Key Achievements:

• Implemented automated management reporting in QBO and delivered monthly insights on key business drivers and performance metrics to the CEO.
• Established a cash concentration structure across group entities, sweeping daily balances into a central treasury account, reducing idle cash by ~20% and maximising yield on surplus liquidity.
  Main responsibilities:
• Built group consolidation and reporting processes, ensuring timely and accurate financial visibility across all entities.
• Led budgeting, financial planning, and cost control across the Group, aligning financial strategy with business objective.
• Served as key finance partner to Board and shareholders, presenting consolidated performance, investment pipeline, and strategic scenarios.
• Owned financial modelling and capital allocation decisions, assessing investment opportunities and impact on Group liquidity.
• Led cross-country finance team (15 FTEs across 3 countries), standardizing processes and establishing a unified reporting structure.
• Led financial modelling for investment decisions, assessing business impact and implications for the Group’s liquidity and cash position.

Key Achievements:

• Reduced treasury reporting cycle from 10 to 3 days per week via SAP4HANA automation, freeing 55 FTE hours per month for value-added analysis.
• Developed a 2024 zero based budget reducing administrative costs by 8% and increasing budgeting accuracy to 95%.
  Main responsibilities:
  
• Redesigned annual budgeting process for Czech market (revenue ~€100M), from indirect to direct method and improving forecast accuracy from 50% to 90%.
• Optimized key working capital (WCAP) metrics: reduced DSO from 45 to 30 days and DIO from 35 to 25 days, while extending DPO from 45 to 60 days, resulting in a +40 day improvement in cash conversion cycle (CCC).
• Delivered investment appraisals for 2 store renovation projects totalling €1M CAPEX, defining IRR, payback period, and revenue per m? uplift scenarios that informed Board-level capital allocation decisions.
• Partnered with Country Manager and commercial team to build KPI dashboards tracking revenue per m?, conversion, and margin by product category - shifting finance from reporting function to strategic business partner.
• Improved liquidity through a 13-week rolling cash flow forecast process and SAP S/4HANA payment calendar automation,

Key Achievements:

• Led a loan portfolio restructuring, reducing interest rates from 20% to 15%, resulting in annual interest savings of approximately USD 1 million.
• Improved operating cash flow (OCF) from 5% to 20% of revenue by leading working capital optimization and implementing a structured liquidity management framework.
• Developed and implemented store-level unit economics and performance analytics, increasing profitability from 3% to 5% and enabling scalable retail growth.

Main responsibilities:

• Built finance function from scratch, hiring and developing a team of 10 finance professionals across controlling, treasury, and FP&A to support business growth and scalability.
• Managed EBRD partnership as primary finance counterpart, overseeing deployment of $40M investment facility and ensuring full compliance with lender reporting covenants and ESG performance metrics.
• Acted as board-level financial advisor, preparing and presenting monthly financial reviews, quarterly investor reports, and annual strategic plans to shareholders and Board of Directors.
• Implemented annual zero-based budgeting process, strengthening cost discipline and improving transparency across OPEX and CAPEX for whole Company.
• Led automation of end-to-end supplier payment workflow in SAP S/4HANA, eliminating manual processing and reducing weekly processing time to 2 hours.
• Developed and implemented a 13-week rolling cash flow forecasting model, enhancing liquidity visibility and strengthening cash buffer management.
• Developed and maintained a 5-year chain expansion financial model, coordinating inputs from all key stakeholders (operations, real estate, supply chain, management).
• Supported the rollout of 50 new stores over 2 years by leading investment modelling and liquidity planning to enable informed expansion decisions.
• Drove business transformation through development of store unit economics, long-term financial planning models, and strategic initiatives to improve profitability and scalability across the retail chain.

Extensive experience in financial reporting, budgeting, and treasury management, including short- and long-term cash flow forecasting, P&L and balance sheet planning, and plan-versus-actual analysis. Strong background in financial control, cost optimization, and working capital management, supported by robust financial governance and risk oversight. Proven ability to design and automate financial processes, improve reporting quality, and support strategic decision-making through disciplined financial analysis.

Strong experience in end-to-end financial, accounting, and tax management, including ERP systems (1C 8.2/8.3), international trade operations, FX transactions, and cross-border payments. Proven ability to manage cash flows, prepare monthly P&L and cash flow reports, conduct tax planning, and ensure compliance while handling complex, high-volume financial operations.

Provided centralized oversight of accounting functions across multiple business units, ensuring compliance with accounting standards, tax regulations, and foreign currency controls. Led tax optimization initiatives, process improvements, and automation within 1C, while coordinating audits, regulatory inspections, and interactions with counterparties and authorities.