Ola Samuelsson Email & Phone Number

Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain

As a committed partner at GE Hunter, I am qualified to bring personalized solutions to your business need. Frequently referred to as advisors to clients and as coaches to our candidates, we take great pride in ensuring we provide excellence. We support small to large international organizations in excelling their performance, by recruiting and retaining the best-talented individuals who provide a competitive edge in the growing and demanding marketplace.

Stockholm, Sweden

Technology company in the global Railway & Mass Transit Transportation Systems business employing over 4.200 people in 28 different countries.Position: ControllerMain responsibilities: For the Swedish subsidiary supporting the finance organisation during a re-organisation assuring accurate and timely closing of Year-end reporting, Monthly reporting, Review and suggest changes for improved quality in procedures and processes.

Amsterdam Area, Copenhagen, Oslo

Ground-handling company, 30.000 employees in more the 140 locations worldwide.Position: Finance Manager for Denmark and Norway.Main responsibilities; Financial reporting and analyses – both legal and internal, Budget and Forecast compilation and analysis, Cash Forecasting, Preparation of specific business project planning for the businesses at both Copenhagen and Oslo airports, Specific short term project support for overseas businesses – Cyprus and Portugal, customer commercial negotiations and airport company negotiations.Main achievements• Together with a new management team implement a new business model with clearer targets, more motivated staff and better processes for follow up the financial performance leading to significantly improved results.• Bringing order in the accounting and reporting after long time of miss-management and together with a new set-up of reporting and forecast models achieving a much better cost-control and accurate reporting.

Barcelona Area, Spain

Investigations and due diligence, Yearly reporting, Acting as temporary Finance Manager or Controller, Creation of business-plans.

Katrineholm, Sweden

Katrineholm is the production site within the business area Business Systems, employ more then 450 people and deliver products to an amount of approximately 300 million USD annuallyPosition: Finance Manager (9 direct reports)Main responsibilities; Leading a team of 9 people responsible for Monthly and yearly reporting, Rolling forecast, Product-calculation and Implementation of SOX.Main achievements• Initiated and implemented a change of the finance organisation giving clearer areas of responsibilities and more efficient processes supporting the business activities better.• New forecast procedure simplifying the process and improved analyse of variances against previous plans.

Barcelona

Telecom and ISP (Internet Service Provider), 65.000 employees in more than 65 countries.Positions: Finance Manager, Regional Finance Director and Business Controller (20 direct reports).Main responsibilities; Between June 1999 and August 2001 UUNET in EMEA opened new operations in 15 countries. I was responsible for all finance support in respect of these entities - from Legal entity support, Auditor and legal counsel liaison, Office and business process set-up, and recruitment of local finance support. The number of people reporting directly to me was 20. During all this period the business grew form circa USD 50 million revenues to in excess of USD 250 million.Main achievements• Under an extreme growth build up a regional Finance organisation including 15 different countries and cultures with a motivated workforce able to meet the requirements from local regulations as well as from the Group and liaise this organisation to the EMEA Financial Shared Service Centre.• As a member of the Project Management team setting up and implementing a SSC. My main focuses were investigating different countries specific accounting principles and assure compliance to local regulations, the change-management process receive acceptance from local management.

Shanghai / Budapest / Stockholm

ERP developer, turnover USD 88 million with 1.100 employees in 50 countries worldwide.Positions: Senior Consultant, Group Accountant and Finance ManagerMain responsibilities; Senior Consultant (Shanghai); leading implementation projects of the Scala system, Group Accountant (Budapest); consolidation of group numbers and implementation of software for consolidation and reporting, Finance Manager (Stockholm); Management- and Legal reporting, Cleaning up books and balance sheet, Setup of new procedures.

Reseller of mobile phones and IT with 20 shops all over Sweden with 110 employees.Position: Financial Manager and Business Controller (6 direct reports).Main responsibilities; Internal and external reporting, Budgeting and forecast, Group consolidation, Development of procedures, Implementations of various financial and administrative systems, Creation of business plans, Negotiations with suppliers, customers and other business parties during a period of growth from 10 to 110 employees and from one shop to 20 shops.