Djenyra Ruço
Luxembourg,LU
Summary
Experienced and trusted Accountant with 10+ years of experience in accounting and financial reporting principles and analysis. Skilled at fixing account and data discrepancies with professionalism and using ERP. Demonstrates the expertise in reconciling complicated general and subsidiary accounts with a proven capacity for maintaining accurate financial transaction. Well versed in UK and LUXEMBURG GAAP and IFRS statutory requirements.
Overview
17
17
years of professional experience
Work History
Controller
Global Jet Luxembourg
Luxembourg
02.2021 - 01.2024
- Monitored accounts receivable and payable activity to ensure proper reconciliation of accounts.
- Reviewed journal entries for accuracy and completeness.
- Maintained general ledger and chart of accounts, performed complex accounting functions such as journal entry preparation, account analysis, balance sheet reconciliation and preparation of quarterly financial statements.
- Developed annual budget and compared actual expenses against projected budget.
- Analyzed financial data and generated accurate financial statements on a monthly basis.
- Conducted regular reviews of fixed assets register to maintain accuracy of records.
- Developed and implemented effective internal control systems to ensure compliance with GAAP, company policies and procedures.
- Assisted in developing best practices for overall corporate governance processes and procedures.
- Identified areas for improvement within the finance department operations and processes.
- Oversaw month-end closing process, prepared financial statements and managed advanced reconciliations.
- Provided support during audits conducted by outside agencies or internal audit teams.
Accountant
AFORDIA
London, United Kingdom
02.2018 - 12.2020
- Conducting control and execution of accounts payable and accounts receivable by processing invoices, including monitoring new clients and vendors
- Controlling supplier invoices and providing assistance in procure to pay process by verifying charges and their accordance to requested services
- Understanding which GL and cost centre need to be charged
- Requesting approvals to review accuracy of invoicing GL and cost centre
- Performed checks to system and reconciling accounts from previous payments to ensure no duplicate payments
- Preparing and monitoring Key Performance Indicators (KPI) in regard to time taken to process payments and resolve issues
- Preparing invoices
- Reconciling vendor accounts including processing electronic BACS payments and manual cheque payments
- Charging expenses to accounts and cost centres by analysing invoices and expenses reports, and recording entries
- Performing validation, problem solving, and client service by resolving invoice discrepancies and managing vendor issues
- Conducting general control, account processing and batching
- Undertaking cash flow and cash transaction duties and bank account reconciliation.
General Accountant
BP
Angola Projects
09.2014 - 06.2017
- Performed month-end and quarterly closing procedures such as journal entries, accruals and account reconciliations.
- Reviewing and monitoring allocation process and cutbacks with enterprise resource planning software (ERP)
- Reviewed and reconciled financial statements and general ledger accounts to ensure accuracy.
- Booking journals and monitoring general overhead, administrative expenses, such as insurance, utilities, depreciation of equipment, or office supplies
- Preparing tax, VAT recovery, and tax provisions closing journal documents on monthly, quarterly, and annual basis
- Reviewing and analysing general ledger (GL) balance sheet and profit and loss (P&L) accounts
- Preparing and maintaining account reconciliations with a primary focus to ensure accurate and timely generation of monthly financial statements and related reporting to the group
- Managing capital expenditures (Capex) processing ensuring that accounts are properly monitored and reported, and ensuring the necessary close-out of expired accounts
- Reconciliation and maintaining International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) fixed asset register
- Assisting in maintaining standardization of key financial processes across two ventures by ensuring IFRS compliance
- Strengthened financial management processes to bring errors to near-zero in reporting general bookkeeping
- Set up and improved accounting systems and processes to meet business needs and maximize effectiveness of operations
- Developed and maintained internal control systems for accurate accounting records.
- Maintained integrity of general ledger, including chart of accounts.
Reporting Analyst
BP
Angola Projects
01.2011 - 09.2014
- Delivering effective financial control processes
- Servicing client by preparing and distributing financial reports to partners in accordance with best practices and regulatory requirements, as well as liaising with partners at all times and providing explanations to any variances related to actual spend versus budgeted spend
- Liaising with auditors and providing requested information and explanation of accounting transactions
- Preparing and maintaining assets under construction and preparing account reconciliation
- Monitoring and reviewing statutory accounting reports
- Coordinating external report governance process, preparing external report on monthly and quarterly basis
- Preparing consolidation of all journals for group closing
- Presenting budget and accruals during operation committee meeting for budget approval
- Documenting and responding to queries raised by stakeholders during governance meetings and quarterly due diligence discussions, in areas such as tax, auditors, and controllers.
Joint Venture Analyst
BP
Angola Projects
03.2007 - 12.2010
- Performed recording, classifying, and posting business transactions in SAP ERP accounting software
- Preparing billing and cash call reports and posting them into SAP ERP software
- Controlling and executing accounts payable and accounts receivable by preparing and billing cash partners, posting cash call receivables from partners, and monitoring bank deposits
- Evaluating and resolving issues in billing, and P&L statements
- Performed monthly and quarterly closing activities, calculation and posting journals, cut back reviews and posting of accrual within ERP software
- Established key support and assistance to audit team and controllers.
Education
Master's Degree - Financial Decision Management
Bedfordshire University
06.2006
Bachelor's Degree - Business Administration
Bedfordshire University
06.2003
Skills
- General Ledger Management
- Management Accounting
- Account Reconciliation
- Budgeting
- Financial Reporting
- Month-End and Year-End Closings
- Microsoft Word
- Microsoft Excel (Pivot Tables, VLOOKUP
- Microsoft PowerPoint
- Dynamics 365 Business Central ERP
- SAP ERP- Business Object
Accomplishments
- Reduced group capital and operational expenditure reporting time by 20 hours per quarter by improving cost categorization scheme.
- Implemented corrective cost allocation reporting analysis, correcting BP's equity share calculations
- Created monthly expense analysis, leading to dramatic early error identification and correction rate
- Identified and rectified $16M error before books quarterly close
Additional Information
2014 – Operation Financial Reporting, CIMA, 2014 – Operation Enterprise Operations, CIMA, 2014 – Operation Management Accounting, CIMA, 2013 – Advanced Excel Training, BP Financial University, 2009 – Accounting Reporting and Control, BP Financial University, 2008 – SAP Training, General Accounting and Joint Venture Accounting, BP Financial University, 2008 – Business Accounting, CIMA
Languages
- English
- Portuguese
- Spanish
- French
Languages
English
First Language
Portuguese
Proficient (C2)
C2
Spanish
Upper Intermediate (B2)
B2
French
Elementary (A2)
A2
Timeline
Controller
Global Jet Luxembourg
02.2021 - 01.2024
Accountant
AFORDIA
02.2018 - 12.2020
General Accountant
BP
09.2014 - 06.2017
Reporting Analyst
BP
01.2011 - 09.2014
Joint Venture Analyst
BP
03.2007 - 12.2010
Master's Degree - Financial Decision Management
Bedfordshire University
Bachelor's Degree - Business Administration
Bedfordshire University
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