Ольга

Olha Novikova
Chief Financial Officer
Value-driven dynamic finance leader with 17 years overall expertise in finance. Working
over 6 years as a Chief Financial Officer gained profound experience in business processes
building, team management and unconventional finance decisions generating. Over 11
years as a customer manager and loan expert provided me with core competencies in sales
and negotiations.
Career accomplishments include: reorganization of the entire Finance and Accounting
Department and optimization of internal business processes.
CONTACTS I believe that effective growth strategies are based on well-built operations management.
My goal is to leverage my expertise to develop and set up clear and flexible operational
[відкрити контакти](див. вище в блоці «контактна інформація») procedures, align close collaboration between departments and with business partners in
order to build and implement organization-tailored financial strategy.
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PROFESSIONAL ACHIEVEMENTS
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Coordinated the implementation of ERP BAS system for management accounting
of a group of companies, which was fully completed in 9 months after project
EDUCATION initiation.
Restructured the finance department and implemented employee
2002 - 2007
interchangeability.
Masters degree in Accounting and Initiated the automatization of accounting processes which resulted in the
Audit elimination of duplicate operations in accounting systems.
Poltava National Technical University Standardized treasury operations policy, resulting in reduction of the payment days
from 5 to 2.
COURSES Arranged the financing through preferential loans under the 5-7-9 program and
Course: “Investment project appraisal”, grants from the state budget (3 grants received).
PwC Academy, 2023 Composed a legal decision that enabled resolution of the deadlock, avoiding
Mastered: approaches to projects payment to a private executor and unlocking the company's current accounts
estimation, calculation of financial within 2 days.
indicators (NPV, IRR) Standardized instructions and procedures for financial and related departments
Course: “Search from A to Z”, LIGA ZAKON which resulted in smooth adaptation of new employees after M&A.
Academy, 2023
Mastered: legislation, rules of conduct, PROJECT
preventive measures
February 2024 - present day
Course: “MS Excel for financial specialists
Initiation of management accounting policy for the group of companies,
and economists”, PwC Academy, 2021
fashioning management accounting procedures and automation of processes
Mastered: core Excel functions (vlookup,
Pivot tables) TASKS:
Course: “School for Chief Financial Officer”, Development of management accounting cost items and their integration into tax
Consulting company accounting;
Nemirovsky&Starozhukova, 2019 Reorganization of normative reference information;
Mastered: implementation of management Implementation of new accounting ledgers and document parameters to ensure
accounting, KPI system development, team that necessary information for analysis is provided;
management Conceptualization of budgetary basis;
Course: “More Introduction to Financial Composition of technical requirements for software developer;
Accounting”, Wharton School, University of Automation of treasury operations;
Pennsylvania, 2016 Automation of payroll operations;
Mastered: key financial performance Standardization of instructions and procedures for financial and related
indicators and financial statement analysis departments.
RESULTS:
CERTIFICATES Management accounting cost items are developed and integrated into tax
accounting;
ACCA Advanced Diploma in Accounting New type of cash designation created and implemented to cash documents;
and Business, #96618622511206, 2023 New calculation parameter is built into the contract card in the accounting system;
ACCA DipIFR, certificate #1835797, 2018 Cash flow and P&L budgets are conceptualized and approved by management;
Treasury operations are automated.
 COMPETENCES PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
November 2018 - February 2024
Management accounting inplementation Wizoria&Cinema City Group
Organization of budgeting process Chief Financial Officer
High level of operations management Managed the Financial and Accounting Department of 12 employees (7
Cash management accountants, 1 HR specialist, 2 management accounting and 2 treasury specialists);
Strategic approach to team building and Supervised legal specialists by task allocation, setting deadlines, provide an
motivation overview of director’s viewpoint;
Compliance with national laws and regulations Coordinated the implementation of 1C BAS ERP in 2019 (project successfully
Flexible decision-making completed in 9 months after beginning);
Prioritization actions and organization of resources Composed technical tasks for 1C programmers;
to achieve corporate objectives Analyzed and approved contracts;
Leading negotiation process holding corporate’s Developed company's positions in legal claims and agreed it with business owners;
position Performed financial and coordinated legal due diligence of investment projects;
Developed and adapted internal regulations for financial and related departments;
LANGUAGES Recruited finance and accounting staff;
Conducted negotiations and written correspondence with key business partners;
English - Advanced Arranged credit financing (including ‘5-7-9’ program) and monitored covenant
German - Pre-Intermediate compliance;
Restructured budgeting system and designed new budgeting procedure;
Interacted with chief accountants in tax planning processes;
Prepared management accounting reports (P&L, CF);
Conducted financial control procedures;
Operated treasury function

2018
Oschadbank JSC
Senior Credit Analyst
Participated in negotiations with client’s top management and presented financial
part of credit programs;
Interacted with client’s chief financial officers and chief accountants;
Conducted analysis of client’s financial statements and legal documentation;
Conducted in-depth review of customer’s business and assess potentially risks of
financial instability;
Partnered with related departments in collecting information for preparing financial
analysis application;
Presented loan applications to Credit Committee.

2007 - 2017
OTP Bank JSC
Leading Customer Support Expert
Conducted negotiations with clients and presented credit, deposit and investment
programs with accessorial services;
Examinated client’s financial conditions to verify they meet credit requirements of
the bank;
Prepared loan agreements and arranged their signing;
Consulted clients on foreign currency payments rules;
Interacted with related departments in customer’s requests solving.

Senior Back-office Economist
Performed loan and deposit accounting;
Examined customer documentation, loan and insurance agreements to ensure they
are accurate, complete and meet bank’s requirements;
Calculated loan covenants and monitored customer’s compliance with them;
Mentored junior economists;
Supported foreign currency operations: controled the fullness and relevance of
customer’s documentation, interacted with related department conducting
payment investigation.