Loukas Priovolos-https://www.linkedin.com/in/loukas-priovolos-13a7a370/- Limassol-Cyprus
Accomplished and aspiring professional with extensive experience of the Financial services industry (Forex Brokers). Great understanding of the needs of all finance sub-departments, from the preparation to the reviewing part, gained by numerous promotions into roles of progressive responsibility. An individual eager for professional and personal growth equipped with exceptional analytical and trend analysis skills. People-driven leadership style with innate abilities to recruit, coach, mentor and develop top-performing team. Agile individual, with excellent communication, negotiation and interpersonal skills along with an ability to create an inspiring team environment with an open communication culture.
Areas of Expertise include:
Credit, Financial and Currency risk management
Budgeting/Forecasting
Consolidated Financial Reporting
Team Leadership and Development
Strategic Planning
Trend analysis
CY Taxation, Payroll and VAT expert
IFRS expert
Treasury Management
Educational Background
ADIT – Chartered Institute of Taxation
Cyprus | 2021 -2022
ACCA – Association of Chartered Certified Accountants
Cyprus | 2015 - 2020
Bachelor of Science (Honours) in Statistics and Actuarial - Financial Mathematics
University of the Aegean | Greece | 2005 - 2011
Professional Experience
Tickmill Group Limassol 2017 to Present
Group Financial Controller
In charge of five finance sub-teams (33 people), together with the Group CFO. Responsible for Internal and External reporting, consolidated management accounts, treasury management, automations in processes and the presentation of the financial data to the board of the Tickmill group. Member of the project teams aiming to improve the final product offered to the end user. Remarkable knowledge and understanding of the operations in this industry, which along with my hard work and strong ethics, helped me to be promoted four times during my four years of working in Tickmill.
(Accounting supervisor in 2017 | Head of Accounting 2018 | Group Cost Control and Budget Analyst 2019| Financial Controller 2020 | Group Financial Controller 2021)
Key Accomplishments:
Reduction of Finance costs by a 6or7-digit number on an annual basis - by negotiating prices and by managing exposures.
Coached, motivated, and developed employees to peak performance level.
Ensured compliance on Financial Reporting to various stakeholders (including Regulators, tax authorities, central banks).
Financial Project Manager in projects which require multi-departmental efforts (e.g. automation of reporting, data warehousing, inhouse accounting record-keeping)
Created inhouse the accounting function for the whole group and managed to produce consolidated management account on a timely manner from the following month.
Created and updated the templates for revenue recognition and enhanced the controls surrounding profit recognition.
RYNAT TRADING LTD Limassol, Cyprus 2016 to 2017
Accountαντ
Start-up Forex broker, worked for 3 months, and left due to the non-sustainable performance of the company.
Key Accomplishments:
Created templates for the reconciliation of client transactions.
Learned the trading platforms used from forex brokers due to the excess time available in the normal working hours. Helped me significantly to understand better this industry through the knowledge of the revenue recognition.
SAFECAP INVESTMENTS LTD Limassol 2015 to 2016
Accountαντ
Working in an extremely competitive environment, as my first professional experience in the financial services industry, helped me develop my understanding of the forex business and my soft skills faster and more vigorously. It also helped me understood the importance of the corporate governance and my personal capabilities. By using ‘Sap business one’ I had the responsibility of preparing Cash flow statements, reviewing the petty cash books, reconcile bank statements and prepare the retranslation of the balance sheet items at the month end as an accountant. As a Banking Administrator I was executing client transactions from various payment providers. As reconciliation officer I was cross-checking the platform transactions versus the bank statements.
(Banking Administrator in 2015| Reconciliation Officer in 2016| Accountant in 2016)
Key Accomplishments:
Nominated as the most efficient banking administrator for consecutive months concerning the volume and quality of execution.
Assisted in the back-office re-structure by identifying errors and discrepancies in the transaction’s reconciliation.
Enhanced my excel skills due to the nature of the daily routine in Reconciliation team.
Accomplished the internal reporting in a group of 132 companies with 3 working days month-end accounting closing and 5 working days consolidation deadline.
Certifications
Certificate of Achievement in Microsoft Word, Excel, Basic and Advanced| Certificate of Prince2 Agile – Agile Project Management| Certificate of Achievement in AML – FX firms
Certificate of Achievement in Ethics and Compliance | Certificate of Achievement in Cyber security
Key Accomplishment
President of Student Association | University of Aegean |-
Technical Skills and Competences
Software: SAP Business One, Excel, Methodos (Reconciliation tool), CRM, Capital Adequacy tools
Hardware: Spss, Python (basic knowledge)
Language Proficiencies
English (Fluent) and Greek (Fluent), Russian (Basic)
