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London, GB

London Area, United Kingdom

Russian Federation

• Executed income tax-related engagements with high net worth individuals and SMEs, including cross-border financial planning and transfer pricing cases, resulting in hundreds of thousands of dollars in cost savings for.
• Assisted with the substantial growth of existing client base and margins of billables.
• Optimized internal business processes across offices in three different countries, considerably reducing the lead time down to 2-3 days, as well as the collection period.
• Implemented performance tracking reports and online collaboration tools to increase productivity.

Moscow Region, Russian Federation

• Coordinated all financial activities.
• Oversaw project companies and research teams by providing administrative support androad-mapping commercialisation strategies.
• Identified new business and scientific opportunities, coordinated due diligence process.
• Built and maintained relationships with local and international partners.

Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation

• Advised city administration on selected business decisions.

Belgium

• As a final stage of MBA education, led a team of graduates to explore the opportunities for Spano Group to establish its presence on the Russian market.
• Analyzed existing competition, identified potential acquisition targets and assessed potential location for “greenfield” or “brownfield” development, as appropriate.
• Together with a major international law firm, evaluated points of attention in investment decisions in Russia.
• Made recommendations for improving the company’s supply chain for better margins, improved market share and larger scale.
• Established contacts and negotiated with relevant authorities and market players.

Moscow, Russian Federation

• Evaluated key strategy projects related to petroleum pipeline systems, leading the development of the annual investment program of the company (more than 6 billion rubles in 2008).
• Successfully coordinated diverse investment activities of 14 regional subsidiaries.
• Tracked monthly performance for company management to ensure value.
• Improved and streamlined structure of several specific projects to eliminate unnecessary steps and redundancies, resulting in process time and millions of rubles in cost savings.
• Managed the post-merger integration process of investment activities.

Moscow, Russian Federation

• Supervised the execution of major commercial bank operations, provided financial and risk analysis for crediting and stock market operations to minimize potential losses.
• Facilitated the implementation of new bank products.
• Expanded activities to grow sales revenue for stock market and interbank forex trading, increasing transactions volume four times from $20 to $80 million within one year.
• Built and maintained relationships with key client accounts.

Moscow, Russian Federation

• Analyzed and reviewed international accounting documentation, gaining greater understanding of operating in a multi-cultural foreign corporation.

International Mba Awarded With Distinction

Master’S Degree

Master