Dmitry Kaplev, ACCA

Leading management accounting, performance analysis, budgeting and cost control

Leading FP&A function. Created management reporting and budgeting processes and systems from scratch.

Lead projects in area of financial function processes improvement.

My area of competence is financial management, performance management and taxation. I teach open courses as well as courses for Big4 companies. My students often showed the highest rates in Russia and even in the world. This is a session work (courses of lectures twice a year) Translated ACCA textbooks into Russian, adapted tasks for Russian specifics. Developed own study guides. Currently in the process of creation of the online school of taxation, specifically for DipNRF diploma, part of ACCA qualification.

Managing project "Official Taxi of Domodedovo Airport". Technically, it is a full-scale start-up within the larger company. This project is a mini version of Gett itself, with over 50 staff, own technological solution and business processes. I joined the project at the end of "venture" stage. My role was to switch focus on operational and financial effectiveness. I started with completely changing the way we work with field staff. I implemented new motivation scheme for both - field and middle level staff, introduced reporting and personal initiatives to supervisors. Secondly, I am rearranging the way we work with our partners, taxi companies and their drivers. We introduced additional agreements, establishing clear rules with fines and motivation for drivers. It was agreed with major parks. It allows us to adhere to strict airport regulations and provide good quality service to passengers. All these things took substantial time and required a lot of work on communication and change management, but as a result, we got ready for high season.

Managing kindergarten, built from scratch. Includes managing people, finance, business development and day-to-day operations. After a year of operations it started to be autonomous, I was involved for periodic performance reviews and for taking high level decisions. Successfully sold to private investor.

Main business: We analyse internal processes and transactions of big companies in retail and Industry sectors and find areas of risks and errors which lead to loss of money. As soon as we detect these losses, we recover them on behalf of our clients. Additional areas: consulting (process optimization, cost reduction) and forensic (payment analytics, process assurance, business intelligence)

Responsibilities: • Head of accounting, IT, security, engeneer and maintenance departments of the store; • Planning, analysis, creation and control of the budget; • Development and implementation of new cost control measures; • Participation in meetings of board of directors of the store; • Planning and realization of investment projects; • Being in charge of projects for decrease of excessive stock levels, analysis and adaptation of product offer and others; • Monitoring of costs and turnover; • Operational management of administrative and commercial issues; • Working with external suppliers of the store to get the best conditions concerning quality and costs of services they offer, tendering process (utilities, maintenance, construction etc) • Being responsible for yearly stock-take of the store (planning, organization, support and analysis of results and measures to improve stock-take results) Accomplishments: • Participated in opening of new store in Ekaterinburg (organiztion of working process; signing of contracts with main suppliers of the store, such as security, maintenance, supplies etc); • Providing management and information support for the store, which made the largest growth of turnover in Moscow; • Development and agreement of budgets 2014 for turnover, costs and investments; • Development and realization of effective anti-crisis measures to increase turnover and decrease costs in 2013.

Responsibilities: • Planning, performing, supervising and completion audit engagements, audit of financial statements under RAS, IFRS; • Leading project teams (3-5 people) on Russian and International clients of Automotive Production, Oil&Gas, Retail, Consumer Goods Production and other industries; • Developing and maintaining productive relationships with client; • Managing and training audit teams, coaching junior team members, motivating them for achievement of set goals; • Reviewing consolidated financial statements, the clients’ accounting system and internal control system; • Preparing audit documentation & client deliverables to an internationally accepted standard. Accomplishments: • Successfully conducted the audit and received personal gratitude from international automotive production company’s CA; • Reduced the time of audit work for 1 week due to well-done planning and junior staff work coordination and proper motivation; • Led internal training events on audit methodology and internally accepted approach to certain areas of work; • Several times received partner’s appreciation for active participation and organization of internal events in the Company.

IT project management: - Project Lifecycle Stages - Project Network Scheduling and Crashing - Resource Scheduling and Risk Management - Agile Project Management, Monitoring and Control