Patricia Duarte

Accounting Lead of Gallo Worldwide, a company partially held by Unilever Group that owns the secular olive oil brand Gallo, which includes a factory in Portugal and a subsidiary in São Paulo, Brazil. Reporting directly to National Controller & Risk Manager, the responsibilities include: - Implement national and international accounting guidelines, ensuring compliance with current accounting-tax legislation and Unilever principles. - Manage an agile hybrid team of 2 direct reports and working directly with Factory’s finance team. - Coordinate the monthly closing process and ensure that the reporting requirements are fulfilled on time. - Implement, perform and monitor accounting controls in areas such as S2P, R2R, MM, FA and O2C. - Perform regular analysis and critical reviews of the Balance Sheet and P&L. - Coordinate and perform fixed assets accounting processes. - Support the team in several other Accounts Payable related tasks. - Support and assist in different projects and processes improvements within the accounting area. Major projects accomplished: - Participation in the harmonization of Unilever's internal control processes at Gallo, suggestions for improvement and efficiency of these processes and monitoring of their compliance. - Implementation, adoption, and change management of a new SAP Asset Management module. - Review and enhance, through digital transformation, several compliance and business processes, such as: Digital invoice processing solution; Automatic accounting of invoices; Cockpit invoice approval review; Automatic routing system of duplicate invoices; Automatic rejection of invoices without a PO; Implementation of valued GR; Simplification of processes using a workflows platform with direct integration with SAP: Accounting of journal entries and olive oil advances; PR approval to generate automatic PO in SAP; Creating and modifying supplier master data; Expense management process; Capex Orders approval.

Accounting Lead of Gallo Worldwide, a company partially held by Unilever Group that owns the secular olive oil brand Gallo, which includes a factory in Portugal and a subsidiary in São Paulo, Brazil. Reporting directly to National Controller & Risk Manager, the responsibilities include: Implement national and international accounting guidelines, ensuring compliance with current accounting-tax legislation and Unilever principles. Manage an agile hybrid team of 2 direct reports and working directly with Factory’s finance team. Coordinate the monthly closing process and ensure that the reporting requirements are fulfilled on time. Implement, perform and monitor accounting controls in areas such as Source to Pay, Record to Report, Materials, Fixed Assets and Order to Cash. Perform regular analysis and critical reviews of the Balance Sheet and P&L. Coordinate and perform fixed assets accounting processes. Support the team in several other Accounts Payable related tasks such as bank reconciliations, expenses processing, vendor reconciliations, journal entries and vendor invoices. Support and assist in different projects and processes improvements within the accounting area. Major projects accomplished: Participation in the harmonization of Unilever's internal control processes at Gallo, suggestions for improvement and efficiency of these processes and monitoring of their compliance. Implementation, adoption, and change management of a new SAP Asset Management module. Review and enhance, through digital transformation, several compliance and business processes, such as: Digital invoice processing solution. Automatic accounting of invoices. Cockpit invoice approval review. Automatic routing system of duplicate invoices. Automatic rejection of invoices without a purchase order. Implementation of valued Goods Receipt. Simplification of processes using a workflows platform with direct integration with SAP: Accounting of journal entries and olive oil advances.

During this period of time I developed several tasks in the areas of Source to Pay, Record to Report and Fixed Assets. Some of the main activities were: - Developed tasks in Source to Pay, Record to Report and Fixed Assets. - Recorded all company's movements in accounting - accruals, payroll movements, deferrals, bank movements, and others. - Managed Fixed Assets accounting process, including capitalization, disposals/impairments, depreciations. - Supported month-end close process. - Managed sundry sales, including intercompany debts. - Supported audit processes. - Conducted General Ledger (GL) reconciliation and sub-ledger reconciliation. - Managed accounting for credit card expenses and employee expenses. - Handled invoice processing - receiving, validating, and recording. - Performed vendor reconciliation. - Maintained the Order's Master Data. - Managed Profit and Cost Center Master Data, and respective allocation keys. - Managed Assets Master Data and Capex orders. - Registered advances to suppliers. - Managed the supplier email box.

Ensured continuity of work in the Accounts Payable area in the Lisbon office. Main tasks performed: All invoice processing cycle - receiving, validating, recording, and paying. Treasury analysis. Accounting bank movements. Bank reconciliations.

- Ensured continuity of work in the Accounts Payable area in the Lisbon office. - Main tasks performed: - All invoice processing cycle - receiving, validating, recording, and paying. - Treasury analysis. - Accounting bank movements. - Bank reconciliations.

- Worked in the accounting team of MultiOpticas brand store chain, with approximately 100 stores, owned and franchised. - Main activities included: - Supporting month-end close process. - Posting and finalizing transactions, recording accruals, deferrals, depreciations. - Invoice processing. - Posting employee expenses. - Bank reconciliations. - Managing fixed assets retirements. - Monthly VAT calculation.

Worked in the accounting team of MultiOpticas brand store chain, with approximately 100 stores, owned and franchised. Main activities included: Supporting month-end close process. Posting and finalizing transactions, recording accruals, deferrals, depreciations. Invoice processing. Posting employee expenses. Bank reconciliations. Managing fixed assets retirements. Monthly VAT calculation.

At 37design I started my professional career in the accounting area. A medium-sized design company, with a factory in Rio Maior that carried out industrial projects. All activities in the accounting, tax and payroll areas were carried out by me, such as: - Maintaining records, ledgers, journal entries. - Invoice processing. - Allocations, deferrals, accruals. - Bank transactions. - Vendor and bank reconciliations. - Tax calculation. - Payroll movements. - Treasury analysis. - Customer aging analysis.

Started professional career in accounting. Managed activities in accounting, tax, and payroll areas, including: Maintaining records, ledgers, journal entries. Invoice processing. Allocations, deferrals, accruals. Bank transactions. Vendor and bank reconciliations. Tax calculation. Payroll movements. Treasury analysis. Customer aging analysis.

This Postgraduate course was designed to respond to companies' problems in this field and to transform taxation into a factor of business efficiency. To this end, transversal training is offered on a theoretical-practical basis, aiming to provide students with knowledge about essential aspects of the Portuguese tax system.

The ISG Degree in Management is an innovative course in the national panorama of higher education in management that combines a strong training component in the essential areas of mathematical modeling and management principles, oriented towards management control and the exercise of functions currently most relevant in a business context, particularly those relating to auditing, consultancy and specialized areas of management.

This three-year course gives the possibility of entering the job market or continuing studies at university. Final score of 18/20.

This postgraduate course was offered by ISG as an award for the best student in the management degree. This Postgraduate course was designed to respond to companies' problems in this field and to transform taxation into a factor of business efficiency. To this end, transversal training is offered on a theoretical-practical basis, aiming to provide students with knowledge about essential aspects of the Portuguese tax system. Final score of 16/20.

The ISG Degree in Management is an innovative course in the national panorama of higher education in management that combines a strong training component in the essential areas of mathematical modeling and management principles, oriented towards management control and the exercise of functions currently most relevant in a business context, particularly those relating to auditing, consultancy and specialized areas of management. Here, I had the opportunity to be an assistant in the Financial Analysis course and dedicate the last year to developing a final project for the creation of a company. Final score of 17/20.