Lora Petkova
Sofia
Summary
Organized person focused on leading professional teams and smooth operations to accomplish business objectives. Reliable in exceeding expectations for quality, safety and efficiency. Skilled in leading and motivating team members to success.
Overview
7
7
years of professional experience
Work History
Team Lead, Accounts Payable, Payments
PaySAFE
08.2024 - Current
- Lead, mentor, and develop the AP Payments Team ensuring high performance and career progression.
- Oversee the preparation and processing of daily/weekly/monthly payments—including manual, mass-file, and cheque-based transactions—in line with company policies and authorization protocols.
- Monitor liquidity: Track AP-related bank accounts and cash positions to ensure sufficient funds for payments.
- Coordinate across teams (Invoice Processing, Master Data, Treasury, etc.) to ensure seamless operations and timely reconciliations.
- Oversee merchant balance confirmations and reconcile processed payments against bank statements.
- Lead or assist with monthly closing procedures, specifically within the Cash Management module of Oracle EBS/MCPS.
- Lead and assist with the implementation of Oracle Fusion for the related processes in the field.
- Monitor and report on team performance metrics (KPIs), identifying opportunities for process improvement or automation.
- Collaborate with management to enhance controls, streamline workflows, and support continuous improvement strategies.
Assistant Manager
Genpact
05.2023 - Current
- Lead the Purchase to Pay Invoice Processing management processes for several countries within the Stream, ensuring compliance.
- Ensure Purchase Ledger monthly and year-end closing procedures are completed efficiently, accurately and on time.
- Execute team processes including escalated and more-complex/sensitive activities.
- Lead, plan and organize the team's work.
- Manages team performance through metrics and key performance indicators, to ensure targets are achieved.
- Encourages successful people development and engagement.
- Assume responsibility for the quality, service levels and timeliness of the team's work.
- Maintains effective internal & external stakeholders' collaboration.
- Drive continuous improvement and ensures knowledge preservation.
- Coordinated month-end closing processes to ensure completion ahead of aggressive deadlines.
Invoice Processing Senior Expert Accountant
Coca Cola Hellenic Bottling Company Business Service Organization
02.2023 - 04.2023
- Perform clearing of accounts, follow up on account balances and take actions to prevent aged balances
- Verify vendor accounts by reconciling monthly statements and related transactions
- Maintain suppliers' account by verifying and posting account transactions
- Perform timely and accurate booking of supplier invoices
- Reviewing supporting documentation submitted for completeness, accuracy, and proper approval
- Charge expenses to accounts and cost centers by analyzing invoices/expense reports
- Maintain all controls and procedures to ensure compliance with Coca-Cola Hellenic and local accounting policies and legislation, as well as internal controls
- Promote, develop, and maintain effective communication with internal stakeholders
- Share Service Framework – creation and proceeding with requests – advance, early, emergency, one-off time payments
- SAP knowledge for the respective responsibilities
- SAP S4 Hana knowledge for the respective responsibilities.
Payments AP Senior Accountant
Coca Cola Hellenic Bottling Company Business Service Organization
03.2022 - 01.2023
- Executing payments – regular, tax, employee, advance, early, etc
- Bank accounts reconciliation – daily and monthly checking of the current balance of the bank accounts
- Perform clearing of accounts, follow-up on account balances and take actions to prevent aged balances
- Walkthrough sessions with internal and external audit teams
- Presenting and analysing the operational procedures and ensuring the processes within the team are managed smoothly
- Acted as a informal leader, motivating the team to pursue the KBIs set on group level
- Participated in different projects on a team and stream level (e.g Process optimization processes, Croatia EUR project 2022-2023)
- Monitoring the successful payments execution as well as how they are booked in the system
- Preparing manual payments via online banking
- Promote, develop, and maintain effective communication with internal stakeholders
- Share Service Framework – creation and proceeding with requests – advance, early, emergency, one-off time payments
- SAP knowledge for the respective responsibilities
- SAP S4 Hana knowledge for the respective responsibilities.
Payments – AP Accountant & Key User
Coca Cola Hellenic Bottling Company Business Service Organization
03.2022 - 03.2022
- Executing payments – regular, tax, employee, advance, early, etc
- Bank accounts reconciliation – daily and monthly checking of the current balance of the bank accounts
- Perform clearing of accounts, follow-up on account balances and take actions to prevent aged balances
- Monitoring the successful payments execution as well as how they are booked in the system
- Preparing manual payments via online banking
- Promote, develop, and maintain effective communication with internal stakeholders
- Share Service Framework – creation and proceeding with requests – advance, early, emergency, one-off time payments
- SAP knowledge for the respective responsibilities
- SAP S4 Hana knowledge for the respective responsibilities
- Since June 2021 took the role of Key User in addition to my current responsibilities as a Payments Accountant
- The key user activities are related to managing support requests using a central application that provides direct access to additional information resources (for example, the expert community) while processing a request
- The system used for raising incidents is SNOW (ServiceNow Portal).
Invoice Processing Accountant
Coca Cola Hellenic Bottling Company Business Service Organization
06.2019 - 08.2020
- Responsible for the timely and accurate booking of supplier invoices
- Paying suppliers, filing and archiving clearing invoice entry and other queues
- Providing relevant information to ascertain vendor performance monitoring and approval
- SAP knowledge for the respective responsibilities.
OCR clerk
Coca Cola Hellenic Bottling Company Business Service Organization
03.2019 - 06.2019
- Mainly processing invoices to SAP
- SSF tickets creation.
Education
Master of Arts - Digital Marketing
University of National And World Economy
Sofia, Bulgaria07-2023
Bachelor of Arts - Business Economics and Managements in English
University of National And World Economy
Sofia, Bulgaria06-2022
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32 Secondary Language School St. Kliment Ohridski
06.2018
Skills
- Strong verbal and written communication abilities
- Time-sensitive task execution
- Effective problem-solving abilities
- Versatile task management
- Goal-oriented mindset
- Adaptive leadership
- Product expertise
- Talent acquisition and development
PERSONAL INFORMATION
- Age / Date of birth: 07/31/1999
- Gender: Female
- Nationality: Bulgarian
- Driving Licence: Yes
Timeline
Team Lead, Accounts Payable, Payments
PaySAFE
08.2024 - Current
Assistant Manager
Genpact
05.2023 - Current
Invoice Processing Senior Expert Accountant
Coca Cola Hellenic Bottling Company Business Service Organization
02.2023 - 04.2023
Payments AP Senior Accountant
Coca Cola Hellenic Bottling Company Business Service Organization
03.2022 - 01.2023
Payments – AP Accountant & Key User
Coca Cola Hellenic Bottling Company Business Service Organization
03.2022 - 03.2022
Invoice Processing Accountant
Coca Cola Hellenic Bottling Company Business Service Organization
06.2019 - 08.2020
OCR clerk
Coca Cola Hellenic Bottling Company Business Service Organization
03.2019 - 06.2019
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32 Secondary Language School St. Kliment Ohridski
Master of Arts - Digital Marketing
University of National And World Economy
Bachelor of Arts - Business Economics and Managements in English
University of National And World Economy