At PUC Junior, I participated of the first "payed" project of the company, which so far had developed only a couple of other projects. I was selected, with two other students (one of them was the VP of PUC Junior at that time) to joint the group which would devellop this first project
Professors of the Faculty of Economics and Administration of PUC-SP were directly involved in the project as coordinators and supervisors of the project but the ideas and implementation were done exclusively by the group of 3 students.
After a round of financial and operational analysis, the result was that problem the client (a miduim size turism company) had was directly related to its top management which was formed by 15 years experienced people who had serious difficulties with innovating and changing their points of view and hteir way of work.
According to the owner of the company, the result was incredible achieving 99% of the expected.
In this first year of work, I was trained for more than 240 hours subjects related to accountancy (domestic and foreign practices), financial analysis, audit, linguage expression among others. The tasks were relatively not highly skilled and little responsability over the overall job was entrusted.
During the last quarter of this year, I was not considered a trainee any more and Auditor Assistent tasks were entrusted to me.
The next step in my career at KPMG was followed by the promotion to Auditor Assistent in August 1999. During this year other 150 hours of training were invested to improve my skills. All the other topics were up dated and deeped, and other topics more specific were introduced. During this year, small jobs were "given" to me as an encharged. Again, in the end of this year I was considered already in the next step and Semi Senior Auditor tasks were entrusted to me. The responsability of the work began to be really heavy and my results were reported directly to the manager and partner encharged of each client.
After this phase, in August 2000 I was promoted to Semi Senior Auditor and other 130 hours of training were invested in the remaining group. At that moment, less than 35% of the initial group were still working at KPMG. At this phase I was considered a Senior Auditor and I was encharged of basically all clients which I worked in. After six months working in such position in Sao Paulo I was invited to the KPMG Campinas Office lauching. I faced an invitation which I could not refuse! The lauching of a new office was really exiting and challenging to me!
The next step in my career would be, normaly the promotion to Senior Auditor but in July 2001, when I had already got the positive signal in direction of such promotion and had already taken about 60 hours of training, I faced another opportunity which looked like even more defing. I had the opportunity of going abroad to complete my academic and profetional background by doing a MSc of Economics at the University of Groningen in The Netherlands.
Among others, was my task to take charge of audit and examination of the balance sheets and consolidated balance sheets of the companies and its subsidiaries and the related statements of income, changes in the shareholders equity and changes in financial position for the years than ended, prepared in accordance with accounting practiced derived from the Brazilian Coorporation Law and rules of the Brazilian Securities Exchange Comission, according to the US Gaap and IAS. Check client's compliance to existing laws, regulations, policies and implementation of established internal controls. Prepare reports on results of examination with corresponding recommendations for cost savings and efficiency. Prepare audit report for Mother Company, shareholders and publication. Por meio de analise de riscos, ajudei os clientes no processo de tomada de decisões e gereneciamento de riscos de negocio.
During those years I participated of the process of audit of several companies, national and international ones, names include extremely high profile clients: ABB (power generation and transmission), Akzo Nobel (Ink Division) and Dragoco Perfumes (chemistry industry), Corn Products and Nestle (foods services), Honda Motor and Yamaha Motor (vehicles and motors), GE (GEVISA - train and mechanic engines), Motorola and Draka do Brasil (telecommunication technology), Brinks (value transportation and security), Asta Medica and Galderma (pharmaceuticals).
