Lukasz Gaffling

• Responsible for controlling in entire Group (28 Business Units) – both wholesale and retail
• Being Member of Executive Committee of entire Group and by this contributing to and influencing strategy of the Group
• Development of controlling in wholesale part of the business and creation of controlling in retail part of the Group (Group entered into retail business – currently it operates almost 900 retail outlets in different concepts)
• Development of Business Intelligence in entire Group in areas of sales, margins, logistics in cooperation with CEOs, process owners and analysts. Implementation of BI was also related to introduction of self-learnings and on-line BI encyclopedia
• Preparation and analysis of budgets of the Group – 3 rounds during the year
• Analysis and review of Management Accounting and Reporting packages – weekly updates of results
• Forecasting statutory results for entire Group
• Preparation for introduction of central Management Reporting and Budgeting software with deep analysis of processes, required changes in existing processes, algorithms for analytical review and forecasting. Cooperation with suppliers included case studies of solutions and negotiation of conditions
• Managing team of 50 FTE (separate structures for each Business Unit)

• Re-creation of Internal Audit for entire Group (28 Business Units) due to dynamic growth of the business. It included new strategy, design of audit process, structure and procedures
• Audit function was present both in process improvement area and in operational controlling. Financial aspects were also part of the audit assignment
• Being Member of Executive Committee of entire Group and by this contributing to and influencing strategy of the Group
• Setting up rules for auditing in the Group
• Performing risk assessment and preparation of yearly audit plan
• Providing process improvements, savings and risk avoidance recommendations to the management
• Implementation of internal control department in entire Group (initially internal control was present only in one BU)
• Creation of audit tool used for following audit recommendations implementation
• Creation and introduction of Code of Conduct of the Group
• Managing team of 30 FTE, which consisted of 5 process auditors and 25 operational controllers

• Performing operational and financial audits with worldwide coverage
• Identifying weaknesses in the processes and controls
• Providing process improvements, savings and risk avoidance recommendations to the management
• Issuing audit reports
• Presenting the findings resulting from the audit to regional and local management
• Participation in audits with worldwide coverage

Ingersoll Rand acquired Trane in June 2008. Internal audit departments of both companies were merged and I was promoted to Internal Audit Manager covering Europe, Middle East, Africa and India Regions.

• Participation in yearly risk assessment for entire company
• Management and running audits and special investigations
• FCPA audits
• Operational audits
• Creation of audit programs for financial and operational audits
• 3 direct reports

• Internal audits based on US GAAP
• Audit of internal control functions and suggestion of management actions
• Special investigations
• SOx quality assessments and testing
• Yearly risk assessment
• Cooperation with regional and local Management
• Presentation of audit findings to local and regional management
• Participation in audits with worldwide coverage
• Training new employees
• Planning the scope of audits
• Managing audit teams up to 3 people

• Audit projects according to IFRS, US GAAP, Dutch GAAP and Polish GAAP
• Audit of internal control functions and suggestion of management actions
• Assistance in consolidation and sub-consolidation of group financial statements
• Training new employees
• Provided training for client regarding deferred tax
• Sectors: Oil (state owned), Sugar mills (German, British), Alcohol producer (Dutch, French, Swedish), Car industry (Japanese, Swedish), Food producer (Israeli, Danish), Retail sector (French), Agriculture (Dutch), Sea transport (Polish), Manufacturing (Danish, Italian, Dutch, German, Polish)
• Team leader for 3 years, teams up to four persons