Zurich, Switzerland
Highly accomplished senior finance professional with a Master of Science in Business Administration and 18 years of solid experience in business finance roles, spanning financial analysis, accounting, and systems and process management. Proven history of acting as a partner to senior business leadership, including providing the reports, tools, and data necessary to drive core business decisions. Insightful analyst able to compile, extract, and quantify relevant data. Exceptional skills in reporting and ledger management, ensuring transparency and accuracy in all business finance functions. Strong talent for providing audit support through reconciliation and validation of key finance documents. Excellent team collaborator thriving in a cross-functional, multicultural environment.
Responsible of managing a team and coordinating their tasks and assignments. Additionally, the role includes serving as an interim finance manager, overseeing financial operations and providing guidance to clients in various finance-related areas. The primary responsibility is to address the financial needs and challenges of clients by offering solutions and strategies to improve their financial performance. This includes assisting with financial planning, budgeting, and forecasting.
Ensuring timely and accurate Financial Reporting for the divisions Medical and Consumables. Manage all aspects of Finance and Accounting Operations from revenue and expense recognition thru monthly financial statement. Report and explain all budget variances to executive management. Consult with senior managers to develop and analyze results from various strategies. Build-up financial planning processes and design as well as implement overall business plans. Manage and assist with the annual budgeting, planning and ongoing forecasting process. Provide strategic accounting guidance and participate in various finance projects. Selected Achievements: • Implemented Credit Risk / Management at Belimed • Implemented new COPA reports which provide visibility on ASP and Sales performance • Built up a tool for capital budgeting to evaluate cash flows
Managing actuals and planning coordination, consolidation, analysis and presentation for worldwide HC data and financial results. Transitioning Day1 and Day2 countries into the new financial setup as standalone company. Lead automation of GP reporting and consolidation. Standardized and automatized business plan submission, reports and reviews. Streamline sales and marketing plans and operations of the LifeScan business unit to ensure alignment with organizational long-term plans, priorities of new owners, and attainment of KPIs. Selected Achievements: • Implemented new global P&L and Headcount reporting processes. • Established the LifeScan carve out from Johnson & Johnson. • Implemented Essbase and trained the stakeholders.
Recruited to manage BPC vs. BRAVO global systems audit support; review balance sheets against source documents to verify accuracy. Oversee global and EMEA sales reporting, including monthly sales closing, sanity checks, and analytics. Liaise with personnel throughout EMEA to collect necessary comments. Evaluate and report on transmittal letter changes. Implement updates to the BRAVO product hierarchy. Managed global BPC consolidation. Take an instrumental role in the success of the carve out project. Selected Achievements: • Maintained 100% accuracy and accountability for the EMEA and global sales dashboard. • Ensured on-time refresh of Tableau analytics. • Established clear, actionable standards for BP decks, including managing forecast cycle update decks in compliance with ES&P standards.
Travelling Canada and the US, as well as undertaking numerous professional development courses