Johan Echardt Email & Phone Number

Stockholm, Sverige

Sverige

Responsible for Finance and IT in Sweden consisting of 5 employeesMember of the Swedish management teamResponsible for activities and initiatives making sure that the budget and forecast are achieved and responsible for driving strategic initiatives.Responsible for all financial reporting to the parent company in USResponsible for internal control and SOXResponsible for manufacturing and inventory analyzes and procedures

Kista

Apply global Financial Operations policy and strategy within marketOperate as Service Delivery Manager within marketManage stakeholders on country levelManage total service delivery across all countries within marketEnsure SLA compliance on agreed KBI, quality and costsImplement and follow up appropriate corrective / improvement actionsReview monthly performance reporting and follow upIn depth performance / trend analysis and set-up of process improvement actions with involved parties.Ensure harmonization and further concentration of processes and transition to external service provider.

Stockholm, Sverige

Responsible for FP&A, Commercial Control, Cost Control, Pricing and Office Service. A total of 18 employees.Responsible for the coordination and analysis of forecasting and reporting of financial information to the owners and local management.Coordinate and calculate pricing to customers and responsible for guiding the sales and marketing department.Responsible for the analysis of the company's operating costs and to propose and follow up on corrective actions.Participate and evaluate various strategic decisions.

Stockholm, Sverige

Responsible for the Corporate Controller Department which consisted of five managers and 20 employees.Responsible for part of the budget and the forecasting. The responsibility included analysis and actions to achieve budget or forecast. Supported the Nordic Vice President Finance and GM with respect to finance in their decision making.Responsible for contact with the parent company and with external providers such as auditors, tax lawyers, bank, insurance brokers, leasing companies, etc. Provided strong support and service to all customers internally. Responsible for ensuring that all actual reporting to the parent company (monthly, quarterly and annual reporting) is accurate, in time. Responsible for external reporting such as, annual report, statement, tax return etc. Responsible for accurate treatment of Swedish and U.S. GAAP. Responsible for the company's taxes and tax planning.Responsible for strong financial control and procedures including credit control, invoicing, payments from customers, pricing, inventory and cost accounting (price and usage variances), payroll accounting, expatriate accounting, inter-company, vendor invoices and related payments. Responsible for ensuring that the company's investments are properly authorized and in accordance with the company's approval procedures. Established good internal controls to protect investments. Responsible for maintaining and ensuring authorization procedures as well as local chart of authority and locally delegated responsibility.Responsible for ensuring effective internal control, risk management and SOX in the company. Followed up on discrepancies and made inquiries of the company's business procedures.Responsible for analyzing and controlling the company's daily funding and borrowing needs and, if necessary, credit, foreign exchange, hedge and bank guarantees.Partially responsible for project costing (budget, actual and analysis) and project management.

Stockholm, Sverige

Responsible for the finance department including accounting, budgeting, forecasting and analysis of results against budget and forecast. Did all external reports such as financial statements and tax returns.Member of the management team for the Nordic Group.Responsible for consolidation and reporting to the parent company in Germany. Responsible for differences in accounting principles between Swedish and German Gaap.Responsible for product costing and lease financing. This involved some contact with customers.Preparation and analysis of strategic plans.Have successfully started up a company in Norway.Centralized accounting in Norway and Finland to Sweden.Analysis and design of commercial contract terms.Bank guarantee, export financing and export documentation.

Stockholm, Sverige

Continuous review and financial audit of a number of companies.Work abroad during six months in Russia. Started up an office of Arthur Andersen in Moscow 1992 and helped customers with due diligences and regular audit.Participated in a few bankruptcy investigations and several due diligencesAudit of two listed companies of which one was performed from London.Worked the last three years about 10% with Computer Risk Management.Interim assignments as CFO for clients and did some special assignments for specific clients (establishing reporting package, made a fixed asset register in Excel, product costing program in Excel, analyzed pricing mechanism within Stockholm County Council, consolidation in Excel, etc.).For three years supervision of assistants.