Arina brings diverse hands-on experience in a wide variety of finance leadership roles in sectors including food ingredients, electronic components manufacturing and logistics.
She has led international teams in small, medium and large companies, both private and listed, managing workstreams related to Commercial and Operational Finance and Treasury.
Through partnering with business leaders, she has driven growth and financial performance improvement using careful consideration of core business needs and formulating a structured strategic direction.
Arina has extensive experience in M&A (both buy and sell) with her ability to translate business ideas into financial language and back being instrumental in establishing close partnerships with Commercial, Procurement and Operations teams, supporting and guiding them through substantial organisational and business changes.
Arina is especially conversant with driving pricing and cost optimisation initiatives, bringing focus to longer-term objectives and ways to achieve them. She follows a highly pragmatic and common-sense approach, and spots opportunities with an entrepreneurial mindset.
