Jan Buček
Chief of the Lead Auditors at Supreme audit office- Claim this Profile
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Jan S.
Jan? Very empathetic, kind, intelligent and hard-working professional. He was very thorough with attention to detail and always tried to overcome his previous performance. To be better and better and thus closer to the state of excellence. Great team player with a very broad economic overview and an even better person! He always cared more about other people's happiness, but I don't think it's healthy in the long run, Jan!
Jan S.
Jan? Very empathetic, kind, intelligent and hard-working professional. He was very thorough with attention to detail and always tried to overcome his previous performance. To be better and better and thus closer to the state of excellence. Great team player with a very broad economic overview and an even better person! He always cared more about other people's happiness, but I don't think it's healthy in the long run, Jan!
Jan S.
Jan? Very empathetic, kind, intelligent and hard-working professional. He was very thorough with attention to detail and always tried to overcome his previous performance. To be better and better and thus closer to the state of excellence. Great team player with a very broad economic overview and an even better person! He always cared more about other people's happiness, but I don't think it's healthy in the long run, Jan!
Jan S.
Jan? Very empathetic, kind, intelligent and hard-working professional. He was very thorough with attention to detail and always tried to overcome his previous performance. To be better and better and thus closer to the state of excellence. Great team player with a very broad economic overview and an even better person! He always cared more about other people's happiness, but I don't think it's healthy in the long run, Jan!
Credentials
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Exercising Leadership: Foundational Principles & Managing Happiness
Harvard UniversityJan, 2023- Oct, 2024 -
Public Policy Analysis
The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)Jan, 2022- Oct, 2024 -
Educational Program Auditor 2
Nejvyšší kontrolní úřadJan, 2020- Oct, 2024 -
Financial Programming and Policies, Part 2: Program Design.
International Monetary FundJan, 2016- Oct, 2024 -
CERGE-EI - Corporate Finance Course
CERGE-EIJan, 2015- Oct, 2024 -
Deloitte Financial Academy
DeloitteJan, 2015- Oct, 2024 -
Deloitte Tax Academy
DeloitteJan, 2015- Oct, 2024 -
Economics of Money and Banking
Columbia University in the City of New YorkJan, 2015- Oct, 2024 -
Financial Markets
Yale UniversityJan, 2015- Oct, 2024 -
Introduction to Neuroeconomics: how the brain makes decisions
Высшая Школа ЭкономикиJan, 2015- Oct, 2024 -
Mergers & Acquisitions and its Management (the process of buying and selling companies)
TPA Horwath Czech RepublicJan, 2015- Oct, 2024 -
Public Procurement Act
Media-ForumJan, 2015- Oct, 2024 -
EY Academy
EYJan, 2014- Oct, 2024
Experience
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Supreme audit office
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Czechia
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Government Relations Services
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1 - 100 Employee
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Chief of the Lead Auditors
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2022 - Present
Chief Auditor led by an elected Member of the Office and leading a large team of auditors (especially group of Lead Auditors). Responsibility for the complete output of the entire audit across all audited institutions.In addition, active participation in the current SAO's international activities, such as the EUROSAI workshop in 2022.P.S. I really appreciate and am grateful for all the offers I received for cooperation, full time jobs and use of my knowledge (including those from international institutions such as the OECD). Unfortunately, my time options (from 2023 onwards) are already severely limited. Show less
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Lead Auditor
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2021 - Present
Leading a smaller team. Critical but constructive debates and meetings, especially with deputy ministers and directors of ministries and subordinate bodies. Responsibility for conducting an audit and creating an audit output within a specific entrusted institution.
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Deputy Head of the State Budget Implementation Audit Department
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2020 - Present
Activities such as creation of background materials for the SAO annual report or EU report, proposals for audit activities, including risk analysis, case studies, comments on the opinion on the state final account or on the opinion on the report on economic development and the implementation of the state budget, international activities and seminars.
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Senior Auditor
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2020 - Present
Successfully completed the first and second cycle of education, exams, all remaining duties and tasks and very good involvement in the audit (based on the boss's rating).
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Auditor
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2017 - 2020
Auditor at the Supreme Audit Office's State Budget Department. • Focusing mainly on fiscal policy, tax policy and systems (including international comparison and benchmarking), macroeconomic indicators and implementation of the state budget. • Responsible for performance and compliance audit activities within the state budget control area – obtaining, analyzing and monitoring information on the entrusted fields of expertise, forming audit opinions, commenting on materials of central authorities. Performance of audit preparation activities – risk analyses, PLM models creation etc. Legal foundation in the Constitution of the Czech Republic, NKÚ (SAI) is independent supervisory power. Impact of SAI audit activities:- information for citizens, - information for the Government and Parliament, - notifications to the tax authorities, - criminal notifications. Auditor 1 (2017-2018): Training Series (Public Finance, Grants, Financial Accounting, Performance Audit, ICT) and Final Exam met. Auditor 2 (2018-2020): Educational Program (112 hours) and Final Exam met (9 moduls, e.g. Public Finance, Performance Audit, Financial Audit, IT Applications, Audit of State Property Management...). Show less
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Prague University of Economics and Business
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Czechia
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Higher Education
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500 - 600 Employee
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Lecturer
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2017 - Present
Courses:Tax Policy (course at the master's level of study): from 2017 to the presentTax Theory and Policy (course at the master's level of study): 2020/2021Public Finance in the European Union (course at the bachelor's level of study): from 2019 to the present (13th week)2022 - I accepted an offer for an external lecturing at Charles University in Prague (FSS).
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PHD Researcher
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2017 - 2022
Independent thinker who can work collaboratively with other researchers and use evidence-based approaches to problem-solving. A successful PhD student researcher must be able to think critically, creatively, and analytically about problems and have excellent communication skills (especially within the written and visual type of communication).Outputs within research projects of the Faculty of Finance and Accounting at the University of Economics, specifically the following projects: "Public Finance in the Czech Republic and the EU""Economic and Institutional Aspects of Public Finance“"Public Finance in Globalized World"My opponents were respected professors from the Faculty of Social Sciences of Charles University and the Faculty of Economics and Administration of Masaryk University. Show less
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Bitcoin
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United States
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Blockchain Services
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1 - 100 Employee
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Expert in Economics of Blockchain Technology
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2019 - Present
Economics of Blockchain Technology:Trancactions on the Blockchain, Game Theory (incentives for mining, nash equilibrium of honest play), Economic Interactions that occur over the Blockchain, Monetary Policy of Bitcoin and Altcoins, Uses in Transforming our Economies, Hashing, Proof-of-Work, Proof-of-Stake, Data Structures, Use Cases...in connection with Economic Policy:The economic policy of governments covers the systems for setting levels of taxation, government budgets, the money supply and interest rates as well as the labour market, national ownership, and many other areas of government interventions into the economy.Most factors of economic policy can be divided into either fiscal policy, which deals with government actions regarding taxation and spending, or monetary policy, which deals with central banking actions regarding the money supply and interest rates. Show less
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Blockchain and Bitcoin Enthusiast
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2016 - Present
Investor (inspired by people like The Winklevoss Twins & B. Armstrong), Technical Analyst - Bitcoin & Altcoins, Long-Term Trader (focusing on price action, following also P. Brandt, B. Loukas & B. Cowen), Co-organizer of Lectures on Blockchain Technology (based in particular on A. Antonopoulos & V. Buterin). Blockchain technology is an inevitable future.Patience, discipline and knowledge of market cycles/market psychology are the keys to successful cryptocurrency investing:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ivWdOztDkv4&t=735s&ab_channel=BobLoukashttps://janbucek.blog.idnes.cz/blog.aspx?c=704890How is money actually created? (in Czech):https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvtr9VBBglg&t=5s&ab_channel=TrochuLep%C5%A1%C3%AD Show less
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Na volné noze
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Prague, Czechia
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Financial Analyst and Trader
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2016 - Present
NYSE, Nasdaq, Xetra stocks, CEE Exchanges, PSE (Prague), RM-System, Structured Products, Investment Certificates, Metals, Forex, Corporate bonds, Qualified investors funds NYSE, Nasdaq, Xetra stocks, CEE Exchanges, PSE (Prague), RM-System, Structured Products, Investment Certificates, Metals, Forex, Corporate bonds, Qualified investors funds
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KPMG
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Canada
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Accounting
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700 & Above Employee
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Junior Tax Consultant
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2016 - 2017
Focus on area of: - Excise duties and VAT - Corporate income tax returns - Tax audits (ATR - audit tax review) - Tax risk assessments - Transfer pricing - Due diligence and financial services (consulting services for banks, investment funds and private equity) KPMG is a professional service company and one of the Big Four auditors, along with Deloitte, Ernst & Young (EY), and PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC). The name "KPMG" stands for "Klynveld Peat Marwick Goerdeler." It was chosen when KMG (Klynveld Main Goerdeler) merged with Peat Marwick. Show less
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Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic
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Czechia
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Research Services
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200 - 300 Employee
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Finance and Administrative Project Manager
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2015 - 2016
Responsible for: Collaboration on financial planning, project management and controlling: - drawing up and updating budgets, - planning, implementation, monitoring and assessment of budgets and programmes, - preparation of financial plans, - preparation of payment applications, - setting of internal control mechanisms. Regular reporting on the status of project implementation, including reports on project implementation (ongoing and final), gathering complete project documentation, preparing the necessary economic documents. Preparation of internal reports for project management purposes. Preparation of documents and provision of cooperation in audits and external audits of projects, and other activities related to the administrative and economic aspects of projects. Monitoring of relevant grant competitions, call schedules, project submission deadlines and participation conditions. Cooperation with the heads of scientific departments and project solvers on the preparation of project plans and applications, in establishing project implementation teams and determining their financial demands. Since 2016 also responsible for: VAT, i.e. ex post taxation of foreign invoices (EU, third countries): - checking legal requirements of tax documents (domestic, EU, third countries), - checking tax deductions and correct amount of received invoices, - monthly: VAT return compilation (working with the IFIS system) and related VAT ledger statement + summary reporting, - cooperation with the (tax) auditors, archive of documents, preparation and (with help of tax advisor) calculation of corporate tax, - occasional tax consultations (especially with accounting department). Calculation of road tax advances, quarterly reporting on import/export of services for Czech Statistical Office. Show less
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CSOB
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Czechia
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Banking
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700 & Above Employee
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Junior Internal Auditor
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2015 - 2015
An interesting brief experience (internship) with regard to what lies behind the work of an internal auditor. An interesting brief experience (internship) with regard to what lies behind the work of an internal auditor.
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Association of Central European Film Critics
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Czechia
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Writing and Editing
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Reviewer of Economic Documents
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2014 - 2015
Reviews of films and documentaries on economic topics, e.g.: The Big Short (2015), The Czech Way (2015), Margin Call (2011), Inside Job (2010), Collapse (2009), Bernie Madoff: Scamming the Globe (2009), Capitalism: A Love Story (2009), Money as Debt (2006, 2009), The Basic Income - A Cultural Impulse (2008), CityBoy - The Life of Investment Banker Geraint Anderson (2008), Hidden Secrets Of Money (Mike Maloney, episodes 1-6), The Ascent of Money (Niall Ferguson, episodes 1-6), Why poverty? (episodes 1-8) “Let me issue and control a nation's money and I care not who writes the laws.” (M. A. Rothschild)“I don’t believe we shall ever have a good money again before we take the thing out of the hands of government, that is, we can’t take it violently out of the hands of government, all we can do is by some sly roundabout way introduce something that they can’t stop.” (F.A. Hayek)“A blindfolded monkey throwing darts at a newspaper's financial pages could select a portfolio that would do just as well as one carefully selected by experts.” (B. Malkiel) Show less
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Copywriter
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2013 - 2014
• Copywriting• Simple short translations from English:- Film reviews (eg Interstellar, Captain Phillips, Metro Manila) - Serial reviews (especially Breaking Bad, Game of Thrones, House of Cards and Fargo)
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Faculty of Finance and Accounting, Prague University of Economics and Business /FFA/
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Czechia
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Higher Education
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1 - 100 Employee
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Project Coordinator
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2014 - 2014
Internship at the Institute of Energy Economics (IEE), which is a department of the Faculty of Finance and Accounting at the University of Economics in Prague and brings together students and the professionals with an interest in energy economics. The aim is to mediate the link to one of the most important and fastest growing branches of industry and trade in the Czech Republic, which is the energy sector. IEE focuses on the economic aspects of the markets for electricity, renewables, oil, gas, coal and emission allowances. The ambition of the Institute is also targeted support for research in the field of energy economics by organizing seminars, professional conferences and raising awareness in this area. The IEE is also the organizer of the Energy Economics Contest, and through its publishing activities it brings energy economics closer to the general public. Responsible for (Institute of Energy Economics): - Co-organizing lectures and meetings with personalities from the energy sector, additional reporting. - Propagation of activities and provision of promotional materials and materials from partners of IEE (especially weeklies of Euro and E15 from MF DNES). https://www.facebook.com/institutee.ffu.vse/about/ https://iee.vse.cz/homepage/informace-o-iee/ Show less
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Živnostník
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Prague, The Capital
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Mathematics and Statistics Tutor
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2012 - 2013
Private tutor classes of: - Mathematics (especially more difficult mathematics for the fifth faculty - Faculty of Economics), - Statistics (for all students of the University of Economics). The success rate of my students in the Mathematics course for the Faculty of Economics was 85 %. The success rate of this course was, for example, only 29,3 % in 2009. Private tutor classes of: - Mathematics (especially more difficult mathematics for the fifth faculty - Faculty of Economics), - Statistics (for all students of the University of Economics). The success rate of my students in the Mathematics course for the Faculty of Economics was 85 %. The success rate of this course was, for example, only 29,3 % in 2009.
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Městská část Praha 8
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Czechia
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Government Administration
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1 - 100 Employee
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Administrative Support Specialist
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2008 - 2010
July to August 2008, 2009, 2010 Responsible for (Municipal District of Prague 8): - Working with documents (searching, modification, storage in registers, shredding) - Communication with other departments - Back office July to August 2008, 2009, 2010 Responsible for (Municipal District of Prague 8): - Working with documents (searching, modification, storage in registers, shredding) - Communication with other departments - Back office
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Océ - A Canon Company
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Netherlands
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Printing Services
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700 & Above Employee
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Digitization of Data Specialist
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2009 - 2009
Responsible for (Océ-Czech Republic, s.r.o.): - Preparation of documents of major financial institutions (mainly banks and insurance companies) and their subsequent conversion into a digital form - Final verification of all the data Twice the best worker of a month in a team - the most processed documents. Responsible for (Océ-Czech Republic, s.r.o.): - Preparation of documents of major financial institutions (mainly banks and insurance companies) and their subsequent conversion into a digital form - Final verification of all the data Twice the best worker of a month in a team - the most processed documents.
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Education
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Prague University of Economics and Business
Faculty of Finance and Accounting, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Finance -
Università di Pisa
Summer school - Certification (ECTS), Big Data, Process Mining and Blockchain Technology -
CERGE-EI
Certification, Experimental Economics Series -
Barcelona Graduate School of Economics
Barcelona Labor Economics Summer School (BLSS) -
University of Economics, Prague (Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze)
Faculty of Finance and Accounting, Master's degree, Taxation and Tax Policy & Monetary Economics and Banking -
CERGE-EI
Certification, Corporate Finance -
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
MIT Course Number 18.S096, Topics in Mathematics with Applications in Finance -
University of Economics, Prague (Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze)
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Gymnázium Litoměřická
High school - general education