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Education

08/2023 –                       Master of Business Administration, Savonia University of Applied Sciences

Master’s Degree program in Business Development

08/2015 – 11/2018         Bachelor of Business Administration, Haaga- Helia University of Applied Sciences

Degree program in Business Management, HRM and Leadership

Thesis Title: Monikulttuurisen työyhteisön erityispiirteet ja johtaminen vähittäiskaupan yrityksessä (Characteristics and management of a multicultural work community in a retail company)

08/2013 – 12/2014         Vocational Qualification in Business and Administration, Omnia ammattiopisto

Customer Service and Sales

Work experience 

7/2019 – Present          Head of Payroll, Yrityspalvelu Profitcount Oy

I am primarily responsible for overseeing our payroll service. My role entails ensuring the high quality of our service and addressing any inquiries or concerns from our payroll clients. Additionally, I manage the entire payroll process for my own set of clients, from start to finish. I provide assistance to clients on various HR matters, including but not limited to labor law, collective agreements, employment contracts, layoffs, annual leave, fringe benefits, and Finnish payroll and employment regulations. I handle fringe benefit orders on behalf of clients and manage purchase and sales invoicing for select customers. When necessary, I generate payroll-related reports for clients. My daily tasks also include managing Income Register declarations and handling occasional administrative duties such as applications and notifications to relevant parties. Furthermore, I participate in recruiting and onboarding new employees. In this role I have also been leading a project to transition our payroll processes to fully electronic.

12/2020 – 12/2020        Salesperson, Kultajousi Oy

The same tasks as when I worked as a permanent employee. (Please see below.)

5/2019 – 7/2019            Payroll Specialist, AST-Accounting Services Tilimatic Oy

I was responsible of entire payroll process from beginning to end. I worked with international clients and assisted them in regulations concerning Finnish payroll when needed. I produced payroll related reports for clients. I also handled Incomes Register declarations and I made applications and notifications for parties who need information.

11/2018-5/2019              HR-Trainee, Taksi HKI Solutions Oy

My duties were recruiting new employees, communicate and keep in touch with employees, providing free shifts for staff, maintain and take care of the HR/job application system and database, writing and publishing job advertisements, announcing new employees to courses, collecting and forwarding payroll data, approving the payroll, providing data to the company’s Board of Directors, be in charge of the company’s social media and web sites and I also had many administrative tasks such as invoicing/billing, processing and approving the invoices etc. I also participate several different recruitment fairs and I also handled our own recruitment event at the TE-Office by myself.

12/2018 – 1/2019          Salesperson, Kultajousi Oy

The same tasks as when I worked as a permanent employee. (Please see below.)

01/2018 – 06/2018        HR – Trainee, IKEA Oy

My duties included assisting the HR team in all human resource management related tasks.

My main duties were:

• Assist in the tasks of the recruitment process: publication of job advertisements, processing of job applications, contacting applicants, sending invitations to interview, assisting in the selection, assisting in the coordination of recruitment days

• Internal customer service

• Employee orientation to employment-related personnel matters for new employees

• Updating and editing orientation material

• Maintenance of the occupational health care register and handling of sick leaves

• Assisting in administrative tasks related with the establishment and termination of an employment relationship

• Compilation of the staff magazine from ready given material, by producing content. This task also included translation tasks

• Coordination tasks related to staff training

• Tasks related to the maintenance of the workwear warehouse

• Ordering materials and supplies from the purchasing system

• Guiding and assisting employees in their various questions

• Assisting the HR team in other thig as well when ever needed

03/2013 – 11/2018        Salesperson, Kultajousi Oy

Same tasks as before in the same company. (Please see below.)

04/2014 – 08/2014         Salesperson, Marimekko Oyj  (04/2014 – 05/2014 Trainee period)

As a part-time salesperson my duties were sales and customer service. My work included visual merchandising, maintaining the visual appearance and the tidiness of the store, unloading of goods, supplementation of goods for display, inventory management and other tasks related to store operations.

09/2012 – 02/2013         Salesperson, Inter Sport, AY Immonen & Fabritius / Celectus

As a part-time salesperson my key activities sales and customer service. My work also included for example filling product displays, store marketing, unloading of goods, maintaining the cleanliness of the store and other tasks related to store operations.

10/2007 – 07/2012         Salesperson, Kultajousi Oy

As a full-time and part-time salesperson my key activities sales and customer service but also included inventories, customer orders, battery replacements, small repairs to jewelry / watches, trade shipments, as well as the reception and unloading of consignments, inventory management, supplementation of goods for displays, piercing, handling and managing stores cash and financial transactions, store marketing, reporting, maintaining the store and products tidy, advising team, training/on boarding new employees, handling claims, make purchases for store and for the team as well as all other tasks related to retail store work. I was the person in charge of the work when the store manager was away.