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Capelle A/D Ijssel

Responsible for the European Finance team, 7 direct reports and indirectly managing a team of more than 50 employees. Professionalization and transformation of the Finance organization and create value creation culture in the organization.Major achievements:- Transformation of Finance teams; Controlling team from reactive to proactive business sparring partners. Accounting team from transactional oriented to end-to-end process thinking. Nearshoring of administrative transactional activities.- Creating value creation culture through timely and reliable delivery of relevant management reports in the areas of commerce, HR, operations and finance.- M&A responsible for coordination and implementation of Vendor Due Diligence in the areas of Finance, Tax and Legal, resulting in the successful sale of CED shares (2018 and 2023)- M&A successful integration of multiple acquired companies; 1 transformation entering a new market (France) and multiple buy-built with which operational synergies have been achieved. Result doubling of turnover.- Responsible for drawing up and implementing a multi-year business plan, also for obtaining external debt financing.- Time reduction of monthly management reporting by 5 working days (40%) through a combination of digitalization, process and system optimizations, including implementation and use of BI tooling.

Rotterdam, Netherlands

Responsible for the Finance department ensuring timely financial reporting towards the Head Office (US GAAP and SOX) and providing management information towards local management.

Amsterdam, Netherlands

As Project Manager leading a worldwide process optimalization project "Cost Price Insight" to ensure standardization in the applied cost price methodologies used within the Health Systems division.Major achievements:- Execution of multiple LEAN value stream sessions, process mapping and analysis at plants in the USA and Netherlands to map the AS-IS situation.- Resulting in a recommendation to centralize the process in order to realize standardization - Creation of cost price trend KPI dashboard

Waardenburg, Netherlands

Key member of Management team, responsible for the Finance team, 3 direct reports and indirect managing a team of 10 employees.Major Achievements:- Professionalisation of the Finance team; initiated a plan of action, organisational changes and created a management reporting structure- Prepared a lay-out for the structural reduction of the working capital with more than 25%- Implementation of Qlikview, Business Intelligence Software, in order to get insight in the financial peformance, KPI's and profitability of the company

Malle. Belgium

Key member of the Management team, responsible for the Finance, Legal and IT teams, 5 direct reports and indirect managing a team of 20 employeesMajor achievements:- Initiated a transformation of the Finance organization by i.e. implementing Business Control functions and set-up of standardized management information and reporting - Acquisition of companies, in line with the strategy, created the world’s largest “green” cleaning products company -Re-financing of the company, replacing internal with external debt and arranged new working capital facilities-Implementation and roll-out of a new consolidation system (Tagetik) for the 25 legal entities-Implementation of SAP CO/PA to gain insight in the product and customer profitability

Delft, Netherlands

Responsible for the Accounting Teams in the Netherlands and Belgium, 5 direct reports and indirect managing a team of 16 employees Ensuring timely and accurate financial reporting in line with Samsung Group standardsMajor achievements:- Realized a Tax Control Framework between Samsung and the Dutch Tax Authorities based on the internal (tax) control framework- Implementation of E-invoicing system, first subsidiary in Europe, for both incoming- and outgoing invoices - Set-up of new reporting methodology for ‘sales spend’, resulting in much better insight in actual spend and risks and opportunities

Paris, France And Pretoria, South Africa

Key member of local Management Team, responsible for the Shared Service Center including the finance, payroll, legal, IT and logistics departments, 6 direct reports and indirect managing a team of 45 employees. Major achievements:- Leading role in the divestment of the French business with a turnover of EUR 220 million and 6.000 employees. - Responsible for a successful turnaround and the implementation of an ERP project for the South African business- Initiated the transformation of the South African Finance organization from a decentralized to a centralized (Shared Service Center) organization and introduced the functions of Business Controllers

Brussels Area, Belgium

Key member of the multinational management team that was responsible for the design of the strategy and operational structure of the European activities with a turnover EUR 1.7 billion in 2006Responsible for and indirectly managing the Finance Managers in 28 European countriesMajor achievements:- Participation in the integration team of the European activities after the merger between Group 4 Falck and Securicor realizing more than EUR 17 million of synergies, which largely exceeded the objectives- Coordination of acquisitions; valuation, investment proposal, due diligence, negotiation and integration. - Co-responsible for a successful European price and margin optimization program

The Hague And Copenhagen, The Netherlands And Denmark

Responsible for the execution of the control and internal audit program by visiting the operating companies around the worldResponsible for the financial reporting of the consolidated group results and the administration of the holding companies, managing 2 junior accountantsMajor achievements:- Fast and successful integration of the financial reporting systems (Hyperion) after the merger between Group 4 and Falck- Participation in group overhead cost reduction program that generated a saving of EUR 25 million. - Successful implementation of new administration system (SAP) for the holding companies resulting in a more efficient and faster reporting process

Zoetermeer, Netherlands

Responsible for the reporting of the monthly financial results and as 'key-user' responsible for the functional implementation of SAP for the Accounting and Controlling modules

Leidschendam, Netherlands

Responsible for the composition of the Annual Accounts and the Tax declarations for small and mid-sized companies

De Lier, Netherlands

Post Bachelor, Controlling

Bachelor Degree, Accountancy