xavier van houte

Head of Global Process Ownership (Record to Report) at Umicore

Rixensart, Walloon Region, Belgium

About

Passion to perform is definitely my major asset. I reached high performances in commercial, financial, and managerial types of activities. My objective is to go on adding value in any discipline and in any challenge I am assigned.

Experience

  • Umicore (29 yrs 1 mo)
    • Head of Global Process Ownership (Record to Report)
      Apr 2020 - Present · 6 yrs 4 mos

      My ambition is to drive end to end process optimization, harmonization by technology enablement, knowledge management and clear governance for a world-wide scope. Along the same line, develop corresponding analytics and continous improvement culture focusing on people talent development and relevant metrics. As a result, focus on customer satisfaction, productivity, and tools adequacy to ensure scalability of (sub) process operations.

    • Head of Finance Competence Center
      Mar 2017 - Apr 2020 · 3 yrs 2 mos

      The job consist of pooling and managing internal competences in ERP and Financial risks management in order to improve underlying processes (and corresponding applications), increase internal knowledge retention, facilitate change management and ensure appropriate growth management to the group, a.o. thanks to its expansion in Asia.

    • Senior Manager Group Control and Consolidation
      Apr 2014 - Mar 2017 · 3 yrs

  • BASF (3 yrs)
    • Marketing manager Polypropylene for Europe
      Oct 1996 - Jun 1997 · 9 mos

      Implement 4P's of Marketing from BASF Corporate in Ludwigshafen

    • Commercial dpt Plastic materials
      Jul 1994 - Sep 1996 · 2 yrs 3 mos

      Coordination with credit management, logistics, accounting, marketing and technical product development