Ciprian Diosan

Finance transformation, controlling and data leader with 20+ years across banking, manufacturing, international finance, Big Four audit and shared services. ACCA-qualified with an Executive MBA, combining FP&A, budgeting, forecasting, management reporting and variance analysis with hands-on data, BI and governance leadership. Proven experience designing and leading finance migration into a Shared Service Centre, building multicultural finance teams and stabilizing operations, alongside current leadership of a 12-person Data Engineering & Analysis function.

Strong bridge between Finance, business stakeholders and technology, with SAP/ERP, Qlik, Power BI, SQL and Python experience.

Lead, Data Engineering & Analysis — Corporate Clients at Banca Transilvania (2017-06 – Present)

• Built and grew the function from an individual analytics role into a 12-person team spanning business analysis, data analysis and BI data engineering.
• Lead the interface between senior business stakeholders and technical delivery, translating management needs into data models, pipelines, dashboards and decision-support analytics.
• Designed and delivered Qlik / Power BI reporting for actual vs. budget, staff and product performance, customer portfolios and business-line financial performance.
• Member of the Corporate Clients management team, contributing data-driven analysis and business cases to strategic decisions.
• Implemented the department's data governance framework and lead the SQL / Python data pipelines and data-warehouse foundation underpinning BI and management reporting.

Finance Manager Sweden & Romania / Finance SSC Leader / Nordics Controller at Recall Information Services (acquired by Iron Mountain) (2014-06 – 2017-06)

• Designed and led the migration of finance operations into a Shared Service Centre, covering transition planning, recruitment, training, knowledge transfer and day-to-day team leadership.
• Promoted from Finance Manager Romania to Finance Manager Sweden & Romania after three months, leading finance teams in a multicultural environment.
• Owned annual budgeting and monthly variance analysis for Romania and Sweden, supporting management with financial performance insight.
• Covered Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Finland as Nordics Controller, bringing cross-country finance and controlling exposure.

Finance & Administration Manager at La Lorraine Bakery Group NV (2012-03 – 2014-06)

• Built tools from scratch to monitor actual production cost and budget-vs.-actual performance ahead of full SAP rollout.
• Local project manager for SAP implementation across FI, CO, MM, SD and PP; SAP became the accounting system from January 2013.
• Built the annual budget and a five-year business plan with cash-flow projections, presented to financing banks for a second production line.
• Restructured accounting from three-month-late reporting to an on-time, audit-clean process; also led HR, IT and Legal support functions.

Office Manager / Audit Manager — Cluj-Napoca at Ernst & Young Romania (2011-11 – 2012-02)

• Managed audit engagements and led the Cluj-Napoca office, overseeing a 12-person audit team alongside local business development responsibilities.

Senior Consultant at ShoreBank International (2010-03 – 2011-10)

• Analyzed revenue structures and identified growth opportunities for major Romanian banks under EBRD technical-assistance projects.
• Ran data mining and portfolio analysis on raw bank data to support product and pricing recommendations to top management.
• Delivered 30+ training sessions to roughly 1,000 banking professionals across five banks.

Freelance Consultant at Business Finance Advisors SRL (2009-09 – 2011-11)

• Produced industry-sector reports for a leading Romanian bank, processing ~600,000 financial records per reporting period across four periods.
• Advised hospitality, food production and retail companies on debt restructuring, working capital and cash-flow analysis / projection.

Head of Portfolio Management & Business Analysis at Banca Transilvania (2005-01 – 2009-09)

• Project-managed a bank-wide CRM and automated document-flow system rolled out to 60 branches and 2,000+ users.
• Led analyst and business teams producing monthly portfolio, risk, sales, branch-performance, product-margin, revenue and commission reporting.
• Designed and implemented a performance evaluation system for 500+ small branches.

Senior Auditor at PricewaterhouseCoopers (2001 – 2005)

• Led audit teams and coordinated engagements, mainly in manufacturing, under IFRS and Romanian accounting standards; obtained ACCA qualification during this period.

Executive MBA in Finance – University of Sheffield

ACCA in Qualified Accountant

CFA Level II coursework in Coursework completed; exam not taken

BS in Management – Babeș-Bolyai University