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SPEZIAL
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CONTROLLING INTERNATIONAL
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ISSUE 12
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SEPTEMBER 2015
CONTROLLER
Darko Vlajković
Consultant at MCB
Menadžment Centar
Beograd, Belgrade, Serbia
Key message of the third ICV Congress is that con-
trollers are managers’ business partners. Helping
managers achieve their targets and sharing respon-
sibilities is a controller’s main job.
The third ICV Congress of Controllers was held on May 20,
2015, in Crowne Plaza Hotel in Belgrade, Serbia. There were
350 controllers and CFOs from the whole region (Serbia,
B&H, Croatia, Slovenia, Montenegro).
There were 12 excellent speakers. All of them were control-
lers and CFOs from large companies and corporations, both
domestic and foreign. They explained what controlling and
controllers mean to them and how they are vital to meeting
a company’s targets.
SERBIA
The Speakers were:
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Jovana Kondić,
Head of controlling, Mercator S
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Milan Bukumirović,
CFO, Knjaz Miloš
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Miša Lukić,
Director, MMS Communications
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Saša Trandafilović,
CFO, Ministry of Defense
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Andreas Graf,
CFO, VIP Mobile
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Aleksandra Paunić,
Head of controlling, Wiener
Stadtische insurance
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Tatjana Lukić,
Sales regional director, Microsoft
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Ljubomir Skupek,
Head of controlling,
Raiffeisen bank
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Nikola Petreski,
Controlling and risk
management director, Telenor
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Dalibor Jevtić,
Head of Treasury and operation
finance, Victoria group
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Nenad Kovačević,
Finance director, Tetra
Pak SEE
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Ivan Tadić,
Head of controlling, Hemofarm
Jovana Kondić, the youngest speaker at the event, opened the
Congress. As two companies IDEA and Mercator faced inte-
gration, she wanted to present what the role of the controller
was during that process. She talked about companies’ strate-
gies, organisational culture, synergy and information systems.
Our next speaker was Milan Bukumirović. He talked about
what the roles of a modern controller are. To be a good
controller, you need to be a:
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Navigator
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P&L gate keeper
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Performance booster
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Supporter
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Leader and change manager
After Milan, we had an opportunity to hear a man who is a
synonym for marketing in Serbia, Miša Lukić. Miša talked
about profit. If we really want our company to generate profit,
we need to be both “Pro” and “Fit”. “Pro” means know-how
and “Fit” means “know-wow”.
CONTROLLER AS
A BUSINESS PARTNER
350 CONTROLLERS IN ONE PLACE!
