Head of Finance EMEA

Responsible for setting up and management of the EMEA Shared Service Center in Amsterdam for UK, Netherlands, Germany, France, Italy and Japan. The SSC took care of accounting, business controlling, sales support, statutory and tax compliance, financial statements for the offices and entities in the countries that were opened.

·       High standard of compliance in all countries

·       Implementation of Concur Invoice & Concur T&E

·       Responsible for HR and Salary matters in EMEA

·       Strict monthly closes and documentation in Blackline

·       Work closely with the corporate accounting team

·       Work closely with the corporate FP&A team

Finance Manager Netherlands & DIrector Dutch Holdings

Responsible for all finance and logistics activities of the Dutch sales entity in a complex matrix organizations.

·       The responsibilities included accounting (US GAAP & Dutch GAAP), legal entity budget, revenue recognition, tax compliance, 3rd party logistics, order-to-cash, P2P, monthly closing, financial statements, VAT, CIT, treasury.

·       Only Dutch representative in the board of directors of 6 Holding Companies in The Netherlands within a US listed company, responsible for tax and accounting.

·       Main contact for the US HQ colleagues of tax, treasury teams and corporate lawyers, tax and legal advisors in The Netherlands and the local representatives of the subsidiaries, which are located throughout the world.

GROUP CONTROLLER

I worked direct with the group CFO, in a group structure with over 50 companies in Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, France, UK, US, Canada. Responsible for all financial and business controlling activities in the group. Member of the Group Management Team.

·       This included the group budget process, monthly closing, tax filing, internal controls and internal audit, intercompany, transfer pricing, financial statements and monthly reporting to the board of directors and supervisory board.

·       As the group was expanding rapidly, I was involved in the business case processes and calculations for multiple projects in different countries (up to EUR 50M)

·       Executed on various finance projects, such as setting up business controlling, the fast monthly close, work flow management (AP process, AR collections) and business intelligence.

·       Implemented the group internal control framework, transfer pricing guidelines and documentation and was also responsible for the project of the full redecoration of the group HQ office.