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Vantaa, Vantaa, Fi

When joining company (2016) Puuilo Group revenue was 76,5 MEUR and number of personnel ~230. During the past 6 years, Company's revenue grew to 270 MEUR and number of personnel to ~800. CFO role:-Listing the company to the Nasdaq Helsinki mainlist. Executing very succesfull IPO together with the team-All IR tasks-Establishing Financial & Business Controlling organisation from scratch-Setting up a full scale management & Board reporting from scratch-Board secretary. Presenter in the Board meetings together with CEO. Material preparations and meetings documentation.-Implementing Qlikview BI-tool and setting up state of the art financial & retail KPI-reporting -Building up large scale and efficient automated KPI reporting system for different functions (eg. finance, sales, HR and inventory reporting)-Implementation of IFRS accounts together with the team & advisors-Close co-operation with syndicate loan banks. Management of senior facilities agreements, dept raising rounds and covenants compliance & reporting.-Day-to-day co-operation with the Private Equity Investor and main owners (Adelis Equity Partners)-All shareholder transactions execution and documentation-DD processes and management-Establishing internal controls and policiesHR Director role (combined CFO & HR Director role for 4 years):-Establishing HR -organisation from scratch and leading it for 4 years-Developing strongly HR policies and processes & HR KPI's-Strong digitalization steps taken eg. fully paperless agreements etc. -Implementing several HR-systems together with the team eg.: -Recright e-recruiting system -Quinyx workforce planning system -Sympa HR system -Apprix e-learning system-HR case management & legal matters together with team and advisors-HR tasks handed over to full-time CHRO (08/2020 ->) when amount of personnel continued strong growth

Helsinki, Southern Finland, Fi

I was a head of a corporate business controlling team, managing 2-4 controllers. Main duties were Kesko group level actuals, forecasts and budgets reporting to the group management board. Constant development of reporting processes and tools (Oracle EPM / Hyperion). I was also involved in the Kesko's strategy process planning and coordinating and later acted as a Group PMO to monitor, report and control strategy implementation. My duties also included M&A processes.I worked short period as a CFO of Suomen Lähikauppa after Kesko's acquisition. I was responsible of SLK's finance function, managed 10 finance professionals and participated in integration process.

Kerava, Fi

Head of Commercial Business Control team (Sales, Marketing and Exports). Managed 7 finance professionals.Product & customer profitability reporting, budgeting, forecasting, strategy process support, Carlsberg group reporting, pricing, cost control, activity based costing and EuroSox process.

Helsinki, Southern Finland, Fi

Controller for Kemira Group Global Functions (IT and R&D).Cost allocations and controlling, budgeting, SAP roll-out project controller, investment calculations, SAP purchase process implementation.

Solna, -, Se

Working at TeliaSonera during and after studying times. Experience from various external financial accounting and business controlling tasks.

Helsinki, Southern Finland, Fi

Working 8 years at K-Group grocery stores during studying times.

M.Sc (Ktm), Accounting And Finance

Erasmus Exchange, Human Resource Management