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Planning, forecasting and budgeting• Building, optimising and automating financial processes- maintaining the budget of Tech, G&A departments (IT, legal, GR, finance, strategy horizontals, office management, administration, motivational events in the company)• Consolidation of information on Overhead items in reporting• Training and development of the finance department traineeInvestment Analysis• Building financial models and preparing documents for investment comitee• Project effectiveness and cost control for investment cases• Ad-hock investment cases preparation

Planning, forecasting and budgeting• operational and strategic planning of the retail business unit from scratch (including new directions)• calculation and control of the performance of the company’s business units in the context of individual product groups• analysis and commenting on plan-fact deviations development and approval of measures to optimize performance, their communication/approval• Cash Flow monitoring• Finance models from scratch (PL, BS, Working Capital)Pricing and calculation of business cases• prompt pricing• calculation and evaluation of the effectiveness of individual purchase and sales transactions, analysis of discounts, calculation of discounts and bonuses• participation in projects, advisory support to auditors and business units on economic issues, processing various requests• Profitability analysis by productsPlanning process AutomatizationFinancial closing and Operation activities (accruals and reserves posting)

Planning• monthly Demand Plans evaluations (Gross Profit planning)• Latest Estimates monthly walks (bridges)• ensure preparation 18-month rolling estimates: align with local Excom & ensure complete submissionto Region• lead detailed SAG controlling, follow-ups and create SAG awareness on Management level• Annual Operating Plans submission on GP, AR• participation in Decks preparation (MMRs, AOP)• monthly closing participation (direct COPA entries if needed, freight and MR duties entry)• actuals vs plan comparison on NS, COGS, GP (walks)Business partnering• interact & give direction to business leaders & key stakeholders based on financial analysis ofestimates/actuals• lead & coach the team (where applicable) in business partnering• participation in monthly PBU calls (support of sales teams from Finance)• review and consolidate on-going variance & performance analysis provide greater insight into thebusiness, walks by PBU• identify variable cost savings or revenue enhancing opportunities to achieve company targets• price lists and commercial conditions verifications• special commercial proposals estimations• conduct Ad-hoc profitability and other analytics/studies/financial modeling as in line with businessneeds - daily sales report

• Manage the financial planning process of the respective country, supporting and advising the business leaders (Russia CIS, Ukraine, Greece and Adriatics)• Ensure the accurate and timely coordination and execution of all financial planning processes (i.e. budget, rolling forecasts) in agreement with both the local and central guidelines.• Define and monitor the expected economic/financial targets in a prompt and timely manner in collaboration with line managers of the organization.• Support the business and the finance team in defining the strategy and set of actions recommended to improve financial performance and exploit opportunities.• Share with the business leaders and the finance central team prompt and timely explanation of possible variances between expected and actual results on the relevant variables by comparing performance with operating plans and standards and providing specific recommendations to address the business.• Guaranteeing the coherence between management and consolidated financial data at all levels of the organization.• Monitor and report all SG&A expenses and administrative costs of the market.• Ensure the timely preparation of reports and Profit and Loss statements, in order to guarantee the respect of deadlines in planning processes as per group calendars.• SOX Audit participation

Contribution to a monthly closing process for CIS region• BME (brand marketing expenses) & SGA (sales general expenses) accruals• journals posting• revenue recognition process on quarterly basisReporting• Preparation of financial reports (P&L, Balance sheet)• P&L consolidation for CIS countries• Management reporting (internal)• P&L and Gross Profit analysis report to management• Preparing and timely sharing regular reports and analytics to main stakeholdersAdditional projects and awardsEncore award 2019: In recognition of achieving exceptional results by demonstratingoutstanding leadership behavior (Participation in project moving internal IT system tonew platform), process efficiency.

Account Receivable process•Maintain of account receivables database for Russia and CIS•Provide daily credit control in accordance with credit policy (stop-lists, orders release)•Proactive communication with customers on the due debt statusCredit Management•Release orders•Credit limits calculation on regular basis accordance with credit policy•Annual Credit limits and Risk Categories Review•Ad-hoc reports DSO & AR analysisReporting & Planning•Preparation and update AR & DSO forecasts•Preparation of monthly reports on trade receivables for management•Participation in month end closing, Bad debt provision calculation, calculation of DSO,AR•Participation in SOX compliance activities related to finance processesInteraction with IT support team and SAP business analysts•UAT testing credit management part•Regression tests in HP ALM•Creation of Testing Scenarios for incidents and ticketsAdditional projects and awardsParticipation in cross-functional project "spare hands 2016-2017" (BusinessIntelligence department)• Market Share Analysis (analysis market share, comparison with competitors market'sshare)•Qlickview (creating reports, downloading report and preparation managementpresentations•updating and debugging macros for management summary report, automatization ofmonthly reports)•Supporting at time of searching for a new employeeEncore award for effective support in 2016 year closingSupport junior credit control specialist role at year closing period

Credit management• checking of the calculation bonuses and documentation according with policy• daily control and analysis of receivables (AR reports net sales by SKU)SAP Master Data• working in SAP (customer master data, creation new customers, change master dataaccording with updates)• working with database (improving of reports; addition in database amounts of accrualsto be paid and control of deviations)• control sell-in and sell-out channels (creating reports based on sales reports fromdistributors, stock control)Working with documents• analysis of documentation• analysis of receivables (AR reports net sales by SKU)• preparation of acts of reconciliationOther responsibilities• Preparation of documents according with Tax requests

Postgraduate Diploma, Business Information Analytics

Specialist, Economics And Management

Activities and Societies: Photographer on student activities