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Utrecht, Netherlands

Soesterberg, Utrecht, Netherlands

• Manage finance team, provide guidance on general accounting matters and day-to-day workloads• Serve as a trusted and strategic Business Partner to the CEO• Taking charge budgetary and costs projections and forecasts of the organisation • Evaluate the accuracy of work in progress and advance cost positions• Conduct review of all the long-term contracts, analysing their impact in the balance sheet and P&L • Implement and uphold reporting standards in accordance with IFRS• Exercise cash management oversight, supervising cash-flow forecasts, optimising working capital• Lead the annual corporate audit as the company point of contact

Amsterdam Area

Utrecht En Omgeving, Nederland

✦ Van Dam Machines GroupThe company is a leading in dry offset printers but faced cash flow issues at that time. Van Dam was acquired by the private equity firm called Anders Invest, which recognized the company's potential. I was temporarily hired to rebuild the finance function following the departure of the CFO.Achievements: - Develop a comprehensive bottom-up forecast along with a three-year budget plan for the investor to rely on moving forward. Accurate and timely financial management reporting, supported by the existing local accounting team - Setting up the multi-entity consolidation and monthly financial reporting✦ Fire Safety FirstThe company lacked visibility in their profitability (per customer) and needed to optimise the processing of incoming purchase invoices, as these were essential for generating sales invoices and consequently for maintaining cash flow.Achievements: - Analysis of the current purchase-to-pay-process, identifying improvements and implementing theproposed solutions. Ensuring the changes were communicated clearly to service managers provided necessary assistance and training - Creating strategic insights into profitability metrics per customer and service type, contributing valuable perspectives to the quotation process with contract extensions.

Amsterdam Area

✦ T-Systems NetherlandsThe company is part of the larger corporate entity T-Mobile, which introduced new guidelines and additional requirements for monthly reporting. Consequently, the CFO requested additional support to ensure that these new requirements were met effectively.Achievements:- Ensuring the timely delivery of accurate financial information to headquarters through effective internal coordination and alignment between finance, project management, and sales teams - Providing insightful analysis and perspectives to the management team during periods of company restructuring.✦ Kinly Netherlands B.V. The company encountered issues with the purchase order system of their most significant partner, resulting in overdue balances exceeding 2.5 million euro.Achievements:- Identifying the root cause of why the purchase orders were not approved by their PO system through effective collaboration with the clients. All outstanding issues were resolved - Improving the order-to-cash process by implementing specific new ways of working within the operations teams

Amsterdam En Omgeving, Nederland

• Business partners for the sales & marketing department and delivering accurate forecasting to manage the P&L throughout the year.• Preparation of the financial reporting, providing MT insights in performance (costs & revenues) and effectiveness of current strategy. • Reviewing the commission schemes for sales & account managers for Office & Horeca segment. • Assessment of effectiveness of marketing campaigns by pre-post evaluations together with the marketing team, understanding the impact on purchase/repurchase and awareness of the brand by reviewing the post targets with actuals.

Alkmaar Area, Netherlands

• Preparation and review of monthly financial reporting for Business Unit: Netherlands and UK• Monthly review with De Boer Group Holding (CEO/CFO)• Compose yearly strategic business plan/budget together with sales teams and BU directors • Operating as project controller on high profile projects within De Boer Group Holding, from early start till end result • Responsible for the year-end audit and preparation of annual accounts in line with IFRS accounting standard

Amsterdam Area, Netherlands

• Global P&L responsibility for over 100M€ reporting• Responsible for the monthly closing and preparation of reports in accordance with accounting standard• Analysis on management information relating to weekly sales reporting

Amsterdam Area, Netherlands

Pre Master'S Degree, Accounting & Controle

Bachelor, Business Administration