Maria Florencia Pensado

Accurate and performance-driven accounting manager with 14 years of experience in finance. Adept at managing teams, completing financial statements and presenting high-quality reports. Effective communicator with financial great time management skills and well-developed analytical skills. Experienced in transitioning new activities and documenting accounting process flows for organizations to ensure compliance. Worked very closely with different departments to implement process improvements and automate daily functions of accounting duties, which has saved time and resources. Helped the department become cross trained in daily duties. 

BAKER MCKENZIE – BM Global Services

Record To Report & Accounting Manager. April 2021 – Present

• Manage the Financial Accounting & Reporting team of two supervisors and sixteen analysts. Provide ongoing feedback and coaching to staff to improve individual and team performance. 
• Responsible for the accounting cycle including financial reporting, statement analysis, reconciliations and cash management for North America and LATAM companies. Responsible for ensuring the team’ quality and delivers services in line with service catalogue.
• Work closely with operating areas in projects to continuously improve processes, internal controls and to provide financial advice.
• Ensure KPI’s target are met. The team was awarded for having the best metrics in the Buenos Aires Shared Service for more than 1 year (99% of on-time completion requests and no rejections received during the fiscal year).

Record To Report & Accounting Supervisor. August 2019 – March 2021

• Coordinate the team of eight analysts. Responsible for direct reports performance discussion and evaluation.
• Responsible for transitioning US, Canada and Mexico accounting activities to the Shared Service Center. Lead the knowledge transfer sessions and coordinate the processes documentation.
• Monitor and approve journal entries, fixed assets transactions, 45 bank reconciliations, 78 balance sheet reconciliations, financial statements and flux analysis. 
• Actively participate in be-green and BAC connected committees, identifying team connectivity initiatives, best practices for adapting to the hybrid work model and encouraging environmental awareness.
• Received the Year 2020 Annual award in recognition of my work.

AES SERVICIOS AMERICA

Accounting Supervisor. August 2017 – July 2019

• Participate in the core team that developed and planned LATAM activities transition. Coordinate the activity review for all the in-market employees to identify activities to be migrated and the FTEs required for the job. Participate in on-site discussions with Regional CFO.
• Lead a team of 6 analysts. Review journal entries, bank and balance sheet reconciliations, trial balances and cash flows.
• Participate in the company digital transformation program that includes the SAP version standardization/consolidation, implementation of SAP Suite on Hana and S/4 HANA. Finance module SAP key user for the Americas entities.

EXXONMOBIL

Headquarters Company Owner Senior Analyst. August 2012 – July 2017

• Responsible for the review of US headquarter accounting entries, monthly account reconciliation, financial statements and the corresponding reports to be presented to the US government. 
• Participate in several automation process by creating macros and SAP scripts. The developed process was implemented by 50 affiliates around the world. The project reduced preparation report time from 4 to 6 hours for each entity to 1.5 to 3 hours.
• Deliver in-house trainings.

CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANT – Universidad Nacional del Sur, Bahía Blanca, Argentina – November-2014