Krzysztof Babiarz

- Managing Controlling Department consisting of 5 Teams (Cost Control, Car Fleet Administration, Corporate Purchases, Property Administration, Business Travel Reconciliation) and direct supervising 4 Team Leaders and 22 Specialists – responsible for delivering company’s goals, assessing people performance team members recruitment and development;
- Introducing process changes based on internal/externa audit recommendations;
- Launching new back office processes in multi-entity environment (P2P, implementing new work flow system as well as purchasing policy, vendor management policy, fleet and business trip policy) and modifying current process to stream with policies;
- Assuring proper document work flow in the capital group, verification and processing authorization of cost documents, calculating and setting up cost accruals, preparing costs and liabilities analysis;
- Verifying rents and service charges, negotiating new contracts and managing the change of the head office locations in Cracow and Warsaw, assuring proper maintenance for all branch locations, supervising Property Administrator;

- Consolidation, forecasting, budgeting and reporting of Trade Margin results for Poland, Czechia, Hungary and Slovakia (ca 2bn EUR);
- Unifying of margin reporting and forecasting processes taking into account new Tesco One Europe requirements;
- Submitting and commenting margin results and budgets to the Group;
- Ensuring continuity of margin control processes during Tesco transformation process, dealing with internal/external audit;
- Processing margin period end closing in each CE country;
- Building strong partnership with Commercial Department management and assuring full business support for in-country commercial teams;
- Constant monitoring the level of commercial revenue delivered by commercial team ;
- Co-operation with Tesco Hindustan Service Center on establishing new ways of working and developing new CE reports;
- Managing Commercial Consolidation remote teams located in 3 countries (Poland, Czechia, Hungary).

- Understand, manage, and supervise all aspects of cash flow and working capital management;
- Forecast daily cash requirements and execute daily financing decisions in order to assure liquidity;-
- Manage relationships with banks and financial services providers;
- Recognize and manage FX risks/opportunities.

- Working Capital and Cash Flow reporting, forecasting and analysis preparation;
- Investment Buys project coordination, reporting and analysis to improve profitability and minimize Cash Flow impact;
- Leading of Natural Work Team working on initiatives improving working capital (payment terms renegotiations, reciprocals, improving netting agreements, improving stock management);
- Internal and Group (CE Finance, Global Business Units and Global Procurement) communication concerning working capital initiatives actions plans, performance reporting, needs of escalation at group level;

- Managing a team of 5 persons – ensuring meeting deadlines, data accuracy and quality, building team effectiveness, team members development;
- Leading of sales and margin reporting, forecasting and analysis preparation
- Supervision of logistic income calculation and reporting;
- Presentation of sales & margin results and margin issues at Board Meetings;
- Financial support for Commercial and other departments in terms of sales & margin issues,
- Sales and margin analyses for Operations to improve stores profitability;
- Ad hoc analysis, business plan for new activities , giving insight into commercial initiatives undertaken to deliver margin and profit targets;
- Transition of reporting to Tesco Hindustan Service Centre and subsequent managing of HSC team
- Providing support and cooperation with Commercial Departments within the Group;
- Period end closing process coordinating;
- Cooperation with accountancy and other departments during period end close to assure data integrity and compliance;

- Sales and margin reporting, forecasting and analysis;
- Development and optimization of sales reporting and forecasting processes;
- Development and optimization of period end process;
- Participation Business Object system implementation and further users trainings;
- Preparation of various ad hoc analysis;
- Supporting Customer Plan initiatives;

- Reporting of ex Leader Price stores results during transition process;
- Managing difficulties during period end close (different systems, different time of period end close);
- Store expenses/Stock Loss/Property categories during period end close;
- Creating of reporting of ex LP stores after transition;
- Creating Access database system for operational reporting on store level;
- Introducing new models of stock loss reporting;