Position: Chief Financial Officer | Head of Finance | Finance Manager
Category: Lead
English level: fluent
Years of experience: 11

• Created and implemented initial financial model of the project and analysed new investment projects, M&A deals, prospective markets and created business and financial models;
• Supported CEO with day-to-day duties / acted as deputy CEO;
• Hired, coached and managed financial, accounting, and legal teams (up to 6 people in direct supervision) using Agile methods and approaches;
• Coordinated and led communication between Company and Group, and presented company performance results on meetings with senior management, shareholder and Group meetings;
• Created and controlled budgets, budget process, budget review and present budgets to senior management for approval;
• Set up and develop managerial accounting IT system and compile managerial Balance Sheet, P&L, Cash-Flow, Investment program and CAPEX;
• Performed ongoing financial analysis and controlled key metrics, unit economics, product margins, pricing;
• Set up and controlled cash-flow management, payment planning and cooperate with banks on new bank accounts, KYC, financial monitoring, foreign currency exchange etc;
• Coordinated and supervised construction of production unit (plant) from financial and legal side incl. CAPEX planning and controlling, construction permits, contracts of construction services, utility contracts, land lease); 
• Managed and supervise legal team incl. contracts review (incl. export and import contracts), products certification and patenting, trademark registration, other legal issues);   
• Supervised tax planning incl. VAT refunds and tax audits;
HIGHLIGHTS:
• FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT: 12+ years in finance field incl. 6+ years of team management;
• STRATEGIC FINANCIAL PLANNING: create, audit and assess business processes, business plans, financial models, CAPEX programs, M&A deals incl. due diligence and market research;
• NEGOTIATION & PRESENTATION: negotiate projects, investment plans, financial models with stakeholders and present them on meetings with clients, senior managements, shareholders and on company’s meetings up to 50 people;
• BUDGETING & CONTROL: create and control budgets, budget process, budget review and present budgets to senior management for approval;
• MANAGERIAL ACCOUNTING: set up and develop managerial accounting system and compile managerial Balance Sheet, P&L, Cash-Flow and other reports;
• FINANCIAL CONTROL & ANALYSIS: set up and control key metrics, unit economics, product margins, pricing and perform ongoing financial analysis based on IFRS and Ukrainian accounting standards;
• DATA COLLECTION & TRANSFORMATION: perform data collection, data cleaning, data transformation and consolidation;
• BANKING & PAYMENTS: set up and control cash-flow management, payment planning and cooperate with banks on new bank accounts, KYC, financial monitoring, foreign currency exchange etc.
• LEGAL & TAXES: manage various contracts reviews incl. export and import contracts, taxation incl. VAT refunds, and other legal issues;
• PROJECT MANAGEMENT: launch and manage complex projects using Agile methods and approaches;
• CREDIT MANAGENENT: loan managements, collateral structures and appraisals, credit applications, covenants and credit facility agreements, negotiations loans terms and conditions; presentations to Credit Committee.

EDUCATION:
• Master`s in Finance | IUM | Monaco; 
• Master`s and Bachelor`s in International Economy | KNEU| Ukraine; 
• Bachelor`s in Law | KNEU| Ukraine; 
• CFA Candidate Level 3 | CFA Institute | USA; 

LANGUAGES:
• English | Fluent   
• French | Advanced   
• Ukrainian & Russian | Native Speaker;

SOFTWARE SKILLS:
• MS Office (Excel, Power Query, Power Pivot, Power BI, PowerPoint, Project, Word), 
• Google sheets 
• 1C (BAS)