Jivelina Deneva

Senior Accounting Manager | EMEA & US GAAP

Salary / Daily rate

Sofia, Bulgaria

Freelance, open to permanent contract

Can come onsite

Skills

IFS ApplicationsSAP ERP

Languages

BulgarianEnglishFrench

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.

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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

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