Andreea Sorina Popescu

• End to end control of Accounts Payable/Accounts Receivable functions, within EMEA/AME entities;
• Monthly/Quarterly VAT Returns, in compliance with local regulations;
• Facilitated cross-departmental communication for effective budgeting and forecasting;
• Monthly preparation of Profit and Loss Statements and Quarterly Balance Sheet Reconciliations;
• Maintained internal control systems for risk mitigation;
• Strengthened financial operations by streamlining accounting processes and systems;
• Aligned operational objectives with financial goals to drive growth;
• Led audit preparations, ensuring smooth process without discrepancies;
• Demonstrated a firm understanding of tax laws and regulations; assisted in corporate tax filings.
• Ensured accurate financial records through meticulous account reconciliation.
• Improved accuracy of financial reports with detailed data analysis.
• Liaised with auditors whilst maintaining transparent documentation practices.
• Conducted regular variance analyses to identify potential areas of concern.
• Calculated and posted month end journals in full compliance with both local and group regulations.
• Compiled financial data for business forecasting and budgeting.
• Trained new employees on accounting principles and company procedures.
• Resolved invoice coding and tracked recurring expenses for accrual entry.
• Advised management on financial details related to business operations, inventory levels and budgets.
• Generated invoices based on established accounts receivable schedules and terms.
• Helped resolve disputed claims as official client representative to tax officials.
• Coordinated month-end close procedures for timely reporting;
• Facilitated communication between head-office and local accountants, both in EMEA/AME;
• Part of testing implementation of new ERP, within the process of migrating from SAP to D365 FO.

- Provide the necessary assistance to the contract manager, through coordinating financial activities specific to those contract;

- Coordinate financial/month-end closing activities for the allocated contracts, analyze deviations and report the financial result;

- Identify process improvement opportunities and conduct business initiatives, at contract level;

- Perform monthly, annual and quarterly financial forecasts and budgeting operations;

- Monthly set up of meeting and conversations with PMs to prepare forecasts for current and new projects;

- Preparing documents for posting in SAP regarding accruals and deferrals, in respect to revenue/cost;

- Perform ad-hoc analysis, in order to ensure the needs for business/controllership;

- Correct wrong accounting entries; proactively work with the responsible department, in order to ensure minimum chance of further errors;

- Assistance in performing monthly accruals, provisions and corrections;

- Performing regular data quality checks on company's financial statements and preparing journals for necessary corrections/reallocations;

- Providing assistance and issue resolution (using SAP/BPC/ BI tools);

- Preparing and submitting weekly/monthly reports that support company's management in business decision making;

- Ensuring financial integrity is met and that IFRS reporting standards are applied;

Reconciliation of data extracted from SAP/BPC tools (COPA - FI reconciliation);

- In charge of preparing financial statements (BS ,P&L, CF) for actual and planning reporting;

- Assisting End Markets with ad-hoc requests and preparing monthly forecasts and annual budget;

- Assisting End Markets with Non-Tao inputs for P&L and BS - in order to correctly report financial status on a monthly basis;

- Continuously assessing current reporting techniques and collaborating with End Markets in order to improve efficiency;

- Participation in testing session (using HPQC - ALM) and providing feedback.

- Ensuring that all reports are on schedule and are following audit-compliant controls (both internal and external audit) - for all Company Codes in scope;

- Analyzing and correcting wrong payments and addressing necessary solving steps to the teams involved in workflow, in a mannerly way; - -

- Building and maintaining professional and customer-focused liaison with both internal (P2P and other GBS departments, e.g. , FSD, R2R, MasterData) and external business partners (e.g. End-Markets in scope, Suppliers);

- Ensure all queries received via e-mail are accurately and pro-actively processed, adhering to SLA (Service Level Agreement);

- Daily, weekly, or monthly reports on KPIs to be completed to a task-dependent deadline, as well as offering support for ad-hoc, regular or month-closing activities;

- Manual Processing of sales / commercial / VAT invoices, in order to ensure backlog for processing team is diminished;

- Building detailed TLDs for each activity in scope of the Issue Resolution team - trained a large variety of New Joiners, both in Invoice Processing Team, as well as Issue Resolution Team;

- Providing and implementation of improvement ideas in AP process, thus contributing to a smoother overall workflow and reducing costs of business (preparing AS-IS sheets for RPAs);

- Processing invoices, credit notes into OCR and SAP - NEO software within agreed deadlines;

- Solving ad-hoc requests, coming from End Markets, in a timely, accurate and professional manner;

- Recommending process improvements to create greater efficiency and productivity;

- Providing excellent customer service, great collaboration with all End Markets in cluster's scope.