Experience

Livalta, an AB Agri company

• United Kingdom
• Food Production
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Senior Finance and Business Development manager

  • Jul 2020 - Present

  Life in a Livalta start up is busy and challenging. It is about developing new proteins for the animal feed. It is also about creating processes from scratch. In my role I am responsible for finance, supply chain and partially business development. Half of my time I spend in developing business cases for Capex, R&D or M&A investments. The rest of the time is dedicated to creation of new processes (e.g. Customer invoicing, international trade flow or budgeting) and monitoring of the business performance.



AB Agri

• United Kingdom
• Food Production
• 400 - 500 Employee

• Finance Business Partner - Wholesale Ruminant

  • Jan 2018 - Jun 2020

  Finance business partnering, management reporting and financial planning in the wholesale part of the ruminants feed business of AB Connect (division of AB Agri), which focuses on the co-product streams in the UK. Most of the role was business partnering for the dried sugar beet and related co-products sourced from British Sugar.



Syngenta

• Switzerland
• Farming
• 700 & Above Employee

• Head of Finance North Europe

  • Jul 2017 - Jan 2018

• Head of Commercial Finance North Europe and EAME cereal seeds finace BP

  • Mar 2014 - Jul 2017

  North EU: Leading commercial finance business partner team for North Europe (Nordics, Benelux, UK and Ireland). Supporting and challenging business leaders on financial performance, strategy and delivery. Member of North Europe leadership team, including most of the committees for implementation and decision making. Closely linking with Finance services heads (accounting, statutory reporting) to ensure finance function alignment.Cereals seeds: part time finance BP support for cereals seeds business, including end to end processes (commercial, production and supply). Main activities: monthly management information reporting and analysis, inventory provisions review and follow up on excess/quality items actions, project lead on financial system update to improve reporting, strategic costing, seeds production plan review, 5 year profitability plan

• Finance Business Partner EAME

  • Jan 2012 - Feb 2014

  Continuing to develop finance business partner role n EAME HQ controlling/finance team, which covers both Seeds and Crop protection businesses. Responsibilities:- EAME region and HQ function costs review, analysis and planning- Support EAME PMO (implementation of new strategy) and track savings of each territory- Understand/analyse monthly/year-to-date performance of each EAME territory (calls/meetings)- People management- Support/deputise Head of EAME HQ controlling teamOther outside role activities:- Tutor in Syngenta finance training for non-finance colleagues- Change Agent (rotating finance group to organise seminars/trainings/activities to finance community

• Senior Business Controller Global, Seeds division

  • Jan 2011 - Dec 2011

  Working in HQ controlling team, following are some of my responsibilities:1. Business partnering role for EAME region, Seeds part of the business2. Coordination of monthly global management review process (intermediary between business units and HQ management in the process) 3. Coordination and responsibility of central adjustments/overviews (Seeds part of the business) during month end closure4. Participating in various global projects/activities such as Management reporting system shaping5. Active participation and contribution to HQ office finance community's activities



Ingersoll Rand

• United States
• Industrial Machinery Manufacturing
• 700 & Above Employee

• Senior Internal Auditor

  • Nov 2008 - Jan 2011

  I am working as a senior audit consultant in listed American company with at leats 50% international business travel. I am based in European headquarters in Brussels. I am ACCA qualified (2010)In most of projects I perform team leader role, but also rotate to other teams, such as FCPA, as a team member. My role includes planning the audit, allocation and review of work performed by the team, writing audit report and collaborating with the client and audit management.



PwC

• Professional Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Assistant Manager

  • Oct 2007 - Oct 2008

• Senior Audit Assistant

  • Sep 2004 - Sep 2007

  70% of time spent as audit team manager:1. Reporting to the project leader and acting as an intermediate between the team, the client and project leader;2. Ensuring the quality of audit by meeting ISA requirements;3. Coaching the team;4. Managing project at operational and to some extent strategic level;5. Writing performance appraisals to the team;6. Performing audit work (planning, execution, completion)30% of the time was spent on larger and more complex engagements, where mostly experienced team member’s or on site leader’s role was assigned. In these projects key or risky areas were assigned as well as controls identification/ validation (COSO and control activities).