Péter Kovács
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Finance Leader experienced in managing change, modernizing finance - dealing with complexity and ambiguity
• Direct report to Regional CFO, member of Regional Finance Leadership Team • Leading a regionally scaled finance transformation program across 7 market units and regional supply chain • Modernizing finance: centralized Controllership and FP&A functions, implementing digital self-service solutions, SAP CFIN implementation; shared service accounting; fit to purpose organization design
• Direct report to General Manager, member of extended Leadership Team, technical leadership of ca. 80 associates from all business functions • Leading the business integration of the two German Chocolate and Chewing Gum segments across all business functions such as Sales, SRM, Supply Chain • Leading full process and system integration, including SAP R/3, with successful go-live
- 2 years and 7 months, Jun 2017 - Dec 2019Mars Deutschland
Integration and Transformation Lead – Finance and Legal merger
• Member of Finance Leadership Team, technical leadership of ca. 25 people • Leading the integration of the Chocolate and Gum segments’ two finance functions • Leading the Legal merger of Wrigley GmbH and Mars GmbH, 2017
- 2 years and 7 months, Nov 2014 - May 2017
Portfolio Effectiveness Manager
Wrigley GmbH - A Subsidiary of Mars, Incorporated
• Leading Regional Portfolio Management Review and Innovation Stage-Gate Review • Innovation pipeline efficiency vs. growth targets; portfolio effectiveness/simplification • Regional Pricing Champion – sharing and deploying pricing insights in European markets; scaling up regional pricing initiatives
- 1 year and 11 months, Jan 2013 - Nov 2014
Regional Center Finance Manager
Wrigley GmbH - A Subsidiary of Mars, Incorporated
• Budget management of regional head quarter ($100m), Regional Overhead management ($1bn) • Driving Value creation of total regional overheads ($1bn) including European restructuring project “Simplicity for Growth”.
- 3 years, Jan 2010 - Dec 2012
Finance Manager Austria & Netherlands
Wrigley Austria GmbH
• Member of Leadership team, business partner to General Manager 2012 Best Co-Pilot Award, Mars Europe • Responsible for the delivery of business and finance objectives both top line ($60m) and bottom line. • Leading the Finance team of 3 associates • Financial Planning & Analysis and management reporting • Strategic Revenue management • Annual reporting and Audit • Financial Operations, Control & Governance; Treasury and Cash management
Educational background for Péter Kovács
- 6 years and 11 months, Sep 1995 - Jul 2002
Accounting
Budapest University of Economic Sciences and Public Administration
Languages
English
Fluent
Hungarian
First language
German
Fluent
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