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Bogdan Mihai Martin

Bogdan Mihai Martin

Plant Controller
Oradea

Summary

Successful Finance professional with over 10 years of experience in key roles in finance management, supervision, planning and analysis. With a track record of driving financial performance, coordinating budgets and forecasts, and optimizing processes. Bringing strong analytical skills, attention to detail, and a proactive approach to work environment. Ability to deliver results, collaborate with cross-functional teams and meet deadlines.

Overview

19
19
years of professional experience
3
3
years of post-secondary education

Work History

Plant Controller

Nokian Tyres Europe Operations SRL
2024.01 - Current
  • Responsibilities include a comprehensive range of financial management tasks with a specific focus on financial reporting, analysis, and operational support within the manufacturing plant.
  • These duties include, among others, budgeting, cost accounting, inventory management, internal controls, financial analysis, performance measurement, strategic planning, audit support, compliance, and team management

Sr Finance Manager

Elster SRO (Honeywell Group)
2022.11 - 2023.12
  • (Honeywell Slovakia): Responsibilities:
  • Lead, coordinate and drive financial performances for a company which has over 600 employees and a turnover of 150 mil USD (wall to wall view) over 4 lines of business (production of water smart water meters, smart gas meters, valves, and reductors) covering various markets all over the world, directly or through internal distributors
  • Coordinate financial activities around budget, STRAP, quarterly forecasts (3+9, 5+7, 8+4)
  • Coordinate SRO (Short Range Outlook) on a weekly basis for the current quarter and next one
  • Month end activities and preparation of reporting and related financial analysis, collaborating with all Commercial Finance and ISC Finance on orders, revenues, Operating income including flash calls
  • Improve processes & analytics to support profitability, sales and margin analysis, product family profitability, SKU profitability within EMEA supporting Commercial finance team and Transfer Price and Wall to Wall Margin analyst
  • Liaise with Global SETS FP&A and be the focal point of contact for any SME EMEA P&L, balance sheet, FCF related variances explanations
  • Co-ordinate reporting across regional and functional teams, including support for orders by regions/destinations for Regional business leaders, variance vs AOP, drive mitigation actions together with RBLs and Regional Finance Leaders
  • Collaborate with other functions such as ISC, R&D, Sales& Marketing with tracking financial EMEA results, WC, FCF, cost control, variance analysis and costs forecasts
  • Establish clear, consistent MOS reporting and operating processes – ensuring accurate, timely data availability and insightful trough analysis
  • Identify performance improvement opportunities within the business and risks and opportunities in current plan or forecast
  • Supporting transitions projects and signing it off on key processes (functionally and in SAP).

Sr Finance Supervisor

Elster Water Metering Limited (Honeywell Group)
2020.10 - 2022.11
  • Lead, coordinate and drive financial performances to ensure financial goals (P&L, Balance Sheet) are met while complying with corporate policies and procedures
  • Provide support in timely completion of reporting including Sales, Margin, Customer orders and backlog analysis, monthly closing variance analysis
  • Monitoring of performance for key metrics on a weekly, monthly, quarterly basis
  • Perform financial closing activities (Journal entries proposals-accruals, P&L analysis and correction, orders stats, B/S verification) in sync with other finance functions ( accounting dep, AP,AR, credit and collections)
  • Enhance information provided to leadership for business decisions
  • Advise business leadership of opportunities and risks impacting business performance
  • Support Accounting's department on internal and external audit requests
  • Actively support new Bid proposals, drive pricing, FX, NPI analysis on a regular basis
  • Support the planning cycles (Quarterly fct, yearly budgets, yearly rolling forecasts, weekly) and the SIOP process
  • Responsible for standard cost releases and intercompany Transfer prices calculations/confirmation/SAP update
  • Offering support in solving various challenges faced by other operational functions (engineering, procurement, sales, etc)

Demand Planning Manager and Site SIOP leader

Elster Rometrics SRL ( Honeywell Group)
2018.12 - 2020.09
  • Honeywell Timisoara): Responsibilities:
  • Training, coaching and supervising a team of 4 members :2 demand/production planners and 2 operational/material buyers
  • Supervising and optimizing daily/weekly production plan
  • Preparation of monthly/quarterly MPS
  • Inventory rolling forecast
  • Materials rolling forecast
  • Preparation of yearly demand plan (constrained by bottlenecks) and presentation of associated risks (materials, capacity, product transfers, etc)
  • Involvement in various business transfers
  • Involvement in finding solutions for mitigating production downtime

Sr FP&A

Elster Rometrics SRL (Honeywell Group)
2017.10 - 2018.12
  • Prepare month/year end Financial Reports and updating data into the Management accounting and Financial Reporting tool (“HFM”) based on the Group Accounting Policies and US GAAP
  • Check accuracy and completeness of the information taken from local ERP software
  • Prepare analysis of the period results versus budget/forecasts
  • Creation of budget/forecasts for local entity
  • Answering on various ad hoc requests
  • Involvement in providing necessary data (costs, cost benefits, etc) for bid/tenders/offering creation
  • Standards costs releases
  • Support to various functions (procedural wise and technical wise)

FP&A Analyst

Frigoglass Romania SRL
2014.03 - 2017.10
  • Prepare month/year end Financial Reports and updating data into the Management accounting and Financial Reporting tool (“HFM”) based on the Group Accounting Policies and International Standards of Reporting
  • Check accuracy and completeness of the information taken from local ERP software
  • Creation of month end various accruals (sales discounts, commission on sales, various expenses)
  • Prepare analysis of the period results versus budget/forecasts and investigation of the significant variances (analysis of sales of goods and services, analysis of production costs, bill of materials, other operational expenditures)
  • Reporting in-depth analysis of periodical financials (P&L, B/S, etc.)
  • The activity is done for whole Europe, as, Romanian plant is the main supplier of coolers, spare parts and related services – (ICM placement, Postwarranty, Refurbishmnet) for whole Europe and it has sales offices throughout all Europe
  • There is, an in dept reporting process in which all the information is split in several P&Ls , by specific Europe area, which has, on the operational side, teams for each area and specific activities
  • Identifying opportunities for process improvements which include driving process improvement projects
  • Identifying and introducing best practices that add value to the processes by creation and implementation of control functions and procedures
  • Implication in Budget/forecasts exercises (accountability for figures accuracy, completeness and reasonability) and implementation of new ways to do the work better and easier and predictive controls to ensure that misstatements are reduced to the lowest possible level
  • Offer technical/practical support to all colleagues in various matters (Excel knowledge, local GAAP, IFRS, IAS, etc)
  • Offer support in auditing of Group Reporting Package by the local auditor
  • Offer support to the Group Internal Auditors

Financial Auditor

Ernst & Young Romania SRL
2011.08 - 2014.03
  • Executing specific audit tests for ensuring that the financial statements or group
  • Reporting packages are free of material misstatement and in accordance with group accounting policies
  • Coordinate and coach other team members

Handler and Customer Responsible

Pathhead Nurseries
2010.01 - 2010.09

Executing and monitoring various tasks regarding main business core (“flower growth and landscaping”)

Customer support

Production direct worker

Solectron Romania SRL
2005.05 - 2008.12
  • Execute specific tasks to ensure a constant flow of the production
  • Solve, in due time, any issues arising from machineries malfunction
  • Communicate to the production line responsible the possible improvements that could be implemented as the production idle time or production errors would be avoided.

Accountant - Internship

Dari & Daci SRL
2008.01 - 2008.08
  • Monitoring the dynamics and evolution of Accounts Payable, Account Receivables and Cash accounts
  • Tracking operating expenses, building payment schedule for management's approval
  • Managing the inventory processes – the reception and consumption of raw materials and finished goods – into accounting software
  • Operating daily general ledger transaction into accounting software
  • Preparing Sales and Purchases ledgers for VAT declaration purposes
  • Preparing Income statement for management analysis

Education

Bachelor of Science - Economics

Faculty of Economy And Business Administration
Timisoara
2004.10 - 2008.01

Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA) student - undefined

Skills

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Timeline

Plant Controller

Nokian Tyres Europe Operations SRL
2024.01 - Current

Sr Finance Manager

Elster SRO (Honeywell Group)
2022.11 - 2023.12

Sr Finance Supervisor

Elster Water Metering Limited (Honeywell Group)
2020.10 - 2022.11

Demand Planning Manager and Site SIOP leader

Elster Rometrics SRL ( Honeywell Group)
2018.12 - 2020.09

Sr FP&A

Elster Rometrics SRL (Honeywell Group)
2017.10 - 2018.12

FP&A Analyst

Frigoglass Romania SRL
2014.03 - 2017.10

Financial Auditor

Ernst & Young Romania SRL
2011.08 - 2014.03

Handler and Customer Responsible

Pathhead Nurseries
2010.01 - 2010.09

Accountant - Internship

Dari & Daci SRL
2008.01 - 2008.08

Production direct worker

Solectron Romania SRL
2005.05 - 2008.12

Bachelor of Science - Economics

Faculty of Economy And Business Administration
2004.10 - 2008.01

Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA) student - undefined

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