Kristian Cambel, MBA, PMP

CEO

Metro Manila, National Capital Region, Philippines15 yrs 8 mos experience
Highly Stable

Key Highlights

  • 15 years of finance leadership experience.
  • Expert in financial compliance and internal controls.
  • Certified Six Sigma Green Belt with multiple ISO certifications.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a finance leader with expertise in operational excellence and compliance in the BPO industry.

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Skills

Core Skills

Financial ReportingStrategic PlanningCash ManagementFinancial ComplianceAccountingAccounts Receivable ManagementRisk ManagementAccounts PayableAccounts Receivable

Other Skills

Business StrategyStrategic CommunicationsFinancial AnalysisFinancial ModelingProblem SolvingCritical ThinkingAnalytical SkillsQuality ManagementCompliance ManagementBusiness GrowthGrowth ManagementBusiness AnalysisAccount ReconciliationContinuous Process ImprovementProject Management

About

I am a seasoned finance leader with 15 years of experience across General Accounting, Revenue Accounting, Cost Accounting, Financial Reporting, Treasury, Cash Management, Payroll, Forecasting, and Budgeting. My background in shared services and the BPO industry has enabled me to lead complex finance operations while ensuring alignment with strategic goals, compliance standards, and business growth. Throughout my career, I have driven initiatives in Financial Compliance, Internal Controls, Risk Management, and Financial Policy development—consistently strengthening audit readiness, process efficiency, and cost control. I’ve led system transitions and automation efforts using Oracle, SAP, NAV, and Xero, contributing to improved accuracy and reporting integrity. With 13 years of leadership experience, I have built and empowered high-performing teams and delivered finance process improvements that reduce risks, enhance controls, and drive continuous improvement. I am a Certified Six Sigma Green Belt and hold multiple ISO certifications (ISO 9001 QMS, ISO 27001 ISMS, ISO 37301 CMS), with ongoing training in internal auditing. I hold an MBA from Pamantasan ng Lungsod ng Maynila – Graduate School of Management. I bring a strong commitment to financial strategy, compliance leadership, and operational excellence in every organization I support.

Experience

Tarapaige group

Head of Manila Operation

Jul 2025Present · 9 mos · Manila, National Capital Region, Philippines · Hybrid

  • ❑ Leads the entire Manila operation end-to-end—finance, accounting, HR, administration, facilities, and office management—while reporting directly to the CEO.
  • ❑ Manages full-cycle accounting for 16 hospitality clients, ensuring accurate, timely, and complete financial reports for CEO and client review.
  • ❑ Directs all operational workflows in Manila, from planning and execution to quality review and final output delivery.
  • ❑ Develops and enforces SOPs, internal controls, and standardized processes that strengthen accuracy and operational efficiency.
  • ❑ Handles end-to-end HR functions including hiring, onboarding, monitoring attendance, managing payroll inputs, and resolving employee concerns.
  • ❑ Oversees all administrative and facilities responsibilities including procurement, IT coordination, vendor management, maintenance, and security.
  • ❑ Serves as the primary Manila liaison to the CEO and U.S. stakeholders, ensuring alignment, transparency, and fast issue resolution.
  • ❑ Conducts financial reviews, variance analysis, and operational assessments to support CEO-level decision-making.
  • ❑ Ensures full compliance with company policies, client requirements, and operational standards across all Manila processes.
  • ❑ Provides strategic operational leadership, driving continuous improvement, efficiency gains, and seamless day-to-day office operations.
Strategic PlanningBusiness StrategyStrategic CommunicationsFinancial AnalysisFinancial ReportingFinancial Modeling+2

Q2 hr solutions

Finance Manager

Dec 2020Jul 2025 · 4 yrs 7 mos · Philippines · Hybrid

  • ❑ Oversee the accurate and timely execution of payroll, ensuring compliance with relevant laws and company policies.
  • ❑ Manage cash flow, optimize liquidity, and ensure efficient management of financial assets and liabilities.
  • ❑ Supervise the timely and accurate invoicing to clients, ensuring consistency and precision in billing practices.
  • ❑ Drive efforts to ensure the timely collection of receivables, focusing on improving collection efficiency and minimizing outstanding balances.
  • ❑ Oversee the processing of vendor invoices, ensuring accurate and timely payments, and maintaining strong relationships with suppliers.
  • ❑ Manage the preparation and review of financial statements, ensuring accuracy, compliance with accounting standards, and alignment with company objectives.
  • ❑ Identify and implement opportunities to streamline operations, enhance efficiency, and reduce costs across all finance functions.
  • ❑ Ensure all processes adhere to industry standards, regulatory requirements, and internal controls to mitigate financial risks
Analytical SkillsCash ManagementFinancial Compliance

Iq backoffice

Accounting Team Lead

Aug 2018Nov 2020 · 2 yrs 3 mos · BGC

  • ❑ Leading team of 7 Direct Reports
  • ❑ Prepared financial reports, general ledger reconciliation, accounts payable, accounts receivable , payroll and bank reconciliations
  • ❑ Maintained all aspects of general ledger including monthly, quarterly, and year end closing and analysis of accounts
  • ❑ Oversee and directly implement the activities of the disbursement area, ensuring the accurate and timely processing of accounts payable, cash control and tax compliance
  • ❑ Oversee the activities of accounts receivable to ensure the accurate and timely management of all accounts receivable aging components including billing and cash receipts application
  • ❑ Manages team performance ensuring production of metrics are met and company policies complied with
Analytical SkillsAccountingFinancial Reporting

Infosys

Accounting Team Lead

Feb 2017Aug 2018 · 1 yr 6 mos · Northgate, Alabang

  • RESPONSIBILITIES
  • Leading team of 20 Direct Reports (APAC)
  • Overseeing the overall AR Management performance AR Overdue, Collection strategies, Credit Risk Assessment, Order Releasing, payment terms and credit limit setting
  • Managing the timeliness and accuracy process of customer deduction and dispute management and customer master data creation and updates
  • Monitoring the Order Management, Credit Card Facility and Customer Support Process
  • Overseeing the completeness of Process Receipts and Cash Application from Bank GL Accounts to customer account and monitoring of Intercompany Billing and Reconciliation
  • Perform month end activities and management reports
  • Ensuring compliance for risk and control standard, quality protocol, governance and corporate audit, and global accounting standard model
  • Strategic planning that includes analysis of capacity management, driving process excellence and set required agility for FTE’s
  • Provide guidance, coaching, and mentoring and create high potential people to sustain and ensure process operation sustainability
  • Designing process improvement to improve the average handling time (AHT) and turn around time (TAT) of the team
  • Transition Team Lead (April - June 2018)
  • Lead of process migration in Wroclaw Poland and Transitioned the process of Invoice Posting and Travel and Expense to Manila
  • ACCOMPLISHMENTS
  • Lowest AR Total Past Due (TPD) for ANZ Market in 5 Yrs
  • Business Value Articulation (BVA) for removing aged items, lowest Total Past Due and Unapplied Cash (UAC) for APAC Market
  • Process Improvement to decrease the Average Handling Time (AHT) of Order Releasing Process and removed 1 FTE
  • Increased 1 (One) FTE Billing of ANZ Market for operational sustainability
Analytical SkillsAccounts Receivable ManagementRisk Management

Uti worldwide (dsv a/s)

Accounting Team Lead

Feb 2014Feb 2017 · 3 yrs · BGC Taguig

  • RESPONSIBILITIES
  • Cash Management Team Lead (Jul 2014 – Feb 2017)
  • Performing quality reviews of cash reconciliation reports and ensuring all required monthly processing is completed within the agreed Service Level Agreement (SLA) and Key Performance Indicators (KPI)
  • Monitoring and maintenanceof cash reconciliation for 16 entities with 159 bank accounts
  • Responsible for different treasury tasks such as fund transfer, cash forecasting, cash flow and intercompany remittances
  • AP and AR Team lead (Jun 2016 – Feb 2017)
  • Leading and act as quality controller across all aspects of AR/AP function to ensure consistency in policy application and advice customer service provided.
  • Providing leadership, expertise and guidance to the Accounts Receivable and Accounts Payable Specialist to enable them to provide timely and accurate financial services and response to queries
  • Providing oversight of payments runs including manual and urgent payments
  • Managing resources and work planning and allocate task with the team accordingly
  • GL Specialist (Feb 2014 – Jun 2014)
  • Balance sheet accounts reconciliations
  • Month-end, quarter-end, and year-end closing
  • Preparation Monthly balance sheet and P & L Fluctuation Analysis
  • Consolidation, inter-company transactions, and reconciliations including foreign currency accounting
  • KEY ACHIEVEMENTS
  • Removed the cash reconciliation internal and external audit findings
  • Implemented performance scorecard and process metrics that increased the control measure by 95% and achieved the SLA and KPI by 100%
  • Established process design and process re-engineering in the reconciliation process that decreased the overtime by 90%
  • Created multiple process improvement initiatives such as process documentation, scope of service, FTE sizing, time and motion study and value string mapping in the cash reconciliation and treasury process
  • Improved the knowledge transfer process for the newly migrated entities
Analytical SkillsCash ManagementAccounts Payable

Ups

Accounting Team Lead

Jun 2010Jan 2014 · 3 yrs 7 mos · Alabang Muntinlupa

  • RESPONSIBILITIES
  • Accouting Team Lead (Sep 2011 – Jan 2014)
  • Monitoring of cash flow, dividend distribution, cash funding and forecasting, intercompany remittance and cash reconciliation​
  • Planning options to debtors in setting company account and developing collection techniques to improve chances of recovery
  • Directing and assisting the collection analyst on a daily activities in order to achieve the monthly collection performance
  • Collecting credit information of customers interesting availing credit and contacting customers for payments dues through phone calls and email.
  • Ensuring to improve the performance result of daily sales outstanding, receivable turnover and average collection period
  • Arrange monthly journal entries and organize accounting reports, monthly auditing of necessary financial reports, processing and reviewing BIR and other governments document
  • Strong focus on achieving SLA and KPI
  • Treasury Assistant (Jun 2010 – Aug 2011)
  • Import and export billing, preparation of billing statement and statement of account to client, net settlement intercompany
  • DSO and SOA monitoring, AR reconciliation, preparation of DN, CR, CM and other AR adjustment, preparation of AR schedule and aging
  • KEY ACHIEVEMENTS
  • Removed the cash reconciliation internal and external audit findings
  • Developed a new treasury system that decreased daily processing by 80%
Analytical SkillsCash ManagementAccounts Receivable

Education

Pamantasan ng Lungsod ng Maynila

Master in Business Administration — Accounting and Business/Management

Jan 2013Jan 2015

University of the City of Muntinlupa

Business Administration

Jan 2006Jan 2010

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