The firm companies hire when improvising stops working.
A Medellín accounting, tax and finance firm working in English and Spanish, directed by a licensed Colombian Public Accountant who has been a statutory auditor, a finance and accounting director and a group controller.
- Contadora Pública
- Licensed by the national board
- Specialist
- Tax Management
- Certified
- IFRS (NIIF, NIC)
Kathiuska Villegas Padilla
Director · Public Accountant · Tax Management Specialist
- 9+
- years directing accounting, tax and finance
- 15+
- organisations under her responsibility
- 11
- sectors with proven experience
- 2
- reporting languages: English and Spanish
The director
Judgement formed in practice, applied to your company.
Kathiuska Villegas Padilla is a Colombian Contadora Pública, a specialist in Tax Management and certified in IFRS. For more than nine years she has directed the accounting, tax and finance function of companies in services, commerce, hospitality, real estate and investment, in Medellín and Cartagena.
Her judgement was formed by being answerable for the numbers rather than only preparing them: IFRS financial statements defended before boards and auditors, tax planning and year-end positions argued with the tax authority, budgets and daily cash control across operations with several business units, and opinions signed as a statutory auditor.
The firm applies that same standard to every client: a technical position taken deliberately, deadlines anticipated rather than survived, and a direct relationship with whoever makes the decisions.
- 01
Accounting direction and IFRS
Monthly closes, financial statements with disclosures and the reconciliation between accounting profit and taxable income.
- 02
Tax planning and the authority
Corporate and personal income tax, VAT, withholding, municipal ICA, information returns and formal responses to notices.
- 03
Financial direction
Budgets, cash flow forecasting, indicators and reporting to boards and investors.
- 04
Assurance and internal control
Statutory audit opinions, compliance verification and written findings.
The firm
One visible director. A team by area. One owner per deliverable.
Kathiuska sets the technical position and holds the client relationship. Each area assigns specialist support, and nothing is delivered without a second review.
01
Accounting
- Dedicated accountant per client
- Reconciliations and close analyst
Bookkeeping, reconciliations, financial statements and closes under one method.
02
Tax
- Tax specialist
- Preparation and filing
Compliance, planning and technical responses to the tax authority.
03
Payroll
- Payroll and social security analyst
Changes, contributions, electronic payroll and reconciliation to the books.
04
Finance and assurance
- Financial analyst
- Statutory audit and internal control
Budgets, indicators, internal control and independent judgement.
External network, coordinated by the firm
Corporate, employment and immigration counsel, notaries, auditors and valuers, engaged and supervised by the firm when a matter is legal rather than accounting. One point of contact stays with us, and we always tell you which work is coordinated rather than ours.
We work inside the software your company already uses
QuickBooks
- Zeus
How we work
Three rules that are not negotiable.
- 01
We sign only what we can defend.
Every figure that leaves the firm has support, a second review and someone who will answer for it in front of a bank, a board or the tax authority.
- 02
We anticipate rather than react.
Deadlines, thresholds and rule changes are dealt with before they cost anything. The year-end position is projected in December, not discovered in April.
- 03
We say which work is ours.
Accounting, tax and investment registration are signed by the firm. Legal and immigration filings are performed by specialists we brief and supervise, and we tell you which is which.
Credentials
Qualifications that have already been tested.
Each one answers to a responsibility she has actually held. None is decorative.
- 01Contadora Pública (Colombian Public Accountant), Fundación Universitaria Tecnológico Comfenalco
- 02Specialist in Tax Management, Universidad Tecnológica de Bolívar
- 03Certified in International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS, IAS)
- 04Specialist training in hotel operations and management
- 05Accounting direction of service companies: legal, cadastral, hospitality, real estate and investment
- 06Career as statutory auditor, finance and accounting director, general accountant and head of accounting
Coverage
Based in Medellín. Working across Colombia and abroad.
Medellín
Main base. In-person meetings available.
Bogotá
Remote, with scheduled visits where the engagement needs them.
Cartagena
Hospitality experience and remote support with scheduled presence.
Monday to Friday, 8:00 to 18:00 Colombia time. See what we do.
What we are not
An immigration agency, or a filing service.
We are an accounting, tax and finance firm. That distinction matters most on visa work, where the requirement that decides your application is usually financial: registered investment, paid-in capital, certified income. That half is ours and it carries a licensed accountant’s signature. The immigration filing is prepared by counsel we brief and supervise, and we say so on every page rather than letting you assume otherwise.
- We do not promise approvals.
- We do not quote processing times.
- We do not publish prices we cannot stand behind.
- We do not present coordinated work as our own.
Free initial call
Meet the person who will sign your numbers.
Thirty minutes with the director, in English, on what you are trying to do in Colombia. You leave with a written next step whether or not you engage us.
How the firm works
second review
Every deliverable gets a second review before it leaves the office, and one named person answers for it. That is the difference between a firm and an individual.
Talk to the firm
Two ways to start. Both answer today.
Free initial call
Thirty minutes that order the year.
- TodayWe write back to confirm a time.
- 30 minA call with the director, in English.
- 24 hA written proposal with scope and fees.
WhatsApp, direct
Message us now. The firm replies, not a bot.
A specific question, a deadline this week or a letter from the tax office. We reply the same business day.
+57 316 664 6068
Monday to Friday, 8:00 to 18:00 Colombia time