A financial expert with +20 years of work experience in business controlling, financial controlling, accounting, consulting, financial management, and project management in multi-International companies. An analytical and action-oriented person with an entrepreneurial mindset, strong analytical skills, good business sense, and high skills in problem-solving with motivating effective communication and visualization skills.
Holding a Master's degree in accounting and financial management from Gothenburg University, Sweden, and a Certified Financial Consultant certificate from the USA. Good experience in IT, ERP SAP, ERP Navision, Business Intelligence, Power BI, Excel, PowerPoint, CRM, C4C, Python, Capital IQ, Yahoo Finance, WRDSs, and FRED
· Conducting financial analysis and forecasting in Markets Nordics (Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Norway) and Cross Border (Belarus, Serbia, Macedonia, Montenegro) based on business performance measured KPIs.
· Drive profitability and pricing in the Nordic markets.
· Drive special projects and ad-hoc reporting and support the finance function in thedevelopment of executive information, reporting, and measurement using Power BI and Power Query.
· Run private projects to enhance and developed digital transformation in the accounting and finance dept.
· Develop and updated monthly business reports and presentations, as well as participated in business intelligence BI initiatives in the markets, regions, and globally.
· Define, track and communicate KPIs to secure data-driven decision making across the full company.
· Finance business partner to several support functions such as Finance, IT, HR, Legal, Communication etc. including analysis and understanding of cost development in budget, forecast and outcome.
· Perform ongoing financial analysis to proactively identify future financial potential and risk.
· Develop the accounting and reporting processes by building improved tools and automated processes, for example for key performance indicators and dashboards.
· Follow-ups against planned targets with operational entities for comments and explanations.
· Support Lead Business Controller with financial presentations to Group Management and Board.
· Supports on preparation of relevant financial reporting, business planning, budgeting, and forecasting. Analysis of results, costs, profitability, margins, and cash flow.
· Support accounting operations including Project Controlling, Cost Accounting, and Revenue Recognition.
· Support the organization and promote the use of BI tools and drive improvements together with IT.
· Design effective budgets models for the entire company (Sales Budget-CAPEX Budget - Cash Flow Budget)
· Analyse financial information to ensure all operations expenses are within budget limit.
· Suggest spending improvements that increase profits or reduce operating costs.
· Review the company's budget for compliance with legal regulations.
· Review & update the company's credit policy for +2000 credit customers with +200 Million USD total credit.
· Periodic evaluation of potential customers' creditworthiness based on monthly credit reports.
· Evaluating the potential risk of liquidity crises based on deep analysis of credit and collections reports.
· Sharing in the Implementing of the ERP Navision system to enhance the accounting dept which leads to an increase in the accuracy of accounting reports by up to 100% and a decrease in the time of operating work transactions by up to 50%.
· Producing high-quality, error-free accounting reports with accuracy levels up to 100% based on IFRS and presenting them to top management to enhance the decision-making process.
· Cooperating with internal and external audits to ensure compliance with regulations.
· Support month-end and year-end closing processes for accounts.
· Preparing monthly-quarterly-yearly financial reports and ensuring that the results comply with GAAP or IFRS.