Financial analyst, Finance Business Partner

Emerging Market Region: Russia, CIS, Central Eastern Europe, Middle East, South Africa; Gallia: France, Belgium, Luxemburg; EMEA

Responsibilities:
-Provided support and financial insight to business leaders, sales and marketing to influence strategic decision making with focus on revenue and margin growth.
-Led risk and opportunities evaluation, provided support to business and challenge assumptions during forecasting process.
-Provided finance leadership to business in annual budget setting and review preparation.
-Accessed gaps and opportunities of growth: performed regular and ah-hoc analysis of KPI across various dimensions, gap analysis of revenue, cost of sales and opex.
-Ensured correct and compliant P&L results of Business unit: P&L/BS management, reporting, Month End Closing activities (actual check, accruals,deferrals verification).
-Ensured maximize benefit to P&L, proper and timely revenue recognition according to IFRS/GAAP during deal shaping, business case review and approvals.
-Supervised 3 finance COE Romania team members, partnering and coaching, ensured finance data and reporting quality.

Achievements:
-Developed from country to regional Finance role due to expertise growth and wider scope assignment.
-Regularly influenced 5-10% margin improvement during effective deal preparation with Top Customer due to pricing optimization and T&C improvment.
-Ensured 100% correct management reporting during challenging time (new system implementation and data quality issue).
-Ensured 2m$ old debts collection from Top customers due to fixing gap in the process for which was awarded by controller.
-Achieved 100% compliance during internal and external audits in all years
-Regularly ensured forecast accuracy in line with targets +/- 5% vs forecast.
-Awarded by Russian controller for significant impact in Company spin-merge cross-functional project which accomplished in time and smoothly despite on tight deadline.
-Reduced old unclear items by 80% during balance sheet clean-up project across Central Europe countries.
-Achieved 20% time saving due to approval process standardization and optimization on country level.
-Trained 3 new comers from Romania COE team during Finance transformation project who consistently demonstrated high level work results.

Russia and CIS
Responsibilities:
-Ensured revenue, cost and margin control of Consulting & Integration projects from opportunity evaluation, project delivery to project closure.
-Provided project financial control: evaluation of financial risks and contingencies at project set-up stage, verification of contract T&C and pricing; project cash flow analysis.
-Executed business control: ensuring business/project related activities and set up comply with the company policies and rules.
-Performed project maintenance in SAP, led Month End Closing activities (cost postings, revenue recognition, IC transactions); invoicing; purchase orders processing.

Achievements:
-Increased forecast accuracy by 15% due to leading of new forecast tool implementation in country based on HQ guidance: system supervision and 10 users support.
-Increased monthly actual cost and revenue data quality by 10% when managed time reporting system of project delivery.

Responsibilities:
-Ensured control and supervision of commodity stock, purchases and sales.
-Provided performance review of profit centers and internal operational systems supervision.

Achievements:
-Developed from Internal Auditor to Senior Auditor and Internal Audit Deputy manager due to stable high level work quality and expertise growth.
-Optimized existing reporting database by 20% to focus on other value added activities.