Christos Patzinakos BSc, ACA

Christos is a qualified chartered accountant and holds a Bachelor’s degree in Accounting and Finance from the University of Warwick. He was employed for 10 years in the Auditing– Assurance Services Department in one of the Big Four accounting firms of Cyprus, where he held the position of the Senior Manager. His duties included the handing of a broad portfolio of clients in the banking, investment management and financial services sector, and was also involved in advisory and consulting projects in the banking industry.

He was an active member of the Learning and Education team of the firm, participating as an instructor for internal training programmes. Between May 2015 and May 2019, Christos held the position of CFO for the biggest card acquirer and processor of Cyprus, while also acting as the Company Secretary and Secretary of the Board of Directors. As of July 2017Christos has also been delivering the ACCA Advanced Audit and Assurance paper with great success at the School of Professional Studies – Limassol centre. As of May 2019, he joined the School of Professional Studies on a full time basis as a tutor for ICAEW courses(Assurance, Audit & Assurance, Financial Management, Business Planning Banking and Strategic Business Management) and ACCA (Financial Reporting and Advanced Audit and Assurance) papers.