Finance Manager/Director

Responsibilities:
• Leading Finance team including Chief accountant, internal Controller, IT Manager, Purchasing Manager, define training programs and lead development and training processes.
• Acting as a Compliance Officer and Sanction correspondent: providing relevel trainings for the Affiliate employees, collaborating with Global teams in terms of actions and reporting.
• Presentation of Long Term Budget, Closing Forecast and Monthly Dashboard to high-level management, explaining deviations.
• Effective communication with internal and external stakeholders, including auditors, state inspections and courts, marketing, sales and logistics departments.
• Responsible for Credit Risks and Cash Flow enforcing required procedures.
Achievements:
• Set up of qualified and motivated Finance team during 6 months. Implementation of new functions – Compliance, Purchasing, Internal Controller and IT at the relevant level in the Company.
• Implementation of Compliance Policy in the Affiliate in respect of Fraud and Corruption, as a result identifying of risky Customers/Distributors and Vendors.
• Raised Finance function on the higher level in respect of business support, internal /external communication and compliance as a result increase of productivity of business decisions.
• Optimization of the contacts’ archiving system in Microsoft SharePoint tool (Purchasing and Sales).
• Significantly improvements of findings after Internal Audit of the Affiliate (P1- 70%, P2 -90%)

Responsibilities:
• Leading Finance and Controllership team, defining development and training processes.
• Managing timely and accurate month-end, quarter-end and year-end financial closing (consolidation US GAAP) and Statutory reporting (Tax and Financial Statements).
• Responsible for the Entity’s compliance with internal policies in respect of Accounting, Operations, Logistics, IT and HR.
• Supporting business initiatives including Marketing and Sales activities.
Achievements:
• Set up of qualified / motivated Finance team and implementation of Controller function in the Company.
• Successful Internal audits pass every year with formalized progress of findings resolving (in 2022 report – only “nice to have” recommendations).
• Implementation of new 1C System integrated with SAP Transactions and including two systems Balance Sheet reconciliation.
• Successful Big4 Audit pass of Financial Statements and Tax reports with minimization of tax risks (VAT, CIT).

Responsibilities:
• Managing of payroll projects, tax reviews and consulting considering deadlines, internal procedures and audit trails.
• Trainings and coaching of the team members to ensure smooth replacement.
• Negotiations with the Clients, preparation of proposals and engagement letters ensuring compliance with administrative procedures and Revenue KPI meet.
• Providing “Best practices” compliance and consulting services to the international Companies operating in KZ.

Achievements:
• Implementation of PWC Global Share system in the Department for clients as a result optimization of communication process and further processing.
• Successful pass of Internal Audit with minimum finding of standards violation and further improvements.
• Standardization of Business process in the department considering audit trails and achievement higher productivity and resources savings. As a result increasing of compliance service contracts from six to thirty-five.
• Building of strong relationships with the Clients and internal stakeholders.