Ioana Focsa https://ro.linkedin.com/in/ioanafocsa

Key Skills

During May 5th 2014 to present:

Experience

Problem solving and analysis

Business valuation analysis

Organizational behavior

Technical skills, IT and help desk

Accounting and auditing skills

Sales skills

Customer support

B-B Consulting

Financial consulting skills/corporate finance/risk advisory

Project management

SAP FICO CRM and HR modules, HANA, TRM, IT helpdesk IBM Citi Iovio

Auditing and accounting

Primavera, Project, Access, Excel, LWI, NOVA, SIEBEL

Fluent in French, German, and Italian

Near fluency in Spanish and Hebrew

Translations skills: English Romanian Romanian English French Romanian Romanian English German Romanian Romanian German French English English French German English English German Italian Romanian Romanian Italian

Teaching skills qualified UK CELTA TESOL English

HR recruiting EMEA Europe skills

Article writing and editing skills various subjects, copywriting

Curriculum writing skills for various teachers programs with British Council

SEO skills, Google Analytics

Worked as freelancer English, French and German instructor for adults;

Collaborated as freelancer and consultant for the British Council

Last three summers in UK with Twin UK, Anglophiles and EF Bournemouth as freelance English teacher. From 2013 to present provided Skype English lessons to adults and university students from CEE. From 2011 to present provided online translations projects for various companies in Bucharest. From August 1st tutor at Online English Teacher Romania (English adults). From September 15th online English tutor at Native Camp Japan. From September 20th collaborator and English and German teacher at Pro Delta Future Bucharest.

Current also editor and freelance writer at Nislo Research UK Bucharest (editing and writing various articles in business, history, geography, religion, law, politics)

May 5th 2014 – Present Senior Corporate Advisor Deloitte Romania No reason to leave unless better home based offer

Provide financial consulting to various Deloitte Clients

B-B work in various client projects

Auditing and accounting analysis

Reporting to partners and managers

Assist the partners into making business decisions

Participate in company ongoing consulting trainings local and overseas projects as well as deliver on-site client presentations and audits;

January 15th 2012 – May 5th 2014 -- Senior Consultant Reason to leave company restrained its activities in Bucharest IOVIO Amsterdam Bucharest

Consulting and SAP implementation TRM Holland Bucharest at all levels of the consulting business, SAP FI CO and HR implementation

B-B work in various clients work

IT helpdesk and analysis

Financial analysis and due diligence and auditing

Accounting work

Translation work

For this period I was in the process of moving abroad to Bratislava and negotiating my job (interviews)

March 15th 2011 --- June 31st 2011 Financial Analyst Reason to leave family issues home sick parent IBM

Shared GDS center Bratislava Dublin Bucharest

IT consulting work (SAP databases etc.)

Reporting to managers on partners work

B-B work and customer support work

SAP FICO CRM HR work and implementation to the internal clients IBM, Participated in SAP trainings

SAP Project Implementation from Dublin to Shared GDS Center Bratislava, Sofia (TRM SAP transfer project from Dublin)

Obtained the SAP qualification

August 1st 2008 – March 15th 2011 Senior Economist Reason to leave my department would not grant a transfer KPMG

Reports in auditing and research

Accounting and financial analysis

Translation and implementation of models (CEC bank, BRAT and other clients)

May 1st 2008 – August 15th 2008 Senior Consultant Reason to leave wanted home location for work IBM Bulgaria Dublin

Accounting and SAP work implementation in FICO CRM modules of the Dublin Databases in Sofia Bulgaria

Consulting SAP work (TRM from Dublin office to Sofia IBM office modules at all levels of the business)

Trainings in Dublin in SAP, accounting, HR

April 1st 2008 – April 1st 2010 Team leader Accounting Wipro Bucharest Reason to leave job required temporary relocation abroad

Reported to management in regards to Accounts Receivable and Accounts Payable (SAP) client Inbev Prague to Bucharest office

Performed various client audits

Participated in TRM and SAP FICO project implementation for the client In Bev from Prague to Bucharest office

B-B work to various Wipro clients and customer support

Project management accounting and financial analysis

Team building and leading

April 1st 2010 – April 1st 2011 Senior team leader WNS Romania Reason to leave I have discussed some projects and I could not get transferred to more demanded projects as per contract

Reporting to management on Accounts Receivable and Accounts Payable

Performed various client audits

B-B work and customer support

SAP implementation and financial analysis (FICO, HR, TRM) local WNS office

September 1st 2005 – May 1st 2008 Sales consultant Reason to leave Aviva’s portfolio of my clients was small as Romania was at the beginning in this market and could not make enough money Aviva Plc.

Promoting AVIVA products and services

Selling insurance products to selected customers

Making presentations to clients

During this period I performed freelance consulting work for various organizations in Bucharest

October 1st 2004 – September 1st 2005 Officer Reason to leave too heavy schedule night work health issue Unicredit

Drafting legislation and banking procedures for internal bank clients

Translations and accounting work

October 1st 2002 – September 1st 2005 Banking consultant Reason to leave my French manager proposed branch job but I wanted to stay in the HQ Societe Generale

Writing banking procedures and implementing them in Board

Creating the “service clients” and “guichet universel”

Translations of documents and accounting work

January 1st 2001 – October 1st 2001 Analyst auditing EY Bucharest Romania

Public ministry of finance audit and TRM analysis for EY Bucharest

Audit and SAP TRM work for Raiffeisen Bank branches analysis with the EY team

Societe Generale Brasov branch audit and SAP work TRM implementation and analysis

Other ongoing audits and reports to partners

During this period I returned to Romania as my work visa for USA expired and I sent in job applications

June 15th 2000 – February 1st 2001 Senior financial analyst Reason to leave not valid USA work permit Primerica Financial Services

Promoting the CITI services to clients

Performing financial needs analysis

Selling insurance prepaid and legal products

June 15th 1999 - - July 15th 2000 Finance project manager Reason to leave not having any longer a valid US visa Citi NYC

Managing the Lotus Notes Database Project

Fixed asset reconciliation and cost analysis

Selling banking products to selected clients and networking with internal partners

Reporting to the VP of Financial control

Ongoing Collaborations

Education

Online Teacher English and French Online Teacher since August 1st 2018

Bairesdev USA Business Developer from March 1st 2020 remotely

EF Education First UK remote English teacher for young learners (UK based) from February 2020

CoLanguage teacher online (English French German and Romanian) part-time from December 2019

Business valuation analyst at Versata Inc. US and Romania since February 2019 (performing business valuation for various international and local companies, financial reporting and project management)

CVO, George Butunoiu, (HR consulting and procedures writing) Consultant HR; Independent UK EU (Romania) HR consultant ongoing, HR Manager Online Teacher since June 1st 2019

Tooliers Promoter and Consultant for free entrepreneurs

Translations (Swiss Solutions, WXYZ translations, and We translate complete solutions) Freelance translator

Independent English teacher tailored to US UK and CEE markets (taught Twin Group, Anglophiles UK, Embassy Summer, Wall Street English, Wise Owl English, PLUS Summer UK, EF Bournemouth, King’s Summer Bath downside, Bell UK Cambridge YL Programme)

I Tutor Group English online teacher (teenagers, young adults and adults) 10 hours per week since September 2018

British Council consultant and teacher since May 2012 ongoing

CELTA and TESOL qualified since 2012

Teaching English independently

Wipro Bucharest since January 2019 Help Desk Support with German and French part-time

Independent IT and Engineering recruiter German market

Freelance senior editor collaborator Antena 3 news Romania and Caesars Magazine Bucharest

Research and SEO analyst at Wallet Hub USA since October 15th 2019

Freelance academic writer at Livingstone Research since November 5th, 2019

Content writer at Cityhunt Bucharest part-time collaboration since September 1st 2020

Mississippi State University, USA

1993 – 1998 MBA, BA, BBA

Finance and management

Accounting and International Economics

French and German

Walden University, USA

2011—2012 PhD Economics

Microeconomics and world economics comparison study emergent market crisis

Columbia University, USA

2012, Postgraduate Studies in Economics and Finance Doctor Honors Cause.

Harvard University, USA

2011-2012, PhD Economics and Finance

CELTA Diploma Cambridge University UK April 2012

MA TESOL Cambridge University UK, April 2016

Stanford University 2019 – 2020 Journalism studies

Other Skills

Translation skills

Writing (academic) skills

SEO marketing online and Google Ad words collaborated with SEOMARK Romania

Conversational German, French, Italian, Spanish, Hebrew, Greek

IT skilled

Word Processors, CAT tools

Project, PowerPoint, Excel, Lotus Notes, other databases

About Me

Born July 13th 1974 in Romania (EU Citizen)

Single, no children.

Address: 10 Mihail Petrini Street apt 11 Bucharest sector 5 code 050582

Email: adi8y8@r.postjobfree.com; adi8y8@r.postjobfree.com

Phone Number: +407********;

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