She started building her almost 30 year-long professional activity at the Warsaw office of KPMG, where she progressed through all stages of her career to become a Director by 2006, specialising in auditing financial statements and other assurance services for financial sector institutions in Poland. At the end of 2006, she started working for PKO TFI S.A. as Managing Director responsible for investment fund operations. Then, between 2010 and 2018, she was associated with the largest universal bank in Poland: PKO Bank Polski S.A., where as Director, she was responsible for internal audit functions of the Bank and the PKO Bank Polski Capital Group. As the CEO of the largest mortgage bank in Poland, which is a regular issuer of mortgage bonds on the Polish and European market (2018-2021), she was in charge of managing a bank with assets worth PLN 27 billion, determining the direction of strategic development, implementing strategy as part of day-to-day operations, as well as achieving excellent profitability, efficiency and capital security parameters for the bank in a dynamic market environment. She was the voice of the sector in legislative initiatives concerning the activities of mortgage bond issuers in Poland.
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In the course of her professional career, she has also managed strictly financial challenges, namely: audits of financial statements, accounting and financial reporting consultancy, formulation of strategies and solutions, analysis of key risks in the activities of banks and other financial institutions, assessment of internal control and risk management systems, as well as day-to-day management of the entrusted business areas, achievement of the assumed objectives, budgets and strategies.
From 2018 to 2021, she also acted as a member of the Supervisory Board of PKO Finat Sp. z o.o. and is currently one of the members of the Supervisory Board of BEST TFI S.A.
She is a graduate of the Warsaw School of Economics. She is a UK auditor certified by the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA Practising Certificate), and has an Executive MBA degree from École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées in Paris and the University of Bristol. She also completed the Advanced Management Programme at IESE Business School, which is part of the University of Navarra.
