CONSULTANT/ PROJECT MANAGER
Context network / USA / 01-12.2023
• Partnered closely with clients to understand their business needs, resulting in highly tailored and effective solutions.
• Successfully led multiple projects with strict deadlines and budgets, delivering results that consistently met client expectations. Key areas included marketing research, capacity and operations optimization, sustainability insights, and growth strategy development.
• Designed and implemented project frameworks and methodologies to enhance efficiency and effectiveness.
• Provided comprehensive project oversight and management, ensuring seamless execution and client satisfaction.
INDEPENDENT CONSULTANT
Various Clients / Tampa, Florida / 2020 – 2022
/ Kyiv, Ukraine / 2018 – 2020
Consulting Company (Big 3 – NDA)
• Provided expert guidance on $150M strategy for expanding agricultural business, including management centralization, increasing land bank, and investments in logistics and production infrastructure.
• Doubled crop acreage, boosting yield productivity by 15-20% and increasing revenue by 2.6X.
• Drove improvements in personnel effectiveness through restructuring and a new decision-making matrix, decreasing production personnel from 11 to 7 people per hectare.
Fincontrollex
• Analyzed marketability of Microsoft Excel add-in product portfolio developed to help corporate clients with business analysis and decision-making, paving the way for the development of a new cloud solution.
Unimarket Systems
• Co-launched an online furniture marketplace startup and grew it to full-scale NADIIA TRONE
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Nadiia’s LinkedIn
Nadiia is an executive strategist and management consultant with 15+ years of leadership in positions including CFO, COO, Chief Controller and more across agriculture and food production. Nadiia has been at the forefront of innovative organizational change and overseen mergers and acquisitions for businesses driving up to $400M in annual revenue. As a consultant, Nadiia supported the development of a $150M expansion strategy for a major agricultural business, ultimately boosting revenue by operational transformation and go-to-market strategy. Nadiia’s international background and expertise in finance and project management have established her as an accomplished executive with proven results. BIO
E D U C A T I O N
MASTER’S DEGREE IN
ECONOMICS AND MANAGEMENT
Kremenchuk Mykhailo Ostrohradskyi
National University
Kremenchuk, Ukraine
Highest Honors
GRADUATE CERTIFICATE IN
MANAGERIAL FINANCE
MIM-Kyiv Business School
Kyiv, Ukraine
GRADUATE CERTIFICATE IN
ACCOUNTING AND TAXES
Alfred Nobel University
Dnipro, Ukraine
P R O F E S S I O N A L
D E V E L O P M E N T
Certified Kaizen Manager
Kaizen Institute
International Financial Reporting
Standards
Deloitte
operation, establishing offices in two cities.
Confidential Pharmaceutical Client
• Increased Client revenue by 3.5X over 18 months by designing a model to analyze sales channels and related reporting.
DIRECTOR OF OPERATIONS
AgroTerra / Kursk, Russia / 2017 – 2018
• Directed high-impact projects for an organization with $90M annual revenue.
• Oversaw six departments with 52 employees of the Shared Service Center, including Accounting, Data Analytics, Human Resources, IT Support, Legal, Health and Safety Departments.
• Drove project to evaluate and improve transparency and productivity of grain storage cycle across 19 grain storage facilities with 500K ton capacity, involving 300 people throughout the entire process.
• Analyzed entire grain route from field to sale batch, closed gaps in quality/quantity accounting process, improved reporting system, and eliminated workflow inefficiencies.
• Enhanced grain traceability and reduced risk of poor-quality batches from high to low.
• Streamlined and formalized Shared Service Center’s processes and developed related Service-Level Agreements (SLAs).
• Increased employee engagement index by 30%.
• Managed $1M budget.
CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER
Rusagro / Belgorod, Russia / 2015 – 2017
• Oversaw operations for an agricultural company with 1.5M acres/600K hectares and
$400M annual revenue, including crop production, logistics, construction, R&D, dairy farming, and analytics.
• Designed and implemented new production and logistics strategy, including crop turnover optimization and activities to increase crop yield and storage capacity, ultimately boosting crop yield by 15%.
• Developed a strategy to improve dairy farm production, increasing revenue by 42%.
• Implemented Kaizen practices, decreasing average repair time by 15%, changeover time by 20%, and achieved $700K economic effect from employee-led initiatives.
• Designed analytical dashboards enabling daily business performance reviews, saving up to 2 hours of executive time per day.
• Implemented a multi-million-dollar SAP ERP system utilized by 3K+ people.
• Spearheaded development of $1M Automatic Control System including diesel flow, crop flow control systems, and farmland monitoring system to prevent theft, decreasing diesel expenses by 20%.
• Supported acquisition of 131K acres/53K hectares of farmland in the Russian Far East.
• Designed and implemented integration plans for acquired businesses.
• Established a KPI system for production and logistics departments.
• Improved team engagement index by 14%.
• Managed $200M budget for all production and logistics expenses.
• Oversaw 5 production regions and Logistics, Construction, R&D, Data Analytics, and Constant Improvements departments.
CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER
Rusagro / Belgorod, Russia / 2012 – 2015
• Drove land acquisition and business integration strategy, supporting cropland’s bank growth by 14%
P R O F E S S I O N A L E X P E R I E N C E ( C O N T I N U E D ) L A N G U A G E S
English
Ukrainian
Russian
P R O F E S S I O N A L E X P E R I E N C E ( C O N T I N U E D ) Accounting
Budget management
Business development
Change management
Competitive analysis
Consulting
Data analysis
Digital transformation
Employee development
Financial analysis
Financial forecasting
Financial modeling
Financial planning
Financial reporting
Inventory management
Investment management
Kaizen principles
KPI implementation
KPI management
Logistics
Managerial economics
Managerial finance
Market research
Marketing strategy
Mergers & acquisitions
Operations management
Portfolio management
Process automation
Process improvement
Product development
Product management
Project management
Sales strategy
Search engine optimization
Software implementation
Strategic planning
A R E A S O F
E X P E R T I S E • Spearheaded process improvement and automation, halving preparation time for financial reports and achieving highest ratings for reporting accuracy and timeliness.
• Managed $14M budget and $100M investment program, procuring 100% of federal and regional subsidies applied for.
• Led strategic planning process, including macroeconomic analysis, model development, scenario design and analysis, and plan execution.
• Established inventory policy and policies on disposition of unused assets and overdue receivables, reducing overdue stock of materials from 1.5 years to 2 months or less and increasing receivables turnover by 45%.
• Built, led, and mentored team of accountants, financial and data analysts, including developing and implementing financial literacy program which reduced reporting process time for analysts by 20%.
• Supervised 4 departments with 90 employees.
• Awarded Best Manager in 2014.
DIRECTOR OF ECONOMICS
Rusagro / Belgorod, Russia / 2012
• Restructured managerial economic department, improving performance and boosting on-time reporting by 20%.
• Prepared company budget for approval by Board of Directors. A D D I T I O N A L E X P E R I E N C E
CFO OF DIVISION / 2010 - 2012
CHIEF CONTROLLER OF DIVISION / 2007 - 2010
TERRA FOOD / Kyiv, Ukraine
TREASURY ANALYST MANAGER / 2005 - 2007
BUSINESS ANALYST / 2003 - 2005
Unimilk -Danone / Kremenchuk-Kyiv, Ukraine
CHIEF ECONOMIST / 2001 - 2003
ECONOMIST / 1999 - 2001
Treasure Department – Ministry of Finance / Kremenchuk, Ukraine Busi ness Transformation
Global Experience
Program Management
Project Plans
Resource Allocation
Stakeholder Engagement
Stakeholder Management