Bart Defieuw

Lead Finance Operations and Accounting at Proximus Group

Brussels, Brussels Region, Belgium

About

C-level seasoned finance executive turning supporting teams into co-creating business partners. From translating company’s strategy into optimized compliant processes, to simplification and automation of operational flows, turning people expertise into competitive advantage. International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) I Bedrijfsrevisor (2011-2022) I Financial internal controls I regulators & auditors relationship I unions relationship I executive management reporting, audit committee and boards

Experience

  • Lead Finance Operations & Accounting at Proximus
    Sep 2022 - Present · 3 yrs 11 mos

    Responsible for Group corporate accounting. Leading a team of 100+ finance professionals and consolidating 80+ affiliates. Member of the Audit Committee. Member of board of directors (Proximus Pension fund, Sociaal Nivelleringsfonds and Proximus RE Luxemburg).

  • Director Accounting, tax and treasury at BICS
    2018 - Aug 2022 · 4 yrs 8 mos

    Responsible for accounting, tax and treasury for the international activities of Proximus (Belgacom International carrier services and Telesign) with revenues + 1 billion EUR. Contributed to acquisition of minority stakes held by Swisscom and MTN in 2021.

  • Bedrijfsrevisor at Instituut van de Bedrijfsrevisoren-Institut des Réviseurs d'Entreprises
    2011 - 2022 · 11 yrs

    Bedrijfsrevisor/réviseur d'entreprises

  • Gastspreker at KU Leuven
    2016 - 2017 · 1 yr

    Lecturer 'Master na master in de accountancy en het revisoraat' Lecturer 'Master na Master notariaat'

  • Senior manager at Deloitte
    2011 - 2017 · 6 yrs

    Responsible audit multinational companies: P&G, Aldi, ArcelorMittal, DEME, Greenyard and others. Leading audit team and reporting to management, audit committee and board. Others: lecturer internal trainings, implementation of global audit tool in Belgium, special projects such as merger ABInbev-SABMiller, refinancing,…