The Randstad, Netherlands
"I find the perfect balance between leading people and keeping the numbers and business processes organised". Strong senior financial (MSc) with leadership skills within an (inter)national environment. Supporting the business and senior management in achieving the strategic goals, but also experienced in managing other business-supporting disciplines such as HR, Pay-roll, Legal, IT, Supply Chain, Project Management and Work in Progress, Real Estate, Facility and Office management. Experienced within sales and marketing, production, logistics, financial and online service organizations this all within a B to B or a B to C environment or at corporate level. Multidisciplinary branched experience such as project environment, drinks and beverages, fast-food, entertainment, social and online media, shared service centers, Saas-environments, child care and fast moving consumer goods. Experienced in working with private owned companies, matrix organizations, corporate holdings, stock listed companies and companies financed by private equity. Specialties: Restructuring organization or business structures and processes. Mergers and acquisitions, Startups, Scale-ups and any other strategic business developments. Improvement of the working capital position / management, the profitability optimization, timely reporting to stakeholders, business and finance control, supporting in business cases and necessary investments, consolidation, restructuring of taxes and improvement of the ICT environment by making use of BI-tools, implementing Cloud and E-business activities. Getting the things done and realize the objectives to be achieved. Create financial and business awareness within the organization and the other related disciplines. Make the business clear and transparent for the management and / or the shareholder.
I recognise opportunities and possibilities and always think about the next step to take, so I can support you in taking the right actions and decisions at the right time. Besides this, it's important to keep the communication, about relevant topics with the team and other collegues, open. Furthermore I have an excellent knowledge of financial matters. Due to that I am able to find the perfect balance between leading people and keeping the numbers and business processes organised.
In a private owned company, being a service provider (for B2B, B2C or online-webshops) in transport, furniture assembly, warehousing, logistics and added services, acting as the business partner to the shareholders and the management. Implementing the monthly reporting process (financial and non financials), setting up of the monthly consolidation and budgetting, setting up of the profit responsibility / margin analysis per brand and customer, and responsible for riskmanagement, compliance and year-end closing. Restructuring of all business processes and optimization of the working capital and the tax flows. Including reducing the outstandings with sub-contractors and the setting-up of the reminder-process to the debtors. Improvement of the profitability, implementation and optimization of procurement, CRM, personal planning, BI-tools and working in the Cloud. Create financial and business awareness within the senior management. Managing the financial team and a shared responsibility with the Operations manager for ICT, Fleetownermanagement, Customer Services, HR, Payroll and Legal Affairs. Realisation of and improvement of the interface between the Transport Management System (Mendrix), the Warehousemanagement System (Corax) and the Financial System (Exact). Proces-improvement and automisation of the selfbilling process between customers, sub-contractors and the company. Implementing a Scheduling and Planning System (Dyflexis) for the employees and the external charters. Restructuring of the settlements, arrangements, loan-agreements and other (legal) documents between the sub-contractors and the company.
In a private owned company business partner to the management and the shareholders. Implementing the monthly reporting process (financial and non financials), setting up of the monthly consolidation (12 opco's), setting up of the profit responsibility per location and per brand, and responsible for riskmanagement and compliance. Restructuring of all business processes and optimization of the working capital, the financing structure and the tax flows. Setting up of a Shared Service Center, a project administration and a Saas evironment for third parties (e.g Startups, Scale-ups and a production environment including Work in Progress). Improvement of the profitability, bring the FTE's in line with the development of the sales and forecasts of the branch and/or other benchmark developments, implementation and optimization of procurement, CRM, personal planning, online marketing, BI-tools and working in the Cloud. Create financial and business awareness within the senior and middle management. Making proposals for strategic options and implemented after approval. Implemented some mergers.
Business partner to the founders and shareholders. Optimization of working capital, reducing outstanding AR, improvement of all tax related items, supporting in the participation process by a private equity fund and setting up of monthly reporting and consolidation. Improvement of the sales online interface and the other operating systems.