Paulina Mitova has over 15 years of experience in financial analysis, strategic planning, forecasting, and reporting. She currently works as an Assistant Vice President of Financial Controller at Credit Suisse, where she leads budgeting, forecasting, and financial reporting processes for a $300M portfolio. Previously, she held financial analyst roles at CBS Corporation and was an income auditor at Hyatt Hotels Corporation. She has expertise in Excel, business intelligence tools, and statistical software. Mitova holds an MA in Economics from The City College of New York and a BA in Finance from the University of Portsmouth.

1. PAULINA MITOVA, MA
147 E 35 Str, Brooklyn, NY · 646-884-2890 · paulina.mitova@gmail.com
Revenue & Expense Management · Financial & Decision Analysis · Strategic Planning & Forecasting
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Credit Suisse, New York, NY January 2015 – Present
Assistant Vice President, Financial Controller
• Provide business partner and FP&A support for operating budget over 300M CHF by leading the month-end close,
budgeting, and forecasting processes.
• Lead monthly financial reporting and review of results: MTD and YTD financials and FTEs compared with budgets.
Identify and communicate monthly trends in the expense base, reasons for variances, potential issues that may arise
with proposals to mitigate budget risks.
• Guide, consult and challenge the business to make economical and value creating decisions.
• Cultivate collaborative relationships with clients and other finance business partners to facilitate an understanding of
key business drivers.
• Ensure the team understands the financial implications of operational decisions and tradeoffs.
• Budgeting / Forecasting / Strategic Planning: support business partners in the annual strategic planning and
operational business plan processes, and input required from a higher level, to ensure detailed-level processes are
executed and affected.
• Reporting structure / hierarchy changes: maintain financial reporting hierarchy. Ensure reporting structure/hierarchy
changes are executed to reflect business changes and enhance the transparency of management information.
CBS Corporation, New York, NY March 2008 – November 2014
Financial Analyst - Forecasting and Planning / CBS Television Network
• Participated in the overall consolidation of the CBS Television Network monthly financials, including financial
statement analytics, forecasting procedures, management book preparation, preparation of corporate submissions and
the recording monthly journal entries.
• Contributed to the design and implementation of analytical process and methodology to facilitate and guide decisions
related to strategy formulation, resource allocation, risk management, and portfolio optimization.
• Performed expected cash flow modeling, understanding of economic value measures, decision tree analysis and
multi-attribute analysis.
Business Analyst - Financial Reporting / SHOWTIME Network
• Managed the key financial planning processes from month-end close, management reporting.
• Worked with sales team to build revenue opportunity models in the context of anticipated marketplace dynamics.
Outlined development plans on costs, timing and technical feasibility.
• Partnered with procurement to drive cost efficiency - setting savings objectives, drive initiatives to bring savings to
the business, track progress against goals.
• Guided the sales group to develop deal terms and define the negotiation strategy.
• Supported analyses to guide investment decisions for externally sourced product opportunities. Partnered with
licensing teams to frame, evaluate and integrate technical risk and commercial potential and provide appropriate
portfolio context for licensing opportunities.
• Responsible for timely preparation, review and submission of consolidated financial statements including Balance
Sheet, Income Statement, and provided financial information to Senior Management.
• Prepared detailed budget schedules and performed budget to actual analyses to identify possible billing opportunities
and develop strategies to achieve greater efficiency.
HYATT Hotels Corporation, Bethesda, MD July 2004 – October 2007
Income Auditor
• In charge of auditing and allocation the revenue and all aspects of Clients Finance – Contracts and Billing

2. COMPUTER SKILLS
Excel, Business Objects, Hyperion, SPSS Statistical Software, TM1, Cognos
EDUCATION
The City College of New York, Colin Powell School for Civic and Global Leadership - MA Economics, 2014
University of Portsmouth - BA Finance, 2002