César Ramos

Profession:
Auditor & Financial Consultant

Current position:
French coordinating Executive Director of the French Business Center of an International Audit Firm in Brazil.

Nationality: French & Spanish
Born in Paris in April 1971 (37 years)
Residence in Brazil (since 2003).

Languages:
1. French: native
2. Spanish: native
3. English: fluent
4. Portuguese: fluent
5. Italian: basic

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Organizations / Clubs:

  • French Chamber of Commerce (CCFB).
  • Ibracon (Brazilian Institute of Auditors).
  • Yacht Club Paulista (YCP).

Interests / Hobbies:

  • Trading: stocks, options...
  • Sports: tennis, waterski, Karate, parachuting, roller.
  • Photography
  • Webdesign

Computer skills:

  • Office: Excel (functions, macros, pivot tables), Word, Powerpoint, MS Visio, MS Project, Lotus Notes, Outlook,...
  • Statistics: SPSS
  • Artificial Intelligence: Neural connection
  • Programming: HTML, PHP & MySql
  • Webdesign: Dreamweaver, Flash, Photoshop, The Gimp, CSS, FTP, ...
  • Dynamic websites: design, creation and databases implementation (PHP & MySql).
  • Video editing and compressing: DVD Shrink, Flask Mpeg, Divx, Virtual dub, Windows Movie Maker, Flash, Windows Media Encoder, Power producer, Power director...
  • Audio: CDEX, Audacity, ...
  • Security: Zone Alarm, Avast, Norton, Ad aware...
  • Backup and synchronization: Nero, CDBurner, Alway sync, ...

Areas of expertise:

  • Audits according to French, International (IFRS) and Brazilian accounting practices
  • IFRS: diagnosis, conversion process, audit, training.
  • Financial instruments and derivatives expertise: Hedge Accounting implementation (IAS 32, IAS 39 and IFRS 7) and Risk management procedures.
  • Cross-borders Transactions and Due Diligence.
  • Internal Control projects (Sarbanes Oxley)
  • Business Risks: risk mapping, review of processes...
  • Auditing Long term contracts (project forecasts) and project management.
  • Valuation of damages (several international claims contracts in UK, Spain and Argentina related to transportation and water supply) and ADR (Alternative Dispute Resolution).
  • Review of Business plans and Financial modelling and Valuations.
  • Doing Business in Brazil

International working experience:

  • Brazil (5 years living in São Paulo from 2003 to 2008)
  • UK (2 years living in Birmingham from 2000 to 2001)
  • Spain (around 1 year living in Barcelona in 1999)
  • Argentina (several months in San Miguel de Tucuman in 1997)
  • France (past permanent residence in Paris from 1971 to 1997)

Education:

  • Master's degree in Corporate Finance and international capital markets (Sciences Po Paris, Paris, France): Diplôme d'Etudes Supérieures Spécialisées (DESS): Finance d'entreprise et marchés internationaux de capitaux (Sciences Po Paris).

    Research: Application of Neural Networks to credit scoring, comparison with dicriminant analysis techniques.
  • Graduated in Finance (Sciences Po Paris, Paris, France)
    Diplôme de l'Institut d'études politiques de Paris, section Economique et Financière (Sciences Po Paris).

Other information:

  • Member of the Board of the French Chamber of Commerce in Brazil (CCFB) and Leader of the Financial commission of the CCFB since March 2005.
  • IFRS instructor in the Brazilian Institute of Auditors in 2007 and 2008.
  • Certificate in IFRS delivered by the ACCA (September 2008).

© César Ramos, "About me", www.cesarramos.com, 2007, São Paulo, Brazil.

 

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