CARLOS GONZALEZ LUNA
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PROFILE
Highly ethical business professional with over fifteen years of experience as an accountant, financial and planning analyst, finance and budget director in the government and private sector. To join an aggressive company of organization to maximize resources and control expenses, return on assets and return of investments.
KEY SKILLS
• Corporate Accounting & Bookkeeping
• GAAP Standards & Government Regulations
• Accounts Payable Processes & Management
• Budget development and management.
• Prepare Federal Proposal for ARRA funds & Federal Awards • Financial and strategic planning
• P & L management
• Auditing and compliance
• Operating and working capital
• ERP, EDI & Financial System Technologies
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
ENVIRONMENTAL INVENTORY AND CONSULTING GROUP, INC.
July 2008 – Present
Financial Consulting
• Accounting and business consulting for mid and big-size business, offering a greater scope of resources and expertise through its major subsidiaries. Business and industry planning, capital investment decision, restructuring and reorganizing process of financial and fiscal operations. Cost accounting process and implementation. Financial and accounting analysis, cash flow forecast and projection, conclusion of analysis to move to the implementation phase, with the necessary tools and skills, and to accomplish all business projects and goals. Determine the financial impact of ownership decision- making, corporate structure, business planning and industry benchmarking. Start-up process companies including business plan, tax return filing, and bank negotiation for capital investment. SOX Act, Section 404 implementation and results evaluation.
PUERTO RICO TOURISM COMPANY
March 2007 - April 2008
Finance Director
• Reorganization process, due diligence preparation and discussion for a millions of debt service bond issue. Financial statements preparation, financial reports and analysis, cash flow forecast and management, P&L statement and analysis, accounting process evaluation, consolidation reports, revenues and expenses forecast and analysis. Budget preparation, analysis and administration, and provide to departments and divisions management. Bank institution negotiation, fund and capital investment, ROI and ROA evaluation. Internal control structure, risk assessment; analyze monthly variance and indicators; identify, interpret and analyze accounting risks and issues. Financial reports presentation to the Board of Directors. External audit process of Firm selection and negotiation.
PUERTO RICO NATIONAL PARKS COMPANY
February 2005 – March 2007
Finance Director
• Prepare capital projects reports and capital investment. Manage fund investment, with different investment entities, including bank institutions. Control salaries expenses. Restatement process of financial statements two years prior. Financial statements preparation, accounting reports monthly, quarterly and yearly. Budget preparation, control and administration. Variance and indicator reports. Revenues and expenses reports. Implementing overall strategic plan, in all company dependency stations. Treasury reports, cash flow forecast and statement, financial and accounting analysis, accounting cycle process and closing end period evaluation, monthly, quarterly and yearly. State and Federal laws and regulations, tax return file, federal grants and awards process. P&L analysis and evaluation.
PUERTO RICO DEPARTMENT OF LABOR AND HUMAN RESOURCES
February 2001 – November 2004
Budget Director
• Develop the criteria, formats and guidelines to be used by the DOL programs in the preparation of their supplemental budget request. Recommend and implement budget policies and procedures. Review, analyze, evaluate and recommend long and short range budget plans for major units and departments. Prepare budget by indicators, history and objective methods, by financial plans, programs objectives, level of program activities, resources requirements, program effectiveness and submit the supplemental operating budget requests with recommendations on priorities. of program requests. Coordinate all budget functions by administrative procedures, laws and regulations (Federal and State), and policy decisions. Annual measures of effectiveness and variance reports.
PUERTO RICO ELECTRIC POWER COMPANY
October 1990- January 2001
Accountant and Planning Analyst
• Statistical analysis of power generation report and database organization. Preparation of forecast power generation models; operation and current ratios analysis, cost and current liabilities, sales reporting function with Oracle GL, planning and design research projects. Annual revenue budget analysis of financial statements and financial reports, to provide analysis information for management departments and divisions. Fuel oil consumption reports, cost per barrels, fuel oil taxes, from operation power plant of Puerto Rico, developing standards tools, performing analysis and reporting. Pricing, margin analysis and cost reduction.
EDUCATION
INTER AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF PUERTO RICO San Juan, PR
Master in Business Administration, Finance
BAYAMON CENTRAL UNIVERSITY San Juan, PR
Bachelor in Business Administration, Accounting
IT SKILLS
Windows XP, Vista
MS Office (Word, Excel, Power Point)
Outlook and Internet Explorer
AS 400 Computer System
AccPac Accounting Software Quick Books
Peachtree (Complete Accounting)
Access Basic
MAS 90& 200
Oracle Financial