Cost/Financial Controller

I aim to continue and enlarge my experience in the Oil and Gas industry at an International level.

October 2007 onwards
Senior Cost Controller
Integrated in a multinational team in the largest Yard in Africa, leader in the fabrication of sub sea structures for support of the oil industry:
- Financial packs for shareholders;
- Financial reporting for the General Management;
- Reporting analysis and corrective proposals;
- Projects and investments follow-up and reporting;
- Preparation of budgets and forecasts;
- 3 Year plan preparation.
Sonamet S.A.R.L. (Joint venture Acergy and Sonangol), Lobito – Angola
Oil and Gas

September 2006 – September 2007
Business Area Manager / Buyer
- Member of the transition team in the acquisition of Savinor S.A., developing internal audit works and reconfiguring the remuneration and incentives program – initial 4 months;
- Business area Manager for the By-products sector (Savinor, S.A.), including the supervision of all aspects of the business, managing a team of 9;
- Co-manager of the centralized purchase department for Soja de Portugal Group companies, including purchases of raw materials in the futures market.
Group Soja de Portugal
Agro-Alimentary Industry

January 2004 – August 2006
Senior Financial Controller
- Financial Controller Manager for Sorgal, S.A. a company of Group Soja de Portugal, reporting directly to the General Management;
- Reporting, analysis and corrective proposal for all business areas inside the company;
- Budgets and forecasts.
Group Soja de Portugal
Agro-Alimentary Industry

July 2003 – December 2003
Junior Financial Controller
- Junior Financial Controller, reporting directly to the Administrative and Finance Direction;
- Production costs;
- Reporting, analysis and corrective proposal for all business areas inside the company;
- Assistance to the Administrative and Finance Director.
Group Soja de Portugal
Agro-Alimentary Industry

January 2003 – June 2003
Internship
- Assistant to the Administrative and Finance Director of the Group, performing among others, several Investment Analysis and assets reconciliation for four industrial units.
Group Soja de Portugal
Agro-Alimentary Industry

2004 - 2005
Post degree
Auditing and Cost Control
Faculty of Management and Economics of the Portuguese Catholic University (Oporto)

1997 - 2002
University Degree (Bachelor’s degree – pre Bologna 5Yrs / Licenciatura)
Economics
Faculty of Economics of the Portuguese Lusíada University (Oporto)

Trining:
- 2006 – Course of Industrial Metrology, Calibration and DMM Management, with duration of 30 hours, given by GIAGI – Consultants in Industrial Management.
- 2004 – Query/400 course of 14 hours, given by IBS Portugal.
- 2002 – Intensive course in Auditing, with duration of 14 hours, given by the Portuguese Lusíada University.

Member of the Portuguese Chamber of Official Accountant Technicians (Câmara dos Técnicos Oficiais de Contas – CTOC), with the official member no. 77926

- Excellent domain as user, of Microsoft Office tools: Word, Excel, Power Point, FrontPage, Access, Paint and Corel;
- Excellent domain of Internet;
- Excellent domain as user, of the ERP AS400 S2 IBS;
- Knowledge as user and implementation, of the ERP my SAP R/3.
- Familiar with accounting software Sage 14.
- Basic Knowledge of programming language SQL.
- Key User in the SD module, and Team Leader in the MM module during the implementation process of the ERP mySAP R/3 (Soja de Portugal Group companies).