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Jan Keryl CastilloJK

Jan Keryl Castillo

Finance Specialist

€100/day
Barcelona, ES
3-7 years

Average response time: 1 hour

About Jan Keryl

A problem-solving enthusiast with a core analytical mindset.
Experienced Finance Analyst, accountant & controller looking to help you perform end of period reports, solve fundamental bookkeeping errors in your books, find tendencies, risks and opportunities.
  • English

    Native or bilingual

  • Spanish

    Fluent

  • Catalan

    Native or bilingual

  • Filipino

    Native or bilingual

Remote only
Primarily works remotely

Experience

  • BACARDI
    Senior Finance Analyst, FAS, BES, Finance
    January 2025 - Today (1 year and 5 months)
    Barcelona, Spain
    • ● Audits, financial statements & EINF audited reports coordination – US GAAP and local GAAP.
    • ● Financial data governance & internal SOX controls reviews and approvals.
    • ● Balance sheet review and approval for Cash, OTC, GL, Excise & Tax accounts.
    • ● Month end closure review and execution for structure costs in the South Europe Cluster.
    • ● Budget review and planning for strategic business opportunities.
    • ● Taxes coordination.
    • ● BES10 Budget deck preparation.
    • ● Constant analysis for potential risks and efficiencies.
    • ● Coordinate Global functions with Local Market teams, such as Supply Chain, HR, Facilities, Local finance.
  • BACARDI
    Finance Analyst, FAS, BES, Finance Iberia
    April 2024 - January 2025 (9 months)
    Barcelona, Spain
    • ● Support to local Finance Manager with Audits, financial statements & EINF audited reports preparation. – US GAAP and local GAAP.
    • ● Balance sheet reconciler.
    • ● Month end closure support for South Europe Cluster.
    • ● Support to FP&A with Budget review and preparation for structure costs.
    • ● Taxes preparation.
    • ● Ad-hoc finance & administration requirements.
    • ● Cooperation with Local Market teams, such as Supply Chain, HR, Facilities, Local finance.
  • Sir Victor Hotel @Sircle Collection,
    Lead finance clerk
    June 2021 - April 2024 (2 years and 10 months)
    Barcelona, Spain
    Finished a company's internal accounting training and was officially promoted to Finance clerk in January 2022. Implemented better systems and procedures to improve workflow and reduce manually dominant and outdated task completion processes.
    • ● Daily revenue registration & analysis.
    • ● Bank settlement & reconciliaton.
    • ● Control of balance sheet and monitoring of patterns and unusual movements.
    • ● Accounts payable - Accounts receivable administration. Control of creditors, customers and supplier accounts.
    • ● Direct reporting to Regional Finance Director & Finance Controller.
    • ● Support for monthly, quarterly & yearly tax presentations for multiple companies of the group.
    • ● Rigorous completion of month end close procedures such as identifying inventory existence variations, prepaid cost registering, settling intercompany balances, activate assets & apply depreciations, cost accruing, regular invoicing, follow-up of tax anomalies such as SII invoice errors both of revenue & supplier invoices, balance sheet reconciliation.
    • ● Improved procedures and added importance to the general control of the department and sense of organization & compliance.
    • ● Cost accounting analysis and detection of trends.
    • ● Led an entirely newly recruited team of 5 members (3 interns, 1 senior and 1 entry level) during a new system implementation program group-wide, gave feedback, and reported all detected anomalies during the process.

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Education

  • Grado
    Universitat Oberta de Catalunya
    2026
    Grado
  • Google data analytics professional certificate - Chapter 1
    Universitat de Barcelona
    2017
    Google data analytics professional certificate - Chapter 1

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