Sander Weeda Email & Phone Number

Zwolle, Nl

Groningen, Netherlands

Specialist in horizontal, vertical and heavy transport

Netherlands

Heerde

Achievements;Being part of the challenging transformation process of a company with former roots in a major Dutch multinational. The need to transform the company to independency and profitability. Responsible for building the right Finance structure and support suitable for Ventilex's new situation. All executed with little means. Position;As Finance Manager I am responsible for the Finance team. The team consist the following finance domains; Business controlling, Financial controlling, Project controlling, Financial accounting, Accountants receivable and Accountants payable. Overall goal for the Finance team is to be a reliable business partner who understands business process and is able to support the business in the most efficient way.Day to day responsibilities/task;• management of the Finance team;• creating and reviewing standard reports;• analyzing business reports; • alert and advise management team; • coordination of the month end / year end process;• including the monthly project reviews;• communication with Accountant; • coordination of the yearly planning and control process.• approval of budget, expenditures.More general responsibilities/task; As Finance manager (a member of the management team), I am responsible for the integration of the finance and control function with all other business functions. To support the business functions I provide the needed risks caution and am commercially driven.

Amersfoort

Achievements;Being responsible for the Project Management Office of the Yamal project, it is the first time in the company history that a dedicated Project Management Office group have been assigned to a major project. Dealing with the paradox of at one side the needs of the functional organisation and at the other hand the needs of the project matrix organisation. Position;As Project Control Manager being responsible for the project management office groups like; Document Control, Project Accounting (job cost engineering), Project Secretariat, Project Procurement, Project Certification, Project Logistics and Project Scheduling. The overall purpose of our project management group is to supply the proper project controls, which supports the technical project team as well as the project manager. Day to day responsibilities/task;• management of the project management office group;• review of created reports;• approval of budget, spending’s;• alert and advise project management and delivery managers;• dealing with client, sub-contractors with regards to commercial topics. More general responsibilities/task; Maintain Project Controlling tools on a company level where the project can be an environment to identifying possibilities and to develop or further develop project controlling tools.

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Achievements;Create a platform and contribute to the organizational change where the project controllers were re-assigned to the operation business unit in order to supply a better financial support to the projects teams.Position;Support as project controller projects of the company project portfolio. The portfolio contained 20-30 projects with revenues in the range of $50 million+ to a couple of thousands. The projects executed are in the branches of industrial automation and safety systems. Day to day responsibilities/task;• providing financial insights, creating financial reports;• monitor budget vs. actual cost, cash flow performance;• timely warning of deviations and managing financial exceptions;• communicate with customer with regards to project controls topics;• manage, expedite and report documents status;• together with the project team identifying deliverables, collecting progress, analysing progress and report progress towards project manager and other stakeholders.More general responsibilities/task; Identify, develop and maintain Project Controlling tools, alert and advise the head of project control and the business Controller project non-compliances and improvements regarding Project Accounting, Scheduling and/or Document Control.

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Achievements;The improvement of the month end closing process. In the past the process took a full week to complete, it now only takes three days. This was achieved by the improvements that where implemented in the process. Examples of these improvement are; introduction of tools like automatic Excel sheets which were designed to match the SAP ERP system, optimising the use of the SAP ERP system. Position;Assistant controller for the Dutch subsidiaries of Yokogawa where projects in industrial automation are executed, products related to industrial automation are sold and services related to the installed base of own make and those of competitors are offered. Day to day responsibilities/task;• coordinate month end, quarterly, hard and year end closing process;• communicate with internal audit department and external accountants • providing financial insights, creating financial reports;• monitor; budget vs. actual cost, timely warning of deviations;• responsible for the GL accounts.

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Experience;Although Yokogawa is one company, there are great differences in how the affiliates execute the accounting policies and internal controls. I got first hand experience of this while preforming internal audits.Position;Perform, as one of the two internal auditors, internal audits within the subsidiaries of Yokogawa Europe. These audits consist of a financial controls and a process controls part. Day to day responsibilities/task;• preform audits;• report audit findings;• support colleague with regards to their GL accounts and internal controls;• responsible for the SAP ERP authorization profiles.

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Achievements;As a part of a project team we implemented the authorization principle of SAP ERP and modified the existing principle to fit the German production subsidiary. I took over the VPB declaration from a colleague who left the company and afterwards I independently took care of the VPB declarations and adjusted the consolidation tool Hyperion in order to support the declaration of the VPB.PositionWorking in the team of the corporate reporting department where all the information of the European subsidiaries is gathered, analysed, consolidated and reported. Day to day responsibilities/task;• creating the formats in which the subsidiaries had to issue their financial figures;• maintaining and adjusting the consolidation tool Hyperion;• analysis, consolidation and reporting tasks related to the received figures of all Yokogawa subsidiaries in Europe;• contacting colleagues of the European subsidiaries in order to verify reported figures, like revenue and cost trends;

Zwolle

Achievements;At the start of my employment the company moved to a new building. During this period and after the new building was finished, I had to communicate a lot with the accountants and contact person from the bank to manage all the financial exceptions.Besides the move, the job was also a newly created position which wasn’t present at the company before. The job together with the move was for me as recently graduated financial professional a very demanding and exciting time which learnt me a lot. Position;The position of controller was a newly created one. With the move and expansion of the company, which obtained a new dealership, there was a need for a more professional company structure where besides an administrator a controller has been needed in order to get the financials more in control.Day to day responsibilities/task;• coordinate month end and year end closing process;• communicate with accountants during half year, hard and year end closings;• communicate with the bank;• providing financial insights, creating financial reports;• monitor budget vs. actual cost, timely warning of deviations;• responsible for the general ledger.

Fc, Financial Controller

Bec, Business Economics

Economics

2010 - 2011 Premaster Managementwetenschappen (accrued certificate) 2011 - 2013 Advanced studie in management (accrued certificate) 2013.