Eva, the Economist

I graduated from University of Nyíregyháza in 2000, where I earned a BSc degree in economics. As an economist I started my career in the healthcare sector, where I initially worked as a controlling assistant in the Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén County Hospital in Miskolc, which is the third largest city in Hungary.

I was responsible for:

• coordinating the planning work, indicating and analysing significant deviations from the targets,
• discussing the results with people in charge, preparing alternatives for counter-regulation,
• providing periodic (monthly, quarterly, annual) reports, estimates and closures, plus related documents and circulars,
• supporting the management with ad-hoc analyses, tasks,
• pre and post calculations, statistics, external and internal data reports
• preparation of tenders and the annual report to the CFO.

In order to fulfil my obligations, I used an individually developed controlling program (MedKontoll), an ERP system (CT-EcoSTAT), several medical systems (MedWorks, MeditCom) and MS Office (Word, Excel, PowePoint), of course.

In 2006, I got the opportunity to step a higher level when the actual director of Gróf Tisza István Hospital in Berettyóújfalu asked me to perform the head of the controlling department.

As the head of the controlling department I was responsible for:

• Managing the controlling department of the hospital.
• Establishing, maintaining and developing the hospital’s controlling planning and reporting system.
• Introducing the supporting IT solutions (CT-EcoSTAT, MedKontroll).
• Supporting the management with periodic and ad-hoc reports and cost estimates.
• Identifying opportunities for optimisation and savings, drawing up improvement proposals.
• Participating in the preparation of tenders.
• Preparing pre-, mid- and post-project calculations.
• Medium-term strategic planning.

After the birth of my son, I looked for new challenges locally in Debrecen, and in 2009 I successfully applied for the Financial Manager position advertised by the University of Debrecen Faculty of Music. They were looking for a specialist for a fixed period of time (during the maternity leave of the colleague).

In those two years I was responsible for:

• Full economic management of the Faculty of Music for two years long (during my colleague’s maternity leave).
• Budgeting.
• Personnel related affairs, prepare assignment contracts and leases.
• Preparing tenders, tender management.
• Preparing pre-, mid- and post-project calculations, statistics.
• Supporting the management with periodic and ad-hoc reports and cost estimates.
• Identifying opportunities for optimisation and savings, drawing up improvement proposals.
• Resolving other, occasional economic tasks.

The management of the Faculty was so satisfied with my work that even after the end of the two years, they insisted on my person and offered me another position in order to strengthen the functioning of the Faculty by my work in the future too. That's how I became the Faculty's concert and event manager.