Maria Zilberkant

• Professional leadership according to core values & feedback culture • Support in hiring, onboarding, appraisal, and employee development as well as in strategic planning • Knowledge continuity and transfer, digitalisation • Participation in projects for strategic or technological innovation • Best practices sharing with BASF stakeholders • Steering and support internal and external Audits • Product Ownership of Software (Concept & Design, Solution documentation, Implementation, Testing SCRUM based)

• Governance of cost allocation within BASF Group globally (per OECD) • Developing of process narrowed guidelines and manuals • Developing of compliance strategy within cost charging process jointly with BIG 4 auditor • Tax audits (remote as well as personal, where a present and communication with the tax auditors is required) • Product Ownership of Software (Concept & Design, Solution documentation, Implementation, Testing SCRUM based) • Functional leadership (stuffing, onboarding, personal development)

• Transfer of process ownership to SSC Berlin • Governance of cost allocation process (guidelines, compliance, trainings) • Collaboration with respective global units • Knowledge transfer • Coordination in the implementation of technical changes • Contact for internal and external audits • Owner of process related applications (Tool development, User Communication, Coordination of improvement activities, Trainings, Cross-application cooperation)

• SAP general ledger accounts maintenance, monthly and annual closing, general ledger bookings, payroll, reconciliation of accounts, tax allocation, deferred tax • Month-end closings according to IFRS and local GAAP (incl. intercompany reconciliation) • Preparing annual financial statements according to IFRS and local GAAP • Contact for financial auditors, tax department, local financial officers and corporate finance department

• Formal review of supplier invoices with and without purchase order in accordance to the EU-27 Legal requirement / local law requirements. • Collection of invoice approvals via workflow and authorization checking • Resolve any differences with the respective departments • Implementation of the automatic payment run • Correspondence with the suppliers [public institutions and financial authorities] and shareholders Working student October 2011 - October 2012

Building of accounting and controlling from scratch (start-up) • Introduction of accounting (concept and implementation based on local GAAP) • Implementation of ERP (transfer from excel based calculation to ERP) • Taxation and defence in case of tax audits • Import / Export activities (from declaration till payment, scope CIS) • Stuffing and onboarding of accountants as well as sales managers • Reporting and Controlling of performance (excel based)