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Bulgaria

Sofia City, Bulgaria

Performing the full internal control framework implementation following the COSO principles, including risk management and internal controls establishing operations’ effectiveness, financial reliability, and compliance with all applicable directives and regulations. Responsible for continuous knowledge development regarding the sector’s rules, regulations, best practices, tools, techniques, and performance standards. Identify loopholes and recommend risk avoidance measures and cost savings, acting as an objective source of independent advice ensuring validity, legality, and goal achievement. Focused on commercial, regulatory, and compliance activities, including network and tariff code revision, financial settlement, collaterals, and financial risk management.

Bulgaria

Settlement department leading by affording awareness of the unit’s procedures, processes, and guidelines; other departments support resolving inconsistencies when subject matter expertise is required, and strong resenting skills in tuition and presentations preparing and performing. Liability on credit risk assessment, early risk identification and control, risk strategy, and procedures development, and update with the relevant local and EU legislation. The strategic attitude covers the collateral and risk policies benchmarking and impacts assessment, contribution to power exchange rules establishing and attending special events to keep abreast of developments within the business unit. Since 2019 was granted the second role with a focus to develop and implement a risk management frame.

Sofia, Bulgaria

Role in escalating late payments and issues with cash-flow as per procedures, ensuring incidents are reported accurately and in a timely fashion, risk parameter calculating, and values analyzing. Completing assigned tasks in a timely and thorough manner, action the timely collection of margin payments and receipts, oversight and monitoring intraday cash flow, providing workflow assistance to members, and competent response to client queries.

Plovdiv, Bulgaria

Liability on public procurement procedures conducting. Maintain the integrity of the public procurement process, ensuring compliance with all applicable laws and procurement policies. The position strategic approach covered the review and analysis of procurement activities to recommend improvements through more efficient procurement methods, e-procurement, standardization, and joint procedures with EVN Austria; driving standardization of templates and internal process simplification for establishing standard contract clauses, time-saving, and risk management, communicate purchasing policies and public procurement-related activities and procedures to the Management Board and other departments to provide a comprehensive understanding of the procurement practices, running the procurement process for Gorna Arda Hydrocascade project. The operational part covered the tender documents pack preparation, calls for application, assignment letters, contracts writing, monitoring, handling applications selection and negotiations to assure best contract conditions, preparing reports for the management board.

Plovdiv, Bulgaria

Managing the procurement team and the delivery team, leading the business continuity process on day-to-day teamwork. Liability on supervising the timely procurement and approval of the ordering of steel and steel products. Responsibility for new contract management and negotiation, along with existing contracts examining. Accurately track and report key indicators to ensure cost savings. Risk management procedures implementing. interacting with Coface. The strategic approach covered attending various meetings and special events in Ukraine, Hungary, Luxemburg, Turkey to develop effective, influential partnerships with business leaders and drive appropriate behaviors and maximize resource allocation. The operational part covered workload monitoring to ensure purchasing services are delivered in a timely manner and in accordance with customer expectations in partner countries as Ukraine, Turkey, China, Poland, the UK, Luxemburg.

Plovdiv, Bulgaria

Obligation for commercial quotations establishing and presentations delivering as well as reviewing and escalating delayed payments and customer complaints managing. Key responsibility on negotiations conducting, market share growth, identifying new opportunities within the region entrusted, sales budget management, customer complaints resolving, bench-marking the entrusted territory.

Plovdiv, Bulgaria

Business development with a focus on export and international trade. Liability on sales and markets expansion, master franchise rights feasibility. Bench-marking FMCG markets in Romania, Macedonia, Japan, Israel, Russia, Germany, Kenya, and Kazakhstan. Running the project for establishing production facility construction in Romania, management board reporting. Local franchise projects developing, presentations delivering, negotiations, building long-term relationships with new customers, specialized exhibitions participation.

Plovdiv, Bulgaria

Managing the administration team running the daily administration.

Master’S Degree, Audit & Risk Management

Master’s Thesis - Risk management in the production and supply of energy from renewable energy sources, GPA 6.00/6.00

Bachelor'S Degree, Finance

Graduation exam, GPA 5.00/6.00

Bachelor'S Degree, Higher Mathematics

Graduation exam – practical part attended GPA 5.00/6.00, university performance extract available for the theoretical part GPA 4.00/6.00

Bid Rigging - Factors & Public Procurement As A Tool For Detecting Bid Rigging

European Law, Project & Time Management, Moderation Basis,