Ville-Iivari Räikkä

Working at the European headquarters of Applied Materials, market leader in the semiconductor space as a Financial analyst.

My tasks consist mostly of:

-Procuring monthly & quarterly financial reports on the costs/revenues of the products for the products for the use of the management of the business unit.

-Continuous forecasting of the costs/margins related to the products and advising the business management on the pricing. Continuous reserve management.

-Account reconciliations and posting of journals in order to facilitate accurate book-keeping.

Daily use of Excel, Tableau, Blackline, SAP, BPC.

Working at the Finnish subsidiary of the worlds largest full service advertising agency, Dentsu. My position being an Operations Analyst in the Finance department & Internal functions.

Activities consisted of:

-Monitoring, managing and developing the company's entire Accounts Payable ledger & it's processes. Includes optimizing Cash Management from the AP point of view and many ever-ongoing continuous process improvement projects to increase the effectivity of AP processes as well as reducing their labour intensity.

-Compiling various financial reports both on an ad hoc, as well as month end -basis from different types of datasets. Includes extensive Forecasting. Continuous process improvement always a part of the task in order to model the data in a better fashion.

-Performing the role of Dentsu Superuser/Administrator in various financial and internal functions related -IT systems. Examples ranging from our ERP to our expense/travel costs -system.

-Dealing with various internal and external groups. From large customers to playing a big role in annual Audit processes. Also dealing and managing my 2 person accounting/AP -team that we bought as an outsourced service from India.

-My main tasks consisted of compiling a variety of financial reports, analyzing them and producing information for the use of the upper management of the business unit.

-Running a wide list of checks and queries to make sure our financial IT systems and reports were running flawlessly and that they adhered to the Sarbanes–Oxley requirements.

-Excel - Constructing, updating and improving large financial reports for the use of the upper management. Handing large datasets and using various excel -tools to model said data

-SAP - Finance module was the main ERP system used in this task, whilst also using SAP Business Warehouse to create Excel-connections for the reports.

Working at the service center of Xerox LTDs Barcelona -office as a billing analyst. I worked in an international team with English being the working language.

Activities consisted of:

- Following-up daily billing procedures.

-Ensuring compliance with T&C's Business Rules as well as ensuring strict adherence to IC&Sarbox requirements.

- Ensuring we achieved the main billing KPIs on a monthly and quarterly basis. Activities regarding both KPI tracking and improving actions to increase the KPI quality.

- Communications with both external and internal interest groups to ensure & improve service quality.

Tools that we used extensively were multiple SAP modules, entire MS Office package as well as a dozen different customer portals through which we archived and delivered information and paperwork.