Vasileios Papazoglou

As member of EMEA Finance Controllership Team reporting to SVP Finance:

• Consolidating and reporting cashflow and DSO results to EMEA CFO.
• Assisting in preparing presentations for Corporate CFO.
• Leading standardization of Collections and Reporting across EMEA.
• Contributed in creating global dashboards with live reporting for Corporate.
• Performing Month-end, Quarter-end closing activities, including cashflow forecast variances.
• Assisting Sales with global customer's cashflow impact assessments on PT changes.
• Ensuring compliance to Corporate policies across all countries within the region by performing various reviews.
• Assisting with internal audit requests.
• Leading various projects for AI transformation of existing reporting and cashflow related processes.

• Responsible for the company's finances under CFO with increased focus on FP&A
• Created live-reporting Dashboards evolving the companies reporting process
• Established budget forecast discipline and created tools to monitor budget and monthly closes with high accuracy.
• Supported CFO in regulatory reporting for tourism regulatory factions (DRSF in Germany)
• Handled a Finance Team of 4 people.
• Supervised external and internal audits
• Liaise with systemic banks for additional ways of funding.
• Presented financial results to company’s shareholders.
• Introduced new ways of using OpenAI tool in all company departments.

• Started setting up Credit Vetting and Collections Department.
• Reconfigured processes for internal credit management and collections strategies.
• Cooperated with external collection agencies and applied performance evaluation.
• Trained the Team of 10 people in newly implemented SAP 4 Hana system specifically on FI-CA processes.
• Implemented new settlement rules and improved collection KPIs.

• Started as a Senior Accountant for the Colgate-Palmolive Austrian Market, promoted to Junior Team Lead of whole European and North Africa Middle East region of Cash Application Team. Changed as Junior Team Lead to Hill’s Pet Nutrition AR Team and then promoted to Team Lead of Colgate-Palmolive Southern Europe AR Team.
• Responsible of Accounts Receivable of Southern Europe Hub (Italy, Greece, Spain, Portugal).
• Managing a Team of up to 13 people.
• Supporting local Finance Teams with reporting and business recommendations to improve AR positions.
• Supervising the team with customer collections, credit management, cash application and deduction management.
• Liaising with Hub Finance Director for process improvements and innovation initiatives.
• Leading global and hub projects related to AR processes.
• Performing induction training and coaching team members on their personal development.
• Updating SOX documentation and providing information to audit requests
• Assisting in month-end closing activities related to reconciliation of AR accounts, working capital and cash generation reports.

• Supported the UK subsidiary on a temporary position for 5 months, being responsible for all advertising and promotions budget of Northern Europe Hub (UK-Ireland, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Norway).
• Cooperated closely with Marketing and Customer Development Teams on advertising budget spending.
• Provided Finance Director and European Division with financial reports and supported with any ad-hoc requests.
• Provided estimates for month-end closing activities.

• Transferred the accounts receivable processes from the Greek subsidiary to Shared Service Center in Poland.
• Prepared process instructions called Standard Operational Procedures.
• Performed customer collection, credit management, deduction management and cash application.
• Performed month-end closing activities and supported local Finance.