Highlights:Finance Manager in Bombardier Transportation Romania

Skills:SAP skills, accounting, consolidation reporting, regulatory reporting, management

Goal:Finance manager in a global company

Certification:More than 25 international articles published on different economic topics. A list of all these articles can be provided.

Honor:Magna cum laudae for PhD degree from The Bucharest University of Economic Studies

Head of Record to Report 07/21/2017 - current
Bombardier Transportation, Cluj-Napoca, Cluj Romania
Industry: Transportation, Aerospace
Head of Record to Report department in Bombardier Transportation since July 2017 for all German legal entities. I am actually managing 35 persons divided in 2 teams, including the Tax team. I have in charge 2 team leaders and 1 tax specialist.
Responsibilities: - Deliver on time and accurate execution of tasks within allocated scope. - Secure knowledge, follow up on errors in process and mitigate for resolution and create/update to have accurate Desktop Procedures. - Optimize processes through standardization and automate simple activities. - Support entire General Ledger, Closing & Reporting team and contribute actively to overall scope fulfillment. - Promote continuous improvement mindset within team. - Maintain quality and responsiveness in deliverable of the Shared Service Center. - Constantly monitor process health and when risks are highlighted take the necessary actions to escalate. - Ensure that all audits requirements are delivered on time and at high quality. - Manage staff, resources and ensure competencies assessment. - Tailor Personal Developments plans to facilitate the development, close gaps and increase talent pool, both for the team members and leadership. - Develop own successor from the Team Leaders in Finance Shared Services Center (SSC). - Identify High Performers and establish career path together with the Team Leaders. - Act as team player in all SSC forums and encourage increase collaboration between SSC's functions. - Ensure transparent communication at all levels. - Coordination of the Process Improvement team and of the Automation specialist in order to deliver RPA - Coordination of the Tax team, implementation of a Global Tax Management compliance system overall Finance department, not only German legal entities. - Tools usage: SAP (VCM, DWA and Impulse), Magnitude, Hyperion. My level of Excel is advanced.--
Accounting, Consolidation, Regulatory Reporting Team Lead Manager 11/2013 - 07/2017
Societe Generale Romania, Bucharest, Bucharest Romania
Industry: Finance & Banking
The main responsibility of my previous position was to coordinate the team in charge with the accounting, consolidated reporting and regulatory reporting for business units within Societe Generale Group from France and Luxembourg. The team was composed of 64 members, half in charge of the accounting and consolidated reporting and half in charge of regulatory reporting. Also, I have coordinated 4 transitions from France and Luxembourg to Bucharest. My responsibilities are described bellow as following: operational, managerial and transverse responsibilities.
• Coordination of monthly, quarterly and annually closings on all areas (accounting, consolidated reporting, regulatory reporting, quarterly and annual statutory/consolidated financial statements). • Ensuring the correct reconciliation between inventory and accounting and validating the certification of accounts. • Validating and controlling the reevaluation for all the inter-company loans and borrowings, for all hold to maturity/ available for sales assets (especially bonds). • Ensuring compliance with all IFRS standards and monitoring the adjustments from local GAAP (French or Luxembourg) to IFRS GAAP. The implementation of operational and managerial controls through which to validate that all IFRS standards are respected in the consolidation processes. • Ensuring the correct implementation of new IFRS standards as IFRIC 21 and IFRS 9 starting from 2018. Due to these changes, I am directly involved with the Project Team to create a new Group Consolidation tool due to changes generated by IFRS 9. • Elaborating quarterly forecast for all the subordinated loans and borrowings and adjusting it monthly in function of all the market events and anticipation of future events. After elaboration, upload it to CFO for validation through Magnitude tool and after validation to the Groupe through Hyperion. • Realizing on a monthly basis Profit and Loss analytical review and providing explanations for all significant variances. • Realizing a comparative analysis on Profit and Loss between the actual cost and revenues situation and the forecast. Providing comments to the Group for each significant variation based on business events (close collaboration with the CFO). • Realizing on a quarterly basis Assets and Liabilities analytical review and providing explanations for all significant variances. • Implementing operational and managerial controls on all production activities, presented in the Client Committees that take place after each closing. • Controlling and validating all the annual statutory and consolidated financial statements (short and long form) and sending them to auditors for accounts validation. • Ensuring the direct relation with the external and internal auditors, tracking their requests and implementing their recommendations, if this is the case. • Calculation and reporting with transparency of all the KPI and KRI and their presentation to the team and to the CFO through the Monthly Client Committees.--
Senior Financial Analyst 10/2012 - 10/2013
WNS Global Services, Bucharest, Bucharest Romania
Industry: Business Process Outsourcing Industry
I was in charge of 3 business units, 2 of them were using SAP as tool and one was using JD Edwards.
Daily responsibilities: - Manual and automatic cash application bookings. - Manual and automatic billing for the customers. - Manual and automatic clearing of accounts. - Automatic bank reconciliation, reconciliation between the main bank account and sub-ledgers. - Travel and expenses bookings into accounting, after validation and verification. - Fixed assets continuous accounting (linear and progressive amortization, calculation and registration of the depreciation) etc. - Manual and automatic registrations into accounting for different accruals. - Cash and credit management. Monthly responsibilities: - Daily Sales Outstanding for the CFO in order to see the sales for each category of customers. - Ageing reports creation for the client committees. - VAT declarations. - Preparation of some consolidated situations and sending them through Hyperion to the group. - Cost and revenues analysis, budget reconciliation, analytical review of variations and giving comments to the Consolidation Department from Canada for the 3 business units. Other responsibilities: - SAP implementation migration from JD Edwards, testing and also creating and validating the accounting schemes in SAP for Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivables and General Ledger processes. - Training facilitator for: Finance and Accounting Basics, Working with Difficult People and Culture and Its Effects on Communication. - Methodology documents preparation for ISO standards certification.--
PhD. Teaching Assistant 10/2009 - 10/2012
Nicolae Titulescu University, Bucharest, Bucharest Romania
Industry: Education
I was in charge of facilitating the courses for: - Mechanisms and competitive prices, - Microeconomics and macroeconomics, - Economic and Financial Analysis and - Economic History.
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Senior Accounts Receivable Process Associate 11/2008 - 10/2010
Genpact, Bucharest, Bucharest Romania
Industry: Business Process Outsourcing Industry
I was in the accounting team in charge of one business unit from France, for a Genpact customer. The main tool used for the accounting was SAP.
My responsibilities were: - Cash Allocation: bank transfers, manual payments, direct debit, - Manual bills: manual billing for some type of customers, - SOX Controls realization, - Monthly Reporting: Daily Sales Outstanding Reporting, Bad debts reporting etc. - Monthly closing, - Customer Service, - Cash Collection, - 6 Sigma Project realization: CoSA (Collection Strategy Analysis - optimization of the cash collection process.--
Accounts Payable Process Associate 05/2008 - 11/2008
Genpact, Bucharest, Bucharest Romania
Industry: Business Process Outsourcing Industry
- Creating the suppliers in SAP tool (vendor master data) - Invoices postings; - VAT reconciliations; - Posting inter-company invoices; - SOX Controls on Accounts Payable Process, - Manual and automatic payments for the suppliers, - Daily Purchasing Outstanding Report creation.
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University of Bucharest 10/2005 - 06/2008
Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania
Degree: Bachelor's Degree
Major:Business Administration
Business Administration

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