Greece
Financial executive (MBA, CPA) with broad experience in all aspects of financial, auditing and accounting management.
Overall responsibility for the finance function of the greek subsidiary of the French Group CHRISTIAN DIOR / LVMH. This function covers indicatively the budgeting & reporting process, the annual closing of statutory books, all the tax and legal matters, the treasury and overall working capital monitoring, the internal control policies and procedures, the regular business review of commercial & marketing activities ( assessment of trade conditions, effectiveness of marketing, promotional and merchandising spending, doors’ profitability, e.t.c), the implementation of various projects targeted to achieve maximum costs savings, the stress-tests scenarios for back-up plans of company operation and performance in case of financial crisis, e.t.c. In addition, overall responsibility for the logistics and distribution process, the warehouse department, the IT function (back-up process, capital investments, disaster recovery plans, applications upgrading, servers’ conditions, e.t.c.), and other administration matters (reallocation projects, emergency plans, labor legislation, e.t.c.).
Overall responsibility (engagement leader position) for the conduct of numerous audit assignments, managing all the process from the planning to the completion phase, including risk assessment procedures for client acceptance, team building with appropriate staff, selection of suitable audit approach and close follow-up of its proper implementation, safeguarding of effective client communication, clearance of all audit findings and issuance and signing of the relative audit reports. These assignments were covering a broad range of assurance engagements, such as: statutory audits for annual accounts prepared in accordance with the accounting standards prescribed by the Greek legislation statutory audits for annual accounts of Greek listed companies prepared in accordance with International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS). group reporting audits for reporting packages prepared in accordance with IFRS, US GAAP, German GAAP, French GAAP, Spanish GAAP. Special purpose projects (e.g. due diligence reports, merger and acquisition reports, agreed upon procedures, debt covenants compliance reports, IFRS transition projects, e.t.c. ) Overall responsibility for the financials of each assurance project, such as fees’ negotiations, budgeting and follow-up of actual results vrs budget, working capital management (billings, collections, receivables’ aging). Overall responsibility for all the staff matters of specific groups of 25-30 people, i.e. recruitment, training, job planning, performance assessment, e.t.c.