Lausanne, Vaud, Switzerland
Strategic and influential financial executive with 20+ years of progressive roles and accomplishments, including guiding two recent acquisitions and integrations (private equity and strategic buyer). Extensive international experience and passionate about driving operational excellence and sustainable growth for my businesses. I am driven by self-improvement and developing strong teams that can succeed autonomously and collaborate seamlessly across reporting lines.
Global leader for strategic programs at Honeywell Process Automation. The projects under my leadership are large in size and complex in execution, with many stakeholders requiring intense cross-functional and global collaboration. My goal in this position is to broaden my skill set further outside of Finance and operational leadership and develop my strategic and commercial acumen in challenging and dynamic internal and external environments.
Head of Finance for Compressor Controls Corporation, acquired by Honeywell Process Solutions in July 2023 and integrated as a standalone business unit within HPS. Based out of Europe to better serve our key customers and regional leaders while having global responsibility. During my 2 year tenure within the integration process, I helped lead the CCC business through a demanding and far-reaching integration process with Honeywell, including the transition to new ERP & CRM & 10+ other new systems. Within this time frame, CCC posted record Orders and Revenue despite the many challenges and new processes/responsibilities of the business. The CCC-HPS integration was so successful it has become the new standard of integrating new businesses at Honeywell.
Global CFO for CCC, the leader in Turbomachinery Train Optimization Services for the upstream, midstream and downstream Oil & Gas industry. CCC specializes in projects as well as commissioning and aftermarket services. Roper Technologies sold a majority stake in its Industrial business portfolio to Clayton, Dubilier and Rice, a private equity firm, in November 2022, forming a new business named Indicor. Indicor then sold CCC to Honeywell Process Solutions in June 2023. - Key member of executive leadership team, advising on strategy and financial metrics, long-range planning and internal controls - Led a global team to operational excellence in controlling, FP&A, and local statutory compliance in USA, Europe, Latin America, and the Middle East - Successfully executed two M&A efforts (sell-side) as CFO of the business, responsible for the due diligence effort, management presentations, interface with investment banks and potential buyers, legal support, among myriad other duties to assist in the selling of the CCC business in 2 separate instances, less than 9 months apart. - Responsible for direction and execution of Corporate IT, including enhancements for cybersecurity, asset management and business enablement. - Directed the newly formed Global Business Process team, charged with developing and facilitating business standards for each key department of the organization, including Supply Chain, Legal and Sales Operations. - Led two-year corporate integration of new cloud-based CRM/ERP solution, finally bringing together sales, operations, service and finance under one system (Oracle NetSuite). - Under multi-year expat assignment in Milan, Italy to grow and optimize European finance team as well as provide local leadership and talent development for key strategic office for the business
Expat assignment in Amsterdam as the Finance leader for the Europe, Middle East and Africa regions of the organization (~$25M in annual Revenue). Key Achievements: - Implemented lean processes and tools to focus on root causes of cash flow drivers, improving Net Working Capital each year - Reorganized regional resources to provide maximum efficiency and a 1 day month-end closing cycle at 35% less Headcount cost - Developed standardized accounting processes to align the regional offices around a set of operating rules to improve communication and decrease ambiguity - Led a global effort to analyze and identify root causes for Unbilled service activities in real-time and enable cross-departmental solutions for commercial issues, which reduced the Unbilled backlog from an average of 100 per month to less than 80. - Maintained strong compliance discipline as Controls owner
Bubble assignment undertaken to develop commercial acumen and enhance the visibility of key business drivers in our Sales organization - Developed structural Key Performance Indicators for direct and indirect sales channels - Analyzed, implemented and communicated revamped sales compensation plan.
Tax return compliance for Corporations, LLCs, S-Corps, Partnerships and individuals/estates for small and mid-sized regional clients.