Samuel Anselmo Simões

• Management of daily cashflows and investments
• Cash flow analysis and forecast planning
• Management of Treasury Intercompany loans
• Preparation of trades and execution in line with policies
• Recording transactions in Kyriba – Cashflows/Investments/Intercompany Loans
• Monitoring of credit limits and counterparty exposures
• Month-end reporting, Treasury Analytics, Project Support
• Active collaboration with Treasury Solutions, Risk, Debt, Finance and US Project Teams
• Help with entity migration, Bank optimization report and bank fee report.

• Manage end-to-end Internal Sample Testing program for Treasury
• Handle queries and requests from Internal Audit (IAD/IAG), External Audit (PWC), SOX and
• Prepare KRI (Key Risk Indicator) metrics for ORM
• Prepare, coordinate and document BCP tests and liaise with IT and DR site provider
• Provide Business Continuity training to teams
• Identify processes that can be standardized or improved
• Look to implement improvements to controls and mitigate against risk

• Daily cash and liquidity management, and treasury closing
• Ensure accurate maintenance of bank accounts, cash-pools, bank and treasury systems
• Review and completion of banking and systems documentation
• Executing cash and FX transactions, and supporting bank guarantee requirements
• Reporting and analysis of daily cash position and cash analysis
• Forecast preparation and monitoring
• Execution and monitoring of certain intercompany funding arrangements
• Working with auditors on quarterly and year-end audit
• Supporting ad-hoc projects as required – including onboarding of new regions to ETC

• Payment releasing, support and investigation for EMEA (and cover for AISA & US)
• Testing of new source systems and bank connectivity
• Training and support of countries on TMS system, static Data Management in TMS Risk and Control
• Monthly Management Metrics analytics & reporting
• Support audit review and documentation
• Keep Treasury systems accurate through checking and reconciling balances
• Accurate and timely Daily Cash forecasting
• Work with outsourced provider to invest in short term investments as required (Time Deposits, Liquidity Funds, etc.), maximizing returns while remaining within policy guidelines
• Business Partnering with countries/entities to implement more efficient cash forecasting and payments projects
• General Banking Administration including opening/closing of bank account’s & KYC Packs
• Bank Fee Analysis & Reporting
• Managing Authorized Signers listings & Other banking documents
• Maintaining bank account repository, managing Authorized Signers listings

• Prepare accounting for month end close activities, ensuring reviews and reporting are complete to high standard, perform bank reconciliation and bank statement handling
• FX rates and interest rates upload to SAP
• Confirmation and settlement of foreign exchange trades and inter-company loans
• Administration of bank accounts (including opening/closing accounts and modifying user access as required) and various Treasury systems and applications, performing access control and process, periodic review on banking systems
• Maintain electronic banking and paper mandates for Treasury entities
• Manual payment processing (Treasury related, commercial payments, business development payments)

• Confirmation of Foreign exchange deals booked by Front office through SAP
• Advising of any discrepancies in the bookings whilst communicating effectively with Front and back office;
• Expert user of the Citibank banking and Bank of America platform, including action both manual and imported payments through SAP
• Identifying any errors in payments and rectifying these issues promptly to avoid delays;
• Banking platform administration, authorizing and mandating specific users to our in-house debit accounts in order to allow them input, approve payments;
• Adjustment of the cash flow limits in order to facilitate larger transactions relating to treasury through the Citi and Bank of America platform;
• Funding of FX conversions through the Worldlink service provided by Citibank
• Retrieval of FX rate and contract in order to apply the conversion on the payment
• Processing funding requests and foreign exchange trades from trade execution through to payment;
• Enter / upload payments into the banking systems (the team operates on several different banking platforms depending on the paying entity)
• Liaise with banks to resolve queries as necessary
• Clearing accounts, journal entries, anti-money laundering compliance (30%):
• Carry out bank clearing activities, ensuring that all appropriate accounting entries are posted in a timely manner
• Post direct debit payments to the appropriate general ledger account
• Assist the Payment Services Lead with bank reconciliations
• Ensuring payment approves meet anti-money laundering compliance AML
• Bank consolidation project (Citibank) and (Bank of America)

• Improve transparency into AP workflow for employees following introduction of Coupa
• SAP SRM, Coupa and JDE/PEGA workflows harmonization to single solution
• Increase market training to improve overall compliance with R2P process, improve retro PO situation, accelerate invoice approval process etc
• Implement 'train to trainer' method to train local experts, as well as conducting training in all markets for requester and back-office users
• Record these trainings to post on intranet and create short two-to-four minutes instructional videos to augment training
• Reinforce change management process to vendors there by helping to resolve invoice routing challenge
• End to end testing SAP to edge systems (SRM) - - P2P Scripts from SAP to SRM
• Testing documents travelling from one system to another, regression testing
• 2 different waves of 3 countries each – Issue resolution and follow up with third parties
• Coached and mentored junior staff to maximize finance department capabilities.
• Presented financial reports and dashboards for budget analyses.
• Managed daily finance services for smooth business operations.

· Assisting team members to effectively resolve escalated queries and exceptional issues

· Processing PO and No Po invoice (450/500) weekly in JDE, Coupa and SAP during waves of integration Baxalta to Shire

· Investigate and resolve rejected payments and cash receipts in bank Working with finance, purchasing and supplier management staff from other entities to determine payment requirements and resolve invoice related queries.