Open to FP&A manager roles in Warsaw or remote within the EU

FP&A analyst turning messy numbers into decisions leadership trusts

Warsaw, Poland[email protected]tomaszkowalski.com

Senior FP&A analyst with ten years across manufacturing and B2B software. Owns the annual budget and rolling forecast for a PLN 480M revenue company, and rebuilt its planning stack so the monthly close-to-report cycle dropped from twelve business days to five.

Experience

Senior Financial Analyst, FP&A

Wislane Software GroupWarsaw, Poland

Oct 2020 - present

Lead analyst for group-level planning at a B2B software company with PLN 480M revenue and four business units.

  • Own the annual budget and 18-month rolling forecast; forecast accuracy on revenue within ±2.5% for eight consecutive quarters.
  • Rebuilt planning on a driver-based model, cutting the close-to-board-report cycle from 12 business days to 5.
  • Built the SaaS-metrics pack (NRR, CAC payback, cohort margins) now used in every board meeting and the 2024 debt refinancing.
  • Partnered with sales leadership on pricing scenarios that added an estimated PLN 9M in annual contract value.
BudgetingRolling forecastSaaS metricsBoard reporting

Financial Analyst

Mazovia SteelworksWarsaw, Poland

Jul 2016 - Sep 2020

Plant-level controlling and capex analysis for a steel processor with three production sites.

  • Ran monthly variance analysis across PLN 300M of production cost; flagged a scrap-rate drift worth PLN 3.2M a year.
  • Modelled the business case for a rolling-line modernization; the PLN 45M investment tracked within 4% of the modelled payback.
  • Automated raw-material price reporting in Power Query, saving the team roughly 20 hours a month.
Cost controllingCapex modellingVariance analysis

Junior Analyst, Audit and Advisory

Grabowski & Partners AuditKraków, Poland

Sep 2014 - Jun 2016

Audit fieldwork for mid-market manufacturing and retail clients.

  • Executed audit procedures across 14 engagements, twice commended for workpaper quality.
  • Built an inventory-sampling template adopted by the whole 30-person audit practice.
AuditIFRSManufacturing clients
Education

M.A. Finance and Accounting

Vistula School of EconomicsWarsaw, Poland

Oct 2012 - Jun 2014

Specialization in corporate finance; thesis on working-capital cycles in Polish manufacturing.

Corporate financeAccounting

B.A. Economics

Jagiellonian Business AcademyKraków, Poland

Oct 2009 - Jun 2012
EconomicsStatistics
Skills

Planning, modelling, and reporting toolkit used daily.

Financial modellingDriver-based planningExcel (advanced) and Power QueryPower BISQLSaaS and unit-economics metricsCapex appraisal (NPV/IRR)IFRS reportingBoard-pack preparationAnaplan (working level)
Languages

Reports to an English-speaking group CFO; day-to-day business partnering in Polish.

Polish (native)English (C1)German (B1)
Certifications

Certified Corporate FP&A Professional

European Association of Finance ProfessionalsOnline

Issued Apr 2022

Certification covering planning, forecasting, and performance-management practice.

FP&AForecasting

Financial Modelling Accreditation

Warsaw Institute of Corporate FinanceWarsaw, Poland

Issued Nov 2018

Exam-based accreditation; built a full three-statement model under timed conditions.

ModellingValuation
Selected Analyses

Representative pieces of analysis that changed a decision.

Refinancing scenario book

Wislane Software Group, 2024 debt refinancingWarsaw, Poland

2024

Built the lender-facing scenario model (base, downside, covenant-stress) that supported a PLN 120M refinancing at 80bps below the initial term-sheet pricing.

  • Covenant headroom analysis adopted verbatim into the credit agreement monitoring pack.
  • Model audited externally with zero material findings.
DebtScenario modelling

Pricing-floor analysis

Enterprise renewalsWarsaw, Poland

2023

Cohort-margin analysis that identified systematic over-discounting on enterprise renewals; new floor added an estimated PLN 9M annual contract value.

PricingCohort analysis