Jana Pankratzova

• Campus budget controlling, enabling strategic projects and value creation
• Collaboration with stakeholders to ensure adequate and compliant allocation of resources
• Driving continuous improvements, e.g. streamlining processes by using Alteryx and improving presentation of financial data by creating PowerBI dashboards
• Supporting various digitization projects
• Mentoring junior analysts within and outside of the controlling team

Achievements:

• Simplification of IC charge out and cost allocation processes
• Overhaul of forecast process driving transparency and enabling earlier actions (data modelling, scenarios creation)

• Leading, motivating and empowering team of 7 professionals responsible for various tasks (Blackline administration, Banks, Manual Payments and more)
• Identifying inefficient processes and implementing better solutions, that suit modern robust finance organization
• Strong collaboration with teams outside of Switzerland
• Supporting further adoption of modern digital tools (PowerBi, PowerAutomate, aCREW, Alteryx)

Finance business partner for Large molecule and APAC external manufacturing, responsible for planning (short term, long term, strategic plan), reporting, supporting business cases and contract negotiations.
Supporting long term digitalization and large scale capacity projects at multiple sites.

Achievements:

• JSC Digital Champions program - implementation of PowerBI Other Cost tracking dashboard
• HBA Zug 2020 As a member of core steering committee I was able to support and gain visibility for various initiatives working with cross sector and cross functional teams.
• Credo team member (Source finance cross-sector) - supported various initiatives focused on talent development and employee well-being
• Project Glocal - performed tasks central to the project such as identification of opportunities, evaluating quotes, budgeting and NPV calculation.
• Reducing OCNIS forecast inaccuracy to 4%

• Synthesizing complex and ambiguous information from external and internal sources and translating it into actionable items for Hematology (Imbruvica) and PAH teams and leading competitive intelligence monitoring for Swiss market
• Providing realistic, but ambitious, sales forecast by challenging business to actively support strategic and operational goals of the company

Responsibilities:

• Driving closing activities of a manufacturing plant
• Inventory planning, accounting and analysis
• Payroll accounting and analysis
• Monitoring performance and providing insights to various stakeholders on their KPIs
• Standard cost calculation, driving improvements and transparency in the cost allocation model.
• Full absorption accounting

Achievements:

• Supervised financial part of special projects - e.g. remediation, facility shutdown
• Served as a guest auditor during internal and SOX audit in Brazil
• JDE trainer in Israel during ERP implementation

Developed and managed budgets for G&A functions across commercial unit and production plant in the Czech Republic. Set up allocation methodologies for maximum results without over complicating the process. Consolidated planning and reporting for multiple sites.
Achievements:

• Built new role from scratch
• Leader of cross-functional team for Transparency project (HCP related cost monitoring)
• Finance partner for SAP implementation
• Project lead for Finance data overview (FIDO) application

Controlled OPEX of commercial business unit in amount of cca 30 mUSD. Provided financial analysis and strategic recommendations to support business objectives.
Achievements:

• Spearheaded transition in procurement process resulting in OPEX reduction of 5 mUSD
• Streamlined transfer price adjustment process
• Modernized project budget tracking process in OTC business area achieving higher transparency and better forecast accuracy leveraging ERP functionalities

Responsibilities:

• Overseeing monthly closing activities (JE, NRV, account reconciliations, IC transactions)
• Monthly reporting packages for senior management
• Sales and OPEX forecasting
• Synthesizing internal and external inputs to drive business decisions

Supported senior controller of the manufacturing plant during implementation of new version of ERP (Oracle).

Responsibilities:

• Closing activities, Audit preparations
• Inventory accounting
• Standard costing

Achievements:

• Model of flexible product costing, used for set-up in new ERP and for COPS/COGS calculation.