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With over 14 years of progressive experience in Finance and Accounting, Archie Balondo has built a career defined by measurable impact across international financial operations and reporting. He has led cross-border teams spanning EMEA, APAC, and the Americas, and has developed a reputation for helping finance functions grow into genuine strategic contributors within the organizations they support.
As a senior finance leader, Archie has managed large, diverse teams in multilingual environments, navigating complex reorganizations while maintaining output quality and team cohesion. His track record includes achieving a 3% reduction in hourly rates and $1.5M in cost savings through structural changes and productivity improvements, as well as leading the implementation of new IFRS standards across multiple jurisdictions, reducing compliance risk and strengthening reporting accuracy for entities managing hundreds of millions in revenue.
Archie is a strong advocate for data-driven decision-making and operational clarity. By streamlining reporting structures, including reducing monthly reports from 50 to 35, and introducing value-added analyses such as product profitability reviews, he has helped organizations connect their financial outputs directly to business outcomes. His expertise in transition and project management spans the migration of reporting activities and the design of project plans that minimize disruption during financial cycles and system implementations.
Talent development is central to how Archie leads. Having trained over 100 individuals in advanced financial systems and modeling, he brings a hands-on coaching approach that builds capability at every level of the finance team. His involvement across both day-to-day operations and long-term strategic planning, driving the income statement through accurate performance measurement, and shaping the balance sheet with precise contract accounting, gives him a grounded perspective that his teams and clients consistently rely on.
Archie's thought leadership draws on this depth of operational and strategic experience. His writing focuses on the practical implications of evolving accounting standards, the systems and people challenges that come with regulatory change, and what it takes for finance teams to stay ahead in an environment where the rules, the tools, and the expectations continue to shift.
By Archie Balondo If you have typed something like “what is IFRS 18” or “how will IFRS 18 change my income statement” into an AI tool recently, you are part of a growing conversation happening across finance teams worldwide. The questions are valid, and the stakes are real. For decades, the structure of the income statement […]
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