Evangelos Konstantinopoulos

Experience

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  National Bank of Greece

  Jul 2006 - Sept 2006

  Accounts Admin Assistant (Internship)
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  Hellenic Air Force

  Sept 2008 - Jun 2009

  Soldier (Obligatory service)
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  Aperitivo Jetset Lounge

  Nov 2011 - Jun 2012

  Staff Supervisor
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  MTN Cyprus

  Jun 2012 - Dec 2012

  Representative of Sales
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  IBM

  Jul 2013 - Aug 2021

  ▪ People manager for Distributed Software team covering Germany, Austria and Switzerland (DACH market).▪ Management of 20+ people supporting bid and order management responsibilities (special bid creation, order validation and booking, billing, dispute handling etc.) for IBM On Premise SW and Cloud offerings. ▪ Monitoring team performance and KPIs (volumes, cycle times, throughput, employee sentiment etc.)▪ Facilitating and leading business and cross market interlocks for enhancing collaboration, efficiency and prioritization of business requests.▪ People management responsibilities including employee assessments, compensation, recruiting and career development.▪ Implementation of agile management practices with regular iterations and retrospective meetings. Show less ▪ Actively support the manager in team operations (employee assessment, feedback, work distribution across the team, hiring etc.)▪ In collaboration with the manager, ensure that staff are motivated, monitored and measured in line with company targets and performance standards.▪ Responsible for making sure that any gaps in performance or quality are quickly identified and addressed.▪ Preparing daily workloads for staff & coordinating the daily allocation of work.▪ Mentoring and training up junior and new staff.▪ Arranging & chairing daily/weekly team meetings.▪ Daily team activities include: revenue & cost controlling, signing recognition, backlog tracking, revenue & cost accruals/deferrals etc.▪ Implementation of agile management practices with regular iterations and retrospective meetings. Show less ▪ Coordinate the budget planning process for Enterprise & Commercial segments in Middle East & Africa region▪ Prepare and present the revenue and signings budget for all IBM divisions to MEA sales directors and vice president▪ Conduct reviews of budget proposals and analyses of data to determine the correct allocation of revenue targets to each segment in the corresponding country▪ Provide ad hoc analysis and reports to business in requests relevant to budget setting▪ Act as trusted business advisor towards the sales team in MEA and junior financial analysts▪ Member of IBM Sofia Professional Academy and various other internal projects▪ International assignment at IBM Finance center in Sofia Show less ▪ Coordinating the expense controlling, budgeting and forecasting of 2700+ IBM employees across EMEA▪ Expense and resource consolidation and analysis at EMEA level. Preparation of consolidated financial statements and report to worldwide finance leader▪ Ensures budget is properly allocated across business units and EMEA countries. Analyze roadmap items for budget achievement and highlight potential issues▪ Headcount and expense analysis of actual results versus trends and forecasts. Explaining deviations to budget and forecast and year to date trend analysis. Presentation of the monthly and quarterly results to Global STS finance leader describing the deviations and highlighting changes in trends/forecast. ▪ Preparing ad hoc analysis and bridge items for Global STS finance leader▪ Analyzing expenses in the ledger and ensure correct entries. Seek for corrections when needed▪ Coordinating forecast in STS EMEA F&P team▪ Act as trusted business advisor towards junior FAs, worldwide counterparts and finance operation managers ▪ Facilitating Corporate Finance education to non-finance IBM employees on a monthly basis Show less ▪ Expense and resource consolidation and analysis at EMEA level. Preparation of consolidated financial statements and report to worldwide finance leader▪ Ensures budget is properly allocated across business units and EMEA countries.▪ Headcount and expense analysis of actual results versus trends and forecasts. Explaining deviations to budget and forecast and year to date trend analysis. Presentation of the monthly and quarterly results to Global STS finance leader describing the deviations and highlighting changes in trends/forecast. ▪ Preparing ad hoc analysis and bridge items for Global STS finance leader▪ Analyzing expenses in the ledger and ensure correct entries. Seek for corrections when needed.▪ Setting up, billing and coordinating Intercompany Agreements for whole EMEA▪ Facilitating Corporate Finance education to non-finance IBM employees on a monthly basis Show less ▪ Manages large and most complex contracts according to the scope split of country and center▪ Ensures projects are registered to allow labor claiming and revenue booking▪ Registers external suppliers orders for accounts payable and triggers supplier invoices payment▪ Tracks, monitors and reports project financial status frequently to responsible management▪ Upon customer acceptance of solution deliverables ensures that the Contract Folder is updated and billing data is captured▪ Performs final billing and invoicing reconciliation, closes contract in system and ensures settlement of all IBM accounts ▪ Analyze and handle billing disputes and claims▪ Manages & solve complex and high level contract issues▪ Creates contracts and quotations upon Opportunity Owner requests Show less

  • People Manager for DSW Q2C DACH

    Oct 2019 - Aug 2021

  • FP&A DACH Market Contract Controlling, Team Leader

    Sept 2018 - Sept 2019

  • MEA FP&A Enterprise & Commercial Plan Coordinator

    Apr 2017 - Aug 2018

  • Senior Financial Analyst - STS EMEA FP&A Expense & Resource Consolidator

    Apr 2016 - Mar 2017

  • Financial Analyst - STS EMEA FP&A Expense & Resource Consolidator

    Oct 2014 - Mar 2016

  • Pre & Post-sales Support Specialist - TSS Greece & Cyprus

    Jul 2013 - Sept 2014
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  Kyndryl

  Sept 2021 - now

  Q2C Global Finance Leader

  ▪ Oversight of financial performance of Quote to Cash organization (Q2C) globally▪ Governance of budget process (run rate assessment, roadmap items review, new missions, investments, challenge etc.)▪ Co-governance of forecasting process▪ Governance of Inter-company Agreements (ICAs) between Q2C and other Kyndryl entities▪ Target ($ and HC) calculation by market based on overall geography budget▪ Monthly closing reviews (variance analysis of actuals, budget, forecast) with VP▪ Controlling of operational expenditure within Q2C organization▪ Active user of PowerBI and SAP BW (S/4HANA) applications Show less