Yevgeniy Kopaigora

Current

• Finance Director KZ at Novartis
• Member of Board of Directors, Independent Director at Generali Life JSC – Life Insurance Company

Past

• Head of Internal Audit & Risk Management at Kar-Tel LLP
• Financial Manager at Kausar Oil & Gas LLP
• Member of Board of Directors at OOO Krasnoleninskneftegas-Dobycha

• Manager Operations Finance at Philip Morris Kazakhstan
• Manager Internal Controls & Compliance at Philip Morris Kazakhstan
• Supervisor Costing & Capex at Philip Morris Kazakhstan
• Senior Financial Analyst Capex at Philip Morris Kazakhstan
• Financial Analyst Capex at Philip Morris Kazakhstan
• Financial Analyst Greenfield Project at Philip Morris Kazakhstan
• Finance Trainee at Philip Morris Kazakhstan

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Education

• Chartered Institute of Management Accountancy
• Kazahstanskij Institut Menegžmenta, Ekonomiki i Prognozirovanija
• KIMEP

• Kazahskij Nacionalnij Universitet im. Al Farabi

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Industry

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Websites

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Yevgeniy Kopaigora’s Summary

More than 10 years in Finance, Internal Audit, Risk Management and Internal Controls (including SOX - Sarbanes-Oxley) with experience in telecom, oil & gas and tobacco industries.

Degrees: ACMA (CIMA Member, UK), MBA (KIMEP, Kazakhstan)

Yevgeniy Kopaigora’s Specialties:

FINANCE: Management Accounting, Reporting, Budgeting, Treasury, Financial analysis, Project Appraisal, Investments.
INTERNAL AUDITING & CONTROLS: Risk Assessment & Management, Policies & Procedures Formulation, Implementation and Enforcement, Compliance Programs Implementation, Fraud Investigation, Project Management, Sarbanes-Oxley

Yevgeniy Kopaigora’s Experience

• Finance Director KZ

  Novartis

  (Public Company; NVS; Pharmaceuticals industry)

  July 2009 — Present (1 month)

• Member of Board of Directors, Independent Director

  Generali Life JSC – Life Insurance Company

  (Insurance industry)

  June 2009 — Present (2 months)

• Head of Internal Audit & Risk Management

  Kar-Tel LLP

  (Telecommunications industry)

  May 2007 — July 2009 (2 years 3 months)

• Financial Manager

  Kausar Oil & Gas LLP

  (Oil & Energy industry)

  November 2006 — May 2007 (7 months)

• Member of Board of Directors

  OOO Krasnoleninskneftegas-Dobycha

  (Privately Held; 1001-5000 employees; Oil & Energy industry)

  November 2006 — May 2007 (7 months)

• Manager Operations Finance

  Philip Morris Kazakhstan

  (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; MO; Tobacco industry)

  January 2006 — September 2006 (9 months)

• Manager Internal Controls & Compliance

  Philip Morris Kazakhstan

  (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Tobacco industry)

  July 2004 — December 2005 (1 year 6 months)

• Supervisor Costing & Capex

  Philip Morris Kazakhstan

  (Public Company; Tobacco industry)

  April 2002 — July 2004 (2 years 4 months)

• Senior Financial Analyst Capex

  Philip Morris Kazakhstan

  (Public Company; Tobacco industry)

  August 2001 — April 2002 (9 months)

• Financial Analyst Capex

  Philip Morris Kazakhstan

  (Public Company; Tobacco industry)

  March 2000 — August 2001 (1 year 6 months)

• Financial Analyst Greenfield Project

  Philip Morris Kazakhstan

  (Public Company; Tobacco industry)

  April 1999 — March 2000 (1 year)

• Finance Trainee

  Philip Morris Kazakhstan

  (Public Company; Tobacco industry)

  July 1998 — April 1999 (10 months)

Yevgeniy Kopaigora’s Education

• Chartered Institute of Management Accountancy

  ACMA (Associated Chartered Management Accountant) , Management Accounting , 1999 — 2005

• Kazahstanskij Institut Menegžmenta, Ekonomiki i Prognozirovanija

  MBA , Money & Banking , 1996 — 1998

  Graduated in May 1998 with GPA 3.89 (Top 5 graduate)
  Scholarship from Arthur Andersen
  Scholarship from Ernst & Young

  Activities and Societies:

  Active KIMEP Alumni Association member,
  Moderator of KIMEP's 1998 graduation group at Yahoo!,
  Moderator of KIMEP Alumni Association at VKontakte.ru

• KIMEP

  MBA , 1996 — 1998

• Kazahskij Nacionalnij Universitet im. Al Farabi

  Diploma , Physics , 1989 — 1994

  Graduated in May 1994 with GPA 5.0 in 5.0 scale (Diploma with Honor in Physics). Spec: Optics & Plasma Physics

Additional Information

Yevgeniy Kopaigora’s Websites:

• My Company
• My Company
• My Company

Yevgeniy Kopaigora’s Interests:

Finance, Management Accounting, Audit, Risk Management, Astronomy, Astrophysics, Fishing, Hiking, 4WD, Instrumental Ambient and Ethnic Music

Yevgeniy Kopaigora’s Groups:

KIDA,
Kazakhstan Independant Directors Association,
Philip Morris Affiliates (employees & alumni),
KIMEP Alumni,
KazSU Alumni,
Almaty,
Friends of Kazakhstan,
CIMA,
CIMA Members,
JobKZ,
BACK,
British Alumni Club Kazakhstan,
Central Asian Business Community,
PRMIA,
CluMBA,
BlueChipExpert,
E-xecutive.ru,
KIMEP Alumni Association,
KIMEP-1998 Alumni,
CIMA Kazakhstan,
ZoomInfo,
Viadeo,
TEN Top Executives,
TopLinked.com,
XING

•    Executive Suite
•    KIMEP Alumni
•    Philip Morris affiliates (employees & alumni)
•    Telecom Professionals
•    SOX Professionals
•    Internal Audit Professionals
•    Amateur Astronomers
•    CIMA
•    Executive Search Russia & CIS
•    Global Association of Risk Professionals (GARP)
•    Kazakh National University Alumni
•    Almaty
•    Linked Group Moderators
•    Kazakhstan
•    CIMA Members (ACMA / FCMA)
•    TopLinked.com (Open Networkers)
•    Professional Audit Information Network (PAIN)
•    Ukraine. Connections.
•    Central Asian Business Community
•    Altria Alumni
•    Gateway to Russia (Friends of Russia)
•    ASTRO LINK
•    Risk Managers
•    Telecom Executives Business Network
•    Telecom Jobs
•    Green Jobs & Career Network
•    Audit Professionals Group
•    Dubai Recruitment
•    The Institute of Internal Auditors (The IIA)
•    Russia and CIS Region Telecommunication Executives
•    Chief Audit Executives Group
•    SOX International Group
•    IT & Telecom Professionals
•    Entreprise Risk Management Professionals
•    Eurasia Com: telecoms group for Caspian, Black Sea and Central Asia regions
•    Oil & Gas Recruitment
•    Careers in Central & Eastern Europe
•    JobKZ
•    CompliancEX
•    Executive Alliance of Central Asia
•    SuperGroup Founders
•    Risk, Regulation & Reporting
•    International Tax Planning and Risk Mitigation Professionals
•    E-Recruitment Group (Post Jobs) (Post Resumes)
•    Working in Kazakhstan
•    BACK
•    Careers in Audit
•    GSM Podium
•    Kazakhstan Telecom Industry
•    THE VIRTUAL TELESCOPE PROJECT

Yevgeniy Kopaigora’s Honors:

Ernst & Young Scholarship 1997, Arthur Andersen Scholarship 1997, Red Diploma (with Honour) from Kazakh State University 1994, Silver Medal from Secondary School 1988

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