DANIEL GELISTA LEAL
Crop Cost Accounting Leader - North America
Mexico City
Summary
Hard-working Supervisor with exceptional experience leading teams, delivering results and exceeding expectations. Creative and motivated leader adept at utilizing exceptional design and planning strengths to accomplish complex projects. Skilled in teaching new concepts and best practice strategies.
Experienced Supervisor leads team members to complete jobs on-time. Assigns tasks, trains employees, and implements company procedures. Excellent communication and listening skills. Provides leadership and vision, driving teams to meet goals.
Overview
2025
2025
years of professional experience
4
4
years of post-secondary education
3
3
Languages
Work History
Crop Cost Accounting Leader - North America
Corteva
06.2024 - Current
- Mentored junior staff members, helping them develop leadership skills and advance their careers within the organization.
- Led cross-functional teams to achieve company-wide goals, fostering a culture of collaboration and innovation.
- Identified team weak points and implemented corrective actions to resolve concerns.
- Overcame challenging deadlines and resource limitations by reallocating personnel and focusing on priority tasks.
- Built high-performing teams by recruiting top talent and providing ongoing support through professional development programs.
- Increased team productivity by streamlining communication and implementing effective project management strategies.
- Managed budgets and resources, ensuring optimal allocation towards achieving organizational objectives.
- Applied strong leadership talents and problem-solving skills to maintain team efficiency and organize workflows.
- Optimized customer experience by delivering superior services and effectively troubleshooting issues.
Crop Cost Accounting Leader - Latin America
Corteva
12.2022 - 05.2024
- Mentored junior staff members, helping them develop leadership skills and advance their careers within the organization.
- Led cross-functional teams to achieve company-wide goals, fostering a culture of collaboration and innovation.
- Identified team weak points and implemented corrective actions to resolve concerns.
- Overcame challenging deadlines and resource limitations by reallocating personnel and focusing on priority tasks.
- Increased team productivity by streamlining communication and implementing effective project management strategies.
- Managed budgets and resources, ensuring optimal allocation towards achieving organizational objectives.
- Optimized customer experience by delivering superior services and effectively troubleshooting issues.
Regional Cost Accounting Specialist
Corteva
4 2019 - 12.2022
- Ensure that COGS and Inventory rates are correct according with business insights
- Explanations of inventory/COGS variances in monthly/quarterly meetings with business
- Actuals vs Forecast
- Utilized cost estimation systems to document project information, create estimates and revise project costs to reflect current data
- Used critical thinking to break down problems, evaluate solutions and make decisions
- Demonstrated respect, friendliness and willingness to help wherever needed
- Attention to External and Internal audit
- Sox controls, account reconciliations
- Budget and forecast
- Achievements
- Fully and smooth centralization of PCA activities from DAS to COE for LA, supporting my teammates with my knowledge, experiences, advice in previous centralizations
- Satisfactory results in external/internal audit, avoiding any adjustment that impact to company
- Increased customer satisfaction by resolving issues in timely manner and shorter response time
- Proved successful working within tight deadlines and fast-paced atmosphere
- Collaborated with team members to achieve target results
- Participated in team-building activities to enhance working relationships
- Participated in continuous improvement by generating suggestions, engaging in problem-solving activities to support teamwork
- Worked with customers to understand needs and provide excellent service
Senior Cost Analyst
DuPont Pioneer
09.2012 - 04.2019
- Unit rate analysis - Review variances (month vs month) and explain to business
- Utilized cost estimation systems to document project information, create estimates and revise project costs to reflect current data
- Collaborated with team members to achieve target results
- Worked with customers to understand needs and provide excellent service
- Attendance to internal/external audit - SOX controls - Reporting
- Achievements
- Fully and smooth centralization of PCA activities from local accounting to FSSC
- Satisfactory results in external/internal audit, avoiding any adjustment that impact to company
- Improvement of communication with business to understand their needs to deliver data that can help with to take the best decision for the company
Cost Accounting
Herdez
09.2010 - 09.2012
- Determinate unit cost and movements related to inventory
- Post of manual journal entries related inventory (COGS, discards, revaluation)
- Attendance to internal/external audit - Manufacturing and Production Statement - Review variances (month vs month)
- Review standard cost vs budget
- Physical inventory
Education
Public Accountant Degree -
Instituto Politecnico Nacional
05.2006 - 05.2010
Skills
Microsoft office
SAP
SAP BW
CFIN
Customer service specialist
Customer relations
Motivating Teams
Influencing Others
Continuous improvements
Process Improvement
Goal-Oriented
Team building
Timeline
Crop Cost Accounting Leader - North America
Corteva
06.2024 - Current
Crop Cost Accounting Leader - Latin America
Corteva
12.2022 - 05.2024
Senior Cost Analyst
DuPont Pioneer
09.2012 - 04.2019
Cost Accounting
Herdez
09.2010 - 09.2012
Public Accountant Degree -
Instituto Politecnico Nacional
05.2006 - 05.2010
Regional Cost Accounting Specialist
Corteva
4 2019 - 12.2022
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