Senior fund accountant
Olena Kartyzhova
An analytical finance and accounting professional with over 6 years of experience with increasing responsibility and scope. Experience includes performing audits of financial statements in accordance with IFRS, UA GAAP and LUX GAAP requirements, performing financial analysis of the enterprises’ activities, analysis of client’s business processes and identification of weaknesses and potential risks for business, analysis of DCF models, performing consolidation, providing support in the preparation of the consolidated and standalone financial statements, NAV packages oversight, transaction management etc.
Industry experience .....................................................................
- Investment funds
- Agricultural production
- Railway transportation
- Sea shipment business
- Automotive business
- IT entities
- Retail sales business
- Metal and mining companies
- Real estate companies
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Work experience ...........................................................................
Senior fund accountant (Senior consultant) | RBC I&TS (IQ Solutions)
Mar 2021 - present
- Monthly / Quarterly Oversight of NAV packages
- Perform analysis, make recommendations, prepare responses on accounting matters
- Monitor and ensure that all deadlines are met as agreed in the Operating Memorandum
- Financial statement review and analysis
- Coordinate with auditors and provide full support for audit/review of financial statements
- Share information with others RBC I&TS departments involved in the NAV review
- Ensure proper dedicated expertise on accounting topics
Senior auditor | EY Luxembourg
Sep 2019 - Mar 2021
- Perform audits and preparation of the financial statements prepared in accordance with IFRS and LUX GAAP (consolidated and standalone)
- Identify significant accounts, disclosures and classes of transactions; perform engagement work planning
- Make judgments on significant estimates or assumptions that management made when they prepared the financial statements
- Perform overall analytical procedures of financial and non-financial information, including analysis of significant variances, trend analysis, comparing actual results to budgeted results
- Communicate all findings to the Clients, prepare presentation to deliver audit results to the Clients
- Supervise and coordinate teams of 3-6 subordinates and perform assessment of their work and review of working papers
- Arrange the work for component teams from different countries, review the status and assess the results of the work performed by them
- Perform consolidation of the financial statements of the Group (over 100 entities)
- Ensure accuracy of all company’s bookings, including reconciliation to the supporting calculations and verification of correctness of those calculations; ensure accuracy of IFRS / LUX GAAP adjustments recorded
Senior auditor | EY Ukraine
Oct 2018 - Sep 2019
- Perform audits and preparation of the financial statements prepared in accordance with IFRS and UA GAAP (consolidated and standalone)
- Make combine risk assessment and determine the nature, timing and extent of tests of controls and substantive procedures as well as general audit procedures
- Design and execute test of controls and substantive audit procedures, including, but not limited to, bank reconciliation, invoice review, verification of the correctness of accruals made and depreciation charged, review of the loan and interests calculations and verification of their accuracy against the loan agreements, etc.
- Support the Client with the preparation of the DCF models for biological assets
- Perform analysis of large data sets using EY Data Analysis Tools (EY Helix, Subledger Analyzers)
- Coach team members and share experience and knowledge with them, including being facilitator for newcomers
- Support preparation of the accounting policies for the Clients in order to implement new IFRS Standards (particularly IFRS 16 for agriculture company)
- Perform engagement work planning
- Ensure accuracy of all company’s bookings, including reconciliation to the supporting calculations and verification of correctness of those calculations; ensure accuracy of IFRS / UA GAAP adjustments recorded
Audit assistant | EY Ukraine
Nov 2015 - Sep 2018
Financial analyst assistant | Fincor Plus Ukraine
May 2015 - Aug 2015
Audit intern | EY Ukraine
Jan 2015 - Mar 2015
Education ..........................................................................................
ACCA student | ACCA Global
Dec 2016 - present
Master’s degree in Mathematics | Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv
Oct 2018 - Sep 2019
Trainings ............................................................................................
Project management| GoIT
Apr 2021 - Jun 2021
Java OOP Courses| Prog Kiev UA
Jan 2019 - Apr 2019