Lausanne, Vaud, Switzerland
As Finance Director for the PMI Corporate entities key responsibilities have included the following: -Overall financial oversite (US GAAP and Statutory) of approximately 30 entities with a team of 75 based in Switzerland, Netherlands, Poland, US and the UK -Board member for the majority of the Corporate entities ensuring Corporate governance over business models and the underlying activity of each of the legal entities -SWMA Finance Integration Lead (Zyn); which represented a $16B acquisition for PMI. Overall supervision for the integration team covering reporting of actuals, budget and forecasting processes, internal controls, accounting policy alignment and systems integration.
As a Director within PwC, I specialized in audits of multinational SEC registrants primarily in the consumer markets sector. I have experience related to SEC financial reporting, US GAAP, Sarbanes-Oxley Section 404 and PCAOB compliance. I have supported clients through initial public offerings, other transactional offerings, acquisitions, divestitures, impairments, accounting standard adoptions and the roll out of factoring and supply chain financing programs and business transformation activities including restructuring programs, shared service center migrations and business process outsourcing.
While on tour with PwC Switzerland I served as the lead Audit director on a multinational SEC registrant. In this role I was responsible for determining overall audit scope and approach including global testing strategies and coordinating with over 35 worldwide component and shared service center teams. In this capacity, I worked extensively in Europe, Asia and Latin America. In addition, I was responsible for managing critical accounting and reporting matters including technical accounting consultations, issues management, reviewing external financial reporting, communicating with specialists, coordinating with internal audit and communicating with senior management and the Audit Committee.