Deloitte Romania promotes to directors five professionals from the audit and assurance, tax and enabling services departments
Deloitte Romania’s management team expands as of September 1, 2024, following the promotion to directors of employees Ioana Lucaciu, Mihai Ionica and Andrei Stan, from the Audit and Assurance department, Alexandru Stancu, from the Tax department, and Radu Hutan, from the Enabling Services department.
“Congratulations to my colleagues to whom we entrust this very important role due to their exemplary involvement in assisting clients, in strengthening our service portfolio and our connection with the business environment and in developing colleagues in the teams they are part of. Whether they started their careers at Deloitte as graduates or joined us later, they have fulfilled the expectation on which both our culture and our business model are based, that of continuous personal and professional development,” said Alexandru Reff, Country Managing Partner, Deloitte Romania and Moldova.
Ioana Lucaciu, who takes over the role of Audit and Assurance Director, is part of the Deloitte Romania team in Cluj-Napoca and has 12 years of experience in audit. She has been involved in complex financial data review projects according to Romanian (RAS) and international (IFRS) standards, for companies listed on the Bucharest Stock Exchange, as well as for subsidiaries of international groups, mainly in the automotive, consumer goods and industrial products sectors. She is a member of the Association of Licensed Accountants (ACCA) and of the Chamber of Financial Auditors of Romania (CAFR) and a graduate of the Faculty of Economics and Business Management in Cluj-Napoca.
Mihai Ionica, promoted to Audit and Assurance Director, joined Deloitte Romania in 2010 and has coordinated numerous projects, such as financial audits and reviews of financial statements, for multinational and local companies that report financial data in accordance with international (IFRS) and Romanian accounting standards (RAS). His expertise covers various sectors, with a focus on telecommunications. Within the audit department of Deloitte Romania, he is also part of the team that ensures the relationship with the regulators of the financial audit profession. He has a master’s degree in Accounting, Auditing and Management Informatics from the Academy of Economic Studies in Bucharest, and is a member of ACCA and CAFR.
Andrei Stan joined Deloitte Romania in 2014 and now takes on the role of Audit and Assurance Director. He is an expert in IT systems due diligence processes, risk management, business analysis and processes improvement and has assisted companies in areas such as financial services, telecommunications, retail, media and entertainment, pharmaceuticals, manufacturing, as well as public sector entities, with business consulting, project management services for IT systems and information security. Andrei also has experience in compliance standards, including Sarbanes-Oxley and SSAE 18, and in electronic payment systems and audits of internet banking services.
Alexandru Stancu, Tax Director, has assisted companies in various industries – retail and consumer products, manufacturing, automotive and technology, media and telecommunications – and has been involved in complex projects, such as tax litigation, client representation during tax and anti-fraud audits, tax reviews, due diligence processes and tax digitalization projects (SAF-T, e-Invoice and e-Transport). He also had a two-year work experience in Switzerland, where he coordinated international tax advisory projects, including tax restructurings, cross-border transactions, chain transactions, as well as mergers and acquisitions. He is a licensed tax consultant and a member of the Chamber of Tax Consultants of Romania, as well as a chartered accountant within the Chamber of Expert Accountants of Romania.
Radu Hutan, Enabling Services Director, was initially part of the Deloitte Romania risk management team, providing support in conducting IT audits, then went on to assist in implementing processes and procedures necessary for various information security standards and later became a member of the cybersecurity team, with expertise in penetration testing and incident response. He has been involved in projects in Romania and in the Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) region, for companies in various sectors, especially financial institutions. In 2021, he joined Deloitte Romania’s quality and risk management team and is now the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) of Deloitte Central Europe.
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