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Marta Baraniak-Osowicz

Project Operations Coordinator

Summary

I have years of experience in financial reporting, financial analysis, project coordination-management, in accountancy with investment funds knowledge, credit controlling, AP, AR, reconciliations. Currently I’m working as a Project Operations Co-Ordinator for Central Europe in the international engineering company. I'm familiar with ERP software’s, Power BI model, Dashboards, SAP, Sharepoint, MS office package and other data tools. I have an experience with Big 4 auditors and have cooperated with other financial and investment institutions e.g. BNP Paribas, Goldman Sachs, A&L Goodbody etc. Currently I’m being a part of a project management process where I’m participating in some worldwide construction projects. Also I’ve accomplished few big projects like: ISO-9000 Quality Management system, MEETA Industry Awards conference or Pemac software implementation and have participated in a process improvement which included both employees and clients strategies with proven KPI’s results. I was involved in acquiring new company and improving related standards & procedures. I have MSc education and professional certifications for my qualifications gained during my working and school years. I'm career motivated, analytical thinking, well organised and reliable person who wants to develop her skills and learn new ones.

Overview

16
16
years of professional experience
19
19
years of post-secondary education
4
4
Certifications
3
3
Languages

Work History

Project Operations Coordinator

Buro Happold
Warsaw
05.2022 - Current
  • Project management: formation & maintenance
  • Pipeline work: promotional projects and plans, monitor opportunities and bids
  • Resource meetings
  • Planning creations & coordination
  • Responsibilities with legal agreements
  • Fee amendments: reconciliations, recording changes etc.
  • Calculations of target fees and reserves (contingency)
  • Distribution of fees into defer projects within Central Europe
  • Job checks: review financial reporting, escalate any deviations from targets & provide support for job leaders
  • Month end process: coordination of time movement, review job accounts, monitor changes, action agreed changes
  • Maintenance tasks
  • Providing regional trainings
  • Reporting: ERP systems, excel Macro and Power BI
  • Dashboards analysis

Finance and Reporting Specialist/ Financial Analyst

Buro Happold
Warsaw
07.2020 - 05.2022
  • Preparing of financial reports and project analysis for Central Europe
  • Forecast review and analysis for Central Europe
  • Automation processes for manual reports
  • Testing phases for implementation of PO system
  • Review of KPI report (cash and invoicing)
  • Financial analysis for savings and overheads in actuals and budget monthly reporting
  • Projects operation review on costs & analysis: P&L with provisions, sector tracking, bad debts reporting, promotional projects etc
  • Revenue run and transaction posting (journals)
  • Weekly revenue reporting on projects
  • Profit Margin reporting
  • Agreeing inter-group balances and settlement documentation for the region
  • Input schedules for CE per quarter
  • Preparing monthly regional cash flow report
  • Monthly regional bank & payroll reconciliations
  • Credit control review for open debts on weekly basis
  • Utilization report and analysis for each cost centre
  • Monthly key financial data for: Contingency, WIP balances, Aged debts, GWD, Actuals and Forecast, Cash, Project Profitability, Project Performance, Invoicing, Fee remaining, Work share (rolling), Underlying Performance
  • Loss provision reports analysis
  • Intercompany balance reconciliations & agreeing with other BH entities (worldwide) on a quarterly basis
  • Monthly & quarterly settlements and verifications for statutory accountants: sales & purchase invoicing, project and non-project costs, re-invoicing, payments, account reconciliations
  • YE cooperation with auditors
  • Verification of bank payments, statements, filing and documentation
  • Verification of sales & purchase invoices
  • Reconciliations of balances and settlements
  • Monitoring, maintaining and reporting on employee work
  • Use of Data model and Power BI tools, Excel, Macro, PowerPoint, Graphic presentations, ERP softwares, Sharepoint
  • Amortisation, depreciation
  • Ad-hoc reports, e.g project invoicing, transfer pricing, of business or sector: Construction

Accountant/ Financial Reporting

Northern Trust Corporation
Limerick
11.2017 - 02.2020

Financial Reporting:

  • Prepare and review Annual and Interim Financial Statements for investment funds
  • Prepare and/or review P&L, Balance Sheet, Statement of Changes in Net Assets, Cash Flow Statements and relevant Note Disclosures: Operating Income and Expenses, Debtors, Creditors, Net Gains/Losses on Financial Assets and Liabilities at Fair Value Through Profit or Loss, including pertinent ratios, Risk Workings etc
  • Credit, interest, sensitivity, liquidity risk etc., Portfolio Holdings, Schedule of Investments and FX Currency rates
  • Extract and interpret information from financial records of funds
  • Ensure adherence to reporting guidelines: security types, derivative instruments, income and expenses, foreign exchange, capital stock, income and expense accruals, income and capital gains distributions, realised and unrealised gains/losses on investments and on currencies
  • Create Financial Statement templates for new clients in accordance with the disclosure requirements and rules
  • Reconciliations:
  • General Ledger reconciliations (Journals reclassification) & NAV rec
  • Cash reconciliations: Margin cash (Broker reconciliation), Foreign Currency, Cash held in behalf of Custody, Collateral cash
  • Transfer Agency & Fund Accounting reconciliations: Rec of share units (redemptions and subscriptions) and Rec of values, Late Trades
  • Cooperation with other entities:
  • Liaise with Fund Accounting, Transfer Agency, Custody, Depositary, Client Expenses, Legal, Relationship Managers, Corp Sec etc.
  • For correct information
  • Liaise with external auditors (Big4) and deal with audit queries
  • Manage the audit process for my clients
  • Work with external consultants, legal advisors, brokers and investors to deliver the financial statements accurately and per agreed deadline
  • Diligent service to the Board of directors
  • Taxation:
  • Annual tax filings with Central Bank of Ireland
  • Assisting with German, Italian, Swiss, Austrian and UK tax filings
  • Other Reporting:
  • Maintain uptodate knowledge on changes made to GAAP and IFRS as it relates to the financial and tax reporting
  • Comply with Regulatory reporting requirements
  • Knowledge of Fund Accounting and Investment software: Enterprise Invest One & Confluence
  • Daily use of Excel Ole, Excel Macro, Excel, Adobe Pro, Word, Outlook with excellent functional knowledge
  • Ad-hoc projects, e.g
  • Share Capital verification for different sub-funds

Accounts Administrator

ESS Ltd.
Limerick
10.2016 - 11.2017
  • High Volume Payroll on monthly and fortnightly basis via Quantum
  • P45 (new and leavers), P60, P30’s
  • Revenue administration & ROS
  • RCT payments
  • Taxation and tax credits queries from employees
  • Operating on PAYE: Net and gross pay, PRSI, USC, LPT, VHI, Pensions (minor), BIK (Loans, Bike Scheme, Expenses)
  • Reporting: payroll
  • Reconciliation of all accounts via BRB
  • Cash management (AP process, AR cycle)
  • Customer invoicing with remittance advices & credit notes
  • Visa statements & payments
  • Banking, e.g
  • Suppliers and subcontractors payments, cheques, statements
  • Accounts Payable end to end process: purchase orders, verification, vendor invoices, RA, payments, reconciliation, statements, queries
  • Accounts Receivable cycle: PO’s, Customer invoicing, statements, aging schedule, RA, payments, reconciliation
  • General Journals
  • Weekly work records reports
  • Thermography invoicing log
  • Credit controlling: chase client PO’s, payments and maintenance accurate record on accounts system
  • Admin: - Timesheets, overtime, expenses and mileage reports - Suppliers, clients & employees- inquiries, documentation, delegating, database input and maintenance - Procurement of customer equipment or parts - Travel bookings and travel insurance log - Assisting with tax car enquiries
  • Project work:
  • Time Management HR software
  • Organizing MEETA Awards Conference in co-operation with Engineers Ireland

Project & Accounts Co-Ordinator

Eirdata Ltd.
Limerick
05.2013 - 10.2016
  • Payroll: timesheets, expenses, reports, payslips etc via Quantum
  • Financial via Quick Books: - Holiday accruals - General Journals - General WIP & work in progress with comments - Reconciliations of all accounts
  • Cash management (AP process, AR cycle):- Invoice of all work (including credit notes) - Payment received report - Banking, e.g
  • Reporting: - Monthly: all projects hours, job statuses, Novartis site variable, unbilled hrs, job cost reports - Weekly: employees timesheets, expenses, regular and overtime hrs, mileage to HVAC and finance manager, reports for the customer (Veolia Pfizer) to site manager, reports on active projects on BQ data base - SOC 1, SOC 2 control reports on service organisation
  • Credit controlling: - Collection of creditor balances and reporting on collections on a monthly basis - Manage the creditors ledgers including the reconciliation of accounts - Prepare client statements - Client payments advises
  • Process improvement: - Implement quality management system ISO-9000 and preparing necessary documentations for the effective process in co-operation with business support manager - Improving procedures and developing standards for various sites and clients
  • Project Operations/Management:
  • Projects verifications: costs, hrs, PO's
  • Billing all the invoiced hrs & close job phases,
  • Opening & maintain of new jobs/WO numbers data,
  • Database input and maintenance, verification of rates, job statuses. syncs
  • Monthly supplier payments, cheques, statements - Visa statements & payments - Accounts Payable end to end process: PO’s, receipts, vendor invoices with verifications, RA, payments, reconciliation and queries - Accounts Receivable: customer quotations with detailed breakdown, purchase orders, invoicing, statements, aging schedule, payments, reconciliation, reports
  • Technical: - Setting up on (QB, BQ): new employees, rates, contact details, holidays, licenses, passwords & access - BQ data base support combined with a contact of IT department
  • General Admin: - Suppliers, clients & employees- enquiries, managing documentation - Holiday hrs report

Team Co-ordinator/Continuous Maintenance Improvement Database Administrator

Eirdata
Shelbourne, Limerick
06.2007 - 05.2013
  • Supervising of Technical Entry Team: - planning & organising work for team members - KPI’s (keeping records of entered data’s per admin person) - calculating weekly performance of each team member
  • Data Bases maintenance: - preparing monthly reports; - updating & supplementing databases; - KPI’s (keeping records of data’s per client) & exporting data’s - dealing with system errors & failures - checking data compliance
  • Cooperation:
  • With IT, Technical Dept and Management: - taking queries from Asset Care Manager and CMI Engineers regarding databases - assisting with solving problems on any system or connection issues
  • With Administration, Marketing and HR dept.: - delegating team members for available admin work - translating & making projects of job adverts - supplementing HR data base for marketing purposes - arranging holiday & absence covers
  • Process improvement for clients software:
  • Implement project - improve system configuration change process
  • Online tests - deployment issues tracking - reporting procedure
  • Process improvement for employees:
  • Implementation of an incentive system for supervised data administration team
  • Tracking and reporting progress or issues of the project
  • Reporting any major issues to Higher Management
  • Training new personnel on data bases
  • Compliance with data standards and procedures and/or introducing new ones

Database Administrator

ESS Ltd
Limerick
11.2005 - 06.2007
  • Data Administration (preparing monthly reports; updating & supplementing databases; correcting some errors)
  • Databases input
  • Cooperation with IT, Technical Dept
  • Management, Pemac, Pragma OnKey 4, SalesLogix
  • Project work and other clerk duties

Education

Power BI Data Warehouse - Data Processing

Buro Happold Self-Service BI
UK
08.2020 - 08.2020

Business Process Automation in SAP S/4HANA with SAP Intelligent - Accounting And Finance

The Best Run SAP
DE
03.2020 - 03.2020

SAP C/4HANA Business Processes: Lead To Cash - Accounting And Finance

The Best Run SAP
DE
08.2019 - 08.2019

Project Management EMEA/NA - Project Management

Olas Software Training And Development
IE
06.2019 - 06.2019

Microsoft Excel and Word - Finance

Olas Software Training And Development
IE
01.2018 - 06.2019

Finding The Quality in Your Data - Data Processing Technology

Skillsoft Ltd
IE
01.2018 - 06.2019

Data Analysis And Root Cause Analysis in Six Sig - Data Processing Technology

Skillsoft Ltd
IE
01.2018 - 06.2019

Data Analytics & Enterprise Resource Planning - Data Processing Technology

Intuition Know-How
IE
01.2018 - 06.2019

Business Etiquette To Build Professional Relations - Business Management

Skillsoft Ltd
IE
01.2018 - 06.2019

Funds Knowledge in Accounting - Accounting And Finance

NTU
IE
11.2017 - 06.2019

Data Protection And Security - Information Technology

NTU
11.2017 - 08.2019

QQI Payroll Technician - Accounting Technician

IPASS Payroll Association
IE
09.2016 - 05.2017

QQI Accounting Manual And Computerised - Accounting And Finance

Limerick College of Further Education
IE
12.2011 - 06.2012

ILM Award in First Line Management - Business Management

Institute of Leadership And Management
UK
09.2008 - 02.2009

Master of Science - Psychology

University of Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski
PL
10.2002 - 06.2009

Skills

Excellent communication and interpersonal skillsTeam work and ability to work on own initiativeProblem solving techniquesCreativity and flexibilityTrustworthiness & Ethics

Organisation & leading skills

Decision making skillsTime management & Results orientation: work planning, prioritising, delegatingHigh level of accuracy and attention to detailsAbility to self-motivate, independence and initiativeCompulsory nature and responsibility

Technical expertise

Effective numeric skills and analytical thinkingMicrosoft Office tools (Excel, Excel-macro, Word, Outlook, Adobe, Adobe Pro, PowerPoint etc)

Risk Analysis

Certification

Building Resilience

Additional Information

References available upon request

Software

Quick Books

SAP S/4HANA

Bill Quick

TAS Tasbooks

Quantum Payroll

Power BI

Deltek Vision

MS Planner

Unit 4

Sharepoint

Invest One-Enterprise

Confluence Unity

Pemac

Sales Logix Client

MFG:ICE Production

MS-DOS-Ratluk

Ekip with Oracle Database

ACT

Interests

Sports, skiing, photography, music, travels, psychology, health

Timeline

Project Operations Coordinator

Buro Happold
05.2022 - Current

Power BI Data Warehouse - Data Processing

Buro Happold Self-Service BI
08.2020 - 08.2020

Finance and Reporting Specialist/ Financial Analyst

Buro Happold
07.2020 - 05.2022

Building Resilience

05-2020

Business Process Automation in SAP S/4HANA with SAP Intelligent - Accounting And Finance

The Best Run SAP
03.2020 - 03.2020

SAP C/4HANA Business Processes: Lead To Cash - Accounting And Finance

The Best Run SAP
08.2019 - 08.2019

Project Management EMEA/NA - Project Management

Olas Software Training And Development
06.2019 - 06.2019

Microsoft Excel and Word - Finance

Olas Software Training And Development
01.2018 - 06.2019

Finding The Quality in Your Data - Data Processing Technology

Skillsoft Ltd
01.2018 - 06.2019

Data Analysis And Root Cause Analysis in Six Sig - Data Processing Technology

Skillsoft Ltd
01.2018 - 06.2019

Data Analytics & Enterprise Resource Planning - Data Processing Technology

Intuition Know-How
01.2018 - 06.2019

Business Etiquette To Build Professional Relations - Business Management

Skillsoft Ltd
01.2018 - 06.2019

Standard of Conduct

01-2018

Funds Knowledge in Accounting - Accounting And Finance

NTU
11.2017 - 06.2019

Data Protection And Security - Information Technology

NTU
11.2017 - 08.2019

Open Minds: Diversity & Inclusion

11-2017

Accountant/ Financial Reporting

Northern Trust Corporation
11.2017 - 02.2020

Accounts Administrator

ESS Ltd.
10.2016 - 11.2017

QQI Payroll Technician - Accounting Technician

IPASS Payroll Association
09.2016 - 05.2017

Project & Accounts Co-Ordinator

Eirdata Ltd.
05.2013 - 10.2016

QQI Accounting Manual And Computerised - Accounting And Finance

Limerick College of Further Education
12.2011 - 06.2012

ILM Award in First Line Management - Business Management

Institute of Leadership And Management
09.2008 - 02.2009

Team Co-ordinator/Continuous Maintenance Improvement Database Administrator

Eirdata
06.2007 - 05.2013

Database Administrator

ESS Ltd
11.2005 - 06.2007

Customer service standards

12-2004

Master of Science - Psychology

University of Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski
10.2002 - 06.2009
Marta Baraniak-OsowiczProject Operations Coordinator