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Pawel Zochowski

Gateshead

Summary

I bring over two years of expertise as an EPM specialist, adept in guiding projects through every phase, including EPM development, identifying and creating time savings through automation of manual processes, enhancing business processes, crafting solutions, overseeing both functional and technical implementations, and providing comprehensive user support and training. As an accountant I have over four years of expertise in maintaining management accounts, creating and maintaining budgets and forecasts, transactional analysis and month-end commentary.


Overview

7
7
years of professional experience

Work history

Finance Systems Analyst

Sage
Newcastle upon Tyne
11.2021 - Current
  • Managed the quarterly HFM update cycle for both the Group and UKI systems.
  • Gathered customer requirements to enable the delivery of their needs across the HFM, FDMEE, and Alteryx systems.
  • Created a new financial application within HFM, including the full data migration from historic applications.
  • Drove group-wide upskilling in the key systems within my remit using workshops, training tutorials, and written guides
  • Maintained the rules, metadata, and security files including extensive functional changes to facilitate organisational structure changes.
  • Provided expert guidance on data submission, restatements, webforms, and reconciliation of data. As well as supporting new colleagues through the initial configuration, training, and the installation of smartview.
  • Performed the monthly roll forward tasks, including starting scenarios, loading, and recalculating of the exchange rates.
  • Supported users in FDMEE, creating new load locations and rules while assisting with mapping updates.
  • Leading automation projects using Alteryx resulting in 4-5 days of savings per month and eliminating human error from the process.

Commercial Finance Analyst

Sage
Newcastle upon Tyne
09.2017 - 11.2021
  • Supported senior stakeholders including Function Leaders and VPs by delivering insight to achieve strategic objectives.
  • Reviewing and verifying purchase requests above £10,000 threshold.
  • Preparing monthly data packages shared with the management which included full commentary on trends and variances to forecast/budget.
  • Driving process improvement.
  • Budget & forecast creation and analysis.
  • Ownership of several functions with an overall budget of over £80m.
  • Manipulating big data to identify risks and opportunities.
  • Preparation of the intangible paper included within the annual report.
  • Ownership of the staff costs capitalisation across all global and regional entities.

Education

Assistant Accountant Level 3

Northern Skills Group
Newcastle
2017 - 2020

Pearson BTEC Level 3 - Business

Sunderland College
Sunderland
2015 - 2017

St Aidan's Catholic Academy
2012 - 2017

Skills

  • Hyperion Financial Management (HFM)
  • Hyperion Financial Data Quality Management (FDM)
  • Alteryx
  • Analytical Skills
  • Business Analysis

Additional Qualifications and Skills

  • IT Skills – Advanced Excel, Word, and other Microsoft office products (ECDL qualified), Advanced VBScript, HFM, FDMEE, CXO, and Adaptive.
  • Language Skills - Fluent in Polish.
  • SAGE – high-level knowledge of both SAGE payroll and accounts.
  • Accounting Systems – High-level knowledge of HFM, FDMEE, CXO, and Adaptive Planning.
  • Completed the National Citizen Service programme.
  • Participated in the ICAEW BASE national business and accounting competition.

Timeline

Finance Systems Analyst

Sage
11.2021 - Current

Commercial Finance Analyst

Sage
09.2017 - 11.2021

Assistant Accountant Level 3

Northern Skills Group
2017 - 2020

Pearson BTEC Level 3 - Business

Sunderland College
2015 - 2017

St Aidan's Catholic Academy
2012 - 2017

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