Christine Real Lachaona

Senior Vice President
*Oversight of the Banking, International & Legacy and wealth global reconciliation
*Manages the administrative and risk and control requirements of the team in Manila, Dalian, Costa Rica and Mumbai
*Strategic and Risk management of audit and regulatory deliverables
*Partners with Finance,Controllers, Business Operations and Balance Sheet Governance team on remediation of issues and ensuring Citi balance sheet account balances are accurate
*Empower, develop and retain talents
*Stakeholder and customer management
*Global project management, innovation and engagement on creation of process designs

Manila Balance Sheet Reconciliation, Genesis Anchoring and Frontier Lead
Senior Vice President
*Oversight of all Balance sheet reconciliation, Genesis Anchoring and Frontier team members and service level agreements
*Global project management, innovation and engagement on creation of process designs
*Spearhead system implementation and enhancement testing
*Partners with Finance,Controllers, Business Operations and Balance Sheet Governance team on remediation of issues and ensuring Citi balance sheet account balances are accurate
*Empower, develop and retain talents
*Stakeholder and customer management

APAC Balance Sheet Reconciliation and Genesis Anchoring lead
Vice President
July 2014-December 2020
*Manage the activities for the Daily reconciliation and Genesis Anchoring
*Coach staffs and conducts talent and development trainings
*Partner with stakeholders and engage with customers remediation of issues on various balance sheet accounts
*Spearhead completion of fullsuite country implementations for Balance Sheet reconciliation team
*Automation of manual processes and enrolment and testing in TLM and Frontier
*Ensures delivery of 98% Genesis Anchoring to Pearl for Regulatory requirements and consumption owners
*Performs admin and risk and control related oversight

*Manage and review various balance sheet accounts and metrics reporting to senior stakeholders
*Spearheads audit sample discussions and walk through
*Responsible to keep all production metrics and risk and control dashboard complete, accurate and timely
*Serve as cluster lead back up and coach various team members

*Reviewer of APAC balance sheet account reconciliations
*Responsible for training all team members for all account types
*Spearhead testing for product processor, internal processor and General ledger system implementation and/or enhancements
*Ensures admin and risk and control requirements are met timely
*Manage overall production metrics, administrative requirements and back up system

• Company Overview: Ensures the accuracy and integrity of the Balance Sheet accounts of the Business Units in the Asia Pacific and Fixed assets globally
• Ensures the accuracy and integrity of the Balance Sheet accounts of the Business Units in the Asia Pacific and Fixed assets globally
• Reports to Business Units heads of any indications of errors and fraud to prevent losses to the company
• Coordinates with Business Unit heads to disseminate correct process and control
• Identify process inefficiencies and business and control risks of different production teams
• Ensures that documents are SOX 404 compliant
• Ensures the accuracy and integrity of the Balance Sheet accounts of the Business Units in the Asia Pacific and Fixed assets globally

• Company Overview: (A Member of EURO GROUP OF COMPANIES)
• Ensures the timely and accurate preparation of financial reports under Quick Books Accounting System for all affiliate companies
• Evaluates financial reports and data for business decisions
• Reviews operating policies and procedures
• Updates system procedures and ensuring compliance by affiliate companies
• Manages the accounting system
• (A Member of EURO GROUP OF COMPANIES)

• Company Overview: (A Member of EURO GROUP OF COMPANIES)
• Prepares Monthly & Weekly Financial Reports & Schedules for the Management Committee under Peach Tree Accounting System
• Handles Monthly Account Analysis & Variance Analysis
• Prepares and updates monthly cash budget
• Reviews and checks monthly, quarterly and annual returns for BIR submission/remittance prepared by the accounting assistant
• Designs, documents, and communicates to concerned departments new or improvements on existing information, accounting and workflow systems
• Coordinates and assists in the implementation of established systems to other affiliate companies
• Performs periodic review of established systems
• Documents analyses and findings for feedback to support management decisions and strategic plans
• (A Member of EURO GROUP OF COMPANIES)

• Prepares monthly accounts payable reports & schedules including account & variance analysis
• Prepares check, cash and journal vouchers daily
• Prepares entries on the Accounts Payable Fox Pro System (Customized Accounting System) daily
• Assists and coordinates with branch heads on disbursement related transactions

*Reviewer for some team members and supervise makers on production deliverable on month end proofing
*Maker for various complex and high risk balance sheet accounts
*Spearhead stakeholder discussions and navigation of escalations
*Coach some members of the team and responsible for overall daily reconciliation delivery per service level agreements
*Performs testing for various system enhancement and implementations (P2P Oracle upgrade, product processor system enhancements, etc.)

• Prepares daily, weekly & monthly bank confirmation reports, blocked orders’ reports & monthly variance analysis of blocked orders downloaded from SAP
• Assists and coordinates with bank officers in the confirmation of bank securities

• Assists Internal Audit Staff in the preparation of internal audit reports and conducting variance analysis for the reports submitted by the accounting department
• Coordinates with other departments for the submission of compliance reports and documents