Iuliana Tucaliuc
Bucharest
Summary
I am a delivery focused Senior Project Manager with strong skills and experience in Change Management, Finance, Sourcing P2P Process Transformation and Automation. I am recognized for my excellent analytical skills, ability to identify issues and suggest practical solutions to improve service levels and results across the business. I fully enjoy driving improvements and working with cross-functional teams. I have a strong passion for change management and to guide end users through the change journey.
Overview
20
20
years of professional experience
Work History
Senior Accountant
Ericsson Telecommunications
- Support in preparing month End closing activities according with IFRS and SOX KC (Income Statement / Balance Sheet / Cash Flow)
- Prepare intercompany adjustments
- Prepare/consolidate file with accruals & provision containing all back-up documentation
- Analyze each RRB project cost/revenue and prepare intercompany recharge invoices
- Prepare monthly / ad-hoc aging report for analyze AR/AP
- Implements Credit Management Policies as per SOX requirements
- AR process flow driver according with SOX requirements
- Investigate cause of blocking customers and take actions
- Set-up credit limit new customers - NS value and all contract details (payment terms, delivery terms)
- Contact person / supervise work done by SSC AR (direct), AP (as per needs) or End-Closing Activities (as per needs)
- Support for internal / external audit with documentation as per requirements (AR / AP / GL)
- Work together with all Local Finance team members to maintain the monthly KPIs at a very good level
Junior Accountant
Ericsson Telecommunications
- Accounts Payable Responsible
- GL - bank statement processing and GL accounts reconciliations
- AP Aging reports preparations and monthly reconciliations with Suppliers
Sr.Project Manager PMO GBS – Strategy and Change Management
Ericsson Telecommunications
09.2015 - Current
- Change Manager Expert – Digital Transformation Office (1 year)
- Sr.Project Manager - Sourcing P2P Process & Compliance (3 years)
- Signature skills Change management competence model
- ICAT replacement (O2I)
- General Expenses (T&E) - Regionalization of General Expenses Instructions
- WHT Automation phase II (TAX)
- Global P2P GR/IR Project - Global Solution deployment
- Taulia (Invoice Procurement Collaboration Portal-Automation invoicing method)
- Transactional Sourcing Suite Project-Stream Lead (Areas: Internal Buying, Supplier Portal,eInvoicing and Payment Cards)
- Team Excellence -Strategy for P2P& Compliance -Driver
- KPI Optimization ACL/OTV Initiative driver - COL Program
- Root Cause Analysis GR/IR Initiative driver - COL Program
- Lighthouse 12 - Competitive Global Supplier Price (Agile Scrum)
- Independently plan, lead, and execute on complex global projects collaborating effectively with other cross-functional teams globally
- Independently plan, lead, and execute on complex global projects change management activities: Change Impact analysis, Change Reediness, Story telling , Training and Communication
- Develop strong client and stakeholder relationships, maintaining effective communication channels
- Determine business roles and resources needed to ensure successful implementation
- Work proactively with the business to resolve critical issues
- Prepare detailed analysis, plans, milestones, deliverables, and overall status updates
- Proactively manage risk, anticipate potential issues and implement appropriate mitigations
- Partner with cross-functional teams to identify process improvement initiatives
- Develop resource planning including training and roll out of new processes
- Business partner with executives to implement new strategy and monitor planned results
- Business planning and performance management including driving deficiencies lead by data & analytics
- Responsible to have all sign off from TAX managers for UATs performed by P&S architect
- Responsible to have all deliverables provided in time from the external consultants (Taulia) (tickets, tests, layouts)
- Part of the RPA team for IC Automation process
- Deliver webinars and trainings to Vendors or for Internal
Company Controlling Specialist
Ericsson Telecommunications
06.2015 - 09.2015
- Ensure alignment with global financial processes and accounting directives
- Provide high quality accounting and financial reporting
- Provide correct Legal Entity Income Statements and Balance Sheets
- Support with financial advice
- Main Activities Perform Period-End-Closing: accounts reconciliation, valuation, analysis of legal entity IS/BS, prepare journal vouchers
- Perform asset control activities
- Support legal forecasting
- Monitor precision in Transfer Pricing and initiate corrective actions
- Support follow-up on intercompany issues
- Maintain external contracts database
- Maintain general ledger master data
- Prepare statutory accounts, notes, and reports
- Prepare statistical returns
- Perform records retention governance activities
- Support development of financial processes
- Support identification and mitigation of financial risks
- Support in statutory and FIRE audits
- Support efficiency and quality programs within Company Controlling
Supervising Associate – FP&A
Ernst & Young
08.2011 - 06.2015
- Company Overview: Bucharest, Romania
- Reporting & Planning Analyst Romania and Moldova
- Month end closing preparation of Financial Statements as per IFRS (P&L, BS) and all related activities: Adjustments, Allocations, Accruals/Provisions
- Monthly reconciliation of Statutory to IFRS Financial Statements (4 Entities)
- Yearly preparation of consolidated reporting package as per IFRS
- Preparation, review and consolidation of annual budget and quarterly outlook (TNR, Gross Margin, Indirect Expenses, HC, KPIs)
- Prepare weekly /monthly a-hoc reports for Service Lines Leaders
- Prepare additional information requested by the EMEIA Controlling group
- Acting as a super User for Reporting, Planning & Budgeting tools for CSE –Southern cluster (Financial Reporting, Business Management Reporting, My Engagements ,Hyperion Essbase Hierarchy Management, Allocations Management Tool)
- Train and support the end users with advanced issues or ad-hoc technical adjustments needed during the planning process
- Managed to improve quality work performance of the department (perform Gap Analysis, implement changes, automatization of the tools, train the end users)
- Set macros for distributing reports via email WIP/ AR Aging in a standard format or to extract data multiple using Hyperion Essbase
- Set automated Reconciliation tool between Management and Statutory, train users to use it, reducing time and data accuracy
- Bucharest, Romania
FP&A Business Partner
Electronic Arts
06.2009 - 08.2011
- Company Overview: Romania
- Finance and Planning Business Partner for Europe (Romania, UK, Sweden, Germany)
- Process driver for annual forecast of the countries (Projects, SG&A) as per Corporate requirements – coordinating with each Business Partner/Director, PMO
- Prepare monthly revision coordinating the budget cycle from collecting info, consolidate, analyzing the inputs and finding ways of optimizing costs
- Monitor studios profitability and monthly variances VOE, VOP, YOY – at the Project level, SG&A, HC and keep the Business Partners informed about the status
- Business Partners support with any ad-hoc requirements/reports
- Provide monthly information for DASHBOARD/KPI to WWQA PMO group
- Monthly P&L, BS reconciliation with each studio’s Finance Analyst responsible
- Work with the studio’s Finance Managers to improve the current processes and to have a good control of the OPEX and KPIs
- Support studio’s Tax Managers with the documentation for govern credit refunds where applicable
- Prepare monthly Power Point presentation for Budget Approval (consolidate picture for all WWQA -14 countries)
- Drive share knowledge session with others departments within CDS for developing deep and detailed knowledge about business processes and improve existing processes within my department
- Responsible for any test during new systems implementation (documentation/reports/new requirements)
- Regularly researching, assessing, and communicating risks and opportunities (internal or external) for the studios
- Drive/participate in different projects within FP&A organization (e.g
- Tiered billing, MBR or QBR reports, Business Cases Analyses as per request)
- Romania
Financial Analyst
Ericsson Telecommunications
09.2004 - 06.2009
- Process Driver in preparing the annual Cost Center budget for Romania & Moldova
- Provide support for Cost Center owners during the forecast period and verify the accuracy of the data
- Calculate Allocation for Central Cost Centers Facility / IT / HR / Finance as per different allocation key and monitor monthly actual distribution
- Prepare Monthly consolidated reports and distribute this to Cost Center's owner (CFO, KAM, IT, FACILITY, SERVICES)
- Prepare and Consolidate monthly reports with consolidate OPEX for Romania & Moldova as per Corporate Requirements to see the trend vs target
- Prepare time reporting reports and analyze the cause for over / under absorption
- Maintain data base Cost Centers of the organization according with the Corporate Directives (create, close, open in the system)
- Contact person / supervise work done by SSC AR (direct), AP (as per needs) or End-Closing Activities (as per needs)
- Acting as SAP Super user with full access all module (Logistics >MM/Project System>Financial>Planning/Budgeting/PEC /Financial Accounting>GL/AR/AP)
- Testing Support end users /Help and users/to performs UAT
- Understand Flow and test scripts
- De-facto training for me to teach LC to be confident with Functionality
- Support Change Management
- Define Roles & Responsibilities – Support for Local company on who does what
- Identify country legal requirements for Statutory books and see what can be integrated or not
- KPI implementation e.g GR/IR open items for Finance (e.g green is for a limited number of items with a limited value)
- Migration preparation Support the preparation of data migration strategy and details steps
- Define Hierarchy Management (Cost Centers) and set limit approvals
- Time Reporting –set users access and approvals flow
- Procurement - make sure that the vendors are correctly integrated with the system and the POs will follow the right limits approval flow
- Credit Limit Customers-make sure all Customers will have the a target credit limit set (will apply for blocked order)
- Prepare Settlements for different scenario in SAP PSF/QTC/CS) –make sure this is aligned with business activities
- Support cut-over activities and migrated data reconciliation
- Make sure COA is correctly defined and mapped to Group accounts as per Policy requirements
- Look at the Balances E.G Fixed Assets/GL/Blances&Projects,WIP
- User Training Train the local users
- If Problems Create demand
- Discuss with GMDM/GPEC
- Assess process Gaps and inform /discuss with Process Driver &Process Expert
Education
Academy of Economic Studies - Accounting, Management Information Systems
Academy of Economic Studies
Bucharest01.2003
Theoretical high school - Mathematics, Physics
Theoretical high school
Rosiori de Vede01.1999
Skills
- Microsoft Office: Excel, Word, Power Point
- SAP (8 years – full access, part of the implementation team)
- Business Object
- Global Planning System
- Hyperion Essbase
- Tableau
Languages
English
French
Romanian
Timeline
Sr.Project Manager PMO GBS – Strategy and Change Management
Ericsson Telecommunications
09.2015 - Current
Company Controlling Specialist
Ericsson Telecommunications
06.2015 - 09.2015
Supervising Associate – FP&A
Ernst & Young
08.2011 - 06.2015
FP&A Business Partner
Electronic Arts
06.2009 - 08.2011
Financial Analyst
Ericsson Telecommunications
09.2004 - 06.2009
Senior Accountant
Ericsson Telecommunications
Junior Accountant
Ericsson Telecommunications
Academy of Economic Studies - Accounting, Management Information Systems
Academy of Economic Studies
Theoretical high school - Mathematics, Physics
Theoretical high school
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