Mar 2023 – Mar 2025 · 2 yrs · Remote

• Job scope:
• 🔘 Defining and implementing the most cutting-edge and the most standardized financial processes including planning, forecasts and month-end closing
• 🔘 Financial Processes Automation (focus - SAP)
• 🔘 Improving ERP systems in liaison with IT and Corporate Finance & Controlling
• 🔘 Training and support to Key Users
• 🔘 Creating monthly reports in SAC
• 🔘 Defining SAC interfaces and standards
• 🔘 Maintenance and development of KPI's in SAC
• 🔘 Creation of User Dashboard Playbooks
• 🔘 Member of S4/HANA Implementation Team
• 🔘 SAP Key User

Jan 2022 – Jun 2023 · 1 yr 5 mos · Remote

• Results:
• ✔️ Conducted monthly, quarterly, and annual incentive calculations for sales using Power BI reports, resulting in a 16% increase in average client revenue
• ✔️Analyzed client portfolios using Salesforce, identified lower-performing accounts, and optimized sales pipeline to reduce costs by 30%
• ✔️ Streamlined monthly SaaS, Revenue, COGS, and OPEX related KPI reports, improving report accuracy and accessibility for leadership decision-making.
• 🔘Successfully managed financial models for a leading B2B SaaS company, including forecasting, budgeting, and overall financial planning.
• 🔘Led monthly and quarterly management reporting, effectively analyzing operational and financial results to distill key trends and assess business risks.
• 🔘Spearheaded process improvements across the organization, leveraging FP&A processes and tools for continuous improvement and automation opportunities.
• 🔘Collaborated with IT to enhance forecasting processes through automation and system optimization, ensuring financial data accuracy.
• 🔘Executed ad hoc financial modeling for special projects, driving detailed financial scenario planning.
• 🔘Coordinated with business applications and IT teams to systematically improve processes.
• 🔘Provided vital support to the accounting team in close procedures, ensuring financial accuracy and compliance.

Jan 2020 – Jan 2022 · 2 yrs · Remote

• Results:
• ✔️ Partnered with operational departments to support Profit & Loss statement, Working Capital Management, and Free Cash Flow Analysis through the preparation of business plans.
• ✔️ Improved monthly management accounts production time by 60%, reducing production time from five days to two, through the development of new and complex spreadsheets.
• ✔️ Delivered timely, accurate financial analysis and forecasts, resulting in $1M+ reductions in operating expenses annually.
• Job Scope:
• 🔘 Working for a FMCG company (over 1000 employees) in Serbia with $600M turnover – producer of Coca Cola, Sprite, Fanta and dozen of other sparkling/non-sparkling beverages
• 🔘 Prepared various financial reports for the senior management
• 🔘 Partnered with specific operational departments assigned to FP&A team and preparing business plans in support of P&L incl. OPEX, WC and FCF
• 🔘 Performed yearly budgeting process which included definition and tracking of the profit improvement initiatives
• 🔘 Analyzed departmental expenditure against budget to determine reasons for variances and identifying cost saving opportunities
• 🔘 Monitored WC & FCF are in line with group guidelines and achieving maximum targets
• 🔘 Performed analysis of operation unit performance against budgets, forecast and industry benchmarks
• 🔘 Prepared variance explanations for finance reporting section and inputs for senior management presentations to the board and executive committee
• 🔘 Initiated corrective actions regarding discretionary spend with operational departments and monitoring implementation to report any non-compliance to senior management
• 🔘 Led cross-functional project team on a Cost Center Structure Optimization Project and delivered it successfully

Dec 2017 – Jan 2020 · 2 yrs 1 mo · Belgrade, Serbia

• Results:
• ✔️ Managed a team of three accountants and led the Accounting transformation program
• ✔️ Enhanced accounting systems and processes, and streamlined A/P & A/R.
• Job Scope:
• 🔘 Working for a Logistics company (over 2000 employees) in Serbia with $100M turnover – service provider of all kinds of transports, distribution, warehousing and customs
• 🔘 Tracking Accounts Receivables and Accounts Payables
• 🔘 Delegating tasks to team members and working closely with CFO
• 🔘 Managing relationship with third parties: banks, insurance agencies, auditors, lessors, customers and suppliers

Sep 2015 – Nov 2017 · 2 yrs 2 mos · Serbia · On-site

• Results:
• ✔️ Led a team of bookkeepers and cashiers
• ✔️ Managed Quarterly & Month-End Reporting, analyzing Balance Sheet & Income Statement.