Elena Velcheva
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Name:Elena Velcheva
Nationality: Bulgarian
Date of Birth:-
Current Address: 42 A, Lubliana str., 1000, Sofia, Bulgaria
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Coca Cola Hellenic Business Services Organization
The Coca-Cola Hellenic Business Services Organization (BSO) is a fast-growing Shared Services Centre, located in Sofia, Bulgaria operating for the Coca-Cola Hellenic Company, the second biggest Coca-Cola bottler in the world. The BSO provides a variety of services within the area of Finance and Human Resources following standard procedures.
Senior Credit Management Accountant May 2015 – July 2017
Main roles and responsibilities:
Performing Credit checks to different country markets
Working of multiple projects related to the credit management and collection part (design, development, testing and implementation)and other cross-functional project support and insights
Part of the reporting team :testing in the implementation of HANA, working with different reports,
Project lead on credit risk and cash flow standardization on a group level for all countries part of CCHBC
Responsible for the procurement process of the whole MTC stream. Developing the process with the help of the Purchase to pay department. When the process was stable I was the owner of the process for the part serving the MTC department
Working with all sorts of vendors (external, internal etc.)
Working in a multi-cultural team
Working in a fast-moving environment
Working with different insurance companies
Linking Commercial and Finance department to improve the workflow
Performing Monthly dashboards for the company’s KBIs
Performing other analysis related with revenue and cost
Preparing daily, monthly and yearly reports to clients and to company employees –aging reports and open balances reports etc.
Developing and designing new procedures to improve all processes related to the credit management;
Managing appropriate accounting procedures and processes;
Evaluate alternative long-term borrowing strategies and make recommendations in accordance with the capital structure guidelines;
Provide technical and other support for mergers and acquisitions and other projects as needed.
Preparing and monitoring the credit limit and following the credit days of all clients.
Working with different CRM, ERP and other platforms
Working and certified with the method Lean Six Sigma (yellow belt)
Certified with ACCEE
Unify Service Center EOOD, Sofia, Bulgaria
Unify, formerly Siemens Enterprise Communications, is a global communications software and services company. Unify Service Center EOOD is a subsidiary of Unify GmbH & Co. KG. The Service Center EOOD is a whole new structure that is been created in Bulgaria. The company wants to create a global financial center and lift-shit and update they processes.
Senior business analyst From November 2014 – March 2015
Main roles and responsibilities:
Project tracking – Timelines, Milestones, Risks & Mitigations, IDA logs and follow up on action and decision
Knowledge Transfer documentation tracking and ensuring sign-off from both sending and receiving organisation – Work Instructions, Process Maps alignment, Continuous improvement ideas
Change Management support on detailed process level and alignment on ensuring that all items are collected at individual trainer level
Manage detailed stakeholder mapping ownership for specific area
Key Performance Indicators, baseline data collection, target setting, calculation and systems alignment with Global Process Owners.
Collection of regular feedback and consolidation to CBS Leadership throughout Transition project
Knowledge Transfer plan ownership within project area, together with travel schedule based on cost-benefit analysis as well as identify and suggest improvement areas
Manage the hyper-care period until cut-over and close for respective project area
Hand-over of all relevant documentation and knowledge to the CBS operational teams post transition
Alignment with Internal Controls Framework tower
Ensure that the to-do split in roles and responsibilities are clearly understood between the country and the CBS on detailed process level
Responsible for implementing projects-. project planning, status reporting risks within the process areas
Validation of the processes for the Order to Bill (OTB) for the UK and for US by written procedures and with the actual employees which are responsible for the processes.
Prepare a role hand book for each of the roles in the OTB department by supervising the work in the UK to Unify’s employees for a period of 8 week.
Prepare a schedule for people that will do the work shadowing and for the whole period of the transition. Supervising the process of work shadowing and validating the knowledge captured.
Supervising that the prepared schedule for the transfer of the knowledge, what will be the portions of the actual knowledge must be captured in a period of time.
Testing the people after the knowledge transfer
Working in a multi-cultural team
Working under pressure with short deadlines.
Evaluating and shaping the process to the shared service organization
Responsible for the creation of all the files creating the transition processes
Relocating during the transition , responsible for the relocation of the whole teams and also the whole process of reimbursements
Quadrant Beverages JSC, Sofia, Bulgaria August 2010 – November 2014
Quadrant Bulgaria Beverages (QBB) is a subsidiary of Quadrant European Beverages (QEB). In 2007 Quadrant European Beverages (QEB) acquires Agrima, bottlers of PepsiCo for Bulgaria, through its subsidiary company. The company is the official bottlers of products of PepsiCo for Bulgaria (Pepsi, Mirinda, 7UP), of Lipton International (Lipton Ice Tea), of Gat Foods (juices and nectars Prisun) and producer of mineral water Bellissima.The group was founded by the former owners of Quadrant Amroq Bottling Company Limited (QABCL) - Romanian bottlers of PepsiCo.
Treasury and Cash flow Manager August 2010 – November 2014
Main roles and responsibilities:
Lead on process transition related with the treasury department.- Execute and adjust the plan for work shadowing
Collection of regular feedback and consolidation to Top Management and Stakeholders throughout Transition project
Forecast daily cash requirements and execute daily financing decisions.
Manage all aspects of In-house investment portfolios;
Manage long-term and short-term investment strategies;
Determine the Company’s goals and risk tolerance;
Assess risk/return tradeoffs in guidelines;
Prepare and monitor the company’s various cash flow forecasts and perform financial modeling;
Review and recommend changes to the investment policies based on the market conditions;
Understand and manage appropriate accounting procedures and processes;
Evaluate alternative long-term borrowing strategies and make recommendations in accordance with the capital structure guidelines;
Manage, direct, and develop Cash Management staff;
Recommend, implement and maintain process improvements;
Provide technical and other support for mergers and acquisitions and other projects as needed.
Preparing and monitoring the credit limit and following the credit days of all clients.
Responsible for the audits revisions
Responsible for the accruals and provisions of the company on a monthly base
Preparing the daily payments of the company
Examples of achieved goals:
Reduced the Days Sales Outstanding (DSO) from 64 to 42
Reduced the company’s bad debt from 440k to 384k for a period of one year
Reduced the amount of the provision of debt from 20% to 5%
VAT 94 OOD
VAT 94 OOD is a company that is distributing tobacco, tobacco products and alcohol products. They are the main distributor in Bulgaria for tobacco brands like Karelia, Japan Tobacco International products (Winston, L&M, Camel, etc.) , British American Tobacco products (Brands like Lucky strike, Pall Mall, Dunhill, Kent, B&H, Rothmans, etc)
Business Analyst May 2008 – August 2010
Main roles and responsibilities:
Taking orders from clients
Issuing/flocking accounting documents
Checking stocks, preparing reports for movement in and out of the warehouse, responsible for the stocks Preparing monthly/weekly and daily analysis of the accounts:daily bank and cash audits, monthly bank examination
Resolution of bank and cash payments.
Working with PDA devices: responsible for the update of the software; working with the IT company that embedded the software
Responsible for the stock levels of each Exvan warehouse.
Daily checking of the turnover and monthly revenue reports for each warehouse.
Education
Bachelor, Business Administration, completion expected in 2015
International Business University, Branch Sofia, Bulgaria
Bachelor, Management of Tourism, completed in 2007
Private Greek College Delta, Branch Sofia, Bulgaria
High-school Education, French Language School
23 SOU Frederic Joliot-Curie, Sofia, Bulgaria
Languages
English: Excellent, Written and Spoken
French: Average, Written and Spoken
Other Competences
Computer Skills: Deep knowledge of MS Office, EDI, SAP, Other ERP systems, MS Outlook, IRP, CRM and other systems, Workflow tolls, HTML Script, Visio, Epiplex, etc., Project management tools,
Drive license: Category B
Certificates: Certified on Lean Six Sigma, Certified on Credit Management ACCEE
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