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Finance Manager

Work Experience

Assignment at INFRABEL ¡V railway infrastructure, Belgian Railway Group
ƒÞ visioning and planning of ERP-approach (scope, end-to-end processes, business case), design of project governance, change management (communication, awareness-kickoff)

Assignment at DE POST/LA POSTE ¡V Belgian Post Group
ƒÞ contribution into the Consolidation Department (BGAAP + IFRS), COGNOS/FRANGO, focus on French subsidiaries, closing YE 2005, Q1 2006

FINANCIAL CONTROLLER
reporting to the General Manager and to HO at Malta.

Supervision of accounting processes and credit control (team = 5), hands-on budgeting, forecasting and reporting, coaching junior team, guidance of the operations through budgeting and controlling.

Professionalising administrative & accounting processes within the hotel, back-office processes throughout the hotel-organisation, focus on inventory- and cost-controlling, automatisation of reporting processes.

FINANCE DIRECTOR
reporting to the Managing Director and to HO in The Hague (NL).

ƒÞ full finance management responsibility for the company.
ƒÞ business planning, monitoring and management of P&L.
ƒÞ contribution to business development and LT-planning/forecast/strategy.

Specific challenge:
Development of professional financial management: putting into place of professional team, developing local reporting-tools, implement budget-controlled management of the company in a rapidly changing industry.

Main achievements

Development (recruiting, coaching, training) of a performant professional team (12), well-defined mix of education and experience levels.

Punctual monthly reporting, respecting very tight deadlines. Accurate process of monthly closing, group-reporting. Local consolidation. Business Balanced Score Cards.

ƒÞ Improved solvability by setting up adjusted funding cycle with HO KPN.
ƒÞ Divestment of Mine.be: changing from shareholder to supplier.
ƒÞ Acquisition ¡¥De Cursor¡¦ via nv Internet Needs Content (e-zine).
ƒÞ Internal organisation: designing and integrating back-office.
ƒÞ Development of 5-yearplanning and simulating strategic scenarios.

FINANCE DIRECTOR
reporting to the Managing Director and to HO in London (UK).

ƒÞ full finance management responsibility (Belux and France).
ƒÞ business planning, monitoring and management of P&L.
ƒÞ tandem-responsibility with Managing Director for P&L, with strong focus on purchase model range, inventory and working capital, pricing and rentability of promotional actions.

Main achievements

Facilitated and assisted in the negotiations with manufacturers; contributed in the strategic decision-making process to transfer the business, through long-term financial planning, investment analysis and developing forecast-modelling tools.

In team with the Managing Director and the Legal Manager the transfer of the four business branches has been successfully realised. Succesful winding down of the company.

Education

Applied Economic Sciences, Finance & Accounting (Master, 1987)
University Antwerp, UFSIA (Belgium)

Political and Social Sciences, International Relations (Master, 1984)
Catholic University Louvain (Belgium)

Latin-Mathematics (1979)
Sint-Jan Berchmanscollege, Antwerp (Belgium)

Excellence in Business Process Improvement (Vlerick, Jan. ¡V May 2007)

Change Management (UAMS, Feb. ¡V Jun. 2007)

Certified Personal Coach (UAMS, Sep. 2006 ¡V Jun. 2007)

Consolidation (UAMS, Mar. 2005)

IFRS/IAS (UAMS, Oct. ¡V Dec. 2004)

Skills

Key Competencies

Finance Management & Strategy

ƒÞ Alignment of finance management with company strategy (e.g. BSC, KPI)
ƒÞ Long Term (5y) planning, simulations, feasability of investments (DCF, EVA)
ƒÞ Management of product portfolio (range, profitablity-mix, Working Capital impact)

Budgetting, Controlling & Reporting

ƒÞ Guidance of budgetting cycle, implementation of (rolling) forecasts
ƒÞ Controlling actuals, analysis of variances compared to budget/forecasts/last year
ƒÞ M/Q/Y reporting according to local (BGAAP) and group standards (UKGAAP, IFRS)

Accounting

ƒÞ Best practices in financial and management accounting
ƒÞ Design of costing models (incl. ABC) supporting decisionmaking needs

Working Capital Management

ƒÞ Defining supplier policies and customer credit management (incl. dunning)
ƒÞ Control of stock levels, improvement througput-cycle (linking into Supply Chain)

Business Processes

ƒÞ Integration of back office processes

Change Management

ƒÞ Development of financial management in rapidly growing and changing industry
ƒÞ Management of winding-down scenario

People Management

ƒÞ Development of performant finance teams (recruiting, training, coaching)
ƒÞ Coaching of individuals and teams
ƒÞ Negotiations with third parties (e.g. suppliers, bankers, employee-representatives)

Languages

DUTCH native
FRENCH fluent in business
ENGLISH fluent in business

Other

All-round finance manager, analytical, result oriented, challenge driven, aligning the financial management with the company strategy, focused on team-development, looking to improve end-to-end business processes, aware to manage ¡¥change¡¦, eager to learn, absolute integrity.

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