Athanasios Panagiotidis

Experience

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  Ministry of Education, General Secretariat of Lifelong Learning

  Feb 2013 - Jun 2013

  Entrepreneurship Hub Scholar

  “Entrepreneurship Cells” was the pilot project implemented by the Ministry of Education through the Operational Programme “Education and Lifelong Learning” co-financed by the European Social Fund and organized at the incubator (I4G) of Euroconsultants S.A.The project aimed at supporting young people, who have distinguished themselves for their innovative business ideas in order to turn them into mature business plans and commercially viable businesses.Our team, which excelled in the context of such entrepreneurship contests was granted a scholarship as well as support, consisting of the following:◉ Provision for the possibility to work in co-working spaces (following the example of internationally known incubators) based on the most up-to-date international standards. Such co-working spaces aim at incubating young potential businessmen, providing favorable conditions for the development of cooperation and the elaboration of ideas and plans.◉ Provision for the possibility to get in touch with leaders and organize information seminars and cooperation days with the contribution of a network made up of special advisers, offering support by providing counseling services, and contact with potential investors for the business ideas.▷ During this project, I acted as the market intelligence analyst of the team. Some of my key tasks as a project team member were the following: ◉ Identified and collected necessary market, macroeconomic, customer, financial, competitors' data◉ Analyzed industry trends, current & potential competitors' performance, as well as legal and regulatory issues. Additionally, performed risk-benefit analyses and recommended mitigation actions for occurring risks.◉ Translated business requirements to our IT, through elicitation with the customer and internal stakeholders for the creation of the company's website.◉ Created deliverables relating to strategic company topics, market and industry trends. Show less

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  Hellenic Army

  Sept 2013 - May 2014

  Artillery Private

  Military service in the Hellenic army is an obligatory duty for all Greek male citizens.During peacetime, the Army has the following objectives:◉ The maintenance of operational readiness for the prevention and effective confrontation of dangers.◉ The contribution to international security and peace.◉ The contribution to activities of social aid and the support of state services.▷ During my service, I supported the camp as artillery private with responsibilities in the camp's communications office:◉ Collected data, updated, and maintained basic information databases.◉ Drafted and edited army communications, facilitating internal communication.◉ Maintained basic activity calendars and performed mailing activities. Show less

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  Capgemini Invent

  Jan 2016 - Jan 2016

  Business Analyst

  Strathclyde Business school offered an apprenticeship scheme, after a highly competitive selection process, where students with the strongest analytical skills and academic capabilities were chosen for placements while studying. In this scheme, students were embedded in the analytical function of 1 of 25 different organizations based all over the UK. ▷ As part of this scheme, I was selected as a business analyst in the Business Analytics department of Capgemini. Our aim was to assess a large multi-channel retailer's product portfolio and strategy and to provide informed recommendations, focusing on transforming the client's online presence and the customer experience of the website's users.◉ Assessed project requirements through elicitation and interviews, performing a problem definition analysis and identifying risks and new opportunities for the development of the customer.◉ Performed root cause analysis and created stakeholder and mind map to better understand the underlying client problems, as well as the stakeholders' engagement and relationships.◉ Analyzed big data, provided by the organization, including e-retail volume by channel and product as well as key performance indicators concerning transportation and online sales.◉ Bench-marked and measured industry and top players' performance, through online analytics platforms in order to identify best practice examples for the client.◉ Implemented simulation and forecasting models to identify and recommend alternative ways to increase online visibility and online sales through better use and management of data generated online.◉ Developed a "to be" business process model, using workflow diagrams, describing step by step the tasks to be completed in order to accomplish the transformation of customer's online presence. Show less

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  Ferrero

  Jul 2016 - Jun 2019

  The Group IT Financial Controlling team is responsible for developing a group-wide approach to the accounting, controlling and management of IT costs, supporting business decisions, and helping business leaders understand how IT expenses contribute to business value.▷ My role within the team involves managing and controlling, IT & Cyber Security operational expenses for the Headquarters Legal Entity, as well as being the central controlling counterpart for all the regional markets, consisting of more than 80 entities.◉ Capturing business demand according to the Ferrero IT strategy, building OPEX Budgets & Forecasts with the support of IT Business Partners and local controlling teams.◉ Ensuring that expenses remain within budgeted levels, providing value-adding financial analyses and standard reporting packs for Budget, Forecasts & Actual, for Group IT Operating and Capital Expenses.◉ Overviewing data management activities. Building and monitoring financial models and KPIs (e.g. cost/user, Cash) and performing ad hoc analyses to support business diagnostics, strategy, and decision making.◉ Controlling the group IT transfer pricing model (inter-company recharges), ensuring correct model application and cost allocation. Additionally, aiding and supporting local teams for audit & tax inquiries. ◉ Designing and implementing a new SAP & Hyperion Financial Management structure, based upon the IT Operating Model, which will be adopted by Group as the data source for IT Costs.◉ Actively participating in internal projects relating to financial big data management and business analysis topics, carrying out business requirements analysis and business process modeling activities, ensuring a lean and agile way of working. Show less The Travel Market Business Unit develops and offers products in airports, border-shops, and tax-free zones worldwide. Within this unit, the Customer Development team focuses on improving customer data management, also deploying the strategic plan to create a new commercial policy for the Business Unit. ▷ Within this team, my role was to support sales & finance, designing, documenting, and presenting a new pricing strategy for the Business Unit based on extensive analysis.◉ Conducted stakeholder analysis, mapping stakeholder types and segmenting their power/interest, in order to avoid potential stakeholder risks and conflicts.◉ Performed requirements' elicitation, "as is" process design, and root cause analysis to define current process status and identify problems and process bottlenecks. ◉ Analyzed big data sets, assessing data quality and creating new data clusters to improve business and data analysis standards.◉ Carried out sales demand and financial cost analyses, analyzing customer/product P&Ls, sales trade terms as well as logistic costs in order to assess the status of fair customer treatment. Additionally, developed new performance metrics to identify trends for more than 110 customers & 90 products supplied internationally under different trade terms and agreements.◉ Designed a cross-functional process, satisfying the real business requirements and ensuring cross-functional collaboration, operating efficiency, and effectiveness.◉ Proposed radical changes in the pricing strategy, resulting in a decrease of demand of "toxic" customers combined with an increase of gross margins by more than 20%.◉ Designed and constructed effective models, dashboards, and reports, aiming to document findings relating to our business and financial data analysis activities, to facilitate decision-making for senior management. Show less

  • Financial IT Controller

    Mar 2017 - Jun 2019

  • Business Analyst

    Jul 2016 - Mar 2017
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  Vodafone

  Jun 2019 - Oct 2021

  Finance Business Analyst

  The Finance Insights team is responsible for defining and developing a digital roadmap for Vodafone Roaming Services to follow, shaping, leading, and delivering Financial digital transformation initiatives in collaboration with different functions (e.g. wholesales, commercial, finance, operations, etc.)▷ My role within the team involved documenting and analyzing the existing digital landscape, while leading various financial digital transformation initiatives.◉ Analyzing the existing company landscape by eliciting information to map and document current financial processes, identifying risks and new digital opportunities.◉ Re-engineering current processes to reinforce process efficiencies and savings, aiming at quick wins and long-term sustainable revenues.◉ Playing a key role in the process automation & simplification projects, ensuring that Vodafone strategy is followed, spotting new opportunities, and taking actions towards digital business transformation.◉ Actively participating in internal projects relating to financial big data management and business analysis topics, carrying out business requirements analysis and business process modeling activities, ensuring a lean and agile way of working. ◉ Over-viewing all commercial financial modeling activities and all new project business cases (Maritime, Inter-standard Roaming, Travel-Sim, etc.), analyzing COGs, Revenues, OpEx, CapEx, and ensuring that commercial offerings adhere to the company's commercial pricing strategy and that expenses remain within budgeted levels. Show less

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  J.P. Morgan Mobility Payments Solutions S.A.

  Oct 2021 - now

  • Head of Financial Planning and Controlling

    Mar 2024 - now

  • Business Controller

    Oct 2021 - Mar 2024