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▪ Team Management: Directing a team of 10 Full-Time Equivalents (FTEs)▪ Strategic Financial Performance Management: Full responsibility for the company's financial results (P&L), including analysis, planning, and optimization of profits and costs▪ Optimizing Financial Liquidity: Ensuring financial stability through managing working capital and liquidity, including monitoring cash flows and developing strategies for their optimization▪ Formulating and Implementing Financial Strategy: Developing and executing the company's long-term financial strategy to support its business objectives, including identifying new growth opportunities and minimizing financial risk▪ Designing Financial Systems: Creating and implementing advanced settlement and management accounting systems to streamline financial processes, increase transparency, and improve control over financial resources▪ Managing Tax Incentives: Implementing effective tax strategies, including identifying and utilizing available tax breaks and optimizing tax burdens▪ Budget Planning and Control: Conducting a comprehensive budgeting process, from preparation to supervision and execution of annual budgets▪ Investment Efficiency Evaluation: Analyzing and evaluating investment projects in terms of their potential impact on growth and profitability, using advanced evaluation and forecasting methods▪ Negotiations with Key Partners▪ Initiating Development Processes: Creating and implementing innovative financial and operational processes that contribute to the continuous development of the organization and its adaptive capabilities in a dynamically changing business environment▪ Collaborating with Financial Institutions: Building and maintaining relationships with banks and other financial institutions to ensure access to financing, loans, and other financial instruments to support the company's growth

▪ Managing a team: 15 FTEs▪ Full responsibility for P&L and assuring cash flow, shaping and executing an efficient financial strategy▪ Key challenges: preparation, supervision and implementation of annual budgets, increasing the efficiency of the accounting department, controlling and vindication department▪ Supervision and completion of investment projects▪ Preparing and completing business goals for the project▪ Opinionating investment projects▪ Operational management of the company’s business areas + process coordination▪ Negotiating with key business partners▪ Creating and implementing procedures and processes▪ Optimising the cost structure and the level of turnover▪ Operational and strategic management▪ Designing development processes▪ Cooperation with financial institutions

Sopot, Woj. Pomorskie, Polska

▪ Managing assets: ↑22 mln PLN▪ Managing a team: 6 FTEs▪ Full responsibility for P&L and assuring cash flow, shaping and executing an efficient financial strategy ▪ Key challenges: obtaining financing for the purchase of luxury real estate [Blue Media headquarters] and a yacht purchase, arranging the company merger (dividing subsidiaries, mergers, M&A)▪ Supervision and completion of investment projects▪ Preparing and completing business goals for the project▪ Opinionating investment projects▪ Operational management of the company’s business areas + process coordination▪ Negotiating with key business partners▪ Creating and implementing procedures and processes▪ Optimising the cost structure and the level of turnover▪ Operational and strategic management▪ Designing development processes▪ Cooperation with financial institutions

Sopot, Pomeranian District, Polska

▪ Managing a team: 20 FTEs▪ Supervised area: accounting, administration, operations, legal▪ Key challenges: managing cash flow, obtaining financing for investment projects▪ Participating in building efficiency management systems from the ground up▪ Taking part in yearly budgeting ▪ Acting as personal financial adviser related to investments for owners, stockholders, and shareholders▪ Providing support related to the financial expertise of subsidiaries▪ Obtaining financing in the form of loans, guarantees, and leases▪ Supervising the trade company in Cyprus and Ukraine division of the company: financial holding services▪ Trade related financial negotiations with business partners▪ Working with auditors as well as tax and financial advisors▪ Risk management

▪ Budget management: ~4 mln PLN per year▪ Managing a team: 3 FTEs + outsourcing IT▪ Key challenges: obtaining subsidies for developing a project named “Pay for me: Creating an innovative financial e-service portal”▪ Creating, implementing, and developing the project▪ Acting as personal financial adviser pertaining to investments for owners, stockholders, and stakeholders

▪ Budget management: 1 mln PLN per year▪ Managing a team: 3 FTEs + outsourcing IT▪ Key challenges: obtaining subsidies for start-ups, completing a project named “Creating and implementing the Auto Guide service and digital products for the electronics market”▪ Creating a financial plan for the project in cooperation with a consulting firm▪ Completing the project with the use of subsidies

▪ Key challenges: managing the company’s finances and bearing full responsibility for P&L▪ Organising the finance department from the ground up: concept, organisation structure, team expertise, recruitment, team management▪ Contracts with business partners and phone companies

▪ Managing Corporate and Institutional Customer Advisors▪ Creating and implementing sales plans▪ Conducting training courses on Prospective Culture▪ Member of the Credit Committee

Studia Podyplomowe, Wydział Prawa I Administracji | Prawo Podatkowe

Francusko-Polskie Studia Podyplomowe, Finanse

Magister Inżynier (Mgr Inż.), Wydział Zarządzania I Ekonomii