Dyro C. Lachica, CPA
California Garden Square, Domingo Guevarra St., Mandaluyong City 1550
Mobile No. -/+63927=--and-An excellent people manager and an effective accounting and finance professional
offering years of excellent track record in all phases of General Accounting, Financial
Statement Reporting, Fixed Assets Management, Internal Controls, and Audit. Results
oriented and enjoys driving new improvements for identifying continuous change to
enhance productivity in order to deliver the highest quality of service. A strategic leader
with strong communication, organization, planning and decision-making skills. Ability to
establish and maintain strong collaboration and good business relations, lead and
motivate teams, strong talent development skills, drive projects to successful completion
and achieve desired bottom-line results.
Areas of Expertise:
• People Management;
• Coaching and Mentoring;
• General Accounting;
• Financial Reporting;
• Fixed Asset Management;
• Key Performance Indicators;
• Audit (External, Internal); and
• Projects – Transitions, Migrations, Project Scoping and Knowledge Transfer
Phase (Transitions includes: North America, India and Germany).
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
May 2016 – February 2018
Lead – Commercial Service Center (CSC)
Bayer Business Services Phil. Inc
Lead the transition of CSC from Germany to PH as sole team leader for 23 FTEs handling 3
processes, namely: Commercial Process Excellence, Order Management and Service
Accounting. These processes are new in the Bayer shared service environment and are
intercompany in nature.
August 2012 – May 2016
Lead – Front Office General Accounting
Over all Closing Lead
KPI Lead
Bayer Business Services Phil. Inc
Lead Front Office GA / UK/I/India/Pakistan/Bangladesh - Bayer Business
Services Phil. Inc (June 2014 - present)
Managed 18 FTEs for companies in the UK, India and Pakistan. Directly involved in
the transition of UK and Indian companies.
Lead Front Office GA / North America – Bayer Business Services Phil. Inc (Aug
2012 – June 2014)
Initially managed 24 FTEs (2 teams) in the Manila SSC for Bayer Companies in the US and
Canada with an annual gross revenue of more than 10B USD. Also managed 20 E&Y
contractors (2 teams) during transition.
General Ledger
1. Ensures proper performance of GL activities by the FO-GL including the following:
✓ GL-Postings
✓ GL account monitoring and clearing;
2. Reviews and approves WPA entries reviewed by the Accounting Reviewer (FO-GL);
3. Reviews analysis made for Open Items Management;
4. Attends and/or initiates meetings with ACCP/Business/GO (e.g., Jour Fixe, issue
resolution, etc.).
Closing
1. Ensures closing activities are successfully executed and any errors are being corrected
either by ACCP or FO;
2. Reviews monthly closing calendars prepared by FO-Closing Coordinators (CC);
3. Performs an overall review of reopening requests;
4. Reviews pre and post-closing presentation materials;
5. Updates the reporting aspect of the presentation;
6. Facilitates and discuss the pre and post-closing materials including sending of calendar
invites;
7. Prepares write up as to the reasons behind creation of a certain GL account; and
8. Attends and/or initiate meetings with Accounting Platform (AccP)/Business/Global
Office (GO).
Reporting
1. Prepares documentation on reporting topics to be inquired with GO;
2. Reviews ATNs posted and the relevant supporting documentation;
3. Prepares and send monthly monitoring of Prelim Sales Reporting sent to ACCP, GO and
ACCP-Support;
4. Leads quarterly BKA feedback meeting presentation with ACCP;
5. Prepares and present the BKA Feedback presentation material;
6. Attends monthly FO call with GO; and
7. Attends and/or initiates meetings with ACCP/Business/GO (e.g., Jour Fixe, issue
resolution, etc.)
Asset Management
1. Attends and/or initiate meetings with ACCP/GO (e.g., Jour Fixe, issue resolution, etc.)
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Interviews and hires new employees for GA;
Provides trainings to new joiners;
Conducts one-on-one talk with employees;
Initiates Development Dialogues (DD) with subordinates;
Evaluates subordinates’ performance;
Supports key users in providing trainings to other colleagues from other groups (AR, GL,
etc.);
Team systems access management ;
Updates or follow-up open item/item issues in the Weekly Jour Fixe;
Requests and follow-up status of access rights for team members;
Reviews KPIs
✓ Perform a monthly review of the testing/monitoring worksheets prepared by the KPI
Champion for Reporting, Closing, Asset Management, and General Ledger groups
✓ Review KPI results and presentation materials prepared by KPI Champion.
✓ Attend internal and external meetings;
Reviews ICS compliance for all GA FO controls
✓ Performs a review of ICS documentation for Reporting, Closing, Asset Management,
and General Ledger
✓ Uploads to Bayprocess the assigned ICS documentation;
Reviews and approve time and expense reports; and
Attends ad-hoc meetings
Other Tasks:
GA KPI Manager
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Manages a team of KPI coordinators for the entire SCM General Accounting
department;
Supervises the analysis of the KPI figures; and
Leads the KPI discussion in a monthly meeting with stakeholders.
Closing Lead
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Monitors the month end closing for all the regions;
Coordinates with every regions’ Closing Coordinator;
Gives closing feedback to the Operations Manager; and
Attends global monthly meetings related to closing.
Country Partner - India
This role encompasses all the accounting processes. The Country Partner acts as the
Shared Service equivalent of the Head of Accounting for Bayer companies in India.
November 2011 – August 2012
SAP FICO Consultant
Fasttrack Solutions Inc.
Valero Street, Makati
1. Reviews current Business Processes (BP) and recommends improvements thereto;
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Presents the new BP to stakeholders including the new process flow;
Configures the system in accordance with the business requirements; and
Conducts User Acceptance Trainings (UAT) and End User Trainings (EUT).
July 2009 – October 2010
FNA Sr. Specialist – Country Lead
Maersk Global Services Centre (Phil)
Ortigas Center, Pasig, Phil.
Country Lead for Tunisia-.
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Assigns staff to individual processes (eg. RTP, OTC, ATR, Bank Rec);
Reports to the CFO of Maersk Tunisie and Center Finance based in CPH;
Ensures adherence to SLAs in each tasks migrated;
Suggests business process improvements that can be adopted for a particular task;
Conducts team meetings to evaluate overall performance, motivate staff and to review
adherence to management policies;
Communicates to all concerned parties (CPH, location and other Finance people from
other countries) to settle issues that needs to be cleared;
Monitors the Control Dashboard (KPI), addresses issues that may affect the cost
elements which may consequently give an adverse rating of KPI;
Discusses with Finance team of location for possible migration of other tasks that were
left behind in the migration's first wave;
Conducts monthly Customer Engagement Meeting, where issues concerning the tasks
migrated are discussed and problems are threshed-out.
Tasks handled:
Intercompany Reconciliations;
GR/IR Clearing and Monitoring;
Local Charges Accruals;
Semi-Self Billing;
Salary Postings;
TNMM Invoice Posting;
Cost Recoveries;
8. Bank Clearing;
9. 145/245 Reconciliation;
10. Fixed Assets Creation/Report
Review/Disposal;
11. Cost Center Analysis:
12. Profit Center Analysis;
13. Liquid Funds Reporting; and
14. Financial Exposure Reporting.
June 2004 – June 2009
Asst. Professor
Divine Word College of San Jose
Occidental Mindoro
1. Prepares lectures on the principles of accounting and its procedures, audit objectives and
procedures and management advisory services;
2. Instructs and explains to the students the different topics contained in the syllabi of the
fundamentals of accounting, auditing practice and management advisory services;
3. Confers with the department adviser and the college dean about updates on the subjects;
4. Prepares and gives examinations and quizzes to students; and
5.Computes and issues grades to students.
May 1998 – January 2004
Finance & Accounting Manager
Music Ventures Int’l. Inc.
Sampaloc, Manila-.
Reviews accounting policies and control procedures adopted by the firm;
Prepares annual budget and monitors adherence thereto;
Monitors collections of receivables;
Approves cash disbursements after review of vouchers and cash flows;
Prepares feasibility studies for new projects that will be entered into by the firm;
Reviews financial aspects of contracts that will be entered into by the company; and
Supervises the accounting staff in the recording of financial transactions.
May 1996 – June 1998
Public Practitioner
D.C. Lachica, CPA
April 1994 – May 1996
Partner
Geslani & Lachica, CPAs
1. Primarily responsible for building a strong audit/accounting team through hiring, and
performance evaluation;
2. Supervises workforce planning and assignments;
3. Trains firm personnel in accounting and audit procedures;
4. Supervises field work of staff personnel;
5. Reviews and finalizes reports made by staff;
6. Negotiates with clients accounting and/or audit work to be performed emphasizing the
cost/benefit of the tasks that will be performed;
7. Devises the audit program that will be adopted in the field work;
8. Discusses with clients the work completed;
9. Designs manual operating systems for clients;
10. Signs contracts and independent accountants’ report; and
11. Markets the firm to potential clients.
January 1993 – April 1994
Audit Supervisor (from the rank of Jr. auditor)
A.P. Acyatan & Co., CPAs
Affiliate of IGAF
As Junior Auditor:
1. Goes with the supervisor on field work assignments;
2. Performs cut-off procedures;
3. Evaluate internal control measures adopted by the client-firm;
4. Observes physical inventories;
5. Checks and verifies lead schedules provided by the client-firm against the books of
accounts;
6. Prepares audit findings and proposed adjustments; and
7. Submits report to the supervisor.
As Audit Supervisor:
1. Trains junior staff in accounting and audit procedures;
2. Supervises field work;
3. Reviews and evaluate reports made by the staff;
4. Discusses findings and audit adjustments with the client-firm;
5. Evaluates financial statements made by staff;
6. Submits proposed financial statements to the firm’s partner for review before
submission to the client-firm; and
7. Prepares the final financial statements for submission to client-firm, in case of audit, for
submission to the managing partner for the issuance of an audit report before submitting
to the client-firm.
EDUCATION
Bachelor of Science in Business Administration Major in Accounting
Phil. School of Business Administration - Mla
CPA License No. 92414
