Flexmanager - fin. director/controller/manager Shared Service Centre

fin. director/controller/manager Shared Service Centre

Work Experience

2004: HEALTHCARE ORGANIZATION in Amsterdam.

Position: Interim manager/consultant

Duties:
- Supporting a project team in restructuring an accounting department (Planning & Control and preparation of the set up of a Financial Shared Service Centre).
- Investigation IFRS-compliance of 3 BV’s.

2001–2003: LEERDAMMER COMPANY BV in Schoonrewoerd.

- Producer and European headquarters of Leerdammer cheese.
- Sales in all European countries via own entities and agents, turnover € 300 million.
- Total European staffing 600 employees, 400 in the Netherlands.

Position: Business Controller/Manager Financial Shared Service Centre.

Duties and special activities:
- Total financial administration, administrative organisation and internal control .
- Administrative conversion and integration of eight B.V.’s from Exact to SAP.
- Development and set up of a management accounting system to get managerial grip on the organisation. This includes consolidated management-reporting (operations analysis), financial- and government-reporting (statutory accounts), budgeting, planning, cashflow forecasts and investment analyses.
- Restructured the initially poor functioning European Shared Service Centre (SSC) to customer-related service instrument (13 employees). Main points:
* People-management.
* Decrease of working capital (i.e.: credit and collection + stretching).
* Increasing solidity of the financial information.
* Building up a European cash pool system
* 80% shortening of month-end closing process to 2 days.
* Development automatized central purchasing.
* Service supply not only to the top but to all departments.
- Co-ordination and optimizing external audits.
- Assistance in preparing the sale of the company.

Excellent references available.

1993–2001: REYNOLDS ALUMINIUM HOLLAND/ALCOA BV in Harderwijk.

- American industrial multinational. In Europe production of semi-manufactured articles for the automotive-, packaging-, building- and construction industry.
- Dutch holding of European local entities in The Netherlands, Ireland, Poland, Belgium, U.K. and Austria.
- Worldwide 32,000 employees, 850 in the Netherlands.

Position: Business Controller/Manager Shared Service Centre

Duties and special activities:
- Entire financial holding administration (US-GAAP).
- Set-up of a Shared Service Centre (fifteen employees) for four divisions in Northern-Europe.
- Consolidated management reporting, planning & control and annual accounts.
- Co-ordination of the internal American audits and external public audits.
- Set-up and improvement of the M.I.S. (i.e. steering-information, Balanced Score Cards, EVA).
- Set-up of a European cash- and treasury management system in a team.
- Administrative organisation of the finance-, purchase- and sales departments of all European Reynolds branches. Set up business case and implementation plan for a pan-European Shared Service Centre.

1989–1993: SYDEC BV in Soesterberg.

International distributor of computer hardware, turnover € 20 million, 200 employees.
Position: Head of accounting and automation department, MT-member.

1988: EXTERNE MANAGEMENT PARTNERS BV in Zeist.

Management consultants, 60 employees.
Position: Office- and Finance manager.

1985–1987: RICHARD ELLIS in Amsterdam.

International real estate agents and advisors. 25 employees.
Position: Head of accounting department.

1977–1985: MORET & LIMPERG in Hilversum.
Public auditors.
Position: Started as Assistant-accountant, ended as Audit leader.

Education

HOFAM (Qualified Controller)
S.P.D. 1 + 2
M.E.A.O.
HAVO
IAS/IFRS (2004)
Krauthammer Motivation Management Training
Total Quality Management Training
Automation: SAP/R3, MS-Office (Excel, Word, Access, Powerpoint), Lotus Notes.

Skills

* financial changemanagement
* financial control
* business control
* management accounting
* set up and management of Shared Service Center
* IAS/IFRS

Languages

Dutch: excellent
English: written/oral: good
German: written/oral: good

Other

Personality profile:
I am a person with a natural tendency to communication, cooperation and building bridges. This is manifested in my enthusiasm and a direct, open approach to others. It is my nature to be a true people person and to maintain a positive outlook in all areas of my life. A visionary , ideological mentality means to me automatically the set-up of a methodical approach. "You have to do it by yourself and you can't do it on your own" is my motto in balancing between individual responsibility and cooperation with others.

Key words: enthusiasm, cooperative, direct, sociable, committed.

Functional profile:
The combination of a practical attitude, the ability to get people going and decisiveness provide me with a great result-orientation. For optimal performance I need challenges and a framework that leaves room for autonomy. My added values are initiative, organizing skills and the ability to communicate with all levels of an organization. My extensive experience in service organizations as well as wholesale business and industry gives me the right tools to focus on the cultural change needed to convert recording bookkeeping departments into information centers which provide insight. This results in management control, that is to obtain both financial and non financial grip on the organization.

Key words: result-oriented, coaching, initiative.