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Kirkland, WA, US

Greater Seattle Area

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• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.

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