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Antwerp, Be

Herentals, Vlaanderen, België

United Kingdom

The Working Capital Channel is the ultimate resource channel to learn about working capital & cash flow management. Readers will benefit from the years of experience, across the globe and in many different environments.Read more at www.workingcapitalchannel.com

Antwerp, Flemish Region, Belgium

Antwerp Area, Belgium

At Cashforce, we improve working capital & cash flow management in a cost-effective and sustainable way by combining cutting-edge Big Data technology and proven best practices & expertise. Our state-of-the-art CashForce platform accelerates cash flow improvement at mid-size global companies by providing them with an accurate & efficient cash forecast in no time! Our platform connect seamlessly to the major ERP systems (such as SAP, Oracle, Microsoft Dynamics, Sage etc) & banking systems, resulting in unseen implementation speeds. From our offices in Europe (Belgium) and the US (New York), we serve international mid-size & large corporate clients across Europe, the US and Asia. Our platform is being used in over 20 countries across the following industries: Manufacturing, Distribution & Retail, Transportation & Logistics, Professional services.I'm the co-founder and CTO of Cashforce. My goal is to spread our unique vision towards the “CFO of the future”!

At a large Belgian freight group, I was able to bring light and insights in some nontransparent processes that caused quality issues and absorbed a large excess of working capital. Both organizational and operational impact was tremendous as local management could dive into the numerous optimizations that the application brought forward. The business analytics application was build on the QlikView platform combining 8 different (planning/ERP/financial) systems. The solution grew in scope aswell as in users over a period of 1,5 years into the corporate reference on analysis and follow-up for the international operations. My job related on the gathering of business requirements, translation of requirements into IT needs, transformation of available data into actionable insights, support of business owners.

Working with the complete Analytics suite of SAS at a large chip manufacturer in Belgium, I was responsible for transforming raw data into clear & strurctured business insights. Great project with very nice people..

Management & execution of large project on building a management cockpit on credit managment solution (OnGuard). Analysis of proven credit management KPIs (DSO, SWDSO, DOO, CEI, etc..), discussion of best possible visualisation techniques & simulation of improvements on costs associated with custom workflows. The application succesfuly overviewed around € 80M of open receivables continuously for a technology group consisting of around 150 companies.

Master, Physics

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