Derek Huff Email & Phone Number

Amsterdam, NH, NL

Zaanstad, North Holland, Netherlands

Utrecht, Netherlands

Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands

• Manage team of four record-to-report accountants and their daily operational accounting and reporting activities (three production plants, two sales entities and reporting for 7 other entities) based in the European.
• Lead all aspects of month end closing process for assigned companies, coordinating all departments in the EHQ, to ensure smooth closing process
• Global Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging Ambassador
• Driving efficiencies through self-directed projects, such as leading monthly collaboration meetings with other departments in the EHQ, leading initiative to automate statutory reporting process in Amsterdam & Germany.
• Selected to participate on the European Idea Box Committee, evaluating ideas submitted by the employees to improve the EHQ
• Key member of Industrial Products Single Business Entity implementation project in 2018 whereby the IP segment converted from commission structure to Limited Risk Distributor structure

London, United Kingdom

• Regional head of finance for offices based in Shanghai, China; London, England; Gurgaon, India and Abu Dhabi, UAE with a shared service center based in Dallas, Texas
• Effectively supervise and manage a staff of three direct reports based in England, India, and China
• Coordinate and review local tax filings, statutory audits and oversee statutory compliance for the region
• Develop and distribute monthly sector-level financial and operational reporting to key stakeholders within the region to create a culture of financial accountability within the region
• Measure and monitor cash flows to ensure operating requirements are met
• Present financial results and projections to global executive management upon visits to London, England

Dallas, Texas

• Responsible for internal and external financial statement preparation on both US-tax and US-GAAP basis and maintenance of all general ledger accounts for the US, five international subsidiaries and three joint ventures
• Managed coordination and preparation of global consolidated and international statutory audits (six annually), completing consolidated audit six months earlier than it had been completed in the past earning recognition.
• Lead a cross-functional team to automate subcontractor payment process, reducing workload of two staff by 75%
• Created balance sheet reconciliations for all US accounts on US-tax and US-GAAP basis, identifying and correcting several hundred thousand dollars in errors

Dallas/Fort Worth Area

• Performed high quality financial statement audits for international and domestic publicly and privately held companies in the areas of construction, service (law & consulting), manufacturing, not-for-profit, and.

Master Of Science (M.S.), Accounting

Bachelor Of Business Administration (B.B.A.), Accounting