Aneel Malik
Stockholm,Stockholm
Summary
Experienced Financial Controller bringing proven track record in managing complex financial operations. Strong expertise in budgeting, forecasting, and financial analysis coupled with profound knowledge of regulatory compliance and corporate finance principles. Proven success in driving efficiency and productivity through evaluation of financial management systems and implementation of process improvements. Significant contributions made to past employers by spearheading effective financial strategies, maintaining positive relationships with stakeholders, and ensuring accurate financial reporting.
Overview
22
22
years of professional experience
Work History
Business Controller
Scania Credit Group
Stockholm
09.2024 - 11.2024
- Developed a detailed five-year budget
- Presented the budget in PowerPoint to the board
- Streamlined Excel templates to improve user-friendliness and reduce workload
- Ensured that the templates were optimized for future use by the new Business Controller
- Optimized Excel forms for uploading data into the HFM Planning reporting tool
- Created clear manuals for the budget process
- IT Skills: Excel, HFM (Hyperion Oracle Planning), D365 Finance and Operations
Senior Accountant
RN Nordic AB (Renault)
Stockholm
01.2024 - 08.2024
- Responsible for monthly/year-end financial statements for RN Denmark
- Ongoing bookkeeping and financial closing
- Monthly, quarterly, and yearly financial statements
- Financial analysis
- Continuous process improvements
- Budgeting and forecasting
- Assisted with the preparation of Danish income tax returns
- Assisted with the preparation of transfer pricing reports
- Improved financial analysis for accounting and business control, not only for the Danish entity under my responsibility but also for the Swedish entity under my colleague’s responsibility
- Led a major improvement project for Business Central, financial closing, and ongoing work, ensuring smooth handover to a junior accountant
- Established IFRS 16 routines from scratch
- Restructured and simplified balance sheet reconciliation processes in Excel
- Created a financial statement report with key figures, serving as a basis for the CFO and Head of Control when reporting to owners
- IT Skills: Excel, Business Central, Power BI
Head of Finance
Automile AB
Stockholm
08.2022 - 12.2023
- Responsible for monthly/year-end financial statements
- Ongoing bookkeeping and financial closing
- Monthly, quarterly, and yearly financial statements
- Financial analysis
- Continuous process improvements
- Budgeting and forecasting
- Participated in the implementation of Business Central
- Managed a team of four people
- Prepared annual reports according to K3
- Responsible for internal audits
- Conducted analysis and ad-hoc updates to routine descriptions
- Led improvements for Business Central implementation
- IT Skills: Excel, Visma eEkonomi, Business Central
Accounting Manager
Scania CV AB
Södertälje
12.2021 - 06.2022
- Assisted with monthly/year-end financial statements
- Ongoing bookkeeping and financial closing
- Monthly, quarterly, and yearly financial statements
- VAT and tax returns
- Continuous process improvements
- Conducted analysis and ad-hoc tasks
- Prepared annual reports
- Updated routine descriptions and performed ad-hoc analyses
- Improved reporting processes in HFM and financial closing
- IT Skills: Excel, Microsoft Power BI, HFM, Oracle
Financial Controller
Scania Credit AB
Södertälje
12.2020 - 11.2021
- Assisted with monthly/year-end financial statements
- Provided support to SSC regarding accounts payable
- Ongoing bookkeeping
- Conducted cost analysis of OPEX expenses
- Balance reconciliations
- Prepared annual reports
- Managed intercompany reconciliations
- Provided support for external audits
- Implemented process improvements
- Documented and updated all work tasks
- Implemented process improvements for accounts payable at SSC in connection with a system upgrade
- Automated functions in D365 related to bookkeeping, financial closing, and accounts payable processes
- Streamlined reporting processes in HFM
- IT Skills: Excel, Microsoft Dynamics AXAPTA (D365), HFM
Financial Controller
Gamesys Group
Stockholm
02.2020 - 11.2020
- Assisted with monthly financial closing for eight companies
- Responsible for VAT declarations for all companies
- Improved VAT reconciliation processes
- Ongoing bookkeeping
- Conducted financial analysis of actual expenses
- Responsible for reconciling balance sheet accounts for provisions and intercompany transactions (AR/AP)
- Developed VAT reconciliation routines for Swedish and Maltese entities
- Implemented workflows for accounts payable related to monthly financial closing
- Investigated outstanding balance sheet items dating back to 2013
- Reconciled intercompany balance accounts that had not been balanced since September 2019
- IT Skills: Excel, Microsoft Dynamics NAV
Financial Controller
Volvo Car Mobility AB
Stockholm
05.2019 - 11.2019
- Responsible for monthly financial closing
- Managed VAT declarations
- Conducted balance sheet reconciliations
- Ongoing bookkeeping
- Ensured compliance with accounting principles (K3)
- Performed cost analysis vs
- Forecast
- Cleared outstanding balance sheet items for Sunfleet Carsharing AB
- Created reconciliation templates in Excel using functions like IF and VLOOKUP
- Developed accounting processes for accounts payable, bookkeeping, and financial closing, including routine descriptions
- IT Skills: Excel, Business Central (latest version of Dynamics NAV)
Financial Controller (Reporting & Controlling Manager)
Opel Sverige AB
Stockholm
11.2016 - 12.2018
- Responsible for monthly and annual financial statements, as well as accounting-specific matters of the Shared Service Center as the 'first point of contact.'
- Responsible for the year-end closing, including submission of the annual report
- Responsible for tax and VAT declarations
- Responsible for balance account reconciliations
- Responsible for reporting to central functions and authorities
- Collaboration with the Shared Service Center
- Responsible for internal audit
- Responsible for staying updated on accounting principles in accordance with local standards, US GAAP, IFRS, and company accounting policies
- Responsible for the payroll process together with an outsourced provider
- Responsible for local statistical reporting and other legally required reports
- Due diligence (two acquisitions during the two years I worked here)
- Responsible for external tax audits requested by the Swedish Tax Agency
- Responsible for the Danish subsidiary during the last six months with the same responsibilities as above
- Improved reconciliation work to prevent discrepancies that had been occurring for a long time, then delegated this to the Shared Service Center
- Project management related to other problem-solving efforts with the Shared Service Center to meet the business unit's needs, including the creation of procedural documentation for the Shared Service Center
- Cleared old outstanding items in balance accounts due to acquisitions
- IT Skills: Excel, SAP, HYPERION ARMS
Accounting Economist
MTR Tunnelbanan AB
Stockholm
05.2016 - 11.2016
- Accounting for cash replenishment and withdrawals from cash dispensers
- Ensuring that bank deposits match information regarding cash withdrawals from dispensers
- Monthly reconciliations
- Ongoing bookkeeping
- Resolving old accounting issues and ensuring reconciliation of all balance accounts, including supporting documentation related to cash accounting
- Process improvements – reduced manual work by creating templates for accounting orders using formulas, allowing data to be pasted into Excel files instead of manually coding transactions for all 166 cash registers as done previously
- Created reconciliation templates for the balance sheet
- IT Skills: Excel, Visma Control
Accounting Economist
Munters AB
Stockholm
09.2015 - 04.2016
- Responsible for three holding companies within Munters
- Consolidated financial reporting
- IFRS compliance
- Monthly financial statements
- VAT and employer declarations
- Ongoing bookkeeping
- Resolving old accounting issues and ensuring reconciliation of all balance accounts, including supporting documentation
- Process improvements – reduced manual work by creating a bridge between accounting in IFS and the corporate reporting tool AARO to avoid manually entering numbers in AARO
- Weekly reconciliation improvements for bank accounts, consisting of approximately 57 bank accounts in different currencies, using Excel
- Created reconciliation templates for Swedish companies using Excel, incorporating functions like IF, VLOOKUP, etc
- Developed a VAT report template
- Established procedural documentation
- IT Skills: Excel, IFS, Corporate reporting tool AARO
Accounting Economist
Office Management AB
Stockholm
04.2015 - 06.2015
- Overall responsibility for all ongoing bookkeeping for Office Management’s eight subsidiaries
- Monthly financial statements
- Ongoing bookkeeping
- VAT and employer declarations
- Support for business areas regarding analysis of budget vs
- Actual revenues and expenses
- Process improvements for reconciliation of balance accounts, addressing unresolved items dating back to 2013, and creating VAT reporting
- Developed procedural documentation and a task schedule for the new person taking over my responsibilities
- IT Skills: Excel, Visma Business
Accounting Economist
Iris Förvaltning AB
Stockholm
01.2015 - 02.2015
- Year-end closing for approximately 20 foundations and 2 companies within the group using Visma Bokslut
- Discovered that many supporting documents were missing for the monthly closing, so I took the initiative to gather all supporting documentation for balance accounts in each foundation
- IT Skills: Excel, Visma Business, Visma Bokslut
Controller
Point Transaction Systems / Verifone
Stockholm
11.2012 - 05.2014
- Overall responsibility for all accounting and reporting for Verifone’s three subsidiaries
- Monthly and year-end closing
- Preparation of the annual report
- Group accounting according to US GAAP and IFRS
- Budget preparation
- Forecasting revenue, costs, and cash flow
- VAT and employer declarations
- Cost and revenue analysis with budget follow-up
- Payroll administration (support for payroll-related questions for HR in London)
- Assisted in the implementation of the Oracle system
- Created process descriptions for all tasks
- Developed a forecast template to eliminate manual data entry
- Process improvements for reconciliation work
- Established VAT reporting procedures
- IT Skills: Excel, Visma Business, Oracle, Hyperion
Accounting Manager
Netpartnering Nordic AB
Stockholm
05.2011 - 10.2012
- Ongoing accounting and reporting for eight companies in Sweden, Norway, Finland, and Denmark
- Monthly closing and monthly reporting
- Budget preparation
- Year-end closing for Sweden
- Group accounting
- VAT and employer declarations
- Cost and revenue analysis with budget follow-up
- System administrator for Visma Business
- Payroll management for all Nordic countries
- Project accounting
- Process improvements for project accounting
- Created templates for journal entries to allow pasting of numbers instead of manual entry
- Improved reconciliation of balance accounts—paperless processing by attaching all reconciliations and supporting documents in Excel instead of printing and storing them in binders
- IT Skills: Excel, Visma Business, Salesforce
Accounting Economist
NCS Colour AB
Stockholm
10.2009 - 03.2011
- Overall responsibility for monthly and annual closing and ongoing accounting
- VAT and employer declarations
- Accounts payable
- Travel expense reporting via Dicom
- System administrator for Agresso
Store Accountant
Online Business Partner
Stockholm
05.2009 - 08.2009
- Cash reconciliation for 11 stores in Sweden and customer invoicing
- IT Skills: Axapta
Accounting Economist
Sales Group Scandinavia AB
Stockholm
09.2008 - 02.2009
- Accounts payable
- Ongoing accounting
- Monthly closing
- Revenue and cost follow-up
- VAT and employer declarations
Accounting Assistant
Poolia
Stockholm
05.2007 - 08.2008
- Compiled and reconciled portfolio data using Excel monthly.
Accounting Assistant
Manpower
Stockholm
01.2006 - 04.2007
- Facilitated accounts payable operations to ensure efficient financial processes.
Accounting Assistant
Swedish Patent and Registration Office
Stockholm, Stockholm
03.2004 - 12.2005
- Reconciled expenses and financial records.
- Prepared and issued customer invoices, monitored receivables, and managed collections process.
- Performed reconciliation of various balance sheet accounts.
Accounting Assistent
Swedish Prison and Probation Service
Stockholm, Stockholm
03.2003 - 12.2004
- Managed accounts payable using Agresso system.
Financial Controller
Kidde Sweden AB
Stockholm
02.2015
- Ensured that the finance department's workflow complied with SOX regulations and internal accounting policies through correspondence with the regional controller
- US GAAP compliance
- Monthly financial statements
- Forecasting (FP&A) for revenues, expenses, and cash flow
- Revenue and expense analysis
- None, as it was a short-term assignment
- IT Skills: Excel, IFS, Corporate reporting tool Hyperion
Education
Professional Training in Accounting - Accounting
IHM Business School
Stockholm03-1999
High School Diploma -
Kärrtorps Gymnasium
Stockholm08-1996
Skills
- Excel
- HFM (Hyperion Oracle Planning)
- D365 Finance and Operations
- Business Central
- Power BI
- Visma eEkonomi
- Microsoft Power BI
- Oracle
- Microsoft Dynamics AXAPTA (D365)
- Microsoft Dynamics NAV
- Business Central (latest version of Dynamics NAV)
- SAP
- HYPERION ARMS
- Visma Control
- IFS
- Corporate reporting tool AARO
- Corporate reporting tool Hyperion
- Visma Bokslut
- Salesforce
- Axapta
Languages
Swedish
First Language
English
Advanced (C1)
C1
French
Elementary (A2)
A2
Timeline
Business Controller
Scania Credit Group
09.2024 - 11.2024
Senior Accountant
RN Nordic AB (Renault)
01.2024 - 08.2024
Head of Finance
Automile AB
08.2022 - 12.2023
Accounting Manager
Scania CV AB
12.2021 - 06.2022
Financial Controller
Scania Credit AB
12.2020 - 11.2021
Financial Controller
Gamesys Group
02.2020 - 11.2020
Financial Controller
Volvo Car Mobility AB
05.2019 - 11.2019
Financial Controller (Reporting & Controlling Manager)
Opel Sverige AB
11.2016 - 12.2018
Accounting Economist
MTR Tunnelbanan AB
05.2016 - 11.2016
Accounting Economist
Munters AB
09.2015 - 04.2016
Accounting Economist
Office Management AB
04.2015 - 06.2015
Financial Controller
Kidde Sweden AB
02.2015
Accounting Economist
Iris Förvaltning AB
01.2015 - 02.2015
Controller
Point Transaction Systems / Verifone
11.2012 - 05.2014
Accounting Manager
Netpartnering Nordic AB
05.2011 - 10.2012
Accounting Economist
NCS Colour AB
10.2009 - 03.2011
Store Accountant
Online Business Partner
05.2009 - 08.2009
Accounting Economist
Sales Group Scandinavia AB
09.2008 - 02.2009
Accounting Assistant
Poolia
05.2007 - 08.2008
Accounting Assistant
Manpower
01.2006 - 04.2007
Accounting Assistant
Swedish Patent and Registration Office
03.2004 - 12.2005
Accounting Assistent
Swedish Prison and Probation Service
03.2003 - 12.2004
Professional Training in Accounting - Accounting
IHM Business School
High School Diploma -
Kärrtorps Gymnasium
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