Finance and passion always in fashion for 175-year old company
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Show Notes
Evgenia Elezova, Head of Regional Finance, Lindström joins us to talk about FP&A and finance transformation at the 175-year old textile giant. Helsinki-based Lindström is one of Europe’s leading textile service companies employing over 5000 people in Europe and in Asia with turnover of 496€ million in 2022. Elezova herself has transformed the finance function during 14 years, during which time she’s driven M&A initiatives, to leading finance projects. Highlights include a two year development program for business controllers at Lindström, designed to move finance from back office roles to strategic co-pilots for management.
In this episode:
- Being responsible for M&A Due diligence and integration
- Experience in successful M&A
- Business Partnering at Lindstrom
- Focusing on future scenarios
- HowControl assists strategy at Lindstrom
- Our two-year long finance training Lindstrom Finance Business Development Program
- Moving from back office in finance to having impact on business
- Lindstrom’s approach to budgeting/target setting
- Core KPIs in a global textile company
- Seeing change in controller work
- Coaching finance leaders
Connect with Evgenia at https://www.linkedin.com/in/evgenia-elezova-513ba12/