Jorge E Guerra

Current

• Management Consultant (Sole Proprietorship)

Education

• Columbia University - Columbia Business School

Connections

6 connections

Industry

Management Consulting

Jorge E Guerra’s Summary

• Compliance expert with vast experience in designing, implementing and monitoring financial and operational internal controls to guarantee the reliability and transparency of the financial reporting.
• Extensive hands-on experience in Sarbanes-Oxley Act implementations around the world and multiple industries (Non-profit, Software, Healthcare/Manufacturing, Marketing Research & Business Services).
• Multilingual executive with expertise managing the internal and external audit functions, and the financial management and reporting of multicultural overseas operations of a US global company.
• Expert in leading installation of new MIS systems (particularly SAP) incorporating in the system majority of SOX 404 required controls.
• Experienced CEO/CFO/Controller that has managed the finance, planning, operations (manufacturing of consumer products) and marketing (retail) areas of a global company at divisional and corporate levels.
• Managed complex international corporate finance operations involving transfer pricing (taxes and tariffs), financing of international operations and foreign currency risk management that generated bottom line contributions of over 50 million from South America and West Africa.
• Led the restructuring of 10 manufacturing and marketing companies in South America and West Africa. The resulting improvement in earnings amounted to over 20 million per year.
• Reengineered the Marketing function of a 50M+ Mexican Company increasing sales and market share in the middle of the recession following the 1994 crisis.
• Led/participated in the analysis/review/approval process of several business acquisitions and divestitures.
• Extensive experience in valuation of stocks and other advanced finance matters (Adjunct Professor of Managerial Acctg. And Corporate Finance at the Sacred Heart University, MBA program).

Jorge E Guerra’s Experience

• Management Consultant

  Sole Proprietorship

  (Sole Proprietorship; Myself Only; Management Consulting industry)

  July 2003 — Present (5 years 4 months)

  Management Consultant (2003-2007):
  IMA (Institute of Management Accountants): Design and implementation of a Sarbanes-Oxley Knowledge Network.
  Borland – Europe & Brazil: Sarbanes Oxley documentation and Testing Plans. Baxter - Puerto Rico: Review of documentation, testing and final determination of reportable internal control deficiencies.
  Guideline: Sarbanes-Oxley documentation and testing plans.
  Pentax of America: Forensic Accounting. Review of deficiencies in an MIS (SAP) implementation, determination of adjustments required in cash, A/R, A/P & Inventory.
  SOS 1031 (IPofA): Forensic Accounting. Review of the M&A activity, determination of adjustments required and design of improved cash control processes.
  Coffee Holding: Sarbanes-Oxley/MIS implementation. Documentation and design of embedded controls in the SAP system being implemented. (2006)
  Stock Valuation:
  - Member of the Councils of Advisors (The Gerson Lehrman Group)

Jorge E Guerra’s Education

• Columbia University - Columbia Business School

  1999 — 2001

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