MANUEL ROMERO Cellular: 044 55 2727 8600 Home Phone: 55 87 21 31 Email: mr11c4518@westpost.

net ________________________________________ OBJECTIVE Participate and collaborate with my experience and personal skills in the accomp lishment of the company plans and objectives. Broad experience in: Financial Planning, Cash Management, Salary administration Systems, Financial Re porting, Evaluation and acquisition of an Integral Software Package (GDEdwards) . Accounts Receivables/Collection control. Cost Accounting. Acquainted with Microsoft Excel, Words, Power Point and Outlook, as well as, ASP EL and Contpaq/Adminpaq programs ________________________________________ WORKING EXPERIENCE Cost Analyst January 15th 2011 up to date. Zucchelli Alpha De Mexico, S.A. De C.V. This is a manufacturer company belonging to the same owner of the previous one. It manufactures equipment to meet the needs of the baking. They also offer alter natives and solutions for high technology projects and bakery businesses, restaurants, ice c ream, coffee and stainless steel furniture. As an Outsourcing aid, and after the job done in Productos Alta Reposteria, S.A . de C.V. I was requested to carry out an analysis of the cost system and proced ures this company is following in order to evaluate the correctivness of the selling prices that i t is invoicing to another sister company of the same group that commercializes t hese products. Controller March 1st., 2010 to January 15th 2011 Productos Alta Reposteria, S.A. de C.V. State: DF This is an importer company of confectioner's products which are mainly imported from France. As an Outsourcing Controller I have full responsibility for the ad ministration and control of the company operations, accounting registration and analysis of the f inancial information of two companies, taxes, insurance control, comply with ext ernal auditing requests, etc. Executive Director December 1st. 2007 to August 21st 2009 Baker Tilly Mexico, S.C | State: DF Auditing, Taxes, Consulting and Accounting Services

After the merge of Baker Tilly MGRD Auditores, S.C. with Valera Topete y Asociad os, S.C. a new company was incorporated: Baker Tilly Mexico, S.C. and I was name d as the Executive Director of such new firm starting December 2007 in charge of the coor dination of all foreign offices in the country as well as serving of channel of communication with our offices in England and other countries. I was also in charge of: - Preparing the Annual Budget as well as comparing actual results, analyzing imp ortant variances - Supervise and control of the invoicing and Collection processes. -*Permanent revision and Follow up on correspondence and requirements from forei gn offices, including those mainly located in the U.S.A. and Europe. - Supervise the legal processes to provide our foreign offices of the powers of attorney they require to operate as part of our firm. Administration & Special Projects Manager March 2001 - November 2007 Baker Tilly MGRD Auditores, S.C | State: DF Auditing, Taxes, Consulting and Accounting Services Independent associated in charge of the Consulting area since March 2001, mainly performing special company's analyses to detect opportunity areas to be improve d as Accounting systems, Receivables and Collection controls, etc. Starting May 1st 2006 I became the Administrative Manager of the Baker Tilly org anization in Mexico. From Nov 16 2004 to Jan 31st 2006, I performed the outsourcing Controllership fu nction in a service company engaged in the collection, control and disbursement of royalties in favor of recording companies which base their rights under the Author Law. Main priority at the beginning was the analysis and design of a new software that con trols: from the potential market, going thorough all the processes of convincing the users of re corded music to sign special contracts with the company up to the, invoicing, co llecting and accounting steps. Later on, in June 2005, it changed to a full restructure of th e company. This included the re projection of the operational and personnel expe nses, and final resolution to the taxes liabilities, recently detected. During this process I be came the Legal representative of the company while a new General Director of the company was hired and I kept my role until January 2006 when the new General Director hired reduced expenses in general, and I returned to my present position.

Corporate Financial Director February 1995 - February 2001 Coordinacion Industrial Mexicana, S.A | State: DF In this position I was responsible for all financial operations of three bottlin g plants located in the Cities of Cuernavaca, Toluca and Cd. Altamirano, Gro. as well as, the Corporate Offices which are legally incorporated as a different company .This included the support and budget control of above operations thorough the issuance of new written policies and procedures to rule the process of: Annual Plans, including Investment Plans, Projected Financial St atements and Cash Flow Projections, and the detailed month end process including Financial Stateme nts review and analyses, Cash Forecasts and key performance indicators. Another important issue was the coordination of external systems advisors with t he Coca-Cola Company systems experts, to establish the mid term Investment and S trategic Plan of the newly created Systems Area. This included the evaluation of new financial software integral packages for the group companies, and further implementation. A new Internal Auditing function was implemented. The Internal auditors initiall y reported to me, and at the end of my stay at this company, to the General Dire ctor. Independent Financial Consultant associated with independent August 1994 - January 1995 Grupo Corporativo de Consultoria | state: DF Software Implementation Services (JDEdwars) My main activity was the promotion of services regarding opportunities for impro ving key areas, through Financial re engineering closely coordinated with new IT Integral Systems for clients in force and new. Unfortunately this business project could not continue due to the December 1994 peso devaluation and related economical repercussions. Director of Finance and Administration November 1984 - august 1994 BDF Mexico, S. A. de C. V | State: DF Cosmetics and Medical and Commercial Adhesive Tapes I was responsible of 4 managers and areas: Financial Accounting, Controller (Bud gets and Cost Accounting), Information Systems and Credit and Collections. Key Achievements during 10 years of work: Budgetary Philosophy, Culture and Training to all areas in the company. Special Budget Control developed to anticipate and impede over budget commitment

s before they were expensed. This was also including quarterly Re-Projections (R olling Forecast) and all related Policies and Procedures. Evaluation and acquisition of an Integral Software Package (GDEdwards) in coordi nation with BDF Mexico, S. A. de C. V Corporate Home Office, Including all the m odules that affected our business: Finance, Distribution (Order entry Included), Sales, mark eting and manufacturing. Project Cost: around 1 million US Dollars. Internal and External Auditing functions supervision. This included the negotiat ion of fees as well as the coordination of external auditor's requests. Standardization of Accounting: Practices, Formats, Chart of Accounts and Financi al Formats. Legal and Fiscal Revisions. Evaluation, supervision and control of Insurance Brokers and related activities. Bank loans restructured from short to long term. Coordinate Capital Stock increa ses amounting 10 million-DMs or a little more than 5 million dollars. These tran sactions were evaluated under the scheme of Public Debt Capitalization (Mexican Governmental S waps). Implementation of special Fringe Benefits (Savings Fund and Pension Plans) in co ordination with the Industrial Relations area covering all legal and fiscal requ isites. Special analysis mainly oriented to reduce Working capital levels in the lines o f Trade Receivable and Inventories, as well as, causal factor analyses in produc t gross profits detailing variances due to: Volume, Selling Price and Manufacturing Cost. Change of our computer from an S/36 to an AS/400 including the evaluation to rel ocate the information Systems Department to a new Area in coordination with IBM Mexico. Special analysis and personnel/systems evaluation in the Credit and Collection D epartment to fully reorganize it as a direct consequence of the lack of communic ation between the Sales Departments with this one. Evaluation of managerial and supervision levels of the Financial Division. Main purpose was to improve personnel quality, determining the required training prog rams. Finance and Administration Corporate Director January 1984 - October 1984 Fester de Mexico, S. A. | State: DF Supervision of the financial areas of two manufacturing plants and two services

companies from the Corporate Offices Financial Director Mayo 1978 - January 1984 Playtex de Mexico, S.A. | State: DF Full financial responsibility regarding the supervision of General and Cost Acco unting, Credit & Collections and Information Systems areas. Close communication and reporting with U.S.A. Home office regarding monthly results, as well as, those derived fro m the planning process of the company.________________________________________ PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION Graduated 1 1956 - 12 1962 UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTONOMA DE MEXICO | Estate: DF After I graduated, I attended to many additional courses mainly related to: Taxe s, Managerial Leadership, Industrial Projects Formulation and Evaluation, Financ ial Planning, Salary Administration Systems, Information Systems, Economic Trends and Expectat ions, Cash Management, Financial Reporting and Controls in an inflationary envir onment, the cost of the Change, and others related to specific Soft wares. ________________________________________ FOREIGN LANGUAGES English ADVANCED 95 % ________________________________________ PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS INSTITUTO MEXICANO DE EJCUTIVOS DE FINANZAS, A.C. Member