Martin Cristobal Puebla

Dynamic Accountant with over 12 years of experience in financial operations across Americas region, specialized in managing end-to-end Accounts Payable and Treasury processes including SAP implementation across multiple countries, regulatory compliance and enhancing payment efficiency. Achievements include drastically reducing accounting backlogs, supervising large-scale migrations for shared service centers, optimizing operations and improving efficiency metrics. With the ability to contribute strengths in process improvement and team leadership, to deliver results aligned with company's goals.

Accounts Payable Manager, Project Manager P2P SPOC, GRIR Center of Excellence at Sandoz, S.A. de C.V. (2023-07 – 2025-07)

• Contributed significantly in Sandoz spin-off from Novartis during the handover period providing support and contributing with knowledge to maintain operational stability for 4 countries.
• Oversaw the end-to-end Accounts Payable process, drove Financial Ops to sustainable compliance by assessing the effectiveness of internal processes, controls and risks.
• Led 12 people to ensure month-end closing, guaranteed requests were fulfilled for internal and external audits, worked with key leaders to ensure business results stay on track and health.
• Worked with offshore team members (managers, team leads, FRA heads) to get improvements and standardize the America´s AP processes.
• Developed reports and dashboards of operational metrics (KPIs) for 6 countries to present monthly results to CFOs.
• Improved the invoice registration time from 5 days to 2 days, which generated approximately 100K USD in savings. Presented the project through a business case.
• Acted as SPOC in the SAP Implementation for 4 countries.
• Directed more than 400 tests in quality environments and collaborated on the implementation of reporting and treasury areas.
• Coordinated hypercare phase, addressing and fixing quickly all issues identified in the go live to reduce Operational Disruptions and ensure system functionality.
• Supervised GRIR Center of Excellence team, managing 12 GRIR GL accounts for 7 countries.
• Participated in the Balance Sheet and P&L monthly and quarterly reviews respectively with the leadership team and trained more than 300 stakeholders and AP new team members.

Accounts Payable Senior Specialist, Treasury Senior Specialist & GRIR Center of Excellence at Novartis Corporativo S.A. (2016-04 – 2023-07)

• Played a key role in the migration of AP activities from LATAM to Mexico in the creation of the shared service center, achieving operational stability in invoice processing, payments, month-end closing, accruals and travel and expenses.
• Helped in the development of Standard Operating Procedures and step outs, documented and standardized steps to be followed when carrying out a specific task or process within the organization.
• Collaborated with a team of 3 people to standardize payment processes for Americas region in collaboration with the team lead and Global Process Owner as an independent pillar.
• Supervised 6 people that processed payments for Canada and LATAM, fostered relationships with In-House bank and local banks, it helped to reduce 20% in payment rejections and manual payments.
• Monitored and reported monthly KPIs and supported internal and external audits.
• Contributed significantly to create GRIR center of excellence team (CoE), managing accounts for Canada, Mexico, and Central America & Caribbean (CAC).
• Implemented continuous improvement processes for GRIR accounts and improved the KPIs percentages by 25%.

Accounts Payable Coordinator, Internal Control Analyst (Project) & Supply Chain Analyst at Johnson & Johnson de México S.A. de C.V. (2012-11 – 2016-04)

• Coordinated AP processes, encompassing invoice registration, payments, and month-end closing, promoting robust inter-departmental communication.
• Engineered a new process for Custom Agents in the Medical Device sector, addressing a 5-year accounting backlog and reducing aging items by over 90 days in downpayments GL accounts.
• Engaged in the strategic migration from JD Edwards to SAP ERP.
• Executed SOX testing for AP as an Internal Control Analyst (Project), updated SOPs, and tracked audit observations to ensure compliance.
• As Supply Chain Analyst, managed import and export operations across three sectors, analyzing and prorating expenses. Developed an Excel tool to control payments, taxes, and freight costs, enhancing cost efficiency.

Senior Accounting & Tax Analyst at BHR Enterprise Worldwide Mexico (2011-09 – 2012-09)

• Managed full-cycle accounting operations, month-end closing, and reconciliations for 10 companies.
• Supported clients with accounting and tax requirements during government audits.
• Implemented file automation for tax calculations, increasing accuracy and improving monthly client reporting.

Degree in Financial Administration – Universidad del Valle de México (2022-12 – 2023-06)

Bachelor in Accounting – Universidad Insurgentes Plantel Sur (2007-09 – 2011-08)