Resume Constantin Sandu

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Constantin SANDU
+40744 559 261 - Constantin_Sandu@hotmail.com - Bucharest
SENIOR EXECUTIVE – FINANCE DIRECTOR – STRATEGIC PROGRAMME MANAGEMENT &
BUSINESS PROCESS DEVELOPMENT & OPTIMIZATION
I have a significant history record of 35 years in Finance, and wide experience in the areas of
Financial Management, including Statutory & Management Accounting, Taxation, Banking
Operations, Treasury and Taxation, Audit & Risk Management, Financial Planning & Reporting,
Marketing Finance, Strategic Planning & Insight, dealing with financial decisions business enterprises
make and the tools and analysis used to make these decisions. During my entire career I have
managed various teams sizing up to 100 direct and indirect reports.
During the past 8 years I have been working in different senior management roles the field of
Finance Shared Services.
I have also managed significant business Transformation and Transition projects and initiatives.
I am a certified practitioner in the Prince 2 project management methodology and I have successfully
acted as a Program/Project Manager for significant initiatives aiming to transform and optimize
restructure the business towards a world class finance organization and I have lead projects aiming to
leverage various finance and non-finance business opportunities e.g. successful deployment of a new
commercial model (direct distribution) in Bulgaria, implementing cross border tax optimization
arrangements, smart excise & VAT management & recovery, supply chain optimization, etc.
I was also Project Manager for the SAP ERP implementations in Romania and Bulgaria and I have
a solid understanding of the SAP key functionalities and dependency to other supporting IT platforms.
I was involved in developing new transactional finance process standards for Group Finance Shared
Services as well as leading the successful implementation of such standards in the end-markets. I
have been directly involved in the development of the Business Performance Management
Framework and Process Design & Optimization and lead the implementation of the existing
Governance for Finance Shared Services.
My main responsibilities covered planning, and co-ordination of all activities related to creating,
developing and implementing the appropriate infrastructure, business processes, ERP systems,
organization design, staff recruitment and knowledge transfer to enable migration of existing and new
business entities/end markets to Shared Services.
I have also been responsible for the Service Delivery, which is designed to define an operational
framework for the Finance Shared Services Centre to provide efficient, high quality services to the
Customers. This also includes tracking the service performance levels achieved and to ensure that
the results will be made available to the Customer on a regular basis and will also establish the
appropriate both the general FSSC responsibilities as well as the general customer responsibilities,
together with the appropriate service level KPIs.
KEY STRENGTHS  VALUE OFFERED:
Key areas of expertise:
 Finance Shared Services, Business Performance/Service Management, Service Delivery
 Financial & management accounting, Financial management & statutory reporting
 Project/Programme/Portfolio management – Prince 2 practitioner

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 Stakeholder management, change management & communication, Change & Transition
Management
 Business process architecture & optimization
 Information management, data integrity, financial systems & tools
 Resource allocation management & optimization, Talent development & pipelining
 Planning & performance management, Sales & operations planning
 Cash flow forecasting & Working capital effectiveness
 Tax planning & optimization
 Business risk management
Key Strengths
 High ability to manage multidisciplinary cross functional teams and also managing a large
variety of other internal and external stakeholders.
 A very good ability to develop strong interpersonal relationships, combined with the ability to
communicate with senior and other levels of staff in all departments and companies both
within the Group and externally
 A sound/very good knowledge of key business processes and a solid understanding as to how
these generate financial transactions
 A very strong knowledge and understanding of both financial and operational controls and
the ability to proactively mitigate risks and issues as well as the ability to leverage business
process opportunities as they arise and as appropriate.
 Good knowledge of both the SAP platform as well as of the various IT enablers for FSS
 A very good commercial awareness combined with relevant experience gathered while
working for various international companies, especially FMCGs, and one of the "Big 4"
accounting firms worldwide, as well as a solid knowledge and understanding of all the
business key functional areas.
 A significant track record of business processes built and development e.g. being directly
involved in extensive process design, standardization and optimization activities, embedding
processes with the SAP system, combined with a good knowledge of the MEGA Business
Architecture and Business Process Modeling & Optimization Methodology.
EXPERIENCE SUMMARY:
May 1999 –
to date
British American
Tobacco (BAT)
 Head of Accounting, Treasury &Taxation – BAT Romania
 Head of Business Risk Management &PMO – BAT
Romania
 Head of Finance - BAT Bulgaria
 Business Development Manager - BAT Bulgaria
 Regional Migrations Manager – British American Shared
Services Europe (BASSE)
 Head of Service Management BASSE
 Service Delivery Lead - Head of OTC & Global
Intercompany – BASSE
 Programme Manager – Finance Transformation
 Regional Business Controls Manager Europe & AME
Jan 1998 –
Apr 1999
FLANCO
International
Finance Director
Feb 1997 –
Dec 1997
Lafarge Romania Finance Director
Feb 1992-
Feb 1997
Deloitte & Touche
C&EE
Director of Tax and Business Advisory Services
1988-1992 Ministry of Finance
- Romania
Senior Tax Manager
Head of Department Direct Taxation

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1982-1988 Romanian National
Railway Company
(SNCFR)
Finance controller,
Head of Audit – Infrastructure Division
1981-1982 Romanian National
Electricity Company
RENEL/Electrica
Financial Analyst
Significant achievements:
 Performing pre-acquisition due diligence reviews and supporting successful acquisitions of
local business by international companies
 Successful implementation of a fully-fledged Direct Distribution model as a green field
operation in Bulgaria. Managed the new entity to become No.1 international player in the
market within 1 year
 Legal, fiscal and capital restructuring & optimization of international companies operating in
Romania
 Developing & successful implementation of Global Finance Process Standards for Finance
Transactional Processing in FSSC
 Successfully managing the transition of end markets from Europe and AME to the Group
Finance Shared Service Centre
 Establishing and implementing the Service & Performance Management Framework in FSSC
 Established the portfolio management framework for FSSC and successfully managed
delivering various business improvement initiatives.
Successfully managing BaU and multi-disciplinary project teams of up to 100 people
More details on career summary are available upon request
EDUCATION
Academy of Economic Studies – Faculty of Management – Bucharest -
Prince 2 Project Management Methodology – Practitioner level -
MEGA/HOPEX – Business process architecture, modelling & optimization methodology
Principles of International Taxation – IBFD
Principles of Transfer Pricing - IBFD