Current job

• Mentor Graphics Development Services Ltd. - Finance Manager¹ (from january 2006-01-01 00:00:00.0)

  • Finance and accounting: maintaining books and record in accordance with US GAAP in SAP; account reconciliations, detailed transaction analysis
  • Internal controls: working with division finance and European Factory Controller to ensure compliance with standard corporate internal controls
  • Forecasting: preparing forecasts of expenses, headcount and currency movements, along with explanations for variances to budget and changes from previous quarter run rates
  • Treasury: in-depth cash planning on a monthly basis for the local site
  • Budgeting: managing the overall site budgeting process (working with division controller, corporate planning, division management to develop and implement annual operating budget)
  • Management reporting: providing local and divisional management with financial and operational reports, providing required quarterly financial schedules, including BS and detailed capital and opex schedules to corporate office
  • Local reporting: maintaining all statutory and tax reportings and filings
  • Legal support: negotiations of contract terms with new suppliers, providing assistance to in-house legal specialists in legal reviews of contracts with local suppliers
  • Audits: supporting the annual US GAAP audit as well as local statutory and tax audits

Previous jobs

• Caspian Pipeline Consortium - Senior Financial Analys (2002-11-01 00:00:00.0 - 2005-12-01 00:00:00.0)

  • Financial reporting under IFRS
  • Liaising with Finance and non-Finance staff to ensure all financial data is correctly recorded in the accounts of the Company
  • Budget preparation & consolidation (annual)
  • Monitoring of budget performance by responsibility centres (monthly)
  • Analysis of major actual/vs. budget variances by responsibility centres
  • Providing assistance to Management in presenting the performance results to the shareholders
  • Preparation and regular updating of Performance Forecasts
  • Close involvement in establishing internal approval & control procedures for capital expenditure and major expense jobs
  • Investment appraisal of major capital projects

University education

• Plekhanov State Academy of Economics, General Economics, Bachelor's Degree, 1999
  
• State Academy of Economics, Auding and Accouning, Master's Degree, 2001
  
• ACCA completed 14 papers, ACCA, Chartered Accounantant, 2002
  

Training courses

• USIA scholarship - 1 year studies in the USA, USIA, USA High School Diploma, 1994