Alba Diéguez Arévalo

Senior accountant in Madrid with more than 15 years in accounting and finance. Specialised in financial reporting for R&D grants, cost accounting and financial information for investors.

Location
Madrid, Spain
Current role
Senior Accountant at Frenetic
Experience
15+ years
Languages
Spanish, English and Turkish

Expertise

R&D grants

Financial reporting for publicly funded innovation projects, both European (Chips JU) and Spanish (PERTE Chip): gathering and standardising expenditure, submitting claims through official channels, following them through to payment, and verification audits.

Cost accounting

Management accounts for decision-making: cost and margin by production project.

Due diligence

Preparing the company's economic and financial information for the due diligence of several multi-million-euro funding rounds.

Treasury and collections

Treasury, bank reconciliations and intercompany accounting across entities in several countries, plus debt recovery from large international clients.

Experience

  1. Senior Accountant, Accounting & Finance

    – present

    Frenetic, Madrid

    Deep-tech company that designs and manufactures magnetic components for power electronics.

    • Financial reporting for PowerizeD (Chips JU, 2023–2025) and PERTE Chip, from gathering expenditure through to payment and verification audits. Financial follow-up of Moore4Power (Chips JU) since its launch in 2026.
    • Contributed to reporting on the company's economic and financial structure for the due diligence of several funding rounds.
    • Cost and margin by production project.
    • General ledger, invoicing, accounts payable and receivable, bank reconciliations, treasury and intercompany accounting across the group's international entities.
  2. Administration & Operations Manager

    –

    Dermaline, S.L. (medical clinic), Madrid

    Administrative processes, supplier payments and analysis of business activity.

  3. Head of Accounting

    –

    Yslandia

    Accounting and treasury, focused on collections and debt recovery from large international clients. Cleaned up outstanding balances and recovered significant amounts of overdue debt.

  4. Head of Accounting

    –

    Frenetic, Madrid

    Set up accounting processes, invoicing and purchase control during the startup's early stage.

  5. Administration, HR & Operations

    –

    Vector Ronda Teleport

    Social Security, employment contracts and personnel administration.

  6. Sales

    –

    Göktürk Vizyon Real Estate, Istanbul

    Real estate sales.

  7. Administration & Accounting

    –

    Union Plastics S.A., Madrid

    Accounting, invoicing, payroll and taxes.

Education

  1. Bachelor's Degree in Commerce and Marketing, International Business

    –

    Universidad Complutense de Madrid

  2. Diploma in Business Studies (Diplomatura en Ciencias Empresariales)

    –

    Universidad Complutense de Madrid

Skills

Grants and EU funding
Grant financial reporting, verification audits, Horizon Europe and Chips JU, PERTE Chip.
Management accounting
Cost accounting, project margins, financial reporting, financial due diligence.
Accounting and treasury
General ledger, accounts payable and receivable, bank reconciliations, intercompany, debt recovery, financial audits.
Tools
Holded, A3 ERP, Sage, Contasol, advanced Excel, Notion.
Languages
Spanish (native), English (C1) and Turkish (B1).

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