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Moscow, Russian Federation

Tarkett is the leading producer of linoleum, parquet, laminate and carpets.Key Achievements and Functions:- Supervise finance functions at 4 plants and 6 sales companies across CIS and Eastern Europe;- Ensured adaptation of costs, headcount and working capital needs to business dynamics and long-term financial goals;- Strategic financial planning, budgeting, IFRS and management reporting, presentation of results;- Developed centralized financial model for flexible planning and scenario analysis that allowed getting immediate results and saving weeks of work by entities’ financial teams;- Investment projects analysis and control, successfully accomplished new production unit start on time and within investment plan;- Designed transfer pricing and credit management frameworks as well as dozens of operational financial methodologies and templates to make sure all companies are following the same principles;- Implemented calculation of key financial and sales indicators by products, categories and markets in local BI system to unify methodology, use single data source and get rid of manual efforts;- Internal controls and risk management, reached 100% key financial internal control efficiency;- Team management and development, achieved ~80% finance employees’ satisfaction.

Moscow, Russian Federation

Key Achievements and Functions:- Managing Russian and Ukrainian finance teams (including Accounting);- Set-up from scratch strategic financial planning, budgeting, forecasting, tax planning and optimization;- Moved accounting in-house from outsourcing, recovered missing data for prior periods;- Set-up financial (both local and international) and tax accounting reporting processes, procedures, document flow and systems;- Implemented processes of cash needs forecasting, cash management and spending control; - Regulated processes of business monitoring and analysis, risks mitigation, finding and implementing improvement opportunities;- Collected almost 70% of bad debts with pre-trial methods. Decreased overdue receivables level by more than 90% by implementing credit policy, clients preliminary screening, regular collection and control processes;- Decreased stock losses by 90% by putting formalized process in place, proper document flow and controls. Also now company gets compensation for stock losses from responsible parties;- Optimized administrative and warehousing expenses by 20%;- Organized operational external funding;- Successfully stood audit and tax checks;- Implemented 1C to automate purchasing, preorder sessions, wholesale and retail processes;- Fully prepared financial infrastructure of the company for further retail roll-out.

Key Achievements and Functions:- Managing 15 teams in 3 CIS countries;- Managed more than 2 times business growth and margin assurance for developing brands and stable double-digit growth for stable brands;- Managed to clear old collections stock, optimized demand planning to mitigate future overstock;- Optimized 30% of administrative, in-store and capital expenses;- Designed system of internal controls to reveal and mitigate risks and pursue opportunities in a timely manner;- Increased budgeting and forecasting accuracy up to 90-95%, designed more timely, transparent and less effort taking process;- Optimized management report structure, streamlined process, increased accuracy, decreased preparation timeline by 3 days;- Set-up regular process of Group companies’ cash needs forecasting, cash sources analysis and optimization, working capital optimization;- Designed currency neutral (without exchange rate effects) effectiveness measurement methodology and model for Group companies;- Supervised financial and management reports preparation according to Russian and international standards;- Participated in company analysis and preparation for ERP and BI systems implementation;- Was included in the company talent pool for promotions.

Key Achievements and Functions:- Managed projects and teams: proposals for services development, interaction with clients, project tasks planning and distribution, project control, team motivation, budget management, reporting;- Accomplished projects with high quality, in line with budgets that allowed to get requests for additional consulting;- Was promoted from Business Analyst to Senior Consultant in 2 years.Performed projects in: oil & gas, energy, metallurgy, financial services, retail.Key projects types:- Pre-IPO diagnostics and preparation of companies’ financial functions for IPO on London and local stock exchanges;- Long-term planning, budgeting and forecasting methodologies, processes and models design;- Financial and management reporting according to local standards and IFRS methodologies, processes and models design;- Costing (including activity-based) and performance management methodologies, processes and models design;- Business-process reengineering;- Organizational and financial structures design;- Internal control systems design (including SOX 404).

Moscow, Russian Federation

Mobile TeleSystems (MTS) is the leading Russian cell operator (http://www.mts.ru/).Key Achievements and Functions:- Designed planning and consolidation models that were distributed to all macro-regions.- Performed budgeting and forecasting of Siberia and Far East regions’ subsidiaries;- Engaged and financial analysis and recommendations preparation.

Key Achievements and Functions:- Analyzed accuracy of newly implemented SAP calculations and proposed several optimization steps;- Performed accounting (fixed assets, payments, expenses);- Designed financial macros for MS Excel to automate workflow;- Designed and supported departmental task management system;- Integrated client-bank system with in-house software to automate dataflow;- Got offer to keep working after internship.

Doctor Of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Economics

Bachelor'S Degree, Economics

Higher School, Management And Economics

Financial Management

Strategy Execution Program