EY CFO Forum 2019. Finance function transformation

Nikolay Garnev

Country Managing Partner, EY Bulgaria, N. Macedonia, Albania and Kosovo

Nikolay Garnev is the Country Managing Partner for EY Bulgaria, N. Macedonia, Albania and Kosovo. He is also the Risk Management Leader for Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe and Central Asia (CESA) region of EY which consists of 31 countries. Garnev has more than 20 years of experience in working with international and local clients in a number of countries in Southeast Europe.His areas of expertise include audit, advisory and transaction support services in a number of sectors, primarily banking, insurance, real estate and energy. Garnev holds a master’s degree from the University of National and World Economy in Sofia, Bulgaria. He is a fellow of the UK Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA) and a member of the Institute of Certified Public Accountants (ICPA) in Bulgaria.

Bjarte Bogsnes

Beyond budgeting institute

Bjarte Bogsnes has a long international career, both in Finance and HR. He is a pioneer in the Beyond Budgeting movement, and has been heading up the implementation of Beyond Budgeting at Equinor (formerly Statoil), Scandinavia’s largest company. He led a similar initiative in Borealis in the mid- nineties, one of the companies that inspired the Beyond Budgeting model. Equinor realized that traditional leadership and management practices no longer work in today’s competence organizations operating in business environments more complex, dynamic and unpredictable than ever. The company implemented innovative alternatives to traditional management, like abolishing traditional budgets and calendar-based management in favor of more decentralized, agile and human processes. Bjarte is Chairman of Beyond Budgeting Roundtable (BBRT). He is a popular international business speaker and is the winner of a Harvard Business Review/McKinsey Management Innovation award. Bjarte is also author of "Implementing Beyond Budgeting -Unlocking the Performance Potential", where he writes about his almost twenty-five years long Beyond Budgeting journey.

Aneliya Gikinska

Transformation & Processes Improvement Lead, Europe Asia & Africa BSO Countries, Coca-Cola Hellenic Bottling Company

In Coca Cola Hellenic I’m part of Finance function transformation, that is going trough rapid change. We have started with centralization of accounting processes in shared service center which gave us further automation opportunities. We have implemented robotics and artificial intelligence in accounting, automated many month end closing tasks from invoice posting to international VAT recovery. And this is only the beginning of our digital journey.

Dimitar Dekov

Founder and CEO of B EYE

"I am here to help organizations enhance their decision-making processes at every level. I have been bringing my passion for analytics, discovery and driving change to dozens of companies for more than a decade. My clients have been numerous outstanding companies in the Financial Services, Life Sciences, Manufacturing, Retail and Real Estate sectors across the globe. What brings us together is the drive to become better every day."

Peter Bozadziev

CEO, Member of the Board of Directors, Monbat AD

Victor Spiriev

Group CFO, MonbatAD

Laeeq Shabbir

Senior Manager, Global Assurance Blockchain & EMEIA Assurance Banking Capital Markets, EY

Laeeq has ten years of experience in the field of Audit with range of Banking clients. Joined EY during the phase of recession and so "change" (internally in EY or via clients) has been a consistent part of his career. Laeeq’s expertise lies on blockchain assurance, using the blockchain analyser for public or private network; developing new ideas for better ways of auditing and innovation. He is engaged across multiple projects and GoToMarket across EMEIA with the view of rolling the methodology across the globe.