Izabela Kopalska
Åkersberga
Summary
Reliable, ambitious, and hardworking professional with extensive experience in financial operations. Strategic business leader, communicator, and people manager. Friendly and outgoing with a passion for helping others, always acting in a sensitive and diplomatic manner. Highly flexible, adaptable, and eager to learn. Demonstrated skill in employing accounting and financial management best practices while providing team leadership. Committed to introducing changes that drive continuous improvement and successfully influencing processes to achieve operational excellence.
Overview
16
16
years of professional experience
Work History
Senior Accountant
Northvolt AB
01.2019 - Current
- Managed the successful transition of GSS from Sweden to Poland for Accounts Payables and Accounting operations
- Responsible for processing and overseeing the work of financial transactions, accounts payable, accounts receivables and expenses, by thoroughly checking and correcting the accounting and other relevant financial records;
- Maintaining controls in order to ensure that they are compliant with organisation rules and relevant legislation;
- Providing support in preparing financial reports in the accounting and finance system;
- Preparing reconciliations, dealing with inventory valuation and being responsible for VAT and Intrastat reporting;
- Responsible for ERP system implementation and coordination between different workstreams to make sure that the data provided to Finance is relevant and accurate;
- Follow up with any outstanding issues and planning future improvements in order to make sure that the newly implemented system is sustainable and provides relevant data;
- Responsible for preparing and updating policies and initiating new accounting procedures;
- Performing risk assessments and proposing additional controls to ensure there are no risks of fraud in the organisation:
- Collaborated with Controller and external auditors to conduct year-end close process;
- Developed strategies to improve accounting systems and processes;
- Monitored cash flow, budgeting, forecasting and variance analysis;
- Ensured compliance with all applicable laws, regulations, policies, procedures, and standards of generally accepted accounting principles;
VAT Manager
BBC
07.2017 - 01.2018
- Responsible for preparing, completing and submitting Group VAT returns / EC Sales and Intrastat reporting;
- Providing expert advice on VAT issues and ensuring compliance with VAT regulations;
- Carry out periodic checks for potential VAT errors in AP, AR and reporting functions;
- Working with the Finance reporting team to reconcile the management reporting data;
- Providing financial information to relevant stakeholders and identifying/resolving root issues to ensure effective processes are in place;
- Implemented numerous automations to monthly VAT process by eliminating user data entry and linking different data sources together;
- Worked closely with BI Team on designing new VAT report to reduce number of different source data and speed up monthly processes;
- Solved problem with transaction posting to incorrect vat code by investigating root cause of the problem and changing invalid SAP settings;
- Implemented successfully changes to Intrastat return process;
- Proposed implementation of additional controls to VAT process in order to minimise potential data errors;
- Mentored and trained team members: succession planning;
Capital Assistant Accountant
BBC
02.2014 - 07.2017
- Responsible to support the delivery of professional financial support to the Finance Operations teams and Corporate Finance;
- Being responsible for budgetary control along with preparation balance sheet control packs, supporting the completion of month-end financial processes;
- Undertaking project setups, executing change requests and assisting in development of investment proposals;
- Ensuring completion as per required standard and format in a timely manner, and working closely with the project team;
- Leaded and performed Knowledge Transfer between BBC and IBM on capital projects;
- Tested new SAP ECC implementation and provided support to migration team;
- Leaded testing for capital assets project for new subsidiary;
- Performed capital assets migration between different BBC entities;
- Managed BPC improvements project proposing new software solutions;
- Implemented controls to make sure correct treatment of revenue/capital spend across the projects;
- Performed monthly AUC and Fixed Assets reconciliations;
Accountant
JDH + RED & BLACK FILMS LTD
10.2008 - 02.2014
- Responsible for all data entry and reconciliations, tracking and actualising production budgets, generating weekly reports of actual vs Budget, managing cash flows;
- Together with Head of Production, acting as gatekeeper for all project spending;
- Dealing with PAYE and year end returns, preparation of monthly management accounts, liaising with the company's accountants;
- Reconciling and auditing petty cash claims and preparing journals to ensure costs are reported on correct cost codes;
- Supported preparing film tax credits for the production; Involved in complete post production process for The Machine movie;
Education
1st BSc (Hons) - Forensic Accounting
South Wales University
05-2018
ACCOUNTING TECHNICIAN (AAT) - Accounting
Glan Hafren College
05-2010
Master of Arts - History
Silesian University
05-2005
Skills
- Cash Flow Management
- Internal Controls
- Operations Management
- Process Improvement
- ERP Systems Expertise
- Financial Reporting
- Audit Coordination
- Financial Reporting
- Leadership and Team Management
Timeline
Senior Accountant
Northvolt AB
01.2019 - Current
VAT Manager
BBC
07.2017 - 01.2018
Capital Assistant Accountant
BBC
02.2014 - 07.2017
Accountant
JDH + RED & BLACK FILMS LTD
10.2008 - 02.2014
1st BSc (Hons) - Forensic Accounting
South Wales University
ACCOUNTING TECHNICIAN (AAT) - Accounting
Glan Hafren College
Master of Arts - History
Silesian University
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