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Kirkland, Wa, Us

Greater Seattle Area

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Greater Seattle Area

Greater Seattle Area

Greater Seattle Area

Awarded promotion to take on key finance leadership role at Precor, a fully owned subsidiary of Amer Sports Corporation.•Provided financial leadership and direction leading Precor's overall accounting and financial reporting functions.•Oversaw team of financial reporting, accounting and credit and collections professionals.•Established and maintained effective system of internal controls and accounting procedures, ensuring global compliance with IFRS•Provided financial analyses and related reporting to support upper management's decision making process.

North Vancouver, Bc, Canada

Accepted an opportunity to relocate to Vancouver, BC, taking on Business Controller responsibilities for Arcteryx Equipment Inc., a fully owned subsidiary of Amer Sports Corporation.•Led all financial planning processes for Arc’teryx Americas, including long term strategic business planning and modeling, annual budgeting, periodic forecasting, financial and management reporting, presentation development and financial analysis. • Acted as a "translation key" between financial KPI's and non-finance budget responsible leaders across the business.• Key role in identifying business risks, savings opportunities and providing mitigation suggestions to leadership.

Portland, Oregon, Usa

Accepted an opportunity to relocate to Portland, taking on Business Controller & Analyst responsibilities for Amer Sports’ Portland Design Center.• Directly responsible for day to day finance operations and recurring reporting responsibilities including weekly sales and margin reporting, month end close, IFRS reporting, budgeting, forecasting and tracking shared sales organizations business performance for a multi-brand category.• Finance representative in upper management team of a multi-brand category.

Hamburg, Germany

Awarded additional responsibilities as Finance Manager for Amer Sports’ newly-acquired Nikita Clothing brand, balancing deliverables with Controller accountabilities in Amer Sports’ HQ Group Accounting and Reporting team.• Oversaw a team of five accountants, located across four countries, in managing all financial reporting, consolidations, cash flow planning and annual statutory audit work.• Gained international working experience, managing assignments in both Germany and Finland through post-acquisition integration of Nikita Clothing group into Amer Sports’ financial and operational platforms.

Helsinki, Finland

Initially brought on board Amer Sports as Assistant Controller, supporting production and release of scheduled financial reports and earnings releases. Promoted from Assistant Controller to Controller in early 2012.• Coordinated communication of group reporting and IFRS requirements from corporate HQ to subsidiary and brand HQ controllers as a part of Group Reporting and Accounting team.• Prepared Amer Sports Corporation parent company’s annual cost budget.• Worked alongside the Group CFO and upper management team with financial target-setting, monthly management KPI reporting, earnings releases and ad hoc reporting.

Helsinki, Finland

Recruited to join Deloitte as an Assistant Auditor, partnering with senior team members to audit individual pre-defined balance sheet and P/L items. Promoted to Senior Auditor in less than two years.• Performed financial statement audits as well as process walk through tests.• Instructed and reviewed younger team members audit work and documentation.• Reported audit findings to foreign engagement teams as assisting manager tasks.

Management Acceleration Program, Business Administration And Management, General

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Master Of Science (Msc), Business Administration

Major: Accounting Minors: Finance, Corporate Law, Marketing

2019 - Leading With Finance - Non Degree Certificate Program

2017 - High Performance Leader'S Program - Non Degree Leadership Training Workshop

2018 - Soft Skills - Non Degree Executive Education Workshop