Fiscallion

I started Fiscallion as a side-project. But it turns out, help from an ex-FP&A with 9+ years training as Accounting Lead, FP&A and BI Manager is something a lot of folks need! Growing this business is now my full-time mission!

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Fiscallion is the solution for when it feels like your business has gone off the rails.

They say you fake it until you make it as a founder. But for some founders, it might feel like you’re faking it a little too often.

Making mistakes is par for the course when you’re just starting out.

But what happens once you have a staff to pay? Are you willing to bet everything you’ve built on winging it? In this hostile financial environment, the stakes are even higher!

My clients don’t worry about faking anything.

They have an experienced expert on staff who clears blockers, sets a clear path, connects them to the most trusted tech and partners, and ensures everything is set up to scale according to best practices.

Want proof? 

Only 18% of first-time founders succeed. Since Fiscallion's inception, 75% of paying clients have closed funding or become more profitable.

For a stage where most VC firms and accelerators are satisfied with 1/10 businesses making it, 8/10 is unprecedented. I was honestly a little shocked to discover this stat...

The numbers speak for themselves: This works.

Fractional CFO, FP&A Advisor, Speaker & Author

Zumtobel Lighting

Job scope:

🔘 Defining and implementing the most cutting-edge and the most standardized financial processes including planning, forecasts and month-end closing
🔘 Financial Processes Automation (focus - SAP)
🔘 Improving ERP systems in liaison with IT and Corporate Finance & Controlling
🔘 Training and support to Key Users
🔘 Creating monthly reports in SAC
🔘 Defining SAC interfaces and standards 
🔘 Maintenance and development of KPI's in SAC
🔘 Creation of User Dashboard Playbooks
🔘 Member of S4/HANA Implementation Team
🔘 SAP Key User

Finance Project Manager

ABBYY

Results:

✔️ Conducted monthly, quarterly, and annual incentive calculations for sales using Power BI reports, resulting in a 16% increase in average client revenue
✔️Analyzed client portfolios using Salesforce, identified lower-performing accounts, and optimized sales pipeline to reduce costs by 30%
✔️ Streamlined monthly SaaS, Revenue, COGS, and OPEX related KPI reports, improving report accuracy and accessibility for leadership decision-making.


🔘Successfully managed financial models for a leading B2B SaaS company, including forecasting, budgeting, and overall financial planning.
🔘Led monthly and quarterly management reporting, effectively analyzing operational and financial results to distill key trends and assess business risks.
🔘Spearheaded process improvements across the organization, leveraging FP&A processes and tools for continuous improvement and automation opportunities.
🔘Collaborated with IT to enhance forecasting processes through automation and system optimization, ensuring financial data accuracy.
🔘Executed ad hoc financial modeling for special projects, driving detailed financial scenario planning.
🔘Coordinated with business applications and IT teams to systematically improve processes.
🔘Provided vital support to the accounting team in close procedures, ensuring financial accuracy and compliance.

FP&A and BI Manager

Coca-Cola Hellenic Bottling Company

Results:

✔️ Partnered with operational departments to support Profit & Loss statement, Working Capital Management, and Free Cash Flow Analysis through the preparation of business plans.
✔️ Improved monthly management accounts production time by 60%, reducing production time from five days to two, through the development of new and complex spreadsheets.
✔️ Delivered timely, accurate financial analysis and forecasts, resulting in $1M+ reductions in operating expenses annually.

Job Scope:

🔘 Working for a FMCG company (over 1000 employees) in Serbia with $600M turnover – producer of Coca Cola, Sprite, Fanta and dozen of other sparkling/non-sparkling beverages
🔘 Prepared various financial reports for the senior management
🔘 Partnered with specific operational departments assigned to FP&A team and preparing business plans in support of P&L incl. OPEX, WC and FCF
🔘 Performed yearly budgeting process which included definition and tracking of the profit improvement initiatives
🔘 Analyzed departmental expenditure against budget to determine reasons for variances and identifying cost saving opportunities
🔘 Monitored WC & FCF are in line with group guidelines and achieving maximum targets
🔘 Performed analysis of operation unit performance against budgets, forecast and industry benchmarks
🔘 Prepared variance explanations for finance reporting section and inputs for senior management presentations to the board and executive committee
🔘 Initiated corrective actions regarding discretionary spend with operational departments and monitoring implementation to report any non-compliance to senior management
🔘 Led cross-functional project team on a Cost Center Structure Optimization Project and delivered it successfully

Senior Financial Planning & Analysis Analyst

Milsped

Results:

✔️ Managed a team of three accountants and led the Accounting transformation program
✔️ Enhanced accounting systems and processes, and streamlined A/P & A/R.

Job Scope:

🔘 Working for a Logistics company (over 2000 employees) in Serbia with $100M turnover – service provider of all kinds of transports, distribution, warehousing and customs
🔘 Tracking Accounts Receivables and Accounts Payables
🔘 Delegating tasks to team members and working closely with CFO
🔘 Managing relationship with third parties: banks, insurance agencies, auditors, lessors, customers and suppliers

Accounting Lead

Ministry of Defence of the Republic of Serbia

Results:

✔️ Led a team of bookkeepers and cashiers
✔️ Managed Quarterly & Month-End Reporting, analyzing Balance Sheet & Income Statement.

Junior Finance Analyst

Unleashing Full Potential of Your SaaS Company | Fractional FP&A and BI Data Science Consultant | Tech-Savvy Finance Leader | Data Ninja | Reporting Analytics FP&A | SaaS, FMCG & Logistics | Finance - Power BI - Tableau

If you're an ambitious founder, you probably:

→ Want to improve financial models

→ Struggle with optimizing your finance tech stack

→ Lack the time to enhance your financial strategies

→ Want to implement new financial software but don’t know how

→ Aim to prepare for successful fundraising rounds but need guidance

→ Seek to optimize your financial reporting but don’t know where to start

You might relate to all 7 of these points.

Or, You might just be struggling with 1.

Why does that matter?

Well, having a robust financial strategy is essential for growth.

And there's still a massive opportunity to maximize your revenue through specialized financial practices.

Don't believe me?

Here are 5 things that my employers have said my expertise helped them do:

1. To create awareness for potential investors and partners

2. To attract investment by optimizing their financial structures

3. To communicate their growth potential better to stakeholders

4. To streamline operations by implementing various financial software

5. To stand out from competitors through financial insights and strategy

Implementing these strategies can boost your revenue, growth, and financial performance.
But you don't have time for that…

You're too busy doing other stuff like,

I don't know, scaling your company.

So what happens now?
I'll take over your financial strategy for you.

I have helped dozens of companies in:

― Preparing them for fundraising rounds,
― Optimizing their finance tech stacks,
― Enhancing their financial models,
― And more.

And no, I don't mean providing:

→ Generic financial advice
→ One-size-fits-all strategies
→ Pointless number crunching

I mean ACTUAL tailored financial solutions.

Created by a real fractional CFO.

Who leverages industry insights, proven frameworks, and your company's unique needs to drive real growth.

So, which path you'll want to go:

A - Sit and do nothing, leaving your financial strategies to chance.

Or

B - Sit and do nothing while I optimize your financial strategy, prepare you for fundraising, and help you skyrocket your revenue.

I know you're shouting B inside you.

Let's map out strategies to streamline your financial operations and identify new avenues for growth and investment.

📌 Drop me a DM "Growth" or
📌 Click the link in my Featured Section

Aleksandar Stojanović, MSc.

Planning Account Executive

Workday

Planning - Account Executive

Workday is a leading provider of enterprise cloud applications for finance, HR, and planning. Founded in 2005, Workday delivers financial management, human capital management, and analytics applications designed for the world’s largest companies, educational institutions, and government agencies. Organizations ranging from medium-sized businesses to Fortune 50 enterprises have selected Workday.

Planning & Analytics - Account Executive

Workday acquired Adaptive Insights for $1.55B in June of 2018, the transaction was approved and Adaptive Insights became a wholly owned subsidiary of Workday on August 1, 2018.

In this role, I helped support Workday Account Executives, consulting with large enterprise Finance, HR and Operational teams to help them understand how Workday's Adaptive Insights powers the planning area of our Plan, Execute, and Analyze business process supported by Workday's "Power of 1" platform. 

For organizations not engaged with Workday for enterprise transformation of their HCM or Financials, I worked with these companies to transform their FP&A Planning process, Workforce Planning, Sales and Operational Planning utilizing the Adaptive Insights Business Planning Cloud.

Regional Planning - Account Executive

Adaptive Insights

Adaptive Insights empowers leaders/teams to better manage their business. We provide cloud software for budgeting, forecasting and reporting. Our software is fast, easy to use, integrated, scalable and enables a process we call active planning. We have over 3,500 customers: including Coca-Cola, Boston Scientific, The Container Store, SAB Miller, NCR, Philips, and Toyota. 

We believe finance should play a strategic role in driving performance. However, manual budgeting and planning processes force a compromise between getting the plan just right and just getting it done. This leads to static plans that lack buy-in, have inaccurate data, and quickly become outdated. Instead, finance teams should embrace active planning – processes that are collaborative, comprehensive, and continuous. See how the Adaptive Suite can enable active planning to solve your most important FP&A challenges.

Senior Enterprise Account Executive

Adobe

Adobe Experience Cloud - Deliver Relevant Experiences Everywhere Your Customers Are!

My role is to guide marketing executives through the process of digital transformation, showing how doing that with Adobe positively impacts business outcomes. To help customers understand the complexity of our platform, navigate the alternatives available, educate on the latest trends in technology and guide through the process of how to buy from Adobe. 

Especially around:

♦ Marketing Cloud
♦ Analytics Cloud
♦ Advertising Cloud 

This obviously isn’t done alone. Adobe employs a top-notch team of solutions consultants, application specialists and marketing strategists all with the goal of building amazing customer outcomes and experiences. We’ll put our best thinking into your business and your problems, investing our time and effort for your success.

Sr. Enterprise Account Manager

ImageSource, Inc.

ImageSource is a software and system integrations firm, specializing in Enterprise Content Management. Was a quota carrying manager, covering 5 strategic accounts, and managing a team of 4 field sales people. Also helped manage the transition from being a company that provided integration services, to developing a line of enterprise content management (ECM) products, called ILINX.

Vice President Sales, North America

Kofax

Kofax develops intelligent automation software for businesses. The applications range from print management, to process automation and document/pdf management. The product portfolio is grouped into four categories: Intelligent Automation Platform; Finance & Accounting; Capture & Print; and Desktop Productivity.

Sr. Account Executive

Cass Holloway & Co.

The Cass Holloway Co. is a professional consulting, coaching and training & development organization based in Kirkland, Washington. 

We partner with small to medium size hi-tech organizations to drive incremental sales. We offer consulting services, in-house seminars, and individual coaching in the areas of sales & marketing, demand generation and business development.

Principal

Senior account manager responsible for selling data center operations software in the state of Washington. Primary vertical focus was hospitals and secondary accounts within the Washington market.

Enterprise Account Manager - BSA Division

Came to IBM through FileNet acquisition.

Senior account manager responsible for selling the Content Management brand within the Integrated and Aligned vertical. My primary account focus was Boeing, Costco, Paccar, Safeco, WaMu, and Weyerhaeuser.

ECM Account Manager

FileNet Corporation

Senior account manager responsible for key accounts in the greater Seattle area. My primary account focus was Boeing, Symetra, T-Mobile, WaMu, and Weyerhaeuser. 

Reached Presidents Club 5 times.

Key Account Manager

At SAP, my focus is empowering organizations to harness planning and analytics enterprise wide, enhancing FP&A team's agility and decision-making capabilities. With over eight years of experience in selling and supporting enterprise planning in the Midwest, my role as an Acceleration Representative involves advancing the adoption of SAP Analytics Cloud for Planning among our clients, ensuring they leverage our robust solution for transformative outcomes.

Having honed my skills in customer relationship management and new business development, my mission is to make xP&A a mainstream choice for large and medium organizations. Our team's commitment has positioned SAP Analytics Cloud as an indispensable tool for financial planning and analysis, steering companies toward more strategic roles and away from the minutiae of data collection.

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Aleksandar Stojanović, MSc.

Cass Holloway

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