Brussels, Brussels Region, Belgium
Professional in global business finance, financial management, planning, budgeting and consolidation.
CFO of one of the largest scopes of Air Liquide around the world. Scope of management (management of the corresponding teams): • Finance & Accounting (Group Conso Accounts, Statutory Accounts, AP/AR/GL/Treasury/Interco, Internal and External Audits, analysis of financial indicators) • Business Control (Monthly Flash Comments, Target, Reforecast, P&L performance analysis, Group Reporting, Control process, analysis of business indicators) • Investment Control (CAPEX and Assets management, Investment decisions, Projects follow-up, Financial assessment of potential customers, Analysis of impacts on Capital Employed and ROCE and others, Governmental funding and subsidy compliance management) • Internal Control (Governance, Compliance, Risk Mapping, Corruption risks assessment, Core controls, Internal procedures, Sapin II) • Legal & Tax matters (Operations over variety of controlled entities around the three countries of Benelux, relationships with Tax Authorities, application of legal structures for FOIK projects, financial and accounting management of claims, litigations and insurance cases) • IT support (Technology, Equipment, Systems and Information Security and Reliability) Other aspects: • Support and challenge business decisions, support General Management of the Company and the whole organization transversally in any financial-related aspects • Identification and assessment of risks relative to the Company activity and implementation of risk mitigation action plans • Management of vast organization of 31 employees (mangers and teams of professionals): hiring, integration, onboarding, energizing, motivation, training and development • M&A and divestiture projects (critical review and valuation of Targeted companies and their financial performance via DD process, revision of LOI/SPA, completion and integration) • Director (legal) mandate for Belgium and Luxembourg entities • Secretary of Benelux Board of Directors
- Managing East Europe and Central Asia region consisting of 12 countries with independent business teams and variety of sales offices in the matter of full end to end measurement PnL control - Manage and maintain the integrity of financial process (financial closing, weekly forecast, monthly forecast, quarterly forecast, annual budgeting, budget update cycles) along with Lenovo HQ processes and targets - Driving best practices across geography in terms of financial forecast accuracy, transparency and predictability - Daily financial control over vast number of routine activities such as but not limited by Weeks of Inventory, Special Bids, Advertising & Promotion, Sales Support, GTN policy, financial impacts reclassification, treasury matters, general procurement contracts with vendors and suppliers - Strict and tight control over financial data quality within the region in order to ensure compliance with internal and external rules and regulations - Develop new functionalities and reporting formats within Lenovo HQ financial community - Act as center of financial excellence across the region of coverage - Direct reporting to Region CFO and VP
- Lead, manage and maintain Financial Closing, Forecast and Budget (monthly, quarterly, annual) for EAST EMEA region consisting of 35 countries - Manage quality control of financial data within the region in order to ensure compliance with internal and external rules and regulations - Ensure that senior management team is provided with correct, timely and in-depth standard or ad hoc financial reporting regarding PnL - Lead and develop standardized financial reporting and controlling processes and tools with ongoing drive for improvement and simplification and focus on cross- and inter-functional efficiency - Drive standardization and automation of all financial processes within the region of coverage
- Financial month/quarter/year end closing, forecasting, budgeting, fact based decision-making support - End to end ownership of country measurement PnL, corporate guidance implementations, calculations of any implication factors affecting Country PnL such as but not limited by WOI, Aged Inventory Provision, Revenue Reversal, Inventory losses, Product and AUR/AUC/GM% mix changes, explaining of results and its elements variances VS forecast, budget, MoM, QoQ, YoY - CtC Bridge Analysis of measurement PnL - Advising and identification of improvements based on various financial analysis and modeling to support and steer all business segments financial performance, derive solutions and facilitate related decision in regards to proposed business risks and opportunities - Large/medium cross-functional projects management: business models change (onshore/offshore), enhancement of Lenovo financial IT platforms and accounting system migrations - Offshore/onshore business models hedging, solutions provision and overall currency impact overview, liaison with Singapore Treasury team - Analysis of various trends in price and cost waterfalls and sharing of the results with Sales and Product team - Financial control of Gross-to-Net mechanism (channel sales stimulation through rebate settlement to Business Partners): budget development, announcement, control; process design and policy improvement - Joint sales incentive, price/stock protection, and co-marketing programs KPI verification, approval delegation - Financial trainings to newcomers - Liaison with business leaders, sales teams and product business units regarding financial queries - Supervising and optimization of Company financial control procedures - Direct reporting to region CFO and VP - Indirectly managing two Regional Pricers at geo level and one Financial Specialist at country level - Collaboration with internal and external auditors - Recruitment of financial specialists for various positions within the Company
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