review policies for financing and working capital.
• In charge for conducting aging account and bad portfolio studies as well as analyzing and evaluating
the credit policy in place.
• Responsible for verifying costs and market value of inventory and evaluating obsolete inventory
studies. Also in charge of analyzing contracts and agreements between related enterprises as well as
evaluating purchase and sale transactions and verify prices in relation to market prices.
• Perform analysis of sales and expenses in order to identify peaks as well as evaluate financial ratios to
give an opinion about the current financial position of an organization.
• Clients:
Refreshment Product Services S.A. (The Schreder Ecuador S.A.
Coca Cola Company)
Citibank Ecuador S.A. Reedhycalog Ecuador
Global Crossing Ecuador DSM del Ecuador
Beiersdorf Ecuador EDC Ecuador y Mahcala Power S.A.
Equivida Insurance Company Seguros Equinoccial Insurance
Ecuasistencias (Mapfre Group)
Assistant – Accountant and Comptroller
June 2006 to October 2006
BMI INSURANCE COMPANY, Quito – Ecuador
• Responsible for the preparation of bank reconciliations
• Analysis of accounts and transactional annexes.
Assistant – Manager
February 2006 to June 2006
HUMANFORCE MANAGEMENT, Quito – Ecuador
• Responsible for the development of proposals for labor intermediation services for multinational firms,
including the preparation and revision of legal documentation for the participation in biding process
and competitions
• Responsible for managing the recruitment database.
Education
PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATOLICA DEL ECUADOR, 2010
Quito, Ecuador
Business
Bachelor of Science
• Related coursework: Productivity and Total Quality Management, Finance, Statistics and Economics.
KUFSTEIN APPLIED SCIENCE BUSINESS SCHOOL, 2009
Kufstein, Austria
International Business
Diploma
• Related coursework: International Finance, management and economics.
PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATOLICA DEL ECUADOR, 2008
Quito, Ecuador
Certified Public Accountant (CPA)
Bachelor of Science
• Related coursework: Auditing Procedures, Financial Report Audits, International Finance, Reporting
Standards, International Audit Standards, Accounting and Tax .
Languages
• Bilingual Spanish – English
• 50% Reading, writing French
Extra-Curricular Activities
Soccer, running, tennis, dirt biking, gym
Keywords,
CPA, management, accounting, internal auditing, external auditing, international experience, financial analyst,
bilingual.