Maria Theodorakopoulou

• Oversee Financial statements & tax compliance, ensuring Liquidity, Going Concern and company's financial health.
• Managing relationships with external auditors (completion audits), lawyers (legal cases) and Banks (bonding /credit lines).
• Support operations management and sales team on financial terms of commercial agreements.
• Cash flow management and high-level communication with clients concerning outstanding payments, finance terms and conditions on contracts.
• Respecting reporting deadlines with consistency and strategic task triage.
• Managing corporate financial reporting process, including financial analysis on various KPI's, against forecasts /budget.
• Monitoring monthly forecasts on Sales /GM/ Billing & Cash, compiling reports for region management team to inform deviations, delays, new opportunities.
• Prepare quarterly reconciliation of accounts and take corrective actions on deviations, ensuring compliance of internal controls policy, minimizing risk.
• Reconcile and confirm invoices with payments and purchase orders, verifying details for accuracy and consistency with company's general payment terms and conditions.
• Coordinate and follow up projects through its lifecycles, analyzing project performance and identifying areas of improvement.
• Manage project accounting, enforce actual project data, and conduct cost variance analysis against budget.
• Schedule and facilitate meetings with project execution team to discuss deliverables, schedules, budget deviation costs and possible conflicts.
• Prepare projects review and report regularly to region management team, on project budget, progress, and cost deviations.

• Prepared financial reporting and analysis (actual / forecast /budget).
• Cash flow management and monitoring collection.
• Developed financial and Project reviews analysis, working closely with management team to share reports and analysis findings.
• Monitored Financial statements and tax declarations preparation.
• Partnered with internal and external auditors on the completion of successful audits.
• Ensured compliance with local and group policy requirements.
• Ensured application and maintenance of internal controls.
• Assessed internal controls, including risk assessments, and reviewed of risk areas.
• Managed time efficiently to complete all tasks within deadlines.
• Worked well in a team setting, providing support and guidance.
• Paid attention to detail while completing assignments.

• Oversaw and supervised accounting team in their daily accounting tasks.
• Reconciled AP/ AR sub-ledger to general ledger account balances.
• Prepared monthly journal entries and reconciliations.
• Maintained and reconciled bank statements, fixed assets schedules.
• Calculated tax owed, prepared, and submitted returns and upheld compliance with all applicable laws (VAT, CIT, WHT, etc).
• Performed monthly and yearly balance sheet, income statement and changes in financial position/budget variance analyses.
• Assisted Finance manager in the design and preparation of budgets for review by management.
• Completed year-end closing processes with Finance manager and external auditors.
• Partnered with auditors to track errors and add contributions to maintain accuracy.
• Prepared and submitted the financial statements.

As member of the audit team participated and led accomplished audits, mainly in the below Market Sectors:
 Banking: Agricultural Bank of Greece & Subsidiaries, National Bank of Greece & Subsidiaries
 Shipping: Minoan Lines, Hellenic Seaways
 Others: Piraeus Best Leasing, Almaco, Revoil, Korfil

Key Responsibilities:
• Conducted independent assessments of organizations' financial statements and disclosures.
• Ensured financial statements and disclosures remain free of material misstatement, errors, or fraudulent activity.
• Prepared working papers, reports and supporting documentation for audit findings.
• Developed presentations of audit findings for company leadership.
• Assessed company controls and potential risks against benchmarks.

 Special Assignments:
As member of a team participated in:
 Agricultural Bank of Greece (2004-2005): Recording, planning and audit review of the departments' compliance with the Bank's internal control procedures.
 National Insurance company (2006-2007): Recording, planning, review and compliance with Sarbanes Oxley controls procedures.