Prague, Czechia
CFO and Board Member of the Trigema Group – one of the leading Czech real estate developers and investors, operating through a portfolio of 50+ entities across residential and commercial development, property management, and investment funds. I lead the full financial agenda of the group: from complex financial management and IFRS consolidation of a ~50-entity structure, through strategic capital markets transactions, to the setup and ongoing management of Trigema Fund SICAV – a qualified investor fund combining yielding assets with new development projects. Key highlights from my work at Trigema: - Structured and executed multiple green bond issuances on the Prague Stock Exchange, including a CZK 1.5bn issuance arranged by ČSOB, Česká spořitelna and Komerční banka (2024) - Co-founded and launched Trigema Fund SICAV, a real estate qualified investor fund - Leading the ESG agenda across the group, including green building certification and sustainability reporting - Built and scaled the group's financial infrastructure: consolidation systems, management reporting, cash flow planning tools Before Trigema, I served as Group CFO at BiQ Group and held senior roles at CPI Property Group (Portfolio Finance Director, Director of Property & Facility Management) and PricewaterhouseCoopers (Business Recovery Services). I am a Fellow of ACCA (FCCA) and hold a Master's degree in Management and Informatics. My focus: real estate finance, capital markets, investment funds, financial leadership, and building high-performing teams.
Leading a finance team in the Prague office, ensuring the complete financial agenda of the entire group across our activities, overseeing other teams' contributions to the finance agenda, and participating in strategic decisions from the position of the board member. As a group CFO, the key corporate activities I am responsible for and managing to be done: - complex financial management for the group of almost 50 entities across different industries, in terms of statutory and managerial accounting and controlling - close cooperation with sole shareholder and other board members on key strategic decisions, hand-in-hand with the strategy of the key stakeholders and management of all sub-holdings and activities - definition and development of a group strategy and its transition to the strategy in the finance agenda - team leadership - continuous improvement of the group's economic and financial stability - preparation and continuous improvement of the Group finance strategy - negotiation with banks of project financing - preparation of public market bond programs, cooperation, and negotiation with administrators, investors presentations, - strict cash flow management - development of group system infrastructure, including implementation of systems for financial consolidation, management reporting, planning, and cash flow modeling - leading the ESG team and the complex sustainability agenda
Leading a finance team in the Czech Republic and covering all the financial activities for entities located in Slovakia. As a group CFO, the key corporate activities I am responsible for and managing to be done: - complex financial management for the group of 5 entities, in terms of statutory and managerial accounting and controlling - close co-operation with a group CEO and COO on top general management and key decisions, hand-in-hand with the strategy of the key stakeholders and management of all subsidiaries - continuous improvement of the group economic and financial stability - definition and development of a group strategy for years 2022-2024, and main setup of strategy in finance - establishment of selected corporate principles and practices in the operations of the long-term garage company (such as standardized methodologies for repetitive activities, budgeting process and responsibilities, project life-cycle, pricing policy, etc.) - forecasting of a group profit and cash flow - establishment of a reporting system above people utilization - analysis and future implementation of new forecasting and reporting system/tool - reporting to the financing banks - consolidation of formerly acquired companies into the group structure in financial matters - participation in HR management in terms of finance and sustainability
Leading the division counting 230 people, responsible for complex property and facility management services provided to more than 200 properties across Czechia, including A-class offices, retail parks, shopping centers, hotels, and logistics. The greatest successes achieved: - initiate and supervise the process of a takeover of 16 great regional shopping centers to internal property management services (until now done by external managers), which was the greatest Czech market project in the property management industry - establish the project management team, which significantly improved CAPEX and investments projects efficiency with a strong focus on its sustainability and environmental area, and accelerate green agenda (certification of buildings, energy consumption efficiency etc.) - significantly improve financial property management processes and control mechanisms, including automation of several processes and robotization process kick-off - improve co-operation with development division on new projects. which leads to a less complicated building commissioning process and make the subsequent beginning of its management easier - establish a new level of co-operation and trust between property and asset management divisions, which makes front-office operations well-working - improve performance reporting for all properties, launch brand new dashboards for asset and property managers, with a focus on implementation in foreign countries within the group - support the successful launch of internal property management in Poland (building-up the operations and finance team from the very beginning) - keep the whole team motivated, strong and cooperative among all teams, even in the hard times during the covid-19 quarantine and following period
Finance Director, leading Foreign Structures Finance Management team, responsible for complex financial management of approx. 120 SPVs in 8 countries. Main activities of the Portfolio Finance director are based on: - responsibility for complex financial management and strategy of assigned portfolio of SPVs, representation and communication outside of the Group from the position of CFO of individual SPV - cooperation and support of the top management, providing proposals of strategic decisions related to the Group structure and financing options of individual companies - responsibility for cash flow management, tax optimization and both internal and external funding options - optimization of capital structure of SPVs - communication with auditors and other external stakeholders, check of financial statements, preparation of annual reports - leadership of team of finance managers, controllers, focused on assigned portfolio of SPVs
Executive management advisory in the position of major investor's (CPI PROPERTY GROUP S.A.) representative. Acting as an internal advisor for executive management of Remontées Mécaniques Crans Montana Aminona (CMA) SA and CMA Immobilier SA, providing consultancy in financial and operational matters and proposing turnaround measures improving company's profitability and business sustainability.
SENIOR CONSULTANT in Business Recovery Services department (October 2014 - March 2015) CONSULTANT in Business Recovery Services department (August 2012 - September 2014) - member of team specialized on financial and operating restructuring, revitalisation, assistance as advisors in insolvency proceeding - performance of Independent Business Review, company's turnaround, working capital management, debt advisory (refinancing of corporate business and loans) - consulting in Corporate Simplifications, Financial Restructuring, Business Regeneration, Optimised Exit Services and Non-performing loans and analysis
Associate at Audit and Business Advisory Services - Consumer, Industry, Production and Services department. Member of the audit teams at CZ GAAP statutory and IFRS audits at the client's from various business areas (manufacturing, retail, consumer, services). Main clients: .A.S.A. Group, CS Cargo, Trelleborg Material & Mixing Lesina, Scott Bader Eastern Europe, Phoenix Zeppelin, Targray, Johnson Controls Autobaterie.
Member of the audit teams at CZ GAAP statutory and IFRS audits at the client's from various business areas