Joanna Skowronek

I’m a highly driven and experienced person in several industries such as manufacturing, property management, food industry, IT, engineering, testing environments and service delivery to clients.

I hold 18 years of extensive experience in the financial and operational aspects of the business.

My main passion is an operational and commercial business improvement. This is the field where I feel most natural, comfortable, and productive. I take personal pride in achieving better business performance (better utilisation and efficiency) and the highest client satisfaction. I’m a very good team player and a people person. I work very effectively with different groups of personalities, knowledge, and experience. In each group, I find unique gems which overall will contribute to the same goal. In addition to that, I easily can act as an individual contributor and work as a team of one with no problem prioritising my task and managing my time accordingly.

Currently, I’m in the process of learning French, but I’m fluent in Polish (my native language), and English plus good knowledge of German which I study for 11 years.

• Month end reporting for all laboratories including P&L, DSO (full monthly pack)

• Monthly variance analysis to budget figures and latest forecast

• Year-end routines and year-end reporting for all laboratories

• Accrued revenue audit

• Deferred sales audit

• RFM report

• Monthly rolling forecast and hard forecast for whole sector

• Yearly budget, including bridges, FTE counts, capital expenditure

• Cost, base price and margin analysis

• Commercial aspects of the business

- Customer profitability analysis

- Analysis of the service and product profitability per customer

- Forecast of the organic growth in specific market and area

• Lab performance/key performance indicators analysis

• Capital projects analysis and capital proposal

- Commercial capital investment proposal

- Operational capital investment

• Best practise exercise for each lab

• Sales analysis and projects profitability on individual basis

• Recognition of the bottleneck and solution to resolve it

• Hands on approach to increase labs EBITA (operational, technical and quality involvement in each case with global specialists to improve labs efficiency and sufficiency)

• Export licence control

• Dilapidation process

• Acquisitions hands on support

- Due diligence process

- Change of internal processes

- Implementation of the new systems (operational, quality and financial systems)

• Exceptional costs analysis

• Regular lab visits across the Europe (operational and financial overview)

• Local excel report design

Current student of CGMA (CIMA) Finance Leadership Program

• CIMA Certificate in Business Accounting E1 Operational level