Built a high-performance Finance Business Partnering team. Moved transactional accountancy and reporting from in-house to Finance Shared Services. Experienced in business processes restructuring. Supporting and advising key strategic and operational decisions through insights that drive better business performance. Interpreting and explaining performance within the business. Advising on key business planning assumptions, risk and opportunities. Analyzing and examining revenue and margin, return on capital, channel and distributor profitability. Managing budgeting and forecasting processes, and financial analysis on actual performance of 8 countries. Prepare and provide management with the consolidated summary of planned and actual results for 8 countries with all key performance indicators, highlight critical points and identify and interpret main drivers of any changes against Business Plan and latest forecast. Financial modeling of different business scenarios – based on various price strategies, market environment and legal/tax changes.

Managing FP&A team. Managing budgeting and forecasting processes, and financial analysis. Delivering a rolling long term financial plan, with robust and relevant stress testing throughout the year. Conducting analysis of resource allocation across the different activities aligned with the strategy and market prioritization. Budget management (Discounts and rebates, advertising and promotion, overheads) – providing to the budget owners relevant analysis on their performance, risks and forecast, challenging planned spend. Prepare and provide management with the summary on company month result with all key performance indicators, highlight critical points and identify and interpret main drivers of any changes against Business Plan and latest forecast.

Directing 10 people encompassing Accounting, Financial Management, Tax, IT, Supply Chain and Internal Audit and Compliance. Administration, challenging and reviewing all financial plans and budgets, opportunities proposition and risk projection. Coordinating month and year closing process, reporting, forecasting (PL, shipments, pricing). Financial forecasting and development scenarios financial assessment. Working capital management (forecast, analysis of actual performance, improvement measures, factoring) and cash flow forecast coordination. Coordinating and leading all audit processes (financial annual, Group compliance, Group warehouse reviews, internal business processes). Updated and implemented a number of business policies and accounting practices. Implementation of required Group processes and standards in all aspects of business. Coordination supply chain function: import, delivery, stock management and shipments to distributors. Driving the price strategy in Montenegro, price and activities negotiations with the Distributor.

Support the Regional Finance Director (Eastern Europe region) in the preparation of forecast, budget and actual financial performance analysis, main movements and drivers identification on a cluster and individual market basis. Reviewing and challenging forecasts submitted by countries. Support the Region Team in delivering financial planning and reporting processes that will help to drive forward the Group financial strategy for a designated number of markets. Consideration the key drivers of working capital in key countries and how to leverage them to improve working capital. Being a key expert and finance team representative in Regional and Headquarter projects for a designated number of countries.

Coordination and managing month end closing process ensuring with group standards, preparation of month end reporting package including performance and variance analysis and comments to explain the movements. Working capital forecasting and performance analysis. Transfer prices calculation and Transfer Price policy development and implementation. Supporting Finance Director in the forecasting and budgeting processes. Providing relevant financial analysis and insights to support other departments in the decision-making process. Providing external management reporting to Region and Global headquarters.