Human Resources Management

SIRPA KOSONEN

***** ** ********* ***** ********, Oregon 97229

************@*****.*** - 503-***-****

Summary

Experienced corporate treasurer looking to continue an international career at a company based in the United States. Received a green card to the United States and currently in the process of finding a career opportunity in the Northwest.

Areas of Expertise

• Strategic Design & Integration Processes

• Internal Policies

• Treasury Function & Tasks

• Balance Sheet Optimization

• Supervising Finance Functions

• Shared Service Centers with Human Resources & Office Administration

• Corporate Legal Aspects of Guarantees & Liabilities

• Legal Structures of Corporate Subsidiaries in North America, Europe and Asia

• Fluent in Finnish & English. Working knowledge of Swedish. Knowledge of German. Minor knowledge of French and Italian.

Professional Experience

SEB MERCHANT BANK GLOBAL TRANSACTION SERVICES - Finland 2009- 2012

Head of Factoring & Leasing

• Member of the GTS Management Team.

• Member of the Extended Country Management Team

• Offered large corporate sector companies balance sheet optimization products, such as receivables purchase and supply chain financing and leasing.

• Offered companies cash management and trade finance products.

• Focused on developing and reorganizing the function to be customer and advisory focused, versus product focused.

• Attended a 6-module International Factoring Group Academy in Brussels.

• Accomplishments; expanded and sold several receivable purchase programs up to 500 million euro to large multinational companies, trained and consulted staff on most important things a corporation is looking for in bank’s products and services

TIETOENATOR CORPORATION - Espoo, Finland & Redmond, Washington 1999-2009

Group Treasurer & Director of Business Support in North American & Asia

• Hired to establish a treasury function for two merging companies, Tieto and Enator.

• Reported directly to the CFO.

• Managed all treasury activities for the group, including balance sheet structure, cash management, foreign exchange hedging, money market activities, guarantees for subsidiaries and funding the group and all of its subsidiaries.

• Worked as the Director of Business Support Unit for North America and Asia from 2005 to 2006 in Redmond, Washington.

• During assignment in North America, was responsible for directing the company's accounting services, human resources and administration responsibilities for Asia, India, Canada, the United States and Europe.

• Consistently received high ratings with the company's customer satisfaction survey and employee satisfaction survey.

• Attended a 3-week training course called BETE (Business Excellence in TietoEnator) that focused on strategies and leadership skills in 2007.

• Accomplishements; re-structured globl bank account layout for the whole company, negotiated multiple 200-300m€ loan facilities – bilateral and syndicated, multiple share buy back programs, implemented successfully treasury policy throughout the group globally

KONE CORPORATION - Helsinki, Finland 1997-1999

Treasury Dealer

• Treasury Dealer for a company with 27,000 employees and net sales of 3.2 Billion Euros.

• Responsibility over daughter companies, foreign exchange covers and cash management.

MERITA BANK - Helsinki, Finland 1994- 1997

Dealer

• Sold and advised on Money market and FX instruments to Finnish midsize and large corporate sector i.e., FX, Forwards, SWAPs, Deposits, CD’s, FIM & USD Commercial Papers, Bonds

IMPAC Ltd – Helsinki, Finland 1992-1993

Consultant

• Was part of a team focusing on process efficiency and change management

• worked in 4 medium and large corporations, two of them had international business

• attended a 3 week training program in Punta Gorda Florida

Education

TAMPERE UNIVERSITY - Finland

Masters Degree in Finance - 1992

Minors in Accounting, Statistics and Legal Studies

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