Małgorzata Kozielec-Płoskonka

Financial control function at the sales deal initiation stage through to order acceptance for revenue recognition.
• Providing financial support in deal structuring - close cooperation with the sales force and sales management
• Reviewing and approving multi-element deals (HW, SW, Maintenance & Professional Services) to determine elements affecting timing of revenue recognition
• Ensuring proper documentation and structure are obtained, dealing with professional services SOWs review, ELA terms, concessions, customer financial T&Cs, performance guaranties, buy backs and trade-ins, financial penalties, maintenance credits, tax related T&C, invoicing terms and any other non-standard deal elements
• Providing revenue recognition expertise & compliance (US GAAP, VSOE, SOX and company policies)
• Preparing quarterly professional services VSOE reporting and analysis
• Interacting with all levels of GEO / Country / Region Finance, Accounting and Revenue Management, Corporate Controllership, Global Director of Revenue and Compliance, Legal, all levels of Sales and Sales Operations, internal and external Audit

Team member of full-scale cash management & financial process reengineering projects in P2P and OTC areas, optimizing treasury and payment solutions using SAP TRM, SAP MRA, SAP CM and SAP IHC in multinational companies. Responsibilities included:

Multinational pharmaceutical company, Switzerland; Internationally recognized toy manufacturer, Denmark; Internationally recognized beverage producer, Greece; Global oil&gas company, Russia:

• Took active role in all project phases – user requirements gathering and design workshops, system build documentation, testing, user training and go-live support (IHC and bank connectivity part – payments and statements in FI)
• Prepared and assessed bank tender documentation, assisted in bank(s) selection for a multinational company
• Built various custom treasury reports in SAP TRM (using SAP Query)
• Coordinated IHC and relevant FI master data creation (both customizing and master data creation on the business side); Guided the client and prepared test plan for testing whole payment factory (payments and statements, incl. payments from SAP TRM)
• Prepared a document linking functional specifications to customising guidelines for the whole system – IHC and related parts of FI and in connection to BCM
• Coordinated and prepared system validation documents for implementing all new SAP modules (acted as a QA point)
• Had a Project Support Office role (incl. resource planning, budget analysis and update, preparing communication to various project stakeholders, other change management activities)
• Prepared templates for the Project Management Toolbox (SOW, project plan, issues log, risk analysis, test plan, validation plan and many other)
• SAP application Helpdesk team member (SAP IHC and relevant FI parts)

Responsibilities:
• Prepared short-term and long-term cash projections based on coordination with other departments (GL, AP, AR);
• Coordinated inter-company and FX nettings
• Maintained company‘s bank account structure (with cash pools) including bank account signatory and contract management (incl. guarantees and loans documentation)
• Communication with banks – controlling high value payments, solving value date issues and ordering cash deposits
• Cooperation with internal audit to assure operations are in line with SOX requirements
• Various reporting activities in treasury area, including central bank, interest expenses/accruals reports, hedge effectiveness reporting (according to IAS 39 and FAS 133 requirements)


Projects:
04/2007 – 06/2007 - Germany Migration Project Team Member
• Contributed to successful transition of treasury activities of German Philip Morris companies(GAP analysis, streamlining to SCE standard operating model, learning and preparing hand-over documentation, monitoring KPIs after transition)
08/2006 – 02/2007 - Culture Ambassadorship
• Project of implementing company’s vision and values into everyday work; Organizing Department Christmas Party for 40 people.

Responsibilities:
• Daily profit and loss report; reconciliation between back and front office of diverse derivatives from bonds market (futures and future options, swaps and swaptions)
• Daily verification of exceptional trades within the market conformity processes in Bloomberg environment, including discussions with traders
• Analyzed valuation of index-linked bonds, presented algorithm and processes to my team
• Streamlined workflow in balance sheet with the help of VBA programming

•Conducting research and preparing a general, brief analysis of the leading companies in selected new-EU countries. The project was part of a road show of a business delegation of the Prime Minister of Hesse