Zurich, Switzerland
Accomplished, hands-on, trusted and empowered Finance Leader with a broad Finance & Accounting and Treasury Management background thriving for innovation and greater efficiency - all with the highest level of integrity and respect.
• Provide Europe Middle East Africa India (EMEAI) regional leadership for the Treasury Financial Operations process. • Lead and supervise the motivated and empowered European Financial Operations team for efficient cash/liquidity management, seamless back office confirmations & settlements, timely intercompany flows, and optimal intercompany financing. • Run EMEAI Financial Operations and achieve highest possible level of automated integration with other processes, such as Accounts Receivable, Accounts Payable and Financial & Statutory Accounting. • Drive implementation of Corporate initiatives in the region (e.g. M&A transactions, continuous improvement projects) • Design, implement and oversee transactional banking infrastructure (e.g. cash pools) in the region. • Maintain efficient relationship with the Transactional Banking partners. • Ensure compliance of Treasury Financial Operations’ policies and procedures. • Manage all bank charges in the EMEAI region.
In charge of: • All financial control activities of defined benefit pension funds in Benelux, UK and Switzerland • Leveraging best practices related to the pension investment process across Dow geographic areas • Maintaining close relations with Dow Portfolio Investments & third-party service providers • Ensuring effective control tools & reporting functionality are in place for timely periodic reporting & control of results & significant cash flows • Internal control, compliance, governance and data integrity with additional objective to enhance quality of management reporting • Coordinating internal & external audits • Ensuring FAS157, FAS132r compliance • Keeping contact with local actuaries for year-end FAS87 disclosures
In charge of: • Rolling up global business estimates to Corporate and follow-up analysis • Leading the review and analysis of quarter closing activities • Coordinating service charges to the business and liaising with global functional controllers • Overall data integrity and accuracy of the global Business Financial Statements, analyzing Sales, Cost of Sales, SARD (Selling, Administration, Research & Development), Financial Income, Capital Charges • Ad-hoc reporting and analysis of actual results in support of Business Vice President and Finance Leader (incl. prime controllable spending) • Coordinating annual cost center/profit plan process for global business • Sales organization support, competitive benchmark analysis input, customer profitability, PVC (price, volume, currency) impact analysis and establishing reasons for deviations • Reviewing, analyzing and approving European sales contracts