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Helsinki, Fi

Enjoying quality time with my son and daughter. Renovating our new family home and project managing pipe renovation project's planning phase for our housing cooperative.

Helsinki Area, Finland

Responsible for business planning activities including net sales, OPEX and CAPEX planning for EMEA region of a start-up company planning the market re-entry of a leading smartphone brand. Defining optimal price position and pricing structure for the device portfolio. Setting priorities for the go to market approach within EMEA region.

Finland

Responsible for business planning and management of Mobile phones business in Europe including defining products’ go to market approach, correct pricing strategy for new devices and follow up on sales execution and management of any deviations. Key contributor to net sales and OPEX target setting on area and sales unit level. Created monthly forecasting and rolling plan levels for multi-billion net sales & gross margin for Europe region demonstrating high planning accuracy. Headed business opportunity analysis and price proposals for R&D OPEX optimization purposes.

Responsible for business planning and management of Mobile phones business in Europe including defining products’ go to market approach, correct pricing strategy for new devices and follow up on sales execution and management of any deviations. Key contributor to net sales and OPEX target setting on area and sales unit level. Created monthly forecasting and rolling plan levels for multi-billion net sales & gross margin for Europe region demonstrating high planning accuracy. Headed business opportunity analysis and price proposals for R&D OPEX optimization purposes.

Driving short and midterm demand planning processes of Europe’s devices business. Preparing, cascading and follow up of financial target setting for sales units. Guided and challenged local sales teams in sales planning process and analysis. Built regularly updated and communicated planning assumptions based market intelligence, customer data, product portfolio and go-to-market plans. Creating monthly rolling plan on device and channel level for netsales and gross margin. In addition, served as a member of Europe Customer Logistics management team. Preparation of periodical financial business update for Customer Logistics function. Responsible for Teliasonera’s account team from F&C perspective and taking part in quarterly negotiations with the customer.

London, United Kingdom

Setting up of fact-based, timely and actionable sales and OPEX reporting and analysis process of Western Europe’s devices business. Preparation of weekly sales management review materials for Western Europe’s management team and facilitation of the process. Creating and ensuring correct monthly rolling plan level for Western Europe cluster and managed bi-annual budgeting process and cascaded given targets to sales offices.

London, United Kingdom

Leading reporting enhancement project focusing on creation of revenue variance analysis, discretionary spend and aged debt reporting. Responsibility of pricing mana¬gement and communication to sales organisation. Driving Vertu’s own retail related SAP development projects and creating missing project road map process. In addition, finance support for mar¬¬ke¬ting & customer care teams and responsibility for SOX compliance.

Finland

Periodical reporting of the EMEA warranty costs as well as the cost center planning and follow up. In addition, close cooperation with support services team to define and follow up key performance indicators for contact centres and created compensation matrix used in cost plus contracts with vendors. Served as a member of support services management team

Finland

Financial Services Platform, Revenue & COS accounting