Ann Cools Email & Phone Number

Zwijndrecht, Antwerpen, Be

CompanyVan Moer Group is a fast growing logistics service provider with own trucks and warehouses headquartered in Zwijndrecht in the Antwerp port area and with offices in Belgium, France, Romania and Brazil. VM Group provides intermodal services with a connection to the railway in its plant in Kallo and private inland terminal in Vilvoorde. The company was founded with 1 truck, 24 years ago by Jo Van Moer and his wife Anne Verstraeten and now has a turnover of 80 million and 540 employees. Van Moer has been growing for several years with double-digit.Function:* Assist in performing all tasks necessary to achieve the organization's mission and growth plans.• Train the finance unit and other staff on raising awareness and knowledge of financial management matters.• Participate in developing new business, specifically: assist the CEO in identifying new funding opportunities and the drafting of prospective programmatic budgets.• Attend Board meetings• Monitor banking activities of the organization and maintain bank relations.• Monitor cash balance & cash forecasts and ensure adequate cash flow to meet the organization's needs.• Develop financial and tax strategies• Manage the capital request and budgeting processes• Manage the accounting, controlling, legal, tax, and treasury.• Oversee the financial operations of subsidiary companies and foreign operations• Implement financial best practices • Oversee the company's transaction processing systems• Supervise acquisition due diligence and support pricing negotiations • Maintain relations with external auditors and investigate their findings and recommendations

London, Gb

Directing finance team of 40 encompassing ° Accounting ° Business controlling (monthly consolidated reporting & forecasting, annual budgets, cash flow forecasting, ROI capex projects, …)° Acquisitions & mergers° Pricing strategy & cost calculations (ABC costing model) ° Cash collections ° Billing, contract & master data management ° Legal ° Warehousing/ Procurement/ Facility/ Fleet (540 cars)Selected achievements:- Created a centralized procurement department with a coherent procurement policy, procurement processes & procedures - Improvement of credit control processes increasing operational cash flow attaining 95% of ebita in the last 5 years - Construction & move to new HQ building- Implementation of e-billing (from opt-in to opt-out) reaching success ratio of 50% via different channels (myUP, zoomit, pdf via mail, isabel,…)- Development, implementation & maintenance of activity based cost model used in our sales pricing tool- Orchestrating a fast savings restructuring plan for Belgium leading to 2.5 Mio € savings as a result of which we managed to compensate a really challenging market situation characterized by increasing pricing competition and margin erosion- Integration of back offices of 2 big companies having completely different cultural backgrounds- Acquisition of several companies providing evaluation, negotiation with vendors , transaction structuring and due diligence guidance & support- Champion of “reducing closing times” program - Created a fin &admin team being the benchmark for other European countries - Member of project team that was in charge of the bid, win, implementation of the 2 biggest high-profile customer contracts in the security market in Belgium (Brussels Airport & European Commission) - Participation with G4S Belgium in a SPV with one of the biggest construction companies of Belgium for the DBFM of 4 prisons in Belgium

London, Gb

- Reporting to the General Manager- Project leader implementation FICO - Key user and business process owner for the other SAP tracks: MM, SD/CS, COPA, planning, business warehouse- Managing the financial & accounting department (staff of 13 people): * Control of month end actuals and reporting to UK headquarters * Creating & reporting of financial, operational and sales balanced scorecard * Managing the budgeting and forecasting process * Development of an ABC cost price model, used in offers and tenders * Implementing and managing special pricing agreements * Margin analysis * Responsible for credit control management * Responsible for billing * Responsible for internal & external audits and all statutory and legal requirements * Assistance in acquisitions/mergers and due diligences

- Reporting to the Managing Director Benelux and the CFO headquarters in the US- Managing the financial, accounting and HR department (staff of 10 people) * Reorganizing Belux entities and optimizing statutory structures in line with the accounting principles and procedures within RSL COM group worldwide * Preparing and processing on a monthly and yearly basis of the closings including the analysis, evaluation and corrective action* Management of yearly budget and quarterly forecasts * Responsibility for HR

* Responsible for accounting function (staff of 8 people) * Responsible for tax reporting and accounting requirements of the customers: budgets, cost controlling, VAT and tax filings, payroll and social inspection, tax audits & tax controls* Contacting and negotiating with external services, VAT, banks, taxes, statutory accountants

Performed financial and operational audits as a team member and team manager. Audit scope included financial reporting, financial and operational controls and procedures.

Business Administration And Management, General

Registered Accountant, Accountancy, Tax & Law

Master, Economics