- Managing Facility, Administration, Personnel, Contractual, Subcontractors, Physical and Economic Security (~320 subordinates).

- Building departments from zero (Finance Business Partnering, Physical and Economic Security).

- Harmonization of work between trusted functions and other functions (Accounting, Legal, Procurement, etc).

- Support the company’s operations during fast growth (25% YoY). Opening new locations in West and South Ukraine.

- Optimization of expenses. Elimination non-value added activities and expenses.

- Preparation of annual and quarterly budgets. Monthly review of budgets and investigation of variances.

- Active involvement in fraud prevention.

- Responsible for comprehensive two year deal - construction and acquisition of office center in Kyiv. Managing technical, financial, tax and legal consultants.

- Reviewing and approving monthly reporting, payments, taxes, contracts, invoices.

- Maintaining relationships with banks, auditors, tax and technical consultants, vendors, landlords.

- Managing the company’s lease portfolio of 100k sqm, optimization of lease portfolio after COVID-19.

- Driving CAPEX investments (planning, execution, comparison actuals vs budgeted).

- Active transition of the company’s documents into electronic workflows (Subcontractors, Administration, Personnel).

- Performance improvement (e.g. acceleration of legal documents review).

- Acting as a General Manager of 2 legal entities (incl. one legal entity resident of Diia City tax regime). Representing the company at government authorities.

- Orchestrated chaos with charity initiatives during first two years of full scale invasion (part of $100m fund).

- Acting as a crisis manager in times of COVID19 and war.

- Being responsible for people and asset evacuation to safe regions.

• Finance support of legal entities in CIS and Ukraine
• Review and analyze monthly results in the region during each closing to ensure accuracy of reported Trial BalanceEnsure an effective accounting framework under both Local and US-GAAP is in place
• Ensure the timely completion and filing of Statutory Audit reports for all legal entities in scope
• Ensure that reported Audit concerns are properly and timely addressed and related risks mitigated for all legal entities in scope
• Support the annual Budgeting process for the entities in the region
• Lead or support the integration of M&A entities into the local legal entities or geographies as appropriate while leveraging the EPAM framework
• Provide Finance Due Diligence &/or Integration support for deals involving CIS based entitiesLiaise with other Regional and Legal Entity Controllers to share best practices, opportunities for improvement/standardization, etc.
• Focus on automation, eliminating non value-added activities, developing scalable solutions, simplifying processes, etc.
• Responsible for compliance with applicable local Tax laws and regulations and ensuring a related compliance framework is in place for the legal entities in scope
• Responsible for an effective Internal Control environment in the region in line with local regulations, SOX requirements and company policies
• Responsible for payroll agency engagements and related payroll processes in the region to ensure compliance with local legislation, SOX framework and other internal policies
• Work closely with the central FP&A team so that proper responses can be given to management inquiries
• Support the initiatives of new entity openings from economic and commercial evaluation perspective and lead the company set-up process from Finance side (e.g. bank accounts, local standards, etc.)
• Support central treasury teams for local banking relationships

- Working on annual budget and monthly forecasts

- Integration of newly acquired companies

- Team management

• Managing controlling, accounting, treasury and IT teams.
• Provision various kinds of support to stakeholders.
• Budgeting and planning.

• Managing finance and accounting teams in Kazakhstan, and remotely in Belarus and Hungary.
• Provision of support to business in order to reach settled targets (Sales, Expenses, Working Capital, Business Value Added, etc).
• Budgeting and planning (annual, quarterly).
• Optimization of existing processes and expenses.
• Strengthening of internal control environment in all regions. Interaction with internal auditors.
• Significant involvement into commercial operations in all countries. Active negotiations with existing customers.
• Treasury operations (loan attraction, daily operations, hedging). 2 loan facilities were attracted for working capital needs.
• Coaching and development of finance and non-finance employees. Creation of strong finance team. Inspiration of team members for effective work.
• Finance due diligence and forensic project on distressed assets. Improvement of finance function of key distributors.
• Cooperation with Chief Accountants on tax issues.

• Responsible for annual budget preparation, quarterly re-estimation of sales forecasts, weekly forecasts, reporting to internal systems.

• Controlling and minimization of expenses. Advised on number of cost saving initiatives (change of office in BY, rationalization of bank charges, consumption of fuel, IT services, marketing expenses, post expenses, conversion of foreign currency in UZ, maintenance expenses, accounting services, personal expenses, etc.)
• Responsible for preparation of monthly reporting packages/presentations to management.
• Supervision of all legal documents in BY, CAU, CA in order to minimize all possible risks enclosed.
• Control of all settlement related issues with distributors in BY, CAU, CA (rebates, control over collection, investigation of various issues).
• Preparation of commercial policy, credit policy and road map for all countries.
• Launch of projects which aim to increase sales ("seed care equipment project" in BY, CAU).
• Provided support to all stakeholders on various operational/financial/commercial issues in BY, CAU, CA and HQ. Reactive response to all "critical" situations.
• Interaction with internal auditors. Preparation for the audit, acting as a contact person during the audit in GE and UZ.
• Cooperation with external advisors (auditors, tax and legal) on various issues related with claims, courts, tax advises, etc.
• Improvement of internal controls in all countries of responsibility.

Coaching of staff (4 employees).

• Participated in number of buy-side and sell-side financial due diligences in Ukraine and Russia in various industries (more than 20 industries).

• Identified key risks important for decision making within settled deadlines, which resulted in successful M&A deals, better understanding of the business.

• Conducted comprehensive sell side due diligence as a project manager role of a large FMCG group operating in Ukraine, Georgia, Russia.

• Advised on restructuring of the Group engaged in production of chocolate products.

• Successfully conducted several buy side due diligences in Russia in turbulent environment with very tough deadlines. Independently, without any control and support.

• Coached, controlled, assessed staff (up to 4 people).

• Conducted number of audits of financial statements in accordance with IFRS, UA/RU GAAP for leading companies in Ukraine and Russia in number of industries (more than 12 industries).

• Responsible for the conduction of first year audits for leading companies as a senior in charge role (heavy machinery, electric power generation, etc.).

• Participated in audit of consolidated financial statements of the largest industrial Groups engaged in metals, energy.

• Coached staff (up to 5 people).

• Monthly, quarterly reporting to HQ (according to IFRS and Group reporting rules);
• Annual budget preparation, variance analysis, sensibility analysis, explanation of monthly deviations;
• Automation of processes in accounting department (fuel write-off, currency exchange operations);
• Participation in SAP implementation (investigation of differences related to parallel accounting in several systems - SAP & 1S), SAP customization according to department's needs;
• Development, optimization and documentation of the internal controlling processes for efficient controlling procedures;
• Trained in controlling departments of Germany, Poland, Bulgaria to build financial and operational controlling (2 months in total).

• Treasury management of the Group (7 legal entities), including: preparation of payment calendar, management of loan portfolio (18 loan products), currency exchange operations, guarantee operations, depositary and cash transactions;
• Attraction of bank borrowings (5 credit lines were attracted);
• Construction of annual budget for all companies of the Group;
• Monthly analysis of the Group's performance and reporting to owners;
• Work with insurance companies;
• Optimization of bank charges;
• Target setting to programmer (1S 7.7).

- Financial analysis of borrowers (ratio analysis, business-plan reasonability, comparing to industry);

- Analysis of main risks (credit, market, commercial).