Proficient international CFO/FD located in Antwerp with experience in:

• Systems analysis, design and implementation
• Credit control and debt recovery
• Financing and re-financing
• Profile and Business Plan preparation
• Turning around troubled subsidiaries
• Restructuring Balance Sheets

I started my career as a fast-track accountant in the Department of Education in London, where I developed excellent communication skills applying my accounting knowledge as an accounting adviser to various government departments.

Then I spent 11 years in Israel working in a the fast paced and commercially oriented hi-tech economy moving from corporate controller to consulting with a few years as a CEO/CFO of a dynamic telecoms company.

In 2003 I moved to Antwerp for family reasons and worked in two international diamond companies. First in Dali Diamond where I:

• Lead financial restructuring and reporting of the Group and compliance with various ethical, legal and contractual requirements of rough diamond suppliers such as De Beers;
• Designed an implemented an international tax efficient structure;
• Engineered the turnaround of a troubled jewellery subsidiary in the US and implemented an ERP;
• Implemented IFRS across the group and prepared a standards’ compliance system;
• Initiated and executed the takeover and establishment of companies that increased sales by 60%.
• Founder and Editor of Diamond Finance journal www.diamondfinance.info

The I moved on to the larger Windiam were I:

• Managed team of 8 across five countries involving recruiting team-members, debt collection, tax limitation, audit, financial and management reporting, insurance, banking and corporate presentations;
• Designed and implemented a new accounting software system which generated accurate and meaningful management information;
• Established new offices and restructured two group companies which were in disarray;
• Identified departments for closure and coached managers to understand financial information.