CFO – Resume Sample in PDF

• Responsibility for finance functions in 5 to 9 countries (e.g., Czech Republic, Croatia), grossing 250+ million EUR, and overseeing 10,000+ employees.
• Maintaining a stable financial team during an imminent takeover by a competitor.
• Leading the regional budget process by supporting and challenging local teams in the absence of automated planning tools.
• Enabling efficiency gains and task centralization in the regional center through the design and implementation of automated planning and reporting tools based on Power BI technology.
• Achieved a flawless, on-time, and highly accurate transformation to new reporting standards following acquisition.

• Responsibility for all Finance Department activities (including accounting, controlling, legal, procurement, compliance, and admin functions) for companies grossing 70+ million EUR with 3,000+ employees.
• Set up all financial and procurement teams and processes in a new organization created after a demerger/joint venture.
• Enabled transformation to a cost-conscious organization by implementing automated financial planning and reporting using Power BI.
• Implemented segregation of duties and control framework for all finance-related processes.
• Drove significant tax savings by designing and implementing a new transfer pricing model.
• Served as an independent commercial proxy and Head of Finance for a group of companies.
• Achieved the design and implementation of the entire finance and procurement software environment (SAP, Power Apps) within six months.

• Independent commercial proxy of Shared Service and legal representative of foreign company branch.
• Leading and managing all financial activities for Shared Service in Poland, including controlling, accounting, tax, and legal functions.
• Designing and implementing the entire controlling environment and governance in the shared service.
• Enabling the transfer of accounting operations to shared service teams through process standardization and automation.
• Acting as a business partner to other teams, educating them, and identifying opportunities to enhance cost-efficiency.
• Preparing and analyzing internal and external reporting of the shared service.
• Ensuring timely preparation of financial budgets and forecasting financial performance on a monthly and annual basis for submission to corporate management.
• Ensuring timely preparation of all required financial reports to meet legal requirements.
• Reporting to the finance function at HQ.
• Achieved the transformation of the entire company into a cost-conscious organization, earning the title of “Team of the Year.”

• Managed a team of up to 25 employees across Business Controlling, Procurement Controlling, and Reporting & Compliance (Financial Controlling) teams.
• Set the right priorities in a multi-stakeholder environment.
• Led the month-end closing process within controlling areas.
• Led process standardization and efficiency improvements within supply chain controlling.
• Achieved the final job allocation and structure of teams within the supply chain controlling function, enabling the simplification of the Shared Services Center (SSC) structure and department closure.

• Managed a team of up to 10 employees.
• Played a key role in setting up new teams within the shared service business (Reporting & Compliance and Supply Chain Business Controlling).
• Led process standardization and efficiency improvements within supply chain controlling.
• Successfully onboarded eight new countries into the business standard model, introducing a common ERP and splitting the business into commercial, supply chain, and central entities, while transitioning controlling tasks to the shared service.

• Held full responsibility for two areas (stock migration and IC charges) during the group business standardization process, which included the introduction of a common ERP and the business split into commercial, supply chain, and central entities.
• Stabilized production processes following the introduction of the new business model.
• Served as Production Controller, overseeing the ongoing review of company costs, product costing, and cost allocations.
• Developed solutions that became group standards and were implemented across all markets, with me acting as a consultant.

• Supervised, organized, and managed the investments budgeting and controlling process.
• Prepared regular and ad hoc reports for the CFO and HQ.
• Created overheads allocation keys.
• Organized the cost approvals process.
• Participated in negotiations with key business partners.
• Conducted closing and forecasting activities.
• Achieved a significant milestone by organizing and supervising the disposal of 250 tons of scrapped machines.

• Played a key role in ERP implementation.
• Responsible for budgeting and controlling processes.
• Prepared financial forecasts in accordance with IFRS.
• Consolidated financial reports for the Warsaw Stock Exchange.
• Prepared ad hoc analyses for the Board of Directors (BoD) and Supervisory Board (SB).
• Optimized processes, including the automation of cost approvals.
• Achieved recognition as the business administrator of Hyperion Planning and served as a trainer for the IT department.