Markus Yli-Honkola

Helping customers driving their businesses better with finding the core development areas and enhancing their processes. Leading pre-studies, workshops and content proposals, creating roadmaps, consulting in projects from business perspective.

Supporting a newly formed consumer application and platform sales team through refining and renewing the whole bi-monthly planning and reporting process. Implementation of the process as a pilot team to Oracle Hyperion. Definition and follow up of KPIs, supporting strategic planning and business cases and defining business models. Being in a key role in connecting product teams with business targets and sales.

Planning, reporting and analysis for a product organization creating location applications and for a markets and planning organization. Advertizing, active user and other business and forecasting model creation, KPI development and tracking, supporting in strategic planning, following the smartphone and location market in order to understand drivers for both short and long term planning. A trusted finance counterpart for all all the key stakeholders including product, sales and strategy.

Finance and Control for Nokia Maps and Navigation services organization. Monthly planning, reporting and analysis, KPI development and tracking, strategy support, consumer analytics and forecasting, business and forecasting model creation. Setting up a driver based net sales calculation. Key person in a growing business in a start up phase to connect all the stakeholders driving towards aligned corporate wide targets.

Business planning and analysis for Nokia Service business. Main focus in financial support in various strategical and ad hoc projects coming from senior executives. Creation of complex Excel models in order to find out the profitability and future success of individual businesses and business opportunities. Participating in strategical mid- and long term planning processes by creating several forecasting models and sensitivity analyses.

Supporting Nokia’s Multimedia business group from a group level Finance & Control to grow the early smartphone business into the most profitable business within the industry. Reporting, planning and analysis, KPI development and follow-up, creating a cash-flow simulation and planning monthly cash flows. Participation in various finance tool projects and creating several Excel VBA tools.

Being the glue between treasury and IT and software consultants. Managing several treasury system projects and being part of implementation of various systems and complex Excel VBA tools. Configuration owner of the treasury management and stock option register systems. First one managing over 10B€ money market portfolio and the latter one managing stock option plans of more than 25 000 employees.

Business Finance, Economics, Statistics and Mathematics