Ana Luisa Moura

Allocate was acquired in Sep 2021 and since then we've been having fun creating global teams, aligning cultures and procedures, integrating systems, learning, coaching and trying to do our best to continuously enhance the RLDatix group.

• Led the company’s finance function and managed an expenses budget of around £10 million. • Responsible for two direct reports, handling the financial reporting and accounting activities (primarily general ledger, accounts payable, accounts receivable, treasury and tax), supervising day-to-day activities. • Ensured the provision of reporting required by company headquarters and external parties, annual budgeting cycles, actual performance analysis per product, cash flow forecasting, transfer pricing analysis and management accounts (experience in multi-currency and different time zones). • Searched legal and accounting requirements, applied HMRC rules and Companies House procedures to ensure a compliant shut down of the operations. • Successfully liaised with internal and external auditors, reviewing accounts and preparing the required information for Statutory Accounts and Corporation Tax in accordance with UK GAAP and FRS-102. • Managed the team during the liquidation process, setting goals between different departments whilst facing uncertainty and tight deadlines. • Coordinated third party relationships with consultants, advisors and acted as liaison with company headquarters to define the plan to cease operations in the most tax efficient way. • Actively participated in board of directors’ meetings to present financial results, highlight relevant matters, and provide recommendations.

• Headed and articulated the one-month migration process from Twinfield to Xero, enhancing our financial technology system and adding functionalities that enabled both time and cost savings. • Developed a business quarterly report with financial and trading indicators allowing trend identification and signalizing potential savings. • Performed the first inventory count of fixed assets in the company after moving offices and defined the process to manage inventory monthly – acquisitions and disposals. • Led the discussion in the cost centre structure – identifying different logics and increasing the accuracy of accountancy. • Created new processes related to purchasing, travel and expenses and bank payments increasing control over company expenses. • Accurately produced the monthly management accounts set - reconciliations of balance sheet, profit and loss accounts, accruals, prepayments, and month end journals to be reported to company headquarters on a timely manner.

• Established income auditing procedures and led the revenue synchronization process between MICROS, OPERA and SAP to ensure revenue accuracy while enabling customer data analysis for sales & marketing targeting strategies. • Slashed overall third-party debt by 50% decreasing the hotel average collection period from 100 to 45 days by liaising with a wide range of customers. • Lowered supplier commission costs by 5% by improving invoice validation processes. • Handled all employee benefits and travel and entertainment expenses whilst partnering with central accounts payable teams in Portugal. • Championed a sustainable business mindset leading to internal cuts in the use of plastic and a better selection of suppliers and products decreasing the hotel environmental footprint. • Accomplished general month-end reporting functions and executed revenue and costs variance analysis. Other functions include creation of purchase orders, invoice classification, journal posting and intercompany bills.

• Built overall company budget for approximately 140 cost and profit centres, 400 headcounts while partnering and negotiating with business directors across the group including sales and marketing, human resources, IT and others. • Led the integration of SAP BPC to the finance workflow by serving as super user and point of contact for both consultants and internal financial controllers. • Investigated and approved expenses while ensuring the monthly allocation process of central costs to the 25 Pestana Group subsidiaries according to the apportionment criteria and intercompany billing. • Maintained monthly reports and executed variance analysis of the company's P&L.

• Headed all treasury and accounts payable procedures for 16 countries in the Latin and Central America region. • Led the investment prioritization process and monitored short and medium-term cash flows. • Performed monthly payments, forecasting, financial reporting and intercompany loans.

• Achieved the highest volume of processed invoices, averaging 150 daily invoices, with the lowest error rate in the entire accounts payable team (15 members). • Analysed and validated billing systems, including tax and legal requirements, followed by the necessary journal postings in SAP. • Controlled supplier relationship management processes backing commercial policy agreements.