Ivona Rakovac new Director of Accounting Department at Erste Bank

Zagreb, 20 July 2015 – Ivona Rakovac was appointed Director of the Accounting Department, Erste&Steiermärkische Bank d.d. (Erste banka). From this position, using her know-how she will help Erste banka to successfully tackle business challenges.

Ivona Rakovac is coming from Zagrebacka banka, where she was Head of the Bank and Group’s Reporting Department since September 2012. A year earlier she was Director of Antares revizija d.o.o., and three years before that she had been audit director in Cinotti revzija d.o.o. She started off her career in audit firm KPMG Croatia d.o.o., where she got a job immediately upon having graduated in finance from the Faculty of Economics and Business in Zagreb in 2004.

With vast experience in accounting and auditing, she was a frequent lecturer at the training workshops organised by the Croatian Institute for Banking and Insurance, Sapientia Nova company, and a number of educational audit trainings in audit firms.

Apart from being fluent in English, she also speaks Italian and German well. She has passed the certified auditor exam and exams for a Qualified Member of UK Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA). In her leisure time she likes to travel.

Her predecessor Rastislav Kovacik continued his career within Erste Group, in Banca Comercială Română in Romania.