Mihaela Ivan Email & Phone Number

Bucharest, Bucharest, Ro

Bucharest, Romania

I have a passion for achieving financial excellence by creating and executing financial strategies. I have extensive experience coordinating and managing projects and teams across many cultures. With a 17-year foundation in financial management, strategic planning, controlling and reporting, my contributions to companies across diverse industries have been significant.

Bucharest, Romania

• Enhancing corporate financial health and promoting error-free fiscal reporting functions by implementing rigorous controls and checks with full accountability over balance sheets, P&L accounts and business analysis. Overseeing the financial management of 7B RON in revenue, leading Budget, month- and year-end closing processes.• Optimizing company’s credibility by encouraging compliance with statutory requirements and Group policies (IFRS) for all Central Europe 4 legal entities (Romania, Bulgaria, Hungary and Serbia) and 5 business units, including Constanta Port terminal, in coordination with 9 direct and 20 indirect reports.• Promoting transparency across all business-critical processes and financial planning procedures by offering periodical performance analysis, vs Plan by using S4 HANA and BI tools, while conducting monthly P&L analysis and GM evaluations. • Maintaining a healthy balance sheet and liquidity position by assisting treasury in formulating accurate cash flow projects. Maximizing working capital efficiency and minimizing liquidity risks. Developing and maintaining of financing lines and effective cash management by actively participating in the banking relationship for CE entities. • Active participation in 3 large CAPEX projects from business case preparation to completion

Bucharest, Romania

• Reinforced corporate financial well-being by developing financial projections and optimizing resource allocation; headed a team of 20 accountants and two financial controllers and promoted a sense of ownership through training.• Presided over the seamless transition of a newly acquired company from Eurolines to DER Tourstik policies and procedures by designing and implementing a comprehensive, three-year business plan and overseeing a revenue of 6M RON.

Bucharest, Romania

• Strengthened financial stability and organizational success by developing finance departments of Romania and Bulgaria branches from scratch with smooth migration of finance activities previously handled in the Czech Republic to local teams.• Piloted a multidisciplinary team of 3 accountants and one controller; collaborated with Czech SSC, group auditor, and external accounting company for preparing financial statements and special analyses reports for 30M RON in revenue.• Created short- and long-range departmental goals and organizational objectives for sound financial planning, while managing SOX (Sarbanes-Oxley) compliance exercise in accordance with RAS (RO Accounting Standards) and US-GAAP.

Bucharest, Romania

• I was coordinating the bookkeeping, tax compliance and tax advisory work for a global oil & gas client (Kuwait Petroleum) in 17 countries across CEE and NON-CEE. I was acting as main point of contact for the client, coordinating the work done in the Deloitte offices on this account in the 17 counties, developing and implementing working procedures. Secured business deals and closed mutually beneficial agreements through strategic negotiations; Controlling the administrative aspects of the contracts, breakdown of fees, invoicing, etc.• Reduced corporate tax obligations and enhanced financial efficiency by providing expert guidance to customers on revising their existing VAT policies, leveraging an extensive understanding of VAT regulations and industry-leading practices.

Bucharest, Romania

• Established financial controls and risk management frameworks; fine-tuned overall financial operations of a large telecom company Cosmote and chaired budget and controlling department in the post-merger transition in 2014.• Delivered tactical insights for the effective management of financial back-office, applications management, and quality assurance compliance operations during the three-year assignment from 2010 to 2013 across Amgen Romania premises.• Led a 3-month assignment at Novartis Pharma Services Romania for the smooth and high-quality transition of fiscal operations to the new Finance Manage, while aligning financial objectives with overall business goals.

Zurich, Switzerland

• Coordinated and controlled several projects simultaneously, involving tasks from transaction processing to tax returns and from management reports to financial statements; • Creating company internal procedures for cash management;

Bucharest, Romania

Bucharest, Romania

Bucharest, Romania

Accounting And Finance

F1, F2, F3, F4, F5

Master'S Degree, Economics, Faculty Of Accounting And Management Information Systems

Activities and Societies: Master program: Accounting and taxation of patrimony

Bachelor'S Degree, Economics

Activities and Societies: Faculty of Accounting and Management Information Systems