Accountant with a Master's in International Business

MARIA E. KESIC FLORES

*******@*****.*** C: 832-***-**** www.linkedin.com/in/mekesic Broomfield, CO 1

OBJECTIVE

A bilingual English & Spanish speaking professional. Innovative and results-driven with experiences leading teams, projects and delivering financial solutions that help customers strengthen their business resilience through local/global crises despite limited resources.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Grocery Team Member, Whole Foods Market, Boulder, CO Feb 2021-Present

● Provide excellent customer service by addressing the needs of the customers in a timely and effective manner with model suggestive selling techniques

● Assist with periodic first in, first out (FIFO) inventory checks and ensuring the accuracy of signs and pricing

● Monitor and prevent spoilage of products by communicating waste to buyers, Team Leaders, and shift supervisor Regional Disaster Preparedness Education Program, U.S. AmeriCorps – American Red Cross, Los Angeles, CA

Jan 2020-Aug 2020

● Promoted and presented community disaster education to over 450 under-served Spanish speaking individuals, in collaboration with other team members & Red Cross programs, under direct executive leadership

● Responded to local emergencies as an active member of the Disaster Action Team to help allocate resources for the recovery of 50 individuals impacted by disasters through user stories & narratives

● Assisted with the outreach of community groups such as non-profit groups, schools, senior centers, faith-based organizations, and other partners in the Los Angeles County

● Recruited and Supervised more than 10 volunteers for disaster related activities Small Business Consultant/Analyst, Self-Employed, Venezuela Nov 2013-May 2016

● Provided business analysis and strategies for small business clients, interpreted data findings to help create meaningful & efficient changes in the business processes, while building rapport within the community

● Analyzed the financial statements, especially the income statement and the cash flow to provide recommendations

● Created cost/benefit, SWOT, and market analyses based on data from the customer trends to meet metrics, which reduced on average 20% of the variable costs

● Analyzed the businesses’ daily transactions to create data collections and minimized errors by 30%

● Identified risks and opportunities from the market trends to utilize the internal budget and created the tactical forecasts for short-term decision making to meet the demand and supply Accounting Administrator, Orinoco Technologies Ingenieria y Construccion ORITECH, Caracas, Venezuela Dec 2012-May 2016

● Designed and developed the accounting process based on both technical and functional requirements from stakeholders, with direct control of $500,000 in resources for engineering projects and business operations for the start-up company

● Examined existing project costs and reduced the month-to-month variances by using forecasting methodologies and statistical approaches

● Delivered KPIs via visual reports such as the current accounts payable/receivable, quick ratio and budget variance, including recommendations to the executive level for subsequent financial decision-making

● Proposed to the executive level the creation of monthly budgets to account for the underestimation of projected costs

(adjusted to the hyper-inflation rate due to the country’s economic challenges) which reduced costs by 25% EDUCATION

M.Sc., International Business, University of St. Thomas, Texas 2018 B.Sc., Accounting, Universidad Santa Maria, Caracas, Venezuela 2014 ACTIVITIES

● Udemy Certificate. “Robust SCRUM Product Owner Course.” By Michael de la Maza, PhD, CEC 2020

● Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Spain. “Applied Multivariate Statistics in the Field of Negotiation Webinar.” 2018

● The ICONS Project at University of Maryland. “Borders, Environment and Trade in the Americas.” 2018

● University of St. Thomas and Universidad Iberoamericana Puebla, Mexico. International Business Graduate Capstone Project 2017

TECHNICAL SKILLS

● Microsoft Office (Excel, Pivot Tables, VBA, SharePoint) ● Financial Modeling

● Business Analysis with Python ● Supply Chain Management

● Project Management Institute CAPM Candidate ● U.S. GAAP

● SAP Concur SaaS ● Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX)

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