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Israel

Israel

• A member of the internal audit team, specializing in Finance & Accounting. Main achievements:
• Lead, plan, and perform financial, operational, country, and process audits.
• Initiated follow-up efforts of the audit’s recommendations to ensure compliance with company risks
• Lead fraud investigation audit.
• Lead Country audits globally.
• Provided consulting services to IT projects to ensure compliance with company accounting practices and risk assessment.

• Designed and led the change management, performance measurement, and team solution.
• Drove Improvement of F&A processes by improving the site's Productivity, Accuracy & and overall SLA performance.
• Improved the company's invoice processing turnaround time to 97% within 24 hours.
• Analyzed the company's end-to-end F&A processes including identification & and mapping of quality controls.
• Managing the Transition & Operation team in the smooth transitioning of processes from a quality perspective,
• Ensuring the Transition delivers on time, within budget, and meets the approved business case and facilitate the definition of transition project scope, goals, and deliverables

• Manage and coordinate with the area's district finance personnel, and in accordance with the company's objectives and goals, the following financial areas:
• Area financial control, including Monthly reports, savings reports, and standard cost management.
• Area Treasury, including monthly cash flow forecasts, weekly cash flow actual reports, and agency funding.
• Area budget, including preparation and reporting of the agency's yearly budgets and control of the agency's monthly budget reports.
• Agencies customer credit & and collections, including managing customer credit requests, monthly reviewing and reporting of the A/R outstanding reports, and the periodical "bad debts" reports.
• Legal Issues- Negotiate and review agency agreements, terminal/vendor contracts, and other issues in cooperation with the company’s external legal advisors, the company’s secretary, the company’s tax consultant, and.

• Handled all aspects of defining the financial processes specification of the SAP system for the company.
• Managed the financial aspects of the vendor selection (SAP system and IBM integrators).
• Successfully deployed the system, including defining and enforcing procedures at the company’s Head Office and global subsidiaries, including China, Hong Kong, Germany, and the USA.
• Member of the AgenTeam Global Steering Committee and of the project’s Integration Team.
• Managed and operated a matrix working team, which included: the company’s accountants and other internal employees, IT system analysts, external integrators, and others.
• Ongoing support, process design, new procedure writing, and problem-solving of accounting and financial issues to the company’s and agencies' finance managers and end users.

• Established the accounting system.
• Managed investor and venture-capital relationships.
• Handled annual, quarterly, and weekly budget & cash flow reports.
• Prepared financial models for strategic planning and valuation of the company.

• Led the company to its Initial Public Offering and at the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange (TASE) and managed all its financial aspects.
• Established and managed relationships with investors and financial institutions.
• Served as a director on a subsidiary’s Board of Directors.
• Owned all the company's financial aspects, including vendor negotiations, financial controls and reports, cost analysis, tax planning, and cost-saving measures.

• Supervised staff accountants and reviewed audit engagements for publicly and privately held companies; drafted and reviewed consolidated financial statements.
• Evaluated client profitability, operations, and long and short-term business plans. Advised clients on financial and budget planning and strategic business alliances.
• Interacted with clients’ senior management and developed client relationships.

Director'S Course, Business Administration And Management, General

Mba, Hi-Tech Industries

B.A., Economics & Accounting