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Warsaw, Masovian District, Poland

• Establishment of the business and financial strategy for the CEE group's companies and supervision of their implementation• Provide leadership to the Board's Finance and Accounting strategy, to optimize the company’s financial performance and strategic position• Take overall control of the company’s accounting function• Contribute fully to the development of company strategy across all areas of the business, challenging assumptions and decision-making as appropriate and providing financial analysis and guidance on all activities, plans, targets and business drivers• Drive the company through the phase of processes improvement and operational transformation• Ensure that company financial systems are robust, compliant and support current activities and future growth• Preparation of statutory financial statements• Tax and legal compliance• Lead, coach and develop finance, accounting, customer service, administration and HR teams• Ensure corporate budgeting processes are carried out and reviewed• Lead financial performance reviews and budget variance analyses• Corporate finance: manage company policies regarding capital requirements, debt, taxation, equity, disposals and acquisitions, as appropriate• Control and minimize legal and business risks• Establish a high level of credibility and manage strong working relationships with external parties including customers and advisers

Warsaw, Masovian District, Poland

• Establishment of the business and financial strategy for the group's companies and supervision of their implementation• Preparation of budget and systematic analysis of the implementation• Forecast of cash-flow, control of the current situation, tax supervision• Initiation and analysis of new business projects, analysis and recommendation for the new investments• Preparation and implementation of the effective processes of obtaining management information for reports and budget• Cooperation with the owner's representative, auditors and banks• Daily management of the following internal departments: accounting, production, administration, editorial departments, book publishing• Cooperation and supervision over the external services: IT, personal and legal• Cooperation and negotiation with external business partners• Establishment of the personnel strategy in the company• Preparation and implementation of the cost optimization processes• Supervision over the settlements, documentations and transactions between affiliated companies

Warsaw, Masovian District, Poland

• Consulting and recommendation for a shareholder regarding the financial decisions• Direct supervision over the internal departments: settlements, personnel and administration • Responsibility for the cooperation with the external accounting and personnel company• Preparation of the system for planning and analyzing the result in accordance with IFRS• Daily cash-flow forecast and expenses decisions• Supervision over the financial settlement of the motivation system for sales departments• Preparation of the implementation plan for insourcing the accounting system from an external accounting company in accordance with the group's guidelines, supervision of this implementation• Preparation of the proposals for cost and organizational optimization

Poland

• Consultation for owners on a trading company importing footwear from abroad (introduction of a reporting system, budgeting, cash-flow)• Preparation of a motivation system for the sales department• Analysis of the profitability of the custom company, introduction of a result reporting system and workflow between the company and external accounting • Analysis of the profitability of book operations by distribution channels and individual products• Preparation of the result reporting system and budgeting system in the press publishing house

• Establishment of the business and financial strategy of the group's companies• Consultation to the Board Members and Head Office, support in making strategic decisions• Responsibility for contact and cooperation with the company's headquarters in the financial area• Preparation of the strategies and direct supervision over the work of the departments: accounting, controlling, legal department, HR, IT, production and preparation for printing• Preparation of the investment plans, evaluation, recommendation, supervision over their implementation• Preparation and responsibility for the implementation of restructuring projects in the company (reducing the costs of operational departments by approximately 30% through process optimization and outsourcing)• Project Manager and a member of the Steering Committee in the international and national projects using the group synergy effect (examples: centralization of the promotional materials provider for Poland and Spain, introduction of a nationwide courier and transport agreement for the group)• Participation in the negotiations of strategic and outsourcing agreements (countersignature on each contract), examples: purchase of shares in an Internet company preceded by due diligence, payroll outsourcing and debt collection• Support to business executives in negotiations (establishing a discount and price policy, payment dates) and in renting, insurance, purchase of office materials, etc.• Supervision over internal and external audit (regular semi-annual audits and audits of individual processes, i.e. rebate, settlement of delegations, observance of copyright, calculation of license fees)• Supervision over the correctness of settlements and documentation for transactions of capital-related companies• Responsibility for cash flow, tax optimisation, hedging currency risk

• Provision of the information related to the current and forecast financial situation, supervision over reports, reports, analyzes in line with legal requirements and corporate standards• Market and competition analysis, creation and implementation of the company's short and long-term financial plans• Provision of the information related to the current and forecasted financial situation, supervision over reports, reports analyses in line with legal requirements and corporate standards• Supervision over the implementation of operational decisions, reporting and analyzing: financial ratios for the assessment of operating activities, deviations from the budget, deviations from costs; recommending and implementing activities• Participation in the internal audits• Update of the procedures and optimization processes in the company• Experience in the implementation of IT projects supporting business (project manager in the implementation of SAP modules: FI, CO, AM)• Creation, implementation, update and control compliance with internal standards and procedures

Master'S Degree, Finance And Banking

Master'S Degree

In Progress (Two Exams Passed)