كونستانتينوس Lymperopoulos

Financial Controller, UAE from 07/2019 - Present - Leading the UAE finance function. Reporting to the Regional Finance Director, with a dotted reporting line to the UAE General Manager. Managing 3FTE’s directly & 3 FTE’s indirectly through the Finance Shared Services team.

Accountabilities:
• Ensure integrity, quality & completeness of Management Accounts & Financial Statements of the Weir UAE entity.
• Sales contracts review & approval, sales orders execution monitoring & control.
• Control of Business performance, functional KPI’s, Business Plan adherence.
• Controlling Inventory, WIP, Shipping, invoicing, costing.
• Creation & submission to Region, Division & Group of, Annual Budgets, Quarter forecasts,
5 Year Strategic plans.
• CAPEX appraisals.

Key projects & achievements:
• Improved closing speed, quality & adherence of submissions towards Weir Group & Weir Oil & Gas Division by 25% within the first 3 months.
• Led Balance sheet reviews, identified material financial reporting corrections of impact ~5M AED. Corrections, led to focused improvements of internal control processes (Inventory management, Invoicing, Costing).
• Led, the roll out & execution of 1st Physical Inventory count using end to end the newly implemented ERP System (INFOR Syteline), by aligning a cross functional team of 60 people.
• Led, the implementation of an Upgraded Budgeting / forecasting process, unifying tools, financial models & reporting templates, reducing time & improving speed by 25%-50% per process on average.
• Reformed the annual calculation of Standard cost rates & system update, by designing & rolling out costing calculation templates improving accuracy & ensuring alignment of other functions (purchasing, operations).

Regional Finance Manager, EMEA (Europe, Middle East & Africa) 08/2018 - 06/2019
Reporting to the Regional Finance Director

Accountabilities:
• Ownership & roll out of Annual budgets & forecasts of the BU’s within EMEA Region.
• Analyze & challenging BU’s financials assuring quality & accuracy of the monthly close.
• Producing consolidated Financial Results of the EMEA region.
• Evaluation & appraisal of complex business cases including Geographical expansion, and consolidation of facilities across the region.
• Power User of Cognos Controller & TM1.
• Business partnering with the Regional functional teams ensuring adherence to plans & forecasts.


Key projects & achievements:
• Creation of management reporting “packs” & functional dashboards, enabling Monthly business review processes with the BU’s and Oil & Gas Division.
• Led the implementation of the Cognos BI reporting platform within 2 BU’s (UAE & IRAQ), in 6 months, in a Global joined project with the Weir Oil & Gas divisional IT.
• Led the roll out of the Budgeting process within the UAE finance team.

Finance Manager of the corporate management accounts, Planning & Analysis Team, responsible for:

- Leading Annual operational plans, within multiple Functions & Business Units / Countries
- Leading monthly forecasting cycles and reporting processes towards multiple stakeholders
- Planning, coordinating, controlling, the monthly accounting close, & consolidation of Management Accounts
- Enabling, part of the Finance Function's Strategic Plan, by optimizing performance appraisal tools & processes

Business Controller / Strategic Planning manager - Reporting to the CFO & managing a team of 4 FTE’s, 3 Financial Analysts and the Plant Cost Controller.

Accountabilities:
• Process owner, of the SAP integrated commercial bidding process, acting as the point of contact of the commercial, technical, & production teams, appraising ~300 tenders/Year of average value of $10m per tender.
• Leading the management accounts function, presenting quarterly results to BoD.
• Strategic Planning, “Gap” analysis per function & drafting the 5 Year plan.
• Financial Planning & analysis, annual budgeting / Forecasting.
• “CAPEX”: Strategic projects, Investment appraisals, Control, Post completion control audits
• Costing processes, methodologies & cost control.

Key projects & achievements:
• Improved the commercial bidding process by enhancing project costing methodology & process speed by 25%- 50%.
• Rolled out the HQ blueprinted Strategic Planning process. Led Gap analysis per control unit. Drafted the first company 5-year Strategic Plan connecting projects from “Gap” analysis with their progressing KPI’s, sensitivities & scenarios.
• Designed & implemented system (SAP/BW & SAP BO) generated “KPI” dashboards, focussing on Line pipe projects execution cycle.
• Led the consolidation, review & submission of ~50 management packs, to HQ & BoD.
• Appraised & presented to main stakeholder 5 business cases, including scenarios of geographical expansion & potential Mergers & Acquisitions.

Senior Business Planning & Analysis Manager- reporting to the Head of BPA of the Greek Novartis organization

Responsibilities / Accountabilities:
• Business Partnering with 4 commercial units of the Pharma division - (annual turnover >$400m).
• Management reporting, producing Business review documents for Regional HQ.
• Indirectly managing 3 Business planning & analysis managers.

Key projects & achievements:
• Trained new-hired team to carry out the budget process and apply Novartis FP&A processes.
• Led the creation of a profit protection plan financial model following the 2nd austerity measures implementation in Greece in 2012.
• Project manager of implementation of Cognos TM1 platform, used for Regional submissions.
• Project manager of SAP Business Objects implementation for internal management reporting use.

Senior Financial Analyst - reported to the 6 country Cluster CFO, & managing 1 junior analyst

Responsibilities / Accountabilities:
• Appraisal of investments/divestments and evaluation of performance for an ~80-store portfolio within 4 countries (Greece, Cyprus, Romania, Bulgaria).
• Organization and roll-out of the annual operating plan (Budget).
• Preparation of consolidated budgeting proposals & presentations to the Board of Directors.

Key projects & achievements:
• Key contributor in the implementation of the “Business Objects” platform, resulting in 50% reporting automation.
• Aligned 4 countries concerning reporting & consolidation of management accounts
• Led store divestment business case proposal sponsored by the CFO.

Reporting to the Financial Controller
Responsibilities:
- rolling out the annual operating plan

- business partnering with the Pharmacy Channel team

- monthly, quarterly, year-end financial reporting to J&J's HQ's under US GAAP, ensuring reconciliation of US GAAP Trial balance with Statutory Trial Balance

- full responsibility for the financial control of Vistakon Greece, a J&J subsidiary (annual turnover $2m)

investment consulting of a portfolio €25m assuring premium customer relationship management