Cristina Mirzac

In my current role I manage 3 entities across multiple jurisdictions and a team of 3 people. Main responsibilities and achievements:

• Ownership of the close process for my entities within the group on a monthly/quarterly/annual basis.
• Leading a team of 3 financial accountants and overseeing their hiring, training, continuous performance and development in line with company policies.
• Responsible for the preparation of the monthly management accounts in line with US GAAP, NL GAAP and UK GAAP.
• Complete ownership over the Balance Sheet and the P&L for the entities under my remit, including variance and flux analysis, Trial Balance analysis, cash flow projections and actuals vs forecast analysis.
• Supporting and closely collaborating with the Business Finance team with budget/plan preparation and accountability of results on a monthly basis.
• Building strong relationships with other stakeholders within the group and proving the main finance support to the teams on site such as Business Finance, Project coordination, Procurement, Inventory.
• Ownership of the monthly balance sheet reconciliation process over multiple entities, including payroll, VAT, fixed assets and accruals.
• Responsible for preparation of year-end and statutory accounts within strict agreed timescales for all entities under my supervision within multiple jurisdictions.
• Accountable for delivering the group and local audits for multiple entities on an annual basis.
• Successfully delivered the group and local audit in record time with the accounts being singed and filed 5 months before the deadline.
• Preparation of annual Transfer Pricing calculations and reports.
• Ownership of the internal controls and SOX controls of several entities.
• Supervised timely completion of monthly VAT returns and ensured VAT accounting and account reconciliations were accurate ahead of year-end, as well as oversaw the integration of PVA regulations into the VAT template and ensured accurate submission of values to the government authorities.
• Maintained compliance with company standards and legal requirements.
• Took ownership of the Dutch entity post integration as part of a merger and implemented the required controls and practices for the monthly preparation of journals and Balance Sheet reconciliation to bring in line with the company's best practices.
• Restructured the Fixed Asset Registry for the Dutch Entity, improving on the reporting of assets, disposals, exchanges and performed annual asset counts to ensure compliance with SOX controls.

• Reporting to the Financial Controller and assisting with reporting on a monthly, quarterly and yearly basis
• Main Duties and achievements:
• Working within the Finance team with full responsibility over aged receivables, global sales invoicing (circa £36m per annum) and credit control.
• Delivering financial data and other key business information in preparation for the month end processes and procedures.
• Responsible for Cashflow Forecasting by ensuring the revenue and costs are monitored and updated on a daily basis.
• Leading month end Transfer Pricing calculations.
• Reporting on revenue recognition for Monthly Accounts.
• Successfully analysed and identified the discrepancies in the deferred revenue data on a monthly basis
• Assisting with posting journals, treasury duties (cash entries and bank recs.) and Balance Sheet reconciliations
• Experience with changing financial systems at year end, assisting with data analysis for investment purposes, and audit preparation and delivery
• Proficient with Customer Relationship Management (CRM) software (Salesforce) and financial systems: Xero and FinancialForce
• Successfully decreased aged debts by 18% by creating order books/spreadsheets for analysing the KPI 's and debt recovery analysis
• Creating over 300 invoices a month for all revenue streams of the business globally (biggest invoice of $7m)
• Identified key risks in Order to Cash process, recommended and implemented robust internal controls.
• Successfully collected up to £3m in cash every month.
• Created and implemented the supplier validation process and the internal audit controls required.
• Developed the process, guidelines and documentation for raising PO's and submitting invoices
• Led training sessions and communication for the wider business on the new revised processes
• Automated the Invoice to Pay process which resulted in saving the Treasure Admin circa 3h a day in processing cash entries.

• Assisting the Audit Senior with examining company accounts and financial control systems
• Performing tests of controls and substantive procedures on client's accounts.
• Identifying key process risks, ensuring procedures, policies, legislation and regulations are correctly followed and complied with
• Analysing minutes and company reports to identify risky areas.
• Ad hoc duties such as assisting the Tax manager with research for tax related issues, translating documents, regulations and other comms from English to
• Romanian and vice versa.