MARIJA ZIKOVA
Bucharest
Summary
Accurate and performance-driven Finance Manager with an extensive experience in being in charge of all financial functions within the company. Adept at managing financial teams, allocating budget, completing financial reports and statements, and conducting financial forecasts.
Overview
19
19
years of professional experience
Work History
Country Manager
Sport Time Trade
01.2023 - Current
- Managing overall business with 110mil eur Turnover, 150+ employees in HQ and 11 stores
- Focusing on both channels Retail and Wholesale for Romanian market and in-line representation for NIKE brand
- Responsible for total P&L of the company, delivering result and building strong team.
Finance Manager
Sport Time Trade
08.2020 - 12.2022
- Analyze every day financial activities and provide advice and guidance to upper management on future financial plan
- Responsible for budget making and controlling, finding way to improve profitability, closely working with Sales and Marketing team, involved in all major decision making.
Sales and Marketing Controlling Manager
Danone Romania
01.2016 - 07.2020
- Oversee the business and financial operations of the company and shares responsibility for the organization’s economic and financial performance
- Responsible for performing financial analysis, develop financial planning processes, design and implement overall business plans
- Working as partners with the Top management team and play a key role in supporting them
- Main achievements: Building reports readable and available also to KAM with strategy 80/20 for placing products on shelfs that lead to improvement on total gross profit margin in a period of 6 months.
Finance Business Partner Retail CE
Goodyear Dunlop Romania
03.2015 - 12.2015
- As a key member of the core Retail team Central Europe this role involves supporting the business partnering relationship with the Executives within the Retail team including the provision of strategic support, performance analysis, budgeting and forecasting, project & capital investment support and management reporting
- Work closely with the leaders of the Retail business unit providing a link between the Business and Finance and the provision of financial expertise and analysis to the business.
Finance Manager Commercial CSEE
Goodyear Dunlop Romania
06.2014 - 02.2015
- Responsible for all Finance activities within the Commercial PBU, including business support, pricing analysis, investment analysis, financial planning and analysis, accounting and reporting, and internal controls
- Support the development of talent within the Finance organization, including recruiting, career planning, and the utilization of a strong performance management process that aligns individual objectives with business metrics.
Credit controller
Goodyear Dunlop Romania
09.2012 - 05.2014
- Handling credit assessment, decision and conditions with strong critical thinking and decision making skills
- Playing a major role in mitigating credit risk and maximizing revenue
- Working closely with Sales department to implement a successful credit control system and resolve loan issues
- Interacting with customers to assure that their needs are meet and their credit fits in the current credit portfolio
- Main achievement: Implementing new model of credit calculation taking in consideration more internal and external information, which was implemented and use in the cluster.
Financial analyst
Goodyear Dunlop Romania
08.2010 - 08.2012
- Perform financial forecasting, reporting, and operational metrics tracking
- Report on financial performance and prepare for regular leadership reviews
- Working closely with accounting team to ensure accurate financial reporting
- Evaluate financial performance by comparing and analyzing actual results with plans and forecasts
- Recommend actions by analyzing and interpreting data and making comparative analyses; study proposed changes in methods and materials Increase productivity by developing automated reporting/forecasting tools.
Financial analyst
Mittal steel Macedonia
12.2004 - 11.2009
- Performing different analyzes on variances between actual figures and budget, involved in budget creation and statutory report
Education
Master Diploma - Financial analyzes and evaluation
The Academy of Economic Studies
Bucharest, B01.2012
Master Diploma - Financial management
The Faculty of Economy
Skopje01.2006
Bachelors Diploma - Accounting and auditing
The Faculty of Economy - Accounting And Auditing
Skopje01.2004
Skills
- Business Strategy
- Finance
- Team leadership
- Communication
- Managerial finance
- Budgeting
- Deliver results
- Problem solving
- Microsoft Office
- SAP
- Hyperion planner
- Essbase
- Operational Planning
- Budget Management
- P&L Management
- Strategic Planning
Languages
Macedonian
Native language
Romanian
Proficient
C2
Serbian
Proficient
C2
Bulgarian
Advanced
C1
English
Proficient
C2
Spanish
Intermediate
B1
Timeline
Country Manager
Sport Time Trade
01.2023 - Current
Finance Manager
Sport Time Trade
08.2020 - 12.2022
Sales and Marketing Controlling Manager
Danone Romania
01.2016 - 07.2020
Finance Business Partner Retail CE
Goodyear Dunlop Romania
03.2015 - 12.2015
Finance Manager Commercial CSEE
Goodyear Dunlop Romania
06.2014 - 02.2015
Credit controller
Goodyear Dunlop Romania
09.2012 - 05.2014
Financial analyst
Goodyear Dunlop Romania
08.2010 - 08.2012
Financial analyst
Mittal steel Macedonia
12.2004 - 11.2009
Master Diploma - Financial analyzes and evaluation
The Academy of Economic Studies
Master Diploma - Financial management
The Faculty of Economy
Bachelors Diploma - Accounting and auditing
The Faculty of Economy - Accounting And Auditing
Personal Information
Date of Birth: 03/14/82
Training
- PCM, 2023, Authorized coach
- 7 habits of most effective persons, 2015, Dale Carnegie Training
- First time manager, 2014, Dale Carnegie Training
- Project management, 2015, Alison courses
- ACCA, 2012, ACCA (F1-F8 passed)
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