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United Kingdom

• Oversaw financial monthly planning, annual budgeting, month-end close and reporting
• Developed new financial models, including price increase model, factor analysis, strategic 5-year plan, value chain, consolidation and working capital allocation. Facilitated strategic decision-making by shifting.
• Performed variance analysis of all costs. Introduced monthly meetings with budget holders to identify risks and opportunities in OPEX and increase forecast accuracy. Launched decomposition of COGS in Power BI dashboard.
• Led post-acquisition integration project, ensuring seamless transition and operational efficiency, including stakeholder management across departments and external partners. Proposed and implemented two-phase pack.
• Successfully transitioned reports from Excel to Power BI for six departments, which allowed faster data-driven decisions
• Managed and mentored a team of 4 analysts

• Developed Power BI reports related to finance, sales and marketing metrics. Managed Power BI infrastructure, increasing user count by training and motivating colleagues, and creating Power BI development strategy
• Led the development of ‘Customer Efficiency Tool’: a program for short-term and long-term financial planning and compensations control. Project involved communicating with stakeholders from different departments.

• Managed P&L in financial OLAP cube and database (MySQL) and created financial and ad-hoc reports based on internal and external data, enhancing the transparency of reporting
• Prepared monthly reporting and presentations for management, including summary of P&L and profitability report by SKUs. Improved the margin factor analysis model in Excel using advanced formulas, eliminating 6 hours of.
• Visualized financial data in Power BI: transformed initial data to fit the needs of a particular report and created new measures using DAX language

• Prepared quarterly evaluation and forecast of EMEA telecom market. Implemented macros in excel in order to reduce the time of report preparation
• Analysed main competitors’ financial results (P&L and CAPEX)
• Wrote daily and weekly analytical digests on relevant events in telecom industry
• Presented Nokia smart home devices to the customers (groups of 5-50 people)
• Organized presentations, technical seminars and demonstrations

• Developed financial models and analytical tools for the company’s cash flow that allowed in-depth cost groups analysis and led to optimization of administrative costs by 7%

Master Of Science - Ms, Accounting And Finance

Bachelor'S Degree, Economics

Thesis: Prospects for the Development of Renewable Energy in the United Kingdom