José Francisco Aguirre Cortés

Del campanario #7129 Residencial Agua Caliente,

Tijuana, Baja California México c.p. 22480
Tel. 6228862 Cel. 6642-02-33-17
Email: jaguirre@pens.com

FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT SUMMARY

Experienced financial manager broadly practiced in matters relating to businesses in the
U.S. and México. Start-up manufacturing and growth experience at facilities in Mexico.
Bi-cultural financial professional proficient in Spanish/English business environments.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Pluma Nacional, S.A. de C.V. (Maquiladora de Exportación) 2000 – Present

Plumas y Articulos Publicitarios, S. de R.L de C.V. (comercializadora)
Inmobiliaria TL Cabos, S. de R.L. de C.V. (Arrendadora)

An 800 employee company (maquiladora) that manufactures pens and other

advertisement products for his exportation to the United States of America.

• Supervised staff of 4. Responsible for generating and producing financial reporting

for internal and external purposes.(Maquiladora)
• Supervised accounts payable.(Maquiladora & comercializadora)
• Supervised accounts receivable AR (Comercializadora)
• Accounts receivable reconciliation GL vs. Aging Report (Comercializadora)
• Helped prepared budgets and forecasts. (Maquiladora)
• Prepared and Improved internal control for the 3 companies.
• Converted financial statement in dollars according to FASB-52 (maquiladora)
• Conduced year-end physical inventories. (Maquiladora & comercializadora)
• Responsible for generating financial and tax reports for internal and external
purposes, as well as dealing with bankers and external auditors for the 3 companies.
• Prepare “Reexpresion” of financial statements. (maquiladora)
• Made monthly reconciliations of intercompanies of all the activities of the
maquiladora with the other intercompanies of the group. (maquiladora &
comercializadora)
• Conduced physical inventory of all the fixed assets. And reconcilliated the physical
take against the financial statements of the whole group. (Maquiladora)
• Administrator of the Savings Found of the maquiladora (fondo de ahorro).
• Conducted internal customs audit and helped prevent any type of payments
(taxes, penalties & others) for external audits by “hacienda”. (maquiladora)
• Applied tax benefits to help reduce the cost of taxes paid by the maquiladora.
• Minimum audit adjustments (financial) proposed by our external auditors, clean
audits since fy2000, for the 3 companies.
• Zero tax or penalty payments, with regards to external audits conducted by
“hacienda”. (maquiladora)
• Helped reduce labor cost, by getting the maximum of the “take home” pay (net
pay), by applying different tax strategies. (prevision social, outsourcing, fondo de
ahorro, servicio de comedor, vales de despensa). (maquiladora)
• Reduce “profesional fees” from external consulting firms.

DOWTY MEXUS INTERNATIONAL, Tijuana, B.C. 1998 -2000

A 300 employee company (maquiladora) that manufactures seals for the automotive
industry with more than 5 thousand employees worldwide.

Accounting Chief, Tijuana, B.C. 1992

– 1994
• Supervised staff of 5. Responsible for generating and producing financial reporting
for internal and external purposes.
• Supervised accounts receivable and accounts payable for the us company and the
maquiladora.
• Prepared budgets and forecasts for the maquiladora.
• Prepared and Improved internal control for the maquiladora operation.
• Converted Maquiladora financial statement in dollars according to FASB-52.
• Helped in the implementation of a standard cost system.
• Conduced monthly physical inventories and his evaluation.
• Responsible for generating financial, cost, budget, and tax reports for internal and
external purposes, as well as dealing with bankers and external auditors.

KPMG Cárdenas Dosal. S.C., Tijuana, B.C. 1996 - 1998

An International CPA firm well known worldwide, with thousand of clients all over the
world. Their services included financial and tax audits, social security (IMSS) audits, tax
consult services, salaries and wages audits, etc.

Tax supervisor.
• Supervised staff of 4. Responsible for Social security (IMSS) Audits.
• Audited several maquiladoras for salaries and taxes purposes. Including
maquiladoras with over 300 employees.
• Made tax diagnosis and applied tax benefits.
• Calculations of Annual Tax Returns. (ISR, IVA, IMPAC)
• Calculations of Us Resident tax.
• Replied tax requirements by SAT.
• Conducted physical year-end inventories.

García González y Cía., Tijuana, B.C. 1994 - 1996

García González y Cía., was a CPA firm well known in Tijuana. Their services included
financial and tax audits ,as well as tax Consult services.

Audit supervisor.
• Worked as an Audit Supervisor, who reported to (3) Audit managers.
• In charge of Physical inventories for several companies, including maquiladoras and
commercial entities.
• In charge of Social security(IMSS) audits for several companies.

EDUCATION

UNIVERSIDAD AUTONOMA DE BAJA CALIFORNIA, Tijuana, B.C.

Public Accountant Degree, 1997

Master Degree in international Taxes 2008

Public Accountant Certification course;

Management of Labor Conflicts Course;

Tax instructor of several courses;

Participated in several Tax Reforms courses.

Employee Job-Evaluation course.

Languages:
English 95% spoken & written