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Utrecht, Nederland

Transforming Finance Business Planning and P&L forecasting through machine learning and AI.

Utrecht Stad, Provincie Utrecht, Nederland

Topline planning and forecasting for Netherlands and Belux markets. Implementation of new digital planning and reporting platform. IS&OP/IBP, AOP planning and submission, topline month-end close lead

Utrecht En Omgeving, Nederland

Managing a team of 4 analysts across Benelux headquarters in Netherlands and Belgium, with as main responsibility the day to day management of discounts and allowances for Benelux retail and Away from home customers. SAP discounts and bonus management, customer invoice settlement, accrual reviews, policy ownership and controls, continuous improvement and change management.

Utrecht En Omgeving, Nederland

Fixed Selling, General and Adminstrative costs analyst for the Benelux BU, member of the corporate planning team. Budgetting and budget review, forecasting, cost analysis, processing ad-hoc reporting requests, month and year-end close analysis (incl accual and reclassification postings), etc.

Utrecht

Monthly reporting of income and risk measures at client level to product-, region- and sector teams at business and management level within Rabobank International. Reporting is done in Excel form and through in-house developed web portal applications. The portal applications feature (Tableau) visualizations, optimized continuously for best (and most usable) representation of the available data. I assisted in both data processing and visualization. Tasks besides the monthly reporting cycle consisted of answering questions about the reports, facilitating ad hoc data requests and assisting in ongoing projects.

Utrecht

Interim assignment in the Finance & Risk department of SPF Beheer, the asset management and pension fund administrator company for St. Spoorwegpensioenfonds (SPF; Dutch rail sector pension fund) and St. Pensioenfonds Openbaar Vervoer (SPOV; Dutch public transport sector pension fund). SPF Beheer manages about € 16 bln for SPF, SPOV and several smaller funds. Additionally the company manages the financial administration and reporting for about 25 corporate clients, provides administrative support to boards and provides the salary administration for NS and ProRail. The assignment consists of supporting activities with regard to the compilation of the annual reports for SPF Beheer and its clients (25 entities in total), which include document compilation and -management, keeping track of the schedule, keeping in touch with various departments to keep up with ongoing work streams, taking part in weekly progress meetings and reporting on the status for each entity separately. Additionally, assistance to the financial controllers regarding the annual reports, which includes some financial analysis.

Zoetermeer

Floor management duties in all departments; assistance and guidance to workforce in all departments, inter-departmental coordination, problem solving, visitor contact, workday prep, etc. Occasionally consulting on and sales of group arrangements and events by telephone and online and reception duties.

Zoetermeer

Middle management position in the company which oversees the department of games and the go-kart track. The tasks range from making work schedules for the crew members (about 25-35 people in total), keeping track of every crew members performance, hiring and training new crew members, making individual performance reports and making recommandations about company policies (long and short term) together with other members of the management team.

Zoetermeer

This position consists of leading the day-to-day operations in the bar-restaurant of the centre. The main tasks in this position were to keep track of the reservations, making the nessesary arangments to place all the groups, making work schedules for the crew members and leading the team (between 2-15 crew members) throughout the day, while keeping in touch with the other departments in the company.

Zoetermeer

Wide variety of positions throughout the company; a.o. F&B, group coordinator, sales, reception, host and special event organization. Also team leadership in the F&B and games departments and assistance to department managers.

Rotterdam

TAS comprises Mergers and Acquisitions, Valuation and Business Modeling and Transaction Services. The internship consists of supporting activities for all of the above, but primarily for M&A and V&BM. Common assignments were document preparation (info-packs, teasers, buy/sale memorandums, financing memorandums), long/short list composition for buy and sell transactions, and assistance in financial model building (Excel). Deals were both nationally and internationally oriented and (international) inter-office cooperation was quite common. Worked with a great though quite small team in the Rotterdam office, from which I learned a great deal about M&A in project-oriented teamwork, often under considerable time pressure.

Msc, Financial Economics (Cum Laude), With Honours (Cum Laude)

Activities and Societies: FSR: Financial Studies Association Rotterdam Weighted GPA: (8.5/10) Thesis: "The effects of bidder competition.

Passed Level 1 Exam, Cfa Programme (Chartered Financial Analyst)

Bsc, Economics And Business

Activities and Societies: A.L.S.V. Quintus: Student organisation Leiden L.I.M.D. Sjap Eisjedies: Student Fraternity Leiden EFR, FSR Minor.

Bachelor, Tax Law

Terminated

High School, Vwo (University Entry Level)

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