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New York, Ny, Us

Partnered with industry leading consulting firm as an A-List consultant and work on senior level engagements. Engaged on multiple consulting assignments with a focus on finance and accounting matters, M&A transactions, set up and testing of control environments, established management reporting, design and documentation of processes and procedures.

Managed the Group’s finance, accounting and control activities. Included responsibility for financial closing, group consolidation and corporate reporting for 30+ legal entities with global operations in Asia, Africa, Europe, South and North America. Responsible for Group tax planning and tax matters both direct and indirect. Including a functional analysis review of the company’ operations and the setup of service agreements and transfer pricing arrangements for the Group.Responsibility for finance operations in the origins. Including the set-up of finance operations in Brazil and Colombia.Responsible for trading books valuation, daily P&L, and Group’s FX commercial and Corporate FX positions. Established reconciliation process and procedure for trading to accounting P&L. Executed purchase and sale transactions for the consolidation of the USA operations and movement to a principal structure. Involved the set-up and structure of joint ventures operations. Finance responsible for due diligence and analysis of potential acquisitions.

Stavanger, Rogaland, No

Responsible for the Global Business Services Americas Finance and Control Reporting unit. Organization is up to 95 employees based on the departments configuration with an annual cost of US$50m.Primary responsibility includes Trade Accounting, Property, Financial Reporting, JV Audit Financial Supply Chain, and Credit. Established a fit for purpose Finance and Control organization to handle the increasing growth of the business in the Americas and to have a positive contribution to the bottom line.

Singapore, Central Singapore, Sg

Worked for Noble group for +10 years in a variety of positions with increasing responsibility. During this period of time was based in Lausanne, Switzerland and Stamford, CT.Positions included:Finance DirectorGlobal Controller, Grain DivisionSenior Controller, Noble Americas Corp.Divisional Controller, Cocoa & Coffee DivisionAssistant Vice President, Cocoa Division