Athanasia Varsaki MSc. ACMA, CGMA

Experience

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  Rentokil Initial

  Oct 2012 - now

  Main Responsibilities:• Provide support to the M&A team and senior RI staff across all stages of the M&A process through:• Financial modelling and valuation analysis• Strategic appraisal - Preparation of and constructive challenge toward investment cases• Project management and coordination of due diligence• Management of external consultants• Maintaining and tracking the M&A pipeline through external research and proactive engagement with RI senior management, in order to identify prospective targets for acquisition/disposal.• Preparation and governance of documentation required by the Investment Committee and the RI Plc Board.• Competitor and market analysis• Manage all reporting and communication aspects between M&A and all other departments. Show less Main Responsibilities:Assisting / Project Managing replacement of existing finance system “Open Accounts” with the new one “Navision”. In more detail, this includes following activities:Pre-implementation• Capturing business processes and identifying opportunities to improve them by utilising system functionality.• Ensuring business and system requirements are met.• Explore areas of risk and ways to overcome/mitigate.• Ensure compliance with Global Chart of Accounts and Accounting Policies.During Implementation• Analyse user profiles (work method, transaction types, and volume) in order to create security access profiles and establish efficient work process in a personal level.• Assisting in User Acceptance Testing and End to End testing of bespoke developments in Navision identifying possible areas of risk and report them back to 3rd party developers.• Creating and maintaining migration maps between current, future and 3rd party systems and ensure reconciliation between these.After Implementation• Monitor system performance to user’s satisfaction• Support users during transition period (Hand-holding period support) Show less Main Responsibilities:Treasury• Monitor interest rates charges in bank pooling structures• Business exposure analysis on foreign exchange risk• Cash flow modelling• Managing weekly cash pool forecasting for all regions• NPV calculations on long dated foreign exchange and currency swapsGroup Accounts• Preparing reports for monitoring and controlling purposes, notably One – offs and restructuring costs, Cash flow movements and reserves, IT development costs, Acquisitions and Disposals• Annual, Half year and Interim reporting support• External audit support Show less Main Responsibilities:• Assist in monthly and quarterly business performance reporting and review• Monthly accounting and book-keeping activities for Divisional Overheads cost centres as well as budget controlling and monthly forecasting.• Monitor compliance with Group Accounting Policies• Review and regional consolidation of annual budget and 3 year strategic plan• Preparing data and producing summary reports and other ad-hoc reports to be used for analysis of performance and aiding in decision-making. Show less Main Responsibilities:• Modelling and costing of large (>£1m) single service and total facilities management contracts;• Collection, analysis and manipulation of large amount of information to identify key issues and challenges, trends and patterns in order to assisting in the decision making process around customer needs and commercial requirements;• Review of costing models to identify errors and inconsistencies;• Running projects to improve and standardise the bidding process and make it more efficient.• Budget management and controlling. Show less

  • Mergers and Acquisitions Manager - North America

    Sept 2020 - now

  • Mergers and Acquisitions Manager - Pacific

    Aug 2018 - Sept 2020

  • Mergers & Acquisitions Associate

    Jul 2015 - Jul 2018

  • Finance Gradute - Finance System Implementation Analyst/ Project Manager

    Sept 2014 - Jun 2015

  • Finance Graduate - Group Financial Analyst

    Jan 2014 - Aug 2014

  • Finance Graduate - Junior Divisional Financial Analyst

    Oct 2013 - Dec 2013

  • Finance Graduate - Major Bids Analyst

    Oct 2012 - Sept 2013