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Nigar Safarova

Nigar Safarova

Dubai,UAE

Summary

Results-driven finance professional with expertise in US GAAP, controllership, inventory accounting, commercial finance leading global month-end and quarter-end close processes, ensuring compliance with corporate policies while enhancing efficiency through process simplification, centralization and automation.

Overview

13
13
years of professional experience
6
6
years of post-secondary education

Work history

Global Senior Inventory Accounting Manager

Cytiva - Danaher company
London, UK
2023.11 - 2025.10
  • Accountable for US GAAP Profit in Inventory (PII), Cost of Goods Sold (COGS) accounting and simplification initiatives.
  • Created standardized global guidance for physical inventory counts and cycle-count procedures to drive consistency across all sites/plants and improve inventory-control practices.
  • Contributed to broader financial close and compliance efforts, including Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) testing and review, annual entity balance-sheet assessments, and support for internal and external audits.
  • Developed a global COGS transaction file by item number, enabling month-over-month analysis, variance identification, and timely comparison against the QlikSense tool utilized by Business Finance, significantly improving data transparency.

Global Commercial Business Process Leader

Cytiva
2021.06 - 2023.11
  • Led monthly and quarterly close and reporting for global Commercial processes at Cytiva, ensuring accuracy, timeliness, and alignment with corporate accounting policies.
  • Centralized key commercial accounting processes (return reserves, standard warranty, bad debt reserve calculations and others.) driving consistency and operational efficiency across regions.
  • Delivered significant efficiency improvements by reducing the number of account reconciliations and implementing mass-balance upload capabilities across the organization, supported by training sessions for global teams.
  • Executed finance projects, including the global Bad Debt Reserve (BDR) annual rate updates, partials-list reviews, developed and maintained standard margin reporting file to track margins and identify discrepancies early during the close week.

Senior Finance Manager

Genpact
London, UK
2020.01 - 2021.01
  • Led purchase accounting process, post-divestiture reconciliations, ensuring accurate finalization of goodwill, intangible assets, and other acquisition-related balances for Cytiva within the required one-year close-out period.
  • Responsible for global implementation of OneStream CPM by conducting detailed data assessments, performing impact analyses, and providing process-improvement recommendations that enhanced reporting efficiency.
  • Developed long-range amortization model for global intangible assets, projecting 30-year expense profiles and simplifying forecasting methodology.
  • Managed weekly CFO reporting on significant accounting matters, consolidating insights from Business Finance Leaders into clear, decision-ready summaries that improved executive visibility.

Operational Controllership Manager

GE Healthcare
Budapest
2019.01 - 2020.01
  • Led equity-related transactions for global GE Healthcare (successfully managed the divestiture of the Healthcare Biopharma business (Cytiva) to Danaher).

Accounting Operations Manager

General Electric International
2014.12 - 2019.04

Senior auditor

EY
2012.10 - 2014.10

Education

Bachelor’s and master’s degree - Business Management

Moscow State University of Environmental Engineering
Russia
2004.01 - 2009.01

Master’s - International Negotiations, Business

Aix-Marseille University
France
2010.01 - 2011.01

ACCA Candidate

ACCA

Skills

  • Microsoft Office tools
  • OneStream CPM , QlikSense , Oracle
  • US GAAP Accounting
  • Balance Sheet Review & Reconciliation
  • Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) Compliance
  • Variance Analysis & Trend Analysis
  • Global Financial Close & Consolidation
  • Project Management
  • Purchase Accounting
  • Team management
  • Internal controls enforcement
  • Financial reporting
  • Process Improvement
  • Data analysis

LANGUAGE SKILLS

English – Fluent
Russian – Fluent
Turkish – Fluent
French – Good

HOBBIES & INTERESTS

Reading, travelling.

Timeline

Global Senior Inventory Accounting Manager

Cytiva - Danaher company
2023.11 - 2025.10

Global Commercial Business Process Leader

Cytiva
2021.06 - 2023.11

Senior Finance Manager

Genpact
2020.01 - 2021.01

Operational Controllership Manager

GE Healthcare
2019.01 - 2020.01

Accounting Operations Manager

General Electric International
2014.12 - 2019.04

Senior auditor

EY
2012.10 - 2014.10

Master’s - International Negotiations, Business

Aix-Marseille University
2010.01 - 2011.01

Bachelor’s and master’s degree - Business Management

Moscow State University of Environmental Engineering
2004.01 - 2009.01

ACCA Candidate

ACCA
Nigar Safarova