Ioannis Zaralis Email & Phone Number

Athens, Gr

Greece

Main Responsibilities:• Supervise and control accounting processes and prepared monthly, quarterly and annual IFRS financial statements.• Enhanced internal controls by properly designing and documenting procedures to ensure effectiveness and data integrity.• Supervised and prepared all supporting documentation for the internal and external auditors.• Prepare and submit the tax returns to local tax authorities. Key Projects:• ERP implementation with emphasis on SAP… Show more Main Responsibilities:• Supervise and control accounting processes and prepared monthly, quarterly and annual IFRS financial statements.• Enhanced internal controls by properly designing and documenting procedures to ensure effectiveness and data integrity.• Supervised and prepared all supporting documentation for the internal and external auditors.• Prepare and submit the tax returns to local tax authorities. Key Projects:• ERP implementation with emphasis on SAP Integration to common platform.• Internal Control and Local Tax Audits.• Accounting Cycle automation. Show less

Greece

• General accounting activities, i.e. day to day accounting, loan finance, bank accounts.• Manage the activities of the relevant centre accounting team globally, allocating workload and ensuring that work programs are achieved.• Ensuring all transactions are properly included in the ledgers to enable timely month / quarter / year end close.• Overall responsibility for all accounting outputs with regards to the relevant entities and collaborating with the Reporting Team to ensure… Show more • General accounting activities, i.e. day to day accounting, loan finance, bank accounts.• Manage the activities of the relevant centre accounting team globally, allocating workload and ensuring that work programs are achieved.• Ensuring all transactions are properly included in the ledgers to enable timely month / quarter / year end close.• Overall responsibility for all accounting outputs with regards to the relevant entities and collaborating with the Reporting Team to ensure that all relevant monthly reporting/variances are appropriately commented on and appropriately presented, ensuring compliance with statutory, regulatory, and corporate accounting policies.• Lead the end to end process of the production of regular management accounts and other relevant business outputs to aid the wider business in its decision-making process.• Ensure that information is collated appropriately for external valuers.• Be responsible for the accounting of the centres, both through management of a team of accountants, as well as being involved in the day to day accounting itself. Show less

Greece

Main Responsibilities:• Supervise the financial records and accounting cycle of site and management companies with a combined annual revenue of €103M, in a timely and accurate manner ensuring integrity and compliance with the MG Group accounting policies and local statutory requirements.• Manage an average of €0.6M per month cash flow activities, fund transfers and keep track of bank accounts transactions.• Basic point of contact to assurance and tax auditors by providing supporting… Show more Main Responsibilities:• Supervise the financial records and accounting cycle of site and management companies with a combined annual revenue of €103M, in a timely and accurate manner ensuring integrity and compliance with the MG Group accounting policies and local statutory requirements.• Manage an average of €0.6M per month cash flow activities, fund transfers and keep track of bank accounts transactions.• Basic point of contact to assurance and tax auditors by providing supporting documentation and validating findings. • Supervise IFRS financial statements for statutory requirements.• Operate as finance business partner as a single point of reference to leadership team.• Prepare monthly quarterly and ad hoc reports for local and group’s management.• Prepare and coordinate annual budget and quarterly forecast.Key Projects:• Kyriba Treasury Management System implementation• Group’s ERP (Workday) system implementation • Tableau implementation• Board 10 implementation• Group’s ERP (MRI) system implementation• Creation of in-house accounting departmentAchievements:• Successfully completed tax audit with the refund of over 95% of claimed construction VAT (approx. €2m) from the Greek Tax Authorities.• Successful implementation in Board 10 of progress report, used by all countries of the South Europe region • Successfully completed the integration of MRI ERP.• Successfully completed the transfer of external accounting department to in-house. Show less

Main Responsibilities:• Developed and introduced Dashboards and Scoreboards for the top management. • Developed data analytical databases from diverse and complex financial source data. • Created competitive analysis data warehousing for effective and efficient data mining.• Gathered business requirements and translated them into functional and technical specifications.• Implemented resource optimization tools for strategic decision making.• Collaborated closely with… Show more Main Responsibilities:• Developed and introduced Dashboards and Scoreboards for the top management. • Developed data analytical databases from diverse and complex financial source data. • Created competitive analysis data warehousing for effective and efficient data mining.• Gathered business requirements and translated them into functional and technical specifications.• Implemented resource optimization tools for strategic decision making.• Collaborated closely with internal customers i.e. Sales and marketing, on business intelligence requirements and solutions.Key Projects:• Market Access and Pricing implementation.Achievements:• Creation of automated tool for the monitoring and control of prices. Show less

Main Responsibilities:• Led a team of five staff accountants in the Accounting Department.• Supervised and controlled accounting processes and prepared monthly, quarterly and annual IFRS financial statements.• Enhanced internal controls by properly designing and documenting procedures to ensure effectiveness and data integrity.• Supervised and prepared all supporting documentation for the internal and external auditors.• Prepared and submitted the tax… Show more Main Responsibilities:• Led a team of five staff accountants in the Accounting Department.• Supervised and controlled accounting processes and prepared monthly, quarterly and annual IFRS financial statements.• Enhanced internal controls by properly designing and documenting procedures to ensure effectiveness and data integrity.• Supervised and prepared all supporting documentation for the internal and external auditors.• Prepared and submitted the tax returns to local tax authorities. Key Projects:• ERP implementation with emphasis on Greece’s SAP Integration to common platform.• Internal Control and Local Tax Audits.• Accounting Cycle automation.Achievements:• Streamlined accounting processes to reduce work paper and requirements.• Successful completion of three tax audits.• Successful completion of two internal audits. Show less

Main Responsibilities:• In preparation for next fiscal year’s budget, gathered, compared and correlated information about projected costs of current and future programs and activities of the business divisions, consistent with local and corporate budgetary guidelines.• Controlled and approval of purchase requisitions. • Preparation and upon approval distribution of monthly, quarterly and annual financial reports to local and regional management. • Participated in the design and… Show more Main Responsibilities:• In preparation for next fiscal year’s budget, gathered, compared and correlated information about projected costs of current and future programs and activities of the business divisions, consistent with local and corporate budgetary guidelines.• Controlled and approval of purchase requisitions. • Preparation and upon approval distribution of monthly, quarterly and annual financial reports to local and regional management. • Participated in the design and implementation of reporting tools both in SAP (CO-PA) and Excel. • Coordinated the preparation of the budget, monitor its implementation determine variances between actual and budgeted data and report accordingly to local management.• Prepared Monthly, Quarterly Management P&L Reporting.• Implemented of quarterly management and legal actual Balance Sheet and forecast updates. • Prepared Daily, Weekly, Monthly, Quarterly Sales Reporting. Show less

Main Responsibilities:• Financial control regarding the integration of sales, COGS and operating expenses of the company and its branches.• Implementation, of monthly cash flow, quarterly cash budget and financial ratios.• Credit sales analysis (PV method).

Main Responsibilities:• Assisted in the preparation of month-end journal entries and reconciliation.• Responsible for the outside jobs tax authorities oriented.

Mba, Entrepreneurship And New Venture Management

Bachelor Of Science, Marketing

Education record

Professional Diploma, Long Term Tax Seminar