
Jivelina Deneva
Senior Accounting Manager | EMEA & US GAAP
Salary / Daily rate
Sofia, Bulgaria
Freelance, open to permanent contract
Can come onsite
Skills
Languages
About me
Intro
EMEA Accounting Manager with 15+ years managing multi-country financial operations and leading high-performing teams up to 10+ people. Expert in IFRS/US GAAP compliance, VAT returns across 20+ countries, and financial consolidation for global corporations. Specialized in process optimization and audit management to ensure accurate financial reporting.
Work experience
Segment Accounting EMEA Manager
Fortrea
Sep 2022 - Present
4 years 2 months
47521 Bulgaria, Province of Forlì-Cesena, Italy
•Prepare, support and review VAT returns, annual audits, statutory financial statements (SFS), corporate income tax (CIT) returns, R&D tax exempts – 20+ countries in EMEA region. •Review month-end closing activities and monthly financial reports, investigating significant variances in the financial statements – US GAAP. •Maintain strong internal and external relationships with Tax department, Treasury, Accounting, Payroll, AP teams, local service providers, advisors and auditors.
Thermo Fisher Scientific
Mar 2020 - Oct 2022
2 years 8 months
Sofia, Bulgaria
Senior Operations Finance Analyst
Dec 2021 - Oct 2022
11 months
Sofia, Bulgaria
Operations Finance Analyst I & II
Mar 2020 - Dec 2021
1 year 10 months
Sofia, Bulgaria
• Work cross-functionally with operations, contracts and proposals, and finance throughout the project lifecycle. • Identifies issues related to contract modifications, contract values, and contract deliverables. • Perform reconciliations of unbilled balances, costs and revenues recognized for assigned projects. • Track and maintain project information and budgets within the project accounting system. • Perform analysis of budget to actual data on monthly, quarterly, and annual bases and for revenue calculations and forecasting
GL Team Lead Czech Republic and Slovakia
Coca-Cola Hellenic Bottling Company
Apr 2018 - Oct 2019
1 year 7 months
Sofia, Bulgaria
• Manage operational performance of GA team- up to 6 people. • Build and engage high performing teams responsible for the following areas – General Ledger, Fixed asset, Controlling, Intercompany. • Continuous improvement, review and optimization of the process. • Review monthly, quarterly and yearly reconciliations. • Organize the month end activities to ensure that the books are closed with accuracy. • Review the financial results, consolidation of financial statements - trial balance, CF. • Ensure accountability and compliance with external / internal audit activities and internal controls requirements according to IFRS. • Implementation of IFRS 16. • Reamesurement, reclassifications, FCT. • Performance management – leading, coaching, training, brainstorming. • Talent development and succession planning. • Participate actively in the processes related to the HR activities - recruitment, salary reviews, shift management, vacation planning.
Accounting Manager - General Ledger and Account payable
IBM
Aug 2014 - Mar 2018
3 years 8 months
Sofia, Bulgaria
• Manage operational performance of two accounting teams GA and AP- up to 10+people. • Build and engage high performing teams responsible for the following areas – General Ledger, Fixed asset, Inventory, Intercompany, Reporting, AP and FP&A. • Continuous improvement, review and optimization of the process. • Review monthly, quarterly and yearly reconciliations. • Organize the month end activities to ensure that the books are closed with accuracy. • Responsible for the achievement of the KPIs. • Revise balance sheet at the end of the month. • Ensure accountability and compliance with external / internal audit activities and internal controls requirements according to Xerox policies, US and FR GAAP. • Performance management – leading, coaching, training, brainstorming. • Talent development and succession planning. • Participate actively in the processes related to the HR activities - recruitment, salary reviews, shift management, vacation planning.
IBM Global Process Services
Apr 2008 - Jul 2014
6 years 4 months
47521 Bulgaria, Province of Forlì-Cesena, Italy
General Ledger Team Leader France
May 2010 - Jul 2014
4 years 3 months
47521 Bulgaria, Province of Forlì-Cesena, Italy
• Manage General Ledger accounting team up to 6 people. • Review balance sheet account reconciliations. • Review and authorization of journal entries. • Organize month end activities. • Lead, execute and follow up several transitions of new positions for the Centre. • Responsible for the following GL positions: Fixed assets - acquisitions, disposals, modifications of assets, FA registers, physical verification Inventory– GDNI Reporting - preparation and release balance sheet at the end of the month, General Ledger - accruals, booking invoices, prepaid expenses Intercompany - coordination, agreement and payment of intercompany balances
Mentor
Apr 2008 - May 2010
2 years 2 months
• Ensure that all enquiries and complaints are dealt with in accordance with procedures. • Support TLs and Managers to identify knowledge gaps in the team, analyze performance reports, provide evaluation to TLs and Managers and propose corrective action. • Support TLs to balance workload and support to drive team towards achievement of all targets. • Raise the department’s efficiency and to improve customer satisfaction. • Organize, monitor, track and ensure timely completion, to consolidate results and reports on assigned set of tasks on a daily basis. • Follow up billing queries (NDX, Faxes, e-mail & Phones); To insure Query & Complaint process is followed; To support billing cash action if required; To track availability on Uniphy on a daily, weekly and monthly basis using the available reports. • Receive data ant input it to operating systems in order to evaluate productivity and efficiency. • First step of escalation if required. • Back up TL during absences. • Investigate and resolve queries either directly or by escalation acting promptly using various applications, web tools and contact with relevant internal departments. • Contribute to the achievement of customer satisfaction by maintaining professional relationship with the clients.
Education
Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski
Master's degree
2020 - 2022
3 years
New Bulgarian University
Bachelor's degree
2008 - 2012
5 years
English Language School Guo Milev -Russe
1996 - 2001
6 years