Pricing Specialist
Transguard Group LLC
Total des années d'expérience :14 years, 3 Mois
Responsibilities
• Handle all financial operations in the company;
• Accounting of revenue and costs, P&L and Balance Sheet management;
• Prepare budget and track progress with actuals;
• Process all payments and maintain relation with suppliers;
• Daily expenses administration - petty cash;
• Handle payroll operations and related HR administration;
• Prepare various management reports to support decisions for price and margin setting or investment opportunities.
Achievements:
• Successfully implemented QuickBooks as the main accounting software and logging all 9 months historic accounting entries;
• Revised all previous invoices and identified wrong charges reflected in substantial savings;
• Advised on international tax and transfer pricing topics considering company’s commercial agreements with related parties in US.
Responsibilities
• Responsible for EMEA Commissionaire structure in Tax department;
• Prepare and review the monthly commission fees in line with transfer pricing regulations and commissionaire agreements for the legal entities across EMEA;
• Use specific financial systems to pull the necessary sets of data required in the calculation process;
• Analyze forecasted revenue and operating expenses for each entity - key financial indicators in the commissionaire rate setting process;
• Investigate and explain forecast to actuals variances by Revenue and Operating Expenses categories;
• Perform monthly checks of cost center hierarchy and review the activity that flows through these to ensure compliance with commissionaire agreements;
• Close collaboration with Accounting - FP&A to ensure completeness and accuracy of data;
• Review and approve commission fee bookings to the local statutory accounts;
• Report and comment on quarterly results;
• Review operating income for commissionaire entities and explain when not in line with targets;
• Point of contact regarding operation of commissionaire structure across EMEA;
Achievements
• Awarded “Dell Champion” for outstanding performance in the first year;
• Revised and updated Commissionaire process per business changes;
• Multiple improvements in the role with main focus on working efficient through use of excel, considering massive workload on 20+ countries;
• Delivered Excel training to 50+ members of tax department;
• Ongoing support to statutory accountants for Commissionaire operations.
Responsibilities
• Perform necessary steps for project set-up in SAP per the contract with client;
• Prepare and report main project financials in SAP and General Ledger - Profit & Loss, Balance Sheet;
• Revenue and Cost accounting - book journals for accruals/deferrals, ensuring compliance with US GAAP and HP’s policies during project lifecycle;
• Work with Project Managers for building forecast and budget of the projects.
• Month, Quarter and Year End Close process - performing reconciliations and monitoring aged items for correct reporting of P&L and BS;
• Order and billing Management - order booking in SAP and customer invoicing;
• Handle 3rd party procurement process in close collaboration with Project Manager or Account Delivery Manager on customers’ site;
• Respond to external audit queries related to the projects.
Achievements
• Performed internal audit controls covering major processes (Project set-up/closure, Order management, Invoicing, Procurement, BS reconciliation);
• Excellent results in “Compass Business Transformation - Interim Operating Model” - project with global P&L impact following HP’s acquisition of EDS;
• Successfully set-up of new assigned contract with AB InBev - large customer with business in 11 countries;
• Mentoring for 2 new team members.
Responsibilities
• Coordinate a team of 9 financial analysts providing operational management, planning and resource allocation, and performance tracking;
• Active involvement in performance reviews and achievement of individual goals of team members monitoring KPI’s and individual scorecards;
• Responsible for Escalations, Corrective & Preventive actions within the team;
• Handle projects in specific non-standard regions working with Business Warehouse and Lighthouse General Ledger where SAP was not implemented;
• Enhance motivation, teamwork and collaboration among team;
Achievements
• Lean Six Sigma Green Belt certified for Intercompany Billing process improvement with cost saving of 2.3 Full-Time-Employees;
• Several small projects and improvement ideas with cost saving of 1.5 FTE;
• Deployment Lead for SAP system for United Arab Emirates and Nigeria, and active participation in User Acceptance Testing for Qatar and Egypt;
• Appointed Project Lead for “Compass Business Transformation - Interim Operating Model” project with global P&L impact;
• Main point of contact in Financial Accounting Management department for US GAAP Revenue Recognition, Intercompany-Billing and Business Warehouse;
• Completed “Project Management Fundamentals” - (PMI endorsed training);
• Delivered Excel, Business Warehouse, and Inter-Company Billing process trainings for 100+ members in FAM department;
• Excellent feedback as “Voice of the Workforce Ambassador” in 2012 - with main focus on improving employees’ satisfaction in the workplace.
Responsibilities
• Direct sales of financing solutions for small and medium business companies;
• Contact potential clients and schedule meetings for business analysis;
• Analyze previous 3 years financial statements and calculate performance indicators to asses eligibility and risk rating;
• Provide consultancy and offer solutions to obtain the right banking facility;
• Intermediate the partnership between the bank and the client;
• Achieve personal forecasted activity and quarterly targets.
Achievements
• Q2 “Sales-person” contest award - winning participation to “Advanced sales techniques course” workshop;
Covering analytics of micro and macro economics. Dissertation title – “Taxation in Romania considering adhesion to EU”
Covering generally major economic subjects. Graduation paper title – “Dynamics of tax environment in Romania”