Yuliya Unterberg

Following Brexit I moved to Germany and began an advisory career as an interim CFO with focus on performance improvement and corporate finance I have helped businesses articulate their business models, define and deliver strategy, business plans, processes, improve performance, raise funding.

In this my final pre-Brexit role I reported to Director Corporate Finance, assisted CFO & the board in making informed strategic and investment decisions. Responsibilities: Financial modelling, Investments, risk management, credit rating (Moody’s Methodology) Advising the Board on: -forward looking investment criteria, Cost of Capital -framework for investment appraisal, monitoring, close -policies, KPIs and reporting -Investment cases and risks -Market and macroeconomic situation and trends

Business Analyst, Corporate Finance. Support members CFO & department heads with strategic analysis, financial modelling and advice.  presentations for investors and credit rating agencies, executive committees;  Roll out of Asset Performance Evaluation – a strategic Group portfolio evaluation & monitoring tool  long term financial plan

Business Cases & financial modelling for UK rail franchise bidding Business Analysis & Improvement of the target franchise, identification of risks and opportunities, insight & challenge to support development of winning strategies  guiding the bid delivery sub-team through the process of business case creation,  business case appraisal and challenge of assumptions, scenario analysis to optimise retailing strategy;  providing input for the franchise bid Tier 1 and 2 financial models provided by DFT

This employment covers a series of promotions from Assistant Project Accountant to senior Finance Business Partner I helped deliver £1.8bn Major Capital Programme through Financial Control, management accounting, forecasting. I was responsible for P&L, Balance sheet, Monthly Performance Reporting, Analysis, Reviews with Budget holders & risk managers. I reduced time for reporting from 2 weeks to 1 day, helped roll out of Finance Managemetnt IT project

Financial Strategy & Risk Management, Business Strategy & Investment, Corporate finance, Treasury, Financial Analysis, Management Accounting, Cost Control, Governance, Financial Accounting (UK GAAP, IFRS), Project Management, Leadership, Law, HR, Statistics

Linguistics. Major - the English language & Literature, minor - the German Language