Ilze Cekule

Experience

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  Circle K

  Nov 2015 - now

  eMobility - Requirement gathering- Impact analysis- Action planning & activity coordination- Resource planning- Testing coordination- Process analyze & improvements- Communicate status issues, risks and changes to stakeholders- Organize & lead cross-functional teams to deliver on agreed timeline- Work with Operations, Finance, Product Development, IT and other departments- Bridge between Global Shared Services Finance department and eMobility organization - Supporting teams with existing process reviews and analysis as well as new process design, implementation and support- Collaborations with business and IT regarding potential improvement initiatives- Sharing best practises- Building and strenghtening relationships between IT and Business teams- Representing Finance interests in projects and related process designs- Hubble Power User and Business owner for Operations Accounting department - Develop broad understanding of O2C processes- Review & analyze processes- Identify gaps and work on improvements- Represent O2C in different internal projects- Act as system super user within O2C/Finance- Collaboration and knowledge sharing with Finance teams and IT- Hubble Power User and Business owner for Operations Accounting department - Handle complex internal and external requests as well as account balance disrepencies- Monitor period closing procedures- Analyze billing processes and initiate possible improvements- Perform, develop and implement internal control activities- Participate in change implementation - Perform and monitor period closing procedures- Create and correct invoices for bulk customers- Challange and improve team's processes and internal controls- Prepare account reconciliations- Perform internal, local and key controls- Respond to customer queries- Analyze complex cases - Handle customer queries- Validate transaction errors- Create and correct invoices for fuel card customers

  • Manager Process Excellence

    Jun 2024 - now

  • Global Process Owner

    Feb 2024 - Jun 2024

  • Project Manager

    Oct 2022 - Feb 2024

  • Process Lead Operations

    May 2021 - Oct 2022

  • O2C Process Lead

    Jan 2019 - May 2021

  • Senior Finance Specialist

    Jul 2018 - Dec 2018

  • Accountant

    Jan 2016 - Jul 2018

  • Junior Accountant

    Nov 2015 - Jan 2016