Erika Szalai has over 20 years of experience in finance, management consulting, and business development roles. She holds an MSc in Finance Management and an Executive MBA in progress. Her career includes positions as Head of Business Development, CEO, SAP consultant, and CFO. She is interested in management challenges that allow creativity and organizational abilities.
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1. CURRICULUM VITAE
Name ERIKA SZALAI
Degree Msc in Finance Management
Dipl. Ing. Chemical Engineering
Executive MBA at Corvinus in process
Marital status Married
Addresse H-2120 Dunakeszi, Esz辿k u. 1.
Mobile +36 30 74 074 77
Mail erika.szalai@hotmail.com
AMBITIONS
Always I have been interested in newness, possibilities and challenges. Last few years I had the
opportunity to create and do innovative things as well to build teams to do these. Meantime I
have been recognized that it is what I want to do in my life.
Now I would like to use my many years of experience in a new way, so I am looking for further
challenges. I am particularly interested in solving complex tasks in the field of management and
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it would also be important for me to have the possibility to use my creativity, organizational ability
and talents.
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2. BUSINESS EXPERIENCE
Company Country/Year
Position
Role
Head of Business Development & Administration PMX Consulting Group Hungary Tax Advisory Ltd Hungary
2008-
Tasks:
Responsible for building a professional tax advisory company
Developing the consulting products
Building up back office activity
Developing marketing and sales strategy
Aquisit new customers
Maintainning customer relationship
Responsible for the reporting and profitability of company
CEO EME Inc Hungary
2007-2008
Tasks:
Built a new professional company
Responsible for the strategy, profitability and reporting of the company
Led operativ activities
Developed new products on field of mobile payment
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Contact with partners
Certified Principal Consultant (contractor) SAP Hungary Ltd Hungary, Germany,
FI, FI-CA, RM-CA Austria
1998-
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3. Company Country/Year
Position
Role
Tasks:
Participating on implementation, rollout, migration projects as consultant, team lead as
well as project manager in area of accounting, finance and taxation
Holding trainings, workshops and presentations
Internal Expert SAP Hungary Ltd Hungary, Germany
1999-
Tasks:
Analysing new legal requirements in accounting and taxation
Searching and mapping possibilities in SAP
Testing developed solutions
ECC 5.0 Supervisor SAP Hungary Ltd Hungary
2005-2007
Tasks:
Responsible for the ECC 5.0 Section at SAP Conference in Tihany.
Gave presentation about ECC 5.0.
Both were very successful and aroused a lot of client interest.
Prepared business concept to develop complex strategy to manage ECC 5.0 in 2006.
Currently implementing ECC 5.0 newGL application at SAP-using companies of Magyar
Telekom Group, and ECC 6.0 FI module at Hungarian subsidiaries of bauMax
Supervisor of EU-Accession Initiative SAP Hungary Ltd Hungary
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2003-2004
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4. Company Country/Year
Position
Role
As inspirational leader of the initiative I was responsible for developing a multiple service package
to support existing customers and to acquire new ones.
My task was to manage the work of five consultants (later eleven) and utilise my experience in the
fields of taxation and SAP. In detail:
Analysed and became familiar with the new legal requirements
Built a prototype company in SAP
Prepared and presented the documentation at a one day workshop
Defined detailed EU-Fitness service package, and created marketing strategy
Carried out various activities to sell new product
Trained consultants
Implemented successful EU-Fitness projects
Team lead of Team Enterprise SAP Hungary Ltd Hungary
2002-2006
Tasks:
Managed relationship between team members and SAP Hungary
Made annual performance evaluations of team members
CFO TEMIC Hungary Ltd Hungary
1997-98
Tasks:
Managed the work of Accounting Department (the company had at that time an income of
7 billion HUF),
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Prepared annual reports,
Kept connection between Tax Office and parent company.
Owner Accounting Consultant Pentamix Ltd Hungary
1994-97
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5. Company Country/Year
Position
Role
Tasks:
Kept contact to customers,
Supported the accounting activities of customers, their representation by Tax Office.
Project engineer Minnova Joint Venture Hungary
1988-89
Tasks:
Planning pipelines.
EDUCATION
Institut Degree Country/Year
Corvinus University of Budapest Executive MBA Hungary
2011-
Economy Faculty of Janus Pannonius University of MSc in Finance Management Hungary
Science, P辿cs with a major in Informatik
1989-94
Pollack Mih叩ly Technics Collage, P辿cs Dipl. Ing. Chemical Engineering Hungary
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1986-89
OTHER COURSES
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6. Course Country/Year
Business German - University of Science, Klagenfurt Austria - 1992
Presentation technics Hungary -1999, 2005
EQ-Training Hungary - 2003
SEM-BCS trainings Belgium, Greece - 2005
IFRS-Training - Ernst and Young Academy of Business Hungary - 2005-2006
webSEO traning Hungary - 2009
SKILLS
Description
Presistence, Creativity, Organisational skills, Empaty, Presentation skills
LANGUAGES
Language
Hungarain Mother tongue
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German Fluent
English Fluent
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7. PERSONAL
Sport
Budapest Marathon 2000, 2001, 2002, 2004, 2010
Long distance running Firenze Marathon 2003, 2007, 2011
Vienna-Bratislava-Budapest Supermarathon 2009 with LSS Team
[http://webcast.tv2.hu/dynamic/index.php?m=video&video_id=407947]
Extrem Sports Snowboarding, Sailing
Hobby
Reading, dogs, cars, volunteer of Leisure Association for the Visually Impaired (www.lassegyesulet.hu)
REFERENCES
References furnished upon request.
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