MANUEL ANTONIO VERA GUILLEN
Canada 905-8479045 Home 905-5101805 Cel |
Guatemala 23355645 54817334 |
Extensive international experience in finance and accounting with the Oil Industry, supervising and controlling projects and budgets, cash flow analysis and forecast. Economic Evaluation of investing projects and long term planning
Strong academic foundation, MBA and B.S. in Mathematics
More than 15 years of experience
Fluent in English, Spanish and knowledge of Portuguese. Citizenship Canada and Guatemala
My Mathematical foundations and personal motivation lead me to always been looking for different approaches while finding solutions to the problems.
Excellent computer skills, A+ and N+ certified, Expertise using MS Office applications: Word, Excel, and Power Point. Experience with graphic vector and raster applications such as Photoshop and Corel Draw and also with HTML
No problems with traveling or relocation
Dynamic, proactive with excellent communication and interpersonal skills
Team oriented and highly adaptable, analytical and focused
Excellent people skills and resourceful problem solver
Able to work with all levels of staff
Extensive experience in administrative positions with Petroleos de Venezuela (PDVSA) One of the largest oil corporations in the world.
Positions include:
Corporate Planning Manager: responsible for the petrochemical long term plan. Also economic evaluation of projects, presentation to the Board and possible investor in Joint Ventures.
Corporate Controller: for Pequiven the Petrochemical branch. Responsibilities included Budget, Accounting and Biddings. Several times I was appointed to be member of major contract negotiations. Also I was appointed as member of the board in some of the Joint Venture companies
Divisional Finance Manager (Exploration & Production Division): I leader an organization of almost 200 employees responsible for Accounting, Treasury, Budget, Financial Systems Maintenance, Project control, Contracts and Biddings
Divisional Controller (Exploration & Production): I leader a team of 15 professionals responsible for contract negotiation, project control, budget, biddings expenses coding, project timesheet, ensuring that invoice authorizations take place in accordance with procedures, cash requirements, managing and reconciling bank accounts monthly, cash flow report, review invoices for approval before submission.
Supervisor of Financial Evaluations (Exploration & Production): leading 3 teams, two of them working on biddings and contract negotiations and control and one responsible for project evaluations
Financial Analyst for Economic Evaluations (Exploration & Production): responsible for economical analysis of projects I leader a team consisting of one Petroleum Engineer and two economist
As Member of the Planning Department I was responsible for the development of the performance indexes, their monthly preparation with analysis and presentation to the board. I was also responsible for the long term plan with financial indexes and the presentation of the plan and projects to possible partners in joint ventures.
During my career with PDVSA I participated in multiple task forces with personnel from different areas to find solution to specific problems or the identification of bottlenecks presenting economic ways to solve them.
During the development of the new financial systems with Maraven S.A. (PDVSA subsidiary) I was responsible for the creation of the Cost and Accounting System and later I was appointed as Project Mgr for the implementation. We used the MSA Millenium System. Later, in 1995, with Pequiven (PDVSA subsidiary) I was functionally involved in the implementation of the SAP system.
Trainer in Exploration & Production Economics for Competrol. A Guatemalan Company dedicated to Adult Training.
Strong experience as end user of Office applications like Word, Excel and Power Point. Programming experience with FORTRAN, BASIC and MASTER, using them for the development of tools for Economic Evaluations, Financial Analysis and Planning. Familiar with Graphic Oriented vector and raster applications like Corel Draw, Adobe Illustrator and Adobe Photoshop
A+ and Network + computer certified. Cofounder of the first computer club in the Venezuelan Oil Industry.
Graduated from The Centre for Skills, Development & Training, Burlington
Adult Education Certification
Graduated from The Centre for Skills, Development & Training, Burlington
Network Technician
IESA, Caracas Venezuela
MBA with Honorific Mention from the Faculty
Universidad del Valle de Guatemala
Licenciatura (B.S.) in Mathematics
Economia del Petroleo y Petroquimica
Guatemala 2002
El Calendario Maya
ISBN980-07-0085-4 Caracas 1990
Almanaque y Calendario Maya Inicio del ultimo Katun,
Deposito legal cc-252-92-13, Imp Lauper Venezuela 1993
Almanaque y Calendario Maya 500 años del encuentro de dos mundos.
Deposito Legal cc-252-92-13,Imp Lauper Venezuela 1992
Llantos de Amor y tierra,
Pequiven 1995
La demanda insatisfecha como criterio de evaluacion economica.
Documentos financieros FNE003, Maraven S.A 1978
Evaluaciones economicas de proyectos de capital en la insutria petrolera.
Jornadas de Evaluaciones Financieras, Maraven 1979
El petroleo en nuestra vida diaria. (En Preparacion)
Hobbies include Maya's History and sailing; I have published one book titled "The Mayan Calendar", two Mayan almanacs and some intra-company papers related with financial matters specially Economic Evaluations and software developed for this analysis.
While living in Venezuela I was member of the Sporting Sailors Association of Venezuela and also a Volunteer Officer with the Auxiliary Venezuelan Coast Guards.
I have been involved in several volunteer programs related with Education, Culture and Charity projects in Venezuela.
Involved in different training projects within the company .