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Work experience

Procurement Business manager

from 08.2011 to 06.2015 (3 years 10 months)
British American Tobacco Ukraine, Kiev (cigarette manufacturing and distribution)

•Planning and management of procurement process for commercial and production units
•Development and ownership of area procurement policies and procedures, periodic monitoring of sourcing compliance.
•Driving smart spend management agenda that is measured by a set of KPIs.
•Tendering, negotiations in key projects, supplier relationship management.
•Development of local category approach
•Ensure efficient controls embedded in procurement procedures, compliance monitoring in place.
•Establishing effective and efficient interaction between above-market and local structures, overall procurement team and Business

Audit manager

from 07.2009 to 08.2011 (2 years 1 month)
British American Tobacco Eastern Europe, Kiev (cigarette manufacturing and distribution)

•Leading End Market (Caucasus, Serbia) and Regional Process (Finance Shared Services) audits within the Region
•Participated in International and Regional Entity audits (Italy, Kazakhstan, Caucasus, Ukraine, Kosovo), Global process (Russia, Ukraine) and Regional Operations (Uzbekistan) audits.
•Conducting a number of ad-hoc audits in Trade & Marketing for home market
•Preparation of Regional Audit Committee papers

Marketing Finance Controller

from 02.2008 to 07.2009 (1 year 5 months)
British American Tobacco Ukraine, Kiev (cigarette manufacturing and distribution)

•Pricing & Excise process ownership: working out local pricing & excise recommendations for local top management based on profit targets and company wide excise strategy; coordinating the process of authorization with above the market structure and implementation at a local level
•Coordination of trade marketing resource allocation: brands launch/activities and trade evaluations, analysis, marketing budgets compilation and control.
•Agency management: agency fee negotiation, cash flow control, audit coordination
•Credit control process supervision.

Operations Finance Controller

from 10.2005 to 02.2008 (2 years 4 months)
British American Tobacco Ukraine, Prilucky (cigarette manufacturing and distribution)

•Providing operations management with financial information for decision-making, driving improvement of efficiency and effectiveness of spend (opex and capex) in a supply chain organization.
•Supervised budgeting and reporting process for local manufacturing site and logistics
•Reporting operations KPIs to local and regional levels
•Responsible for product costing and transfer pricing (export and domestic)
•Ensured internal controls maintain at a required level
•Ensured working capital level at required level
•Managed a local project of transferring certain business processes under new responsibility, splitting financial reporting between manufacturing and trading organizations.
•Organized European Operation finance conference

External consultancy

from 01.2005 to 10.2005 (9 months)
Saulyak, Kiev (gold mining)

•Development of financial reporting package
•Streamlining of internal procedures

Finance manager

from 03.2004 to 12.2004 (9 months)
Eldorado, Kiev (Retail)

•In charge of accounting, treasury, internal audit and controlling in Ukraine region
•Supervision of external and internal group reporting
•Proper cash projection and control
•Leading role in implementing consumer credit tool to increase sales levels
•Establishing proper accounting control, processes and procedures

Finance manager

from 10.2003 to 02.2004 (4 months)
Fanni, Dnepropetrovsk (milk products manufacturing and distribution)

•Introduction of budgeting and planning in the company
•Development of a new management accounting system

Manufacturing Finance manager

from 02.2002 to 06.2003 (1 year 4 months)
Reemtsma/Imperial Tobacco, Volgograd, Russia (cigarettes manufacturing and distribution)

•In charge of accounting and controlling departments in a manufacturing unit
•Responsible for maintaining working capital/cash flow at targeted levels, liaison with local banks
•Driving cost saving opportunities, tax optimization
•Guided establishing efficient procedures and processes
•Deeply involved in settlement of prior years tax issues with tax authorities
•Coordinating budgeting process with constant follow-up variance analysis and feedback
•Participated in development of factory collective agreement representing factory administration

Head of controlling

from 04.2000 to 02.2002 (1 year 10 months)
Reemtsma, Volgograd, Russia (cigarettes manufacturing and distribution)

•Recruited internally to head a newly established department of finance and production control reporting to Manufacturing finance manager
•Organized the work of 4 people responsible for product costing, production and investment control, established internal reporting package for factory management besides the scope of financial reporting to head office in Moscow, Russia and production KPIs reporting to head office Germany
•Established cost centre accounting within the framework of “1C” accounting software system. Assigned later as a key user for CO-CC module, SAP/R3
•Put investment control procedures in place
•In accordance with IAS prepared annual legal entity external financial reporting package which was audited by Arthur Andersen and PWC
•Occasionally prepared consolidated reporting for Russian business

Controller

from 02.1997 to 04.2000 (3 years 2 months)
Reemtsma, Kiev (cigarettes manufacturing and distribution)

•Compilation of the entity’s monthly reporting package to include income statement, cash flow, working capital and other schedules in accordance with the IAS and group reporting standards
•Preparation of planned bill of materials, analysis of brand costs and production overheads (actual versus plan) by cost centers, cost types and products
•Tactical financial planning including pro forma income statement
•Analyzing, reporting and control of all expenditures effected by the factory. Providing Reemtsma subsidiaries with consultancy and assistance as regards investment control procedures

Interpreter, Trainee, Administrator, Export/Import coordinator

from 01.1994 to 02.1997 (3 years 1 month)
Reemtsma, TEKT, MAST, International Federation of Red Cross, TNT, Kiev (Misc.)

•Written and oral translations
•Agricultural program based in the University of Minnesota, USA
•Documentation for incoming and outgoing mail deliveries, follow-up deliveries reporting

Education

Institute of Management Accountants

Certified Management Accountant qualification, USA
Higher, from 2001 to 2003 (2 years 4 months)

1996-1998Kyiv National University of Economics

MBA program Financial management, Kiev
Higher, from 1996 to 1998 (1 year 9 months)

Kyiv State Teachers’ Training Institute of Foreign Languages

English and Spanish, Kiev
Higher, from 1988 to 1993 (4 years 10 months)

Knowledge and skills

Language proficiencies

• English — advanced
• Russian — fluent
• Ukrainian — fluent
• Spanish — beginner

Additional information

Excellent practical professional, result-oriented, self-driven for new achievements, excellent helicopter view and "out of the box" thinking, energetic, strong communication skills, positive team-player’s attitude, strong people management, well structured and organised.