Carolyn Shwash

MBA

Director and CFO

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SLM1055 Sliema
Malta

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Personal information

Wants

• Utilise my entrepreneurial mind-set conscious of environmental sustainability • Create new competitive market space • Expand and identify new business opportunities while devising means of acting on them by creating innovative business opportunities • Analyse within the financial field • Work in a multinational environment • Lead and motivate cross-functional and cross-cultural teams • Constructively challenge the status quo • International business travelling
Haves

• Entrepreneurial mindset, constructively challenging the status quo • Opportunity obsessive, tolerant of risk, ambiguity and uncertainty • Creative, self-reliant, adaptive and motivated to excel • International work exposure in the private and public sectors in America, Central Europe, Southern Europe & Southeast Europe • Strong interpersonal skills leading and motivating cross-functional and cross-cultural teams • Business & Service Development • Strategic Planning & Execution • Sales Forecasting • P&L, Balance Sheet & Cash Flow Statement • Financial Planning Development • Negotiating & Persuading • Problem Solving & Decision Making • Financial Ratio Analysis • Research & Analysis • Financial Forecasting, Budget Analysis • Virtual Team Building • Pricing Rationalization • Business Plan Development
Interests

Italian wine, mountain biking & working out @ the gym, HBR, woking (not a typo), cool new iPhone apps, friends & family -- not necessarily in that order
Organizations

• Moderator of EcoSolutions, www.xing.com/net/ecosolutions/ • Member of Toastmasters International, www.toastmasters.org/ • Albatross Member of InterNations, www.internations.org/
Groups

Professional experience (15 years, 3 months)

Feb 2010 - present
(2 years, 4 months)

Director and CFO

(The company name is only visible to registered members)

Industry: Building Materials, including but not limited to construction material, solar and photovoltaic systems and equipment
Nov 1999 - present
(12 years, 7 months)

Associate Lecturer, Coach, Teacher

Universities, Schools, Corporations & Companies

Industry: Education
Mar 2011 - Aug 2011
(6 months)

Retail Technology Analyst

Planet Retail GmbH, http://www1.planetretail.net/home

Industry: Publishing
Jan 1992 - Apr 1992
(4 months)

Auditor

Stutzman Helling Taylor Company, Ltd, Saint Paul, MN, USA, http://www.ceo-solutions.com/

Industry: Financial Services
Dec 1988 - Mar 1991
(2 years, 4 months)

Auditor

PwC, Minneapolis, MN, USA, http://www.pwc.com/

Industry: Financial Services

Employment status

Entrepreneur

Educational background

Aug 2007 - Aug 2009

University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY, USA
Master of Business Administration, MBA

http://www.uwyo.edu/
Aug 1984 - May 1988

University of Saint Thomas, Saint Paul, MN, USA
Business Administration/Accounting, BA

http://www.stthomas.edu/

Languages

English (First language), German (Fluent), French (Good knowledge), Arabic (Basic knowledge)

About me

My international work experience includes both the private and public sectors spanning from the US to the Balkan Peninsula. As an external auditor for one of the Big 4 CPA firms and a small CPA firm, I was also fortunate to develop my business acumen as an accountant for a multinational conglomerate corporation in America. Once moving to Germany, I honed my entrepreneurial skills taking advantage of my strong analytical and strategic skills, enthusiasm to innovation and motivation to excel by building an impressive array of clients as a business English teacher and founding my own company with my Bulgarian business partner, our manufacturer and Maltese project manager. With this valuable international work experience, it has enhanced my strong interpersonal skills leading and motivating cross-functional and cross-cultural teams.