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Vienna, Austria

Tasked with growing JCB card acceptance and sales through partnering with acquirers, issuing institutions, PSPs, NSPs, ISVs, ISOs, agents, and merchants in Austria and Switzerland. Work closely with potential and existing licensee acquirers of JCB cards to drive business while building strategic alliances and leveraging relationships with external stakeholders.Key Achievements & Projects- Successfully began the process of identifying potential JCB licensees and initiating productive discussions that will lead to business opportunities.

Work safety is one of the most undervalued and unused business tools. In the right hands, it could enhance employee retention, generate competitive advantages, contribute to profit increase and many more. We help clients in their journey from "could" to "is" to unlock the full potential of this powerful tool.

Budapest, Hungary

Accounting company with venture capital reporting focus, serving more than 80 clients. Significant expertise in booking and administration of GINOP-backed companies.Tasked to perform a complete redesign of business processes to - significantly increase cash flow and profitability of the business- significantly increase customer satisfaction by developing processes that enable us to deliver our services on time and in the expected quality.To achieve this, no stone was left untouched and unexamined. May this be staffing, pricing of clients, or total redesign of business processes. We even changed our bookkeeping software - the main fundamental of an accounting company and a significant workload itself - and completely redesigned our internal and external processes to take full advantage of the automatization possibilities of document handling and automatic booking in our new software.

Budapest, Hungary

Real estate agents focused on helping private individual debtors manage debt settlement processes. Managed a small team and developed / implemented business processes, including property acquisition, takeover, sale and financial settlements. Oversaw and maintained the company's financial viability, including profitability and cashflow.Key Achievements & Projects- Purchased 400+ and sold 270+ individual properties. - Delivered a PBIT of circa €300 – 500K pa.

Budapest, Hungary

Business advisory company with an extensive customer base.Responsible for the overall management and accountability for the effective financial operation of the company leading a team of 6 and reporting to the CEO. Developed and supervised finance and IT-related processes of all company clients and stakeholders. Key Achievements & Projects- Assisted in the borrowings of 100+ clients with values of circa €30M- Successfully developed / redesigned financial processes of 20+ clients under direction.

Budapest, Hungary

One of the largest electricity suppliers in Hungary, serving 2,2M customers with around 2,800 employees. Brought in to head the department suffering from financial and performance difficulties. Directly reported to Board member responsible for the network activities.Achievement: Decreased external spending by 30% and reduced headcount by 10% despite increasing activities.Key achievements and projects:- Contract audit of all activities including supplier change where needed within 1 year.- Redesigned and integrated environmental protection and work safety management systems (ISO 14001 and ISO OHSAS 18001).- Redesigned business processes with company targets in focus and linked them to relevant business targets of the company group.- Significant team-building of 9 FTE staff and motivation efforts lead to performance increase (-1 FTE despite the broader scope of activities).

Budapest, Hungary

-Complete closing for electricity wholesale business, financial closings below gross yield for rest of sales. -Coordination of planning and budgeting, and commercial analyses. -Checking of contracts from a financial perspective, coordination of collection process and everything which is in connection with financial figures in sales...