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Vienna, Austria

Manage the Merchant Credit Risk Department for the Unzer Group GmbH. With oversight of a portfolio of over 10k merchants across payment methods. Coordinate the Risk Monitoring Activities for the team of 3 Analyst to maximize the coverage and depth of the analysis of the merchant portfolio, while fulfilling merchant onboarding, alert management & reporting responsibilitiesCoverage of merchants in the DACH & Nordics Region

Vienna, Austria

Oversight of Merchant Credit Risk for pay later products, PSP and Acquiring, as well as management of all Risk Analytics Reporting and Insights. Team made by two people, one of them remotePreparing of scoring cards for current and potential new merchants to estimate their financial health based on Financial Statement and other external dataManagement of all exposure at default estimation and monitoringAct as liaison to other areas like Sales, Finance and Merchant Operations for day to day requestsClose collaboration with consumer credit risk to enhance the financial risk monitoring with data on acceptance rates and other customer related datapointsDriving the recurrent reporting of risk analytics to different stakeholdersSupport other functional areas in identifying, calculating and reporting of KPIs, Actionable Analytics and Monitoring Reporting

Bratislava, Bratislava Region, Slovak Republic

Bratislava

Drive the rebates data analytics and other contra- revenue metrics to provide Sales units visibility on the performance and return over investment, as well as business insights and other ad hoc views into specific topics related to sales, revenue & profit.- Preparation and maintaining of the Global Rebate Data base using Excel Power Pivot & Power Query.- Adapting new metrics to the KPI portfolio for sales management decision making on rebates.- Consulted by Sales controllers on how the rebate program impacts profits and growth on specific regions/countries- General support to VP and Sr. Management in preparing and validating data for executive presentations

Bratislava

Lead the Regional Reporting of Actual results that includes variances analysis vs. several scenarios, KPIs and other Ad Hoc reports supported on data extracted from SAP & Fit Hyperion. Two Data Analyst reporting located in India- Established new reporting standards that reduced the results consolidation and validation time from four days to one, allowing the stakeholders deliver better insights without compromising deadlines- Collaborated with the ISC Category Leadership on improving the current state of reporting, resulting more time available to analyze and provide business drivers for variances.- Lead the forecasting and budget process for the Chocolate Category that accounts for USD 520MM in COGS a year. Main responsibilities include managing the Data Analysis team that runs PnL consolidations, as well as the costing migration from SAP to HFM. - As Product Costing Sr. Analyst, consolidate total Region views, as part of the Budget process, this includes deep diving in the variances with each stake holder from the business side, as well as from the rest of the Product Costing Leaders. - Responsible for the review of KPIs in the Regional Balance Score Card and Manager of the reporting of the Chocolate results input by the Data Analysis team- Deliver insights on the actual results, as well as to the monthly rolling forecast YTG process that is used to align expectations and identifying risks and opportunities

Bratislava, Bratislava Region, Slovak Republic

Conducted the month and quarter closing schedule tasks, preparing the reporting decks for the Regional Leadership and other ISC Stakeholders- Focal point for Ah Hoc requirements from Fixed Manufacturing Cost Unit, Plant Controllers and Sr. ISC Management. This requirements vary from data retrieves to insight analysis and recommendations on how to report COGS drivers to the Cost Bridge templates- Nominated by the European FP&A leadership to be one of the facilitators of the quarterly trainings on FiT Hyperion tool and Data Management on Excel- Responsible for updating Cost per Kg rates to FIT from SAP.

Boston Y Alrededores, Estados Unidos

Collaborated with the White Mountain Holding Group in the assessment of the SOX controls for new acquisitions in the insurance and reinsurance area - Tested multiple controls for RTR, PTP, OTC and FA, - Prepared detailed working papers that where subject if review by the external auditors

Caracas

Built a solid controls environment and developed communication strategies with the Internal Controls team for the ANCAM Region (13 Countries from South & Central America). Developed and executed commercial and operational self-assessments to all functional areas. Perform SOX documentation & testing.• Supported the development and implementation of the “Take Control” Strategy, a multifunctional platform that provided support for the maintenance of the control environment for every functional area in 13 countries. • Designed and managed the multimedia communicational campaign, which included digital and site training to over 2,500 colleagues, weekly activities and monthly meetings with the regional Staff.• Reorganized the Approval Limits for the purchase systems in 3 months that included over 3000 approval routes as well as the adaptation of the approval matrix of all the 13 functional areas subject to the organizational change. Awarded the ANCAM Manager Awards for this project.• Identified over 150 performance gaps for all 13 functional areas, as well as the action plans needed to close them on time. • Negotiated with the functional areas leadership the implementation of those action plans in the shortest possible period of time

Caracas, Venezuela

• Assisted the review and emission of the external auditor’s opinion report for multinationals in the oil, energy, pharmaceutical and construction industries. • Reviewed and translated to English documentation regarding balance & banking confirmations, legal letters and financial statements notes for multinationals in the oil, energy, pharmaceutical and construction industries. • Analyzed and performed tax return reviews for several clients of the firm during the income tax return season.

Caracas, Venezuela

• Completed tax returns and calculation of the fiscal hyperinflation effect for 10 companies that included Cadbury Adams, Repsol and Directv. Identified a $10M productivity on hyperinflation over 3 years.• Collaborated with the team of VAT returns in the monthly report of this tribute to the local authorities. • Supported the transference price team with the PT returns and the elaboration of the social responsibility balances needed to obtain subventions and subsidies for social projects.

Master Of International Marketing, Marketing/Marketing Management, General, Masters

Activities and Societies: Member of the Consulting and Soccer Group.

Bachelor'S Degree, Public Accountant

Social Media Roi, Certificate

Financial Engineering, Banking, Corporate, Finance, And Securities Law