Victor Garita Orozco

Trilingual manager with more than 15 years of experience working with transnational Shared Services organizations. Proactive leader with broad experience in multicultural environments and highly skilled in: accounts payable (E2E), taxes, auditing, migration processes and projects. Executive qualified to work in several countries (USA & LATAM), training and developing local and international teams, leading them to higher levels of performance

Kimberly Clark Trading & Services                                                                                   2019 – 2021

AP Team Lead | Accounts Payable SLAO, Travel & Expenses Manager and Projects Leads

Standardize, organize and improve travel and expenditure processes for LATAM. To lead a team of 3 direct reports and 8 indirect reports. To design metrics for each process made by the team. Monthly global meetings and weekly regional meetings in order to review the metrics, performance and improvement projects. In charge of the Continuous Improvement Network of the Accounts Payable team made up by 11 members. In Accounts Payable, in charge of organizing, aligning and streamlining the process. To lead a team of 9 direct reports (4 of them in South America). To follow up and support each member of the team (1:1, leadership meetings and vacation plans.) To collaborate with the Tax, Treasury, Payments and Accounting teams.

• Coordinated successfully all ergonomic equipment purchases for Latin America during the pandemic for around 20,000 employees.
• Improved at 70% the team’s metrics, automating processes through tools, follow-ups and implementing self-consultations.
• Reduced the expenses made with corporate cards in 40% by eliminating petty cashes in all countries of LATAM.
• Lead the bank’s migrations from BCP and Amex to Citi in Argentina, Bolivia and the Dominican Republic automating cardholder consultations, reducing emails and optimizing process.
• Decreased the received emails related to travel and expenses by training the 100% of employees.
• Reduced at 47% the pending expenses in Concur through a macro and automating the notification process. 
• Reduced at 35% the month-end closing time by eliminating errors in the registration of taxes for Paraguay and Uruguay.
• Avoided escalations and delays in urgent payments creating a protocol for Bolivia.
• Identified missing invoices around 115M USD by creating an electronic invoice report for Chile.
• Increased the VAT collection to 40% in LATAM by leading a global collection tax project.

Brightstar Corp                                                                                                                   2015 – 2018

Accounts Payable Team Lead

Tool administrator of the invoice register IPM (Invoice Processor Manager) supervising account codification and invoice registration. Supervised the accounts payable process providing support to potential issues of the process. Coordinated everything related to the migration process from the Head Quarters to Costa Rica and its corresponding supervision. Supervised the end to end process for invoices related to the CEO and CFO. Coordinated the cash flow, forecast and payment run.

• Optimized the registration process in 30% by implementing a new ERP called AX. 
• Increased the work volume in 50%, increased the level of control in 100% and reduced errors from 70% to 10% leading the electronic invoice processing successfully. 
• Reduced the headcount from 7 to 3, reducing the steps required in the registration process.
• Avoided over payments of 1MM USD negotiating with suppliers, conciliating accounts and fixing the prepayment process.
• Saved 30 M USD reducing to 0% the missing checks, creating a process with Wells Fargo bank and standardizing the payment process.

Accounts Payable Sr. Specialist                                                                                      

Registered invoices for North America; month end close of all accounting modules of North America and LATAM; prepayment reconciliation; daily report of pending invoices to be registered; payment protocol of delivery invoices

• 100% reconciliation of all prepayment invoices.
• 40% reduction of the time spent in month-end closings taking over all processes from Accounting.
• 80% reduction in the pending invoices by implementing an Image System.                                                                  

Procter & Gamble                                                                                                                 2006 - 2014
Balance Reconciliation Accountant | Project Designer & Tax Accountant                 2012 – 2014

Troubleshooting issues in the registration of invoices; provided support in the registration system; provided trainings to employees in USA and Canada; analyzed, reported and followed up invoices over 500,000 USD; audited invoices registered in P2P for North America; coordinated the reconciliation of tax accounts for Brazil and coordinated and tested the automation process for fiscal note processes; managed the website of “Prefeituras Municipais.”

Accounts Payable Sr. Specialist                                                                                   2006 - 2012                                                                                  

Audited invoices registered without a purchase order; requested goods receipts for invoices with a purchase order; troubleshooted issues regarding the registration of invoices; answered the inbox of questions regarding the status of invoices; audited invoices over $500,000 USD; report of audited invoices and coordination with HP for scanning and recording each invoice.

• Reduction of errors at a 90% in the audited invoices by implementing strict audits.
• Complete audits of invoices over 500,000 USD achieving 0% of errors in these invoices.
• Achievement of the SLA’s response time of 24-48 hrs. of the inbox. 

Maersk Americas                                                                                                            2004 - 2005

Audit Process Manager

Lead a team of 6 members in charge of auditing the vessels’ bills of lading. Supervised the departing vessels’  bills of lading; designed the metrics of the team; reported errors to the company’s senior management.

Daily tasks of the leadership position: 1:1, performance review, global meetings and reporting.

• Reduction of errors at a 35% in the vessels’ bill of ladings by requesting detailed recounts to the harbor employees and implementing bar codes.

Implementation of weekly reports of errors showing gaps at a national level and its possible adjustments

• Bachelor’s Degree in Industrial Engineering, Universidad Interamericana. Costa Rica. 
• Bachelor’s Degree in Biology, Universidad Nacional (UNA). Costa Rica.