Stabroek, Flemish Region, Belgium
Skills - Project Management - Supply chain / logistics - Indirect Tax SME (Customs / Excise / Value Added Tax) - Team player Expertise - transformation projects, restructuring operational models and impact on logistics/VAT/Customs/Excise (interaction with operations, procurement, finance, sales, transfer pricing and IT) - general management (people, P&L, compliance, operations) - SAP ecc project management (mm/sd/fico) - brokerage and excise processes; - optimization of trade lanes : warehousing & processing; tax authorizations; VAT triangulation; reduction of tax; working capital optimization - port customs clearance processes (manifest / arrival notifications / temp storage) - bonded warehouse / inward processing procedure. Import and export - roll-out of compliance programs: policy, standards, SOPs, internal controls - design and implementation of shared service center for ops and tax internal audit - tendering Logistical Service Providers: profiling; cost definition; RFP. Interaction with direct & indirect procurement - big data diagnostics - blueprinting (export preference in Foreign Trade; SAP GTS; export control processes...) Industries: Lifescience, Semi-Conductor, FMCG, Chemicals, Retail, Automotive, Logistics, Maritime, Mining, Aviation a.o. Conducted projects in following countries: Belgium, Bulgaria, Czech Rep., France, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, Sweden, Switzerland, UAE, UK, US Qualifications: Bachelor Economics (VUB university, Belgium) Master Applied Economics - Finance (VUB university, Belgium) Post-master European Fiscal Studies - Customs law (Erasmus university, the Netherlands; awarded as laureate) SAP GTS 100 (SAP learning center La Hulpe, Belgium) Trainings: Supply Chain Leadership course at Johnson & Johnson (G7 Immersion experience - 3 months) Leaders developing Leaders course at Johnson & Johnson (3 month) Published articles in professional magazines such as 'Business Logistics' a.o. Speaker at business federations (Amcham; UK office of life sciences; Voka a.o)
Bridging Customs & Trade compliance and operational transformation to assure accurate and risk resilient customs processes. Program management. End to end business process risk mitigation.
Optimizing customs and trade processes whilst safeguarding compliance. Global geographical scope.
Adding customs expertise and experience to a global Tax&Customs Project
Bringing tax experts and IT business architects together