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Breda, Nb, Nl

Boxtel, The Netherlands

Leading the Vion Food SSC and MDM teams to deliver 'One way of working' across Vion for O2C, P2P, R2R, MDM and Payroll to improve process transparency, quality and performance.

Amsterdam Area, Netherlands

Established centralized O2C process in GBS in collaboration with operating units and the BPO service provider. Delivered process transparency in O2C, P2P and R2R through data analytics and visualization to improve overall performance management.

Breda Area, Netherlands

Established centralized shared service delivery model from 6 locations in Hungary, UK, Spain, Italy and India, managing $6B of Accounts Receivables for GE across Healthcare, Aviation and Energy industries. Leading a team of 330 employees that service 100+ legal entities in 20+ languages across 45 countries to drive the invoice to cash (I2C) process for GE.Key achievements: • Client: built strong relationships with the client teams to drive strategic alignment on performance, key-initiatives and joint actions. Actions that resulted in 15% productivity, 40+% improved past due results and 20% growth in volume (4Q15 vs 4Q13) • Organization: aligned team to 4 core activities to drive standard service offering and enable automation. Closed Florence location and consolidated activities to Budapest site. • Process: implemented daily task-list for collections team to standardize customer contact strategy and measure teams on effective contacts to drive output.

Breda Area, Netherlands

Working Capital Solutions provides global accounts receivables financing solutions to provide cash flow for clients through on book factoring and syndication. Lead global funding and syndication operations, executing on 7000+ funding sessions across 400+ legal entities for $50+B annually with a team of 50 professionals in 3 poles.Key aspects of the role are flawless execution, continuous process improvements and strong operational risk management to deliver on expectations.Key achievements: • Client: aligned clients, sales, IT and risk team on time-tables and volume expectations to maximize cash flow for GE Aviation, Healthcare and Energy businesses. This allowed for 70% growth in funding’s to capture $4B of additional cash flow for the clients.• Process: drove lean work-out, resulting in a 30+% funding capacity increase and an IT roadmap. Simplified the file load process through a web-portal solution, reducing the operational risk.• Organization: expanded funding team to US and China to support global growth and achieve better time-zone coverage and improve work-life balance for the team in Quarter-end periods

Antwerp Area, Belgium

Lead EMEA Business Finance team to support General Manager and 7 country managers to drive sales channel profitability by region for equipment and services. Responsible for financial planning, analysis, budget and forecasting cycles as well as the monthly financial reporting. Lead a shared services finance team of 25 people covering controllership, acc. payables and receivables, tax and treasury.Key achievements: • Client: realigned team to better support country P&L leaders driving financial awareness on cost and revenue into the sales and servicing teams. This resulted in a new leasing structure and the roll-out of the ‘Perfect order’ initiative to reduce rework in the organization.• Organization: integrated new acquisition ‘Applied Green Machines’ in Tennant structure through legal and operational mergers in UK and France• Process: closed 3 year backlog of consolidated statutory statement filings and established process of filing within 6 months after close. Developed new Europe Cashpool across 12 countries. Improved tax structure in collaboration with tax team to capture historical losses through revising the legal entity structure, transfer price agreements and models.

Breda Area, Netherlands

Breda Area, Netherlands

Rotterdam Area, Netherlands

Active member of various audit teams for medium and large businesses.

Digital Strategy And Transformation, Business Administration And Management, General

Master Of Science (Msc), Economics And Accounting

Activities and Societies: Society: Rotaract Maastricht, Activities: Student member of the Economics Facultyboard (FdEWB) at Maastricht.

Executive Leader, Business Leadership

• Emerge leadership program, GE Capital International, London 2014 • Advanced Management Course, GE-campus Crotonville, Germany 2012 •.