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Interim Manager (Financial/HR/Operations/IT/General)

Work Experience

November 2004 to date
Brady N.V., world leader in identification solutions employing 3500 employees world wide in 20 countries
Zele, Belgium
As interim manager I currently am involved in the SOX compliancy testing.
- walkthroughs to check processes like order to cash
- checking correctness of existing processes
- solving problems and redirect if necessary
- creation of validation files and test scripts
- improvement of risk/ control matrix

April 2004 to June 2004
Bouwsmederij B.V.T. (one man company)
Nijlen, Belgium
I changed this company from an iron construction company to a bus construction company. The most important issues I dealed with were:
- creation and follow up of budget
- finding business partners and contacts
- dealing with all legal issues
- cash flow
- designing construction plans
- setting up a businessplan

June 2003 to September 2003
De Putting (Sports center)
Kessel, Belgium
I was responsible fot the start up of this small company with as main tasks:
- market research
- staffing
- contracts negotiations
- dealing with all legal issues
- price setting
- budet and planning

January 2002 to December 2002
Phone House Belgium and Time and Light, a company purchased three years ago (Belgian branch of a European retail telecom company employing 5,000 people in 1,000 retail shops)
Brussels, Belgium
Finance and Administration Director. In my first position as an independent consultant I was responsible for the departments of finance, HR, internal audit and property:
My major accomplishments :
- implementing monitoring of the finance department
- implementation of new compensation and benefits plan
- adaptation and re- creation of 130 new employee contracts
- finalizing the former annual statutory accounts
- preparing and finalizing current year’s statutory accounts
- liquidation of Time and Light after completing legal obligations for the
purchase of this company (2000)
- implementing a new accounting system (APTOS) in the Belgian branch
- moving the accounting to a shared service center(SSC) in London
- reorganizing the Belgian accounting department (reduced from staff of five to one person)
- changing processes and execution flows according to the needs of the SSC
- checking and implementing internal audit procedures
- moving contracts management to Portugal (central contract management center)
- increasing the control of all properties and property contracts
- finalizing the outstanding legal issues


October 1998 to September 2001
AVAYA Belgium (spin-off company from Lucent Technologies specialized in business communication for large and medium-sized companies employing 35,000 people worldwide)
Brussels, Belgium
Financial Director/SAP Deployment manager. Starting with fiscal year 1999 I was responsible for the finance and business support department with following mission :
- responsible for statutory books and legal issues
- supporting and coaching a team of six people
- preparing the accounts for the internal and external audit
- implementing new policies and monitoring the follow-up of existing ones
- control of management books and reporting
- organizing and leading the implementation of the shared service centers
- preparing for the transition to SAP
- controlling and adapting the procedure for bids and offers and control of margins
- defining the company strategy and carrying out preparation for reorganization
- preparing and discussing budgets and targets for the next fiscal year
- expense control and follow up
- performance analyses
- compensation and benefits

February 2001 to September 2001
AVAYA Belgium (spin-off company from Lucent Technologies specialized in business communication for large and medium-sized companies employing 35,000 people worldwide)
Brussels, Belgium
In addition to my function as Financial Director I was since February 2001 SAP Deployment Manager. This involved the following tasks:
- three weeks of integration testing and super user SAP training in New Jersey
- coordinating SAP implementation for the Belgian legal entity for all departments
- SAP problem solver and super user

February 1997 to September 1998
Lucent Technologies Belgium sa/nv (spin-off from AT&T specialized in business communication systems, employing 145,000 people worldwide)
Brussels, Belgium
Chief Accountant. In this function I worked side by side with the financial director to bring the following tasks to successful completion:
- reorganizing the accounting department creating procedures
- spin-off from AT&T
- organizing and leading the tax control
- preparing the accounting for the internal and external audit
- business support (forecast, budget preparations, bids and proposals, etc.)
- creating tools in order to analyze the accounting
- creating a new procedure for pre-calculations of new offers
- solving IT problems
January 1996 to January 1997
AT&T Network Systems Belgium sa/nv (telecommunication company delivering telecom networks employing 365,000 people worldwide)
Brussels, Belgium: Sales Administration Leader.

February 1993 to December 1995
AT&T Network Systems Belgium sa/nv (telecommunication company delivering telecom networks employing 365,000 people worldwide)
Brussels, Belgium: Commercial Controller

Education

1988 to 1992
St. Eligius Institute
Antwerp, Belgium
Higher degree in accounting with a specialization in fiscal legislation.

Two months training
Lucent Technologies training center
Financial Business performance course.

Skills

Accounting software
Exact-software, MFG-pro, Expert-M, CCS, CDS, Cubic, SAP, APTOS, ORBIS

Data bases, operating systems and tools
Access, Hyperion, Christal Reports, Accon, Lotus 123, Excel, Word, PowerPoint, MS Exchange, SOMS, Isabel

Languages

Dutch: mother tongue
French: fluent
English: fluent
German: basics

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