ABOUT
My name is Pavel Vencl. Field of my expertise is Finance and management. My professional approach is to assess processes in its complexity and not only from financial point of view. Process approach helps me to solve complex tasks with a focus on optimizing ways to achieve the best possible results, either from financial and managerial point of view.
Key to success for me is always people and the team that works together and its members complement to each other. This view is one of the most important for me when considering ways to achieve targets and goals. Good combination of technical possibilities, human potential and the processes design has always allowed me to create an environment that support business on the way forward. I’m also very passionate about helping people in their development and to get the most out of their careers.
When I’m not working, I’m with my family. I live in nice historical town Kutná Hora (in Central Bohemia) and I spend as much time as possible with my loved ones.
DEGREES
- 1986 – 1991 University of Economics Prague – Faculty of Management – Master´s Dergree
Major subject of study: Management – Business analyses and management systems
- 1981 – 1986 Secondary school Gymnazium
School leaving examination in Czech language, mathematics, Russian and IT (programming)
EXPERIENCE
During my professional career I have gain technical and managerial knowledge and know-how in area of leadership, corporate finance, accounting, controlling, planning, budgeting, reporting, project management and IT management.
As a part of my managerial skills, I´m able define efficiently goals and vision, translate it into business environment and processes and drive successful execution trough communication across all managerial levels. I also have knowledge of international environment and corporations and its processes and standards.
I have worked gain experience in different environments starting from manufacturing followed by Logistics and Warehousing, HR services and IT.
I am a CFO/FM with over 15 years’ success in providing support and business partnership to CEOs and senior management teams for effective business management. I have a proven history of aligning financial strategies to business requirements to achieve maximum operational impacts with minimum resource expenditures.
Beside finance management in my career I completed several projects either system implementation, process integration and finally acquisition and business development. From human resources point of view I have experience from multinational and multicultural environment
During my professional career I successfully completed several projects helping company success:
OTK printing & packaging a.s.
During my time in OTK I focused on overall restructuring of the company’s processes with the goal of a long-term profitability. The key tasks in area of finance were securing financing and stabilizing cashflow during a period of energy prices rise.
In area of sales, logistics and manufacturing I focused on design and implementation of processes to improve efficiency and profitability. Main responsibility in this area was communication with the sales and production teams. The key factor for success was gaining all teams acceptance of newly implemented changes and understanding of KPI and profitability measurements.
From IT point of view, we standardized the processes and tools used in the company, completed revision of the IT security settings, implemented Office 365 and prepared the reimplementation of the ERP system.
One important project was to complete the company´s spin-off by merger.
Alef Group
I focus on projects supporting business development either acquisition / establishing new entities. From internal point of view I focus on projects related to internal development in area of collaboration and process improvement
- Acquisition of new business in Romania – transfer of core business into newly established affiliate Alef Distribution Romania, including consolidation and settings of financial systems, processes, and teams. Integration of new entity into Alef Group and support business and operations from all financial aspects. Part of that was due diligence and audit process performed during 06-10/2017. Responsibility for financial side of the transactions and preparation all details for final decision for shareholders.
- Integration of Greece entity into the Group financial structures and rollout of Group ERP system for Greece entity coordination. Financial processes settings, including integration of external supplier for accounting and tax services. Build and establish cooperation with bank to ensure proper and appropriate financing of operations. Support start of the business from financial point of view risk assessment and appropriate funding for business operations.
- Office 365(2019/20) implementation ambassador for Alef Group finance – supporting transition into new environment cooperated with implementation team on user experience side and training of FI teams, roll out functionality within finance community and teams with the aim to implement new collaboration tools. Design finance affiliate and Group SharePoint sites and data libraries in cooperation with internal IT and SW architect teams.
- Implementation of Business intelligence system to support controlling functions (budgeting, forecasting management reporting and analyses – project planned till the end of 2022). I prepared Conceptual design for system implementation and project management including project sponsorship and management. Project divide into 3 Phases :
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- Management reporting and budgeting
- HR – bonus scheme automation – cost sharing model implementation
- Operations and sales data and analyses
- Financial consolidation and Treasury (Working capital and liquidity planning)
- Final goal is to build self-controlling within organization and its departments and train and develop target audience.
ManpowerGroup
The company grew intensively and did not have internal processes set up. After joining, I focused on setting up internal processes and systems enable company to grow in the long run. The company has grown over the years from less than CZK 1 billion turnover to more than CZK 3 billion turnover. Areas that I set both in terms of process and in terms of IT architecture and software development (combining knowledge of finance, software architecture and business) are follows:
- ERP system
- Controlling system
- Payroll processing system (12 000 payslips on monthly bases)
- Candidate database (Core company business)
- Intranet and extranet development together with Marketing (Candidate experience and attraction)
- E-company (digitalization of business and finance processes, e-signature)
- BI and reporting system
- Technical design of all application and its integration
People and teams leadership and development
- Hired and developed a strong controlling team, including setting up a management reporting system and evaluation of financial KPIs
- Build and develop Accounting and Payroll team with specific knowledge focused on HR area an payroll processing
- strong IT team supporting business development, managing key data necessary for successful development
- Support of management team development. Managers recruited from internal sources. Focus on managers development and professional grow
Manpower SK – extended responsibility (take over management of Sk Branch)
- Responsibility was for finance, IT, Office management and business support (Business and client relationship was on the CEO and Sales Director
- took over the branch with the CEO without management and in a non-functional state – necessary hire new teams and set up business processes
- Responsibility for process settings, alignments and integration with CZ systems
LANGUAGES
- Czech – Nativ Speaker
- English – speaking, writing (fluent)
- Russian/German reading knowledge
LICENSES & CERTIFICATIONS
Trainings – mainly internal and online trainings:
Alef Group
- Management Academy – internal long term training with focus on leadership and soft skills improvement
Manpower Group
- Sales Academy / Couching – internal long term training focused on sales methodology, leadership and management skills improvement (including individual couching)
Phillip Morris
- Communication for improved performance
- Project management
- Managing relationship and conflicts
- SAP R3 training modules FI, CO, LO, MM
SKILLS
- Leadership
- Part of management team with focus on strategy, goals settings and its execution
- Leading of large teams in area of Finance, Controlling, Administration and IT
- Team hiring , motivation and development
- Finance and Financial management
- Strategical Finance Planning & Controlling (Reporting, Budgeting and Forecasting)
- Corporate Finance and Financial analyses
- This financial and managerial know-how and skills I gained during different assignments in multinational and multiaffilates companies trough solving different goals, task and different multicultural teams management
- Business development and acquisition
- In Manpower Group I gain deep knowledge of business development support from internal systems and process point of view and also from business point of view through business cased where I cooperate with sales force
- In Alef Group I went through financial side of business acquisition and evaluation integration of new affiliate into Group structures. Also deeply participated on financial side of business start up in Greece.
Other Skills endorsed on LinkedIn:
- Managerial Finance
- Business Intelligence
- Financial modelling
- Change management
- Process Reengineering / Business Consulting
- Computer skills
- MS Office (MS excel proficiency – advanced user), MS PowerBI, Helios Green ERP, SAP R3 (modules: Material Management, Controlling, Logistics, Plant Maintenance and Production Planning), Scala, SUN, Hyperion, MS Navision, PowerKey (time and attendance system), BI
CONTACT
phone: (+420) 603 889 983
mail: pavel.vencl@gmail.com
linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/pavelvencl/