Oleksandra

Curriculum Vitae
Oleksandra Kabanova

7, Hvardiyskiy Lane, 39600 Kremenchuk, Ukraine
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DOB: 30/06/1987
Nationality: Ukrainian
Status: Married

PERSONAL SUMMARY
A highly motivated, confident individual with exceptional multi-tasking and organizational skills.
Able to exhibit confidentiality, tact and diplomacy when dealing with senior management.
Successful at managing the task lists of even the most demanding business executives. Fast learner
who can quickly incorporate and implement new procedures to maximize efficiency and
productivity, absorb new ideas and can communicate clearly and effectively with people from all
social and professional backgrounds. Well mannered, articulate and fully aware of diversity and
multicultural issues. Independent, hard working, qualified, motivated, self-driven and curious
professional.
WORK EXPERIENCE
An official distributor of Hitachi Construction Machinery in Ukraine - ZAMine Service
Ukraine,
July 2022 – present
Business improvement specialist
Responsibilities:
- Direct, manage and motivate the improvement and project teams, setting achievable objectives
and taking responsibility for making decisions and for providing constructive feedback to the
top management;
- Analyzed company business processes as is to identify areas of improvement, (incl
effectiveness and efficiency), together with the process owner built the processes to be and
made changes within the processes to deploy these improvements;
- Analyzed, developed and implemented current and new business processes and best world
maintenance practices across the company subdivisions in line with the service contract and
State processes and procedures;
- Provided recommendations to project leads or sponsors on key business process risks and
issues impacting the contract and project, provided workable solutions as required.
- Initiated the process of receiving the ISO 9001:2015 certification to align Hitachi global
requirements;
- Manage Hitachi Dealership Support Program (MDAP) for Zamine Service Ukraine.
Ferrexpo Yeristovo Mining, Ukraine
October 2021– June 2022
Business improvement specialist
- Worked with the key stakeholders to define requirements and delivery milestones;
- Project planning and tracking; created key milestones and performance indicators;
- Monitored projects progress and provided regular reports;
- FYM Bank of Ideas management.

Ferrexpo Yeristovo Mining, Ukraine
May 2020 – October 2021
Translator, Personal Assistant to an expatriate General Director
Responsibilities:
- Managed correspondence on behalf of GD e.g., emails, post, telephone in a timely manner,
prioritizing/ cascading and escalating as appropriate, within own function or wider;
- Prepared meeting relevant documents as required including presentations and complex
correspondence;
- Managed, escalated and or delegated business issues within the organization chain with clear
instructions and deadlines on behalf of GM;
- Resolution of low risk/short term business issues informing GM of actions taken;
- Organized and summarized papers and reports, conducted additional research where necessary,
to ensure that the GM is in possession of all relevant background information needed;
- Managed all incoming communications (mail, telephone calls and messages); drafted responses;
obtained additional information as necessary;
- Provided support on projects, including management of deadlines, gathering of information and
ensuring deliverables are met by the team;
- Provided simultaneous translation support for all kind of GM’s meetings;
- Provided written translation to all of the incoming and outgoing documentation, emails and etc
for GM.

Ferrexpo Yeristovo Mining, Ukraine
August 2012 – May 2020 Translator, Personal Assistant to an expatriate Director of Mine
Operations
Responsibilities:
- Converting any kind of documents from one language to another and ensuring that the finished
converted material relay the intended message as clearly as possible;
- Simultaneous interpretation of training sessions, seminars and conferences;
- Coordinating and translating external/internal meetings, ensuring clarity of understanding and
expectations;
- Making appointments and organizing travel and accommodations;
- Raising purchase orders, expense claims and arranging invoices;
- Execution of routine administrative duties;
- Writing reports and briefing papers, making presentations;
- Producing board meeting papers, agendas and facilities for meetings;
- Maintenance of office systems for workflow efficiency;
- Organization of meetings and events and subsequent co-ordination of personal and professional
calendars;
- Liaising with regulatory authorities, contractors and clients;
- Promoting a professional image of the company.

Kremenchuk University of Economics, Kremenchuk, Ukraine
October 2009 – August 2012
English Teacher
IT and Management: Faculty of Philology
Responsibilities:
- Tailoring English teaching methods to suits the needs of individual students;
- Planning, preparing and delivering lessons to a range of groups;
- Administrating examinations and course papers.

KrASZ LTD (Kremenchug car assembly plant, Chinese and Korean vehicles assembly,
Ukraine)
November 2009 – February 2010,
Translator
Responsibilities:
- Translation of documents, letters, memos, contracts, presentations and manuals from English to
Russian / Ukrainian and vice versa;
- Simultaneous interpretation of training sessions, seminars and conferences;
- Conducting face-to-face translations;
- Interpretation and accompaniment to company’s Korean partners;
- On site simultaneous interpretation.

KEY SKILLS AND COMPETENCIES
- Able to fluently speak English, Ukrainian and Russian;
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, collaboration across countries and time zones;
- Experience of working in an international and cross functional environment;
- Excellent team working abilities combined with innate diplomacy;
- Highly motivated and result oriented with the ability to plan ahead;
- Able to work to tight deadlines;
- An excellent level of attention to details;
- Skilled in the Microsoft Office suite of products;
- Able to work under pressure
- Prepared to travel and relocate for work.

EDUCATION
Zaporizhzhia Classic Private University/Management/ Kremenchuk branch, 2021 – present,
Automotive transport.
Zaporizhzhia Classic Private University/Management/ Kremenchuk branch, 2018-2020, Business
administration.
Kremenchuk University of Economics, IT and Management/ Faculty of Economics, Kremenchuk
2010 - 2011, Management
Kremenchuk University of Economics, Information Technologies and Management, Faculty of
Philology, Kremenchuk 2004 - 2009, Foreign languages

Certificates
„Technical regulation and consumer policy training institute“
Odessa State Academy of Technical Regulation and Quality, ISO 9001:2015 internal audit training
(October 2022)
Lean six sigma green belt (July 2021)
Awarded by International Lean Six Sigma Institute
Women leadership training Fe_Munity (December 2020)
10 weeks of program to grow women leaders

Languages
English - Proficiency (C2)
German - Intermediate (B1)
Russian - Proficiency (C2)
Ukrainian - native

Administration and Economics
Business correspondence - expert
Typing - expert

Computer
Microsoft Excel - intermediate
Microsoft Outlook - expert
Microsoft PowerPoint - expert
Microsoft Word – expert
Microsoft project - intermediate

REFERENCES
Available on request.