Irina Lippens

Irina Lippens

Junior internal auditor

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  • Timeline

  • About me

    Program Manager at FOD Financiën - SPF Finances

  • Education

    • Latvijas Universitate

      1996 - 1999
      Bachelor Production Management

      Activities and Societies: Member of the faculty council and student board

    • Latvijas Universitate

      1999 - 2001
      Master Business Administration - Logistics Management

      magna cum laude

    • Ghent University

      2001 - 2003
      PhD research Applied Economics

      PhD research in Transport Economics – simulation modellingJoint project with Vlerick Management school

    • Rigas Tehniska Universitate

      1996 - 1997
      Civil Engineering

      Specialisation in Energy systems – entry year only

    • Ghent University

      1999 - 2001
      Applied Economics and European Law

      Socrates exchange Master program

  • Experience

    • Jauda Ltd

      Feb 1997 - Dec 1997
      Junior internal auditor

      • Audit and booking of banking transactions; part-time student job

    • Ace Logistics & Forwarding Inc.

      Jan 1998 - Jul 1999
      Operations manager

      • Organization of logistics and transport process, including air, sea and road carries• Sales and customer relationship• Supervising customs clearance operations• Directly responsible for 2 employees

    • Bpost

      Sept 2003 - Mar 2011

      Corporate Profitability & Costing department Oct. 2008 – Mar. 2011Industry Economics• Developed methodology of various regulatory constrains calculation - Long Range Average Incremental Costing (LRAIC) test, Chronopost test, etc;• Prepared answers for inquires of the European Commission and the Regulator (BIPT) including Competition Foreclosure and Cross subsidization questions• Designed a cost and resources simulation model for the Strategic long term plan of the company• Developed and implemented cost elasticity model of bpostPricing• Calculated various product cost and profitability business cases for pricing purposes (both LRAIC and Fully distributed cost based), including product and customer oriented analyses• Prepared input for Marketing and Legal departments regarding price floor and rebates justification;• Member of the Pricing steering committee as from 2010 Analytical accounting• Optimized and kept up to date costing of all three Business units of bpost (ABC costing) – Business, Residential and International; Show less Mail Operations department• New Sorting Centres projectThe project was launched to increase technical and operational performance of letter and parcel sorting centres. Member of the team responsible for conceptual design, building and deployment of four new sorting centres (Gent, Antwerp, Liege, Charleroi) and upgrading of one existing centre (Brussels)- Responsible for developing portions of new processes and production flows- Testing and introducing of various new sorting equipment- Negotiations with the unions and safety officers- Participation in construction site planning meetings• Integration of Taxipost projectThe integration of the daughter company was requested to increase cost efficiency of parcels logistics- Responsible for creating of the transition planning- Developing elements of new logistic process- Including new operational backbone and integration of IT systems - Estimating business attractiveness of the new product offering Show less

      • Senior business analyst

        Oct 2008 - Mar 2011
      • Business Analyst

        Aug 2004 - Sept 2008
      • Assistant to industrial engineering manager

        Sept 2003 - Jul 2004
    • Bpost banque / bpost bank

      Apr 2011 - May 2012

      Management Consultancy: Pre-study project, Corporate Portfolio Office- Preparing Project Mandate (PM) and Pre-study Analysis Document (PAD) for the 5 strategic marketing initiatives- This includes collecting and analysing project information, developing alternative scenario’s, calculation Business cases and project ROI, performing inter-department impact analyses for Marketing, IT Development, Compliance, Legal, HR, Information Security, Finance and Risk departments, as well as external parties- Coordinating related studies and validating results with project sponsor and department directors. Show less

      • Project Manager

        Jun 2011 - May 2012
      • Senior Business Analyst

        Apr 2011 - Jun 2011
    • Adneom

      Apr 2011 - Mar 2015
      Project Manager
    • IRIS (Canon Group)

      Jan 2012 - Dec 2019
      Project Manager
    • Fednot

      Jun 2018 - Aug 2020
      • Project Manager

        Sept 2019 - Aug 2020
      • Team Lead Manager

        Jun 2018 - Aug 2019
    • Colruyt Group

      Aug 2020 - Feb 2021
      Project Manager
    • FOD Financiën - SPF Finances

      Oct 2020 - now
      • Program Manager DevSecOps

        Jan 2024 - now
      • Architect

        Mar 2023 - Feb 2024
      • Project Manager

        Oct 2020 - Feb 2024
  • Licenses & Certifications

    • Agile development and Scrum

    • Being a Successful Team Member

      O'Reilly
    • ITIL V3 Foundation

    • Prince 2

    • Cybersecurity: Managing Risk in the Information Age

      HarvardX
      Jan 2024
      View certificate certificate
    • Oxford Leading Strategic Projects Programme

      University of Oxford
      Aug 2023
      View certificate certificate