IKEA is the largest home furnishing company in the world offering a wide range of products to customers. The vision is to make a better everyday life for the many people.Within IKEA Netherlands I'm active as Country Financial Controller, where I have responsiblity for the margin, product-related services and assets/projects portfolios. In addition, as Financial Controller I am also responsible for all kinds of (financial) dashboards to maintain and develop them and to present the figures to the financial board every month. I also supervise the year-end audits with the accountant for sales and cost of goods sold.Within the Finance and accounting team, I manage (operationally) the accounting & reporting specialists who are within my field of responsibility. What were results at IKEA? Time savings by automating reports through the use of Power BI. This also reduces the sensitivity to errors, because there are less manual actions. Here we are talking about more than 20 hours of savings on a monthly basis, of course in addition to the extra insights this has given the organization. Also getting several cost components under control and therefore being able to steer the organization in a more durable way has been one of my achievements.

Duvel Moortgat is one of the best craft beer breweries in the world. Brands that are in the portfolio of Duvel Moortgat are Chouffe, Liefmans, Brouwerij 't IJ, Vedett, Firestone Walker and of course Duvel.Within Duvel Moortgat I was responsible for the whole Finance field. Month, quarterly and year end closings, budgetting processes and several reports and analysis belonged to my area of responsibility as well as managing the Finance team. Within Duvel Moortgat I started several change projects. First of all, we integrated group thinking instead of separate companies. We, therefore, changed all of our (financial) reports. We also made sure there was a better understanding of the P&L and financial data.Furthermore I focussed on the administrative processes. I structured the timing and completeness of financial and production data and introducting and creating balance sheet specifications as well as adding more dimensions for several deparments in our source systems.Another task was the budget follow-up with the different stakeholders in other departments. We discussed the actuals up to that moment and estimated for the rest of the year. That way we secured we were in Control of our Finances.

Brouwerij 't IJ is one of the largest craft beer breweries in the Netherlands. The Netherlands is becoming more and more familiar with the craft beer concept, which is why Brouwerij 't IJ has grown enormously in recent years, both in terms of volumes and brand awareness.At Brouwerij 't IJ I was responsible for the financial administration as well as the reporting within and outside the organization. One of the reports I set up was for the marketing department to be able to monitor their budget on a monthly basis and to analyze where the money has been spent. Every month and quarter we reported to Duvel. I was responsible for the financial closing and reporting of the figures. In addition, I also supervised the audit at the end of the year, took care of all kinds of tax returns and the calculations of the cost prices for our beers. From April 2020, my role at Brouwerij 't IJ has changed and the separate companies have merged (Brouwerij 't IJ and Duvel Moortgat in the Netherlands).

Lidl Netherlands is the third supermarket in the Netherlands with regard to market share. Internationally is Lidl active in approximatly 30 countries and therefore one of the biggest retailers in Europe.As Financial Controller I was responsible for the month-end closings with a lot of reports for the international holding. Besides we were responsible for the reports for Business Controllers and/or other departments like purchasing. One of the things I did at Lidl was analysing the daily and weekly reports. I advised whether it was possible to automate the report either in one of our management informations system or with RPA. I also analysed whether it would result in time savings and how much time would be saved.

Big Bazar is a discount formula in the Dutch and Belgian retailmarket. It is a strongly growing shopping formula where the consumer shops cheaply and finds the best brands for the lowest prices.I focussed on the commercial analysis and reporting at Big Bazar. I also made several (management) reports that were not directly related to the commericial analysis. One of the focus points was the flyer process. I did the precalculations, result analysis and gap analysis to improve the decision making. I also focussed on structuring and improving the process regarding the commercial analysis.I was one of the product owners of the BI tool and I joined the project for the implementation of the new BI tool. In this project, I designed reports and validated the data that was put in the datawarehouse. Also, I did the data validation for our ERP-system. I was one of contact persons regarding questions or to develop new reports in our BI tool. I also joined the project to reduce the inventory. My role in this project was building a template and make guidelines for the Category Managers as well as monitoring the progress of the project.

Blaericumsch Vloerenhuys is a small organisation that deliver floors in a craft way. Knowledge and service are important to give the best advices to the customers and to deliver the highest possible quality, At the Blaericumsch Vloerenhuys, I'm responsible for the administration, preparing the figures for the accountant and the debtors and creditorsmanagement.

ParcelParcel is in The Netherlands a player within the logistic field. ParcelParcel quotes, for international shipments, low prices by buying big volumes with Express companies like FedEx, DHL, TNT and UPS. However, the brokerage is not the only thing ParcelParcel does. ParcelParcel stands for service and delivers support with issues, but also inform customers about the shipments. Dimensions and weight don't matter, ParcelParcel always tries to find the cheapest and easiest way for your shipment.Within ParcelParcel I was responsible for the financial processes of the department, the administration, debtors and creditorsmanagement and delivery management information. I developed all these processes in my time at ParcelParcel and/or improved them.I also did research for international expansion for ParcelParcel and I tested the developed shipping platform.

The two main characteristics are the security of the crowd as well as the service level. That is, it is important to find the balance between those two and to make judgements in certain situations. Since I have started in the Amsterdam ArenA, I have developed myself towards a leadership role. This is, I am, together with a team, responsible for the processes of a part in the stadium.

Lecture high school childeren/first year students in the finance subjects, mathematics and finance parts of the study Business Economics

Mill Finance is a small company that does the administration for small companies. Most of those companies are SMEs in different sectors. My tasks consisted of;- The administration- Taxes (income, corporate, payroll and dividend)- Payroll- Offers

During this internship, I researched how the labour costs at the stores of Groenblok B.V. (operating under the name Tuincentrum Overvecht) could be reduced. The focus of this research was at the use of personnel in the stores.During this research, I interviewed store managers, controllers, sales managers, the CEO and CFO. The interviews were about the budgets for the stores and the deployment of staff within the budgets. The results indicated that it was unclear to store managers how they could manage their budgets. I designed an Excel model which helped store managers with the deployment of the personnel, taking the different seasons into account. The model made, based on revenue predictions, an estimation for the use of staff hours and a comparison could be made based on the predictions and the reality.In the first period of this internship, I was part of calculating the budgets for the stores and during the whole internship I was the first contact for problems or questions with regard to the time registration system.

Combined with Triple M IT. This was my first internship for 10 weeks. After the internship, I stayed to work parttime. My tasks were the administration of invoices, corporate taxes and maintaining the social media for the company.

Combined with IQAA. This was my first internship for 10 weeks. After the internship, I stayed to work parttime. My tasks were the administration of invoices, sell the developed scanning invoicesystem and point out bugs in the system.