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Senior Finance Manager

Work Experience

Summary

I work as a senior finance manager for Unilever - a $50 bln - consumer goods company. I have 20 years of experience in finance, supply chain and ICT roles of which 10 years at company board and corporate level.
Since mid 2002 I am responsible for the improvement of business-planning and order-to-cash processes with the objective to reduce working capital and increase customer service: savings now exceed $2 bln.
I¡¦m an assessor for Sarbanes-Oxley, looking at AO/IC aspects.
Other recent responsibilities include rolling out the Strategy-Into-Action program using strategy maps and balanced scorecards; Building the case for the global foods division shared services; Supporting the $3 bln global dressings category as their senior finance member.
During my career I have also implemented wall-to-wall SAP.
These efforts have resulted in significant savings and substantial growth for Unilever in different ¡V often difficult ¡V circumstances in several countries around the globe, leading multi-cultural teams and programs.


Employment History

2004 now Unilever South Central Europe and Israel business planning assessments
Restructure USCE operation ($150+ mln turnover) by putting firm Go-to-Market approach and business planning in place. Full review of Customer Service operation, targeting significant savings through outsourcing logistics operations.
Assess Israel operations to harvest $50 mln cash opportunity.
Leading international project team, special assignment additional to the job.
Coach and build team members to lead future assessment.


2002 now Unilever N.V., Foods Division: Senior Finance and Change Manager
Generation of $2 bln through re-engineering of business-planning and order-to-cash
processes. Personally responsible for cash savings of $1.3 bln from order-to-cash.
International project role delivering through empowered teams in regions and key countries.
Responsible for implementation of corporate performance management for working capital.
Piloting of cost-to-serve, customer profitability and retailer profitability models in support of
customer service excellence strategic thrust.
Member of World Class Finance Processes team. Working capital expert to Internal Audit.
Sarbanes-Oxley AO/IC assessment and testing.
Building the order-to-cash community, capturing and spreading best practices.
Annual budgeting & planning cycle for capital cash for Foods Division


2003 ¡V 2004 Unilever Argentina business-planning revamp
Successfully lead the conversion of the Argentinean operation ($100+ mln turnover) from ¡§push¡¨
to demand driven Go-to-Market approach, including trade terms redesign and implementation of
new sales reward system.
Leading international project team, special assignment additional to the job.

2002 ¡V 2003 Returning Unilever Philippines to profitable growth
Leading the change program to restore growth from -10%to +25% and increase profitability of
the Philippines operation ($200+ mln turnover). This included replacing part of the local board.
Leading international project team, special assignment additional to the job.


2000 ¡V 2004 Senior Finance member for global dressings category
Finance member of the global dressings category team ($3 bln turnover), responsible for performance reporting, portfolio analysis and all financial aspects of the long term plan.


2000 ¡V 2002 Unilever N.V., Foods Division: Senior Finance Manager Food Division
Responsible for the hand over from Foods Category Group to the newly created Foods Division.
Responsible for the division¡¦s $60 mln internal budget.
Responsible for creation of division¡¦s Strategy-Into-Action and rollout into the regions using strategy maps and balanced scorecards.
Member of the Foods Division ¡§Fit for growth¡¨ responsible for overall financials.
Building the Global Financial Shared Services team.


1997 ¡V 2000 Unilever N.V., Foods Category Group: Finance & Information Manager
Responsible for category and brand information in the Foods Category Group.
Innovation Process Management champion for the Rotterdam head-office.
Financial support to the advertising function and global category teams.
Annual planning and budgeting cycle.
Foods member Standardisation of Chart of Accounts.
Member of Bestfoods acquisition team ($ 27 bln acquisition).


1994 ¡V 1997 DiverseyLever (DL): Business Systems Manager & European Project Manager
Successfully reorganised and revitalised the ICT department (20+ staff, 2mln budget) of DL
(200mln+ turnover) using a service level approach.
Successfully integrated the ICT systems of three companies taken over in 1996. Lead the ICT
design and implementation of the global head-office.
Board member with shared responsibility for wall-to-wall SAP implementation.
Automated sales force (>100 staff) of DL Netherlands.


1991 ¡V 1994 Unilever Research: Head of Software Development
Responsible for revitalising the team and delivering applications to improve knowledge
management & capture and speed up ¡§time to market¡¨ of new products.
Member of Unilever¡¦s ICT think tank, responsible for workflow systems.


1984 ¡V 1991 Sema Group, Amsterdam, The Netherlands: Management and ICT Consultant
Management consultancy, interim management, project management and pre-sales roles for
multinational companies, including KPN (networks and twitches), Phillip-Morris and Corus.

Education

Education

2001 ¡V Now
Advanced Activity Based Costing, Retailer Profitability, Retailer Emersion (2004).
Spanish language training. Advanced IT (2002 London), Leadership Development (2001 in Durban), Advanced Negotiation Skills (2001 London). Several Finance and IT seminars.


1998 ¡V 2000
European Financial Managers Course, General Management Course and several seminars.


1986 ¡V 1997
Free University Amsterdam (CMA), Certified Management Accountant
Technical University Eindhoven (CPIM), Certification in Production and Inventory Management


1979 ¡V 1986
Free University Amsterdam (Masters)
Studies in Mathematics and Economy
Graduated with Masters Degree in Mathematics

Skills

Key Skills and Competencies

Professional level in finance, ICT and Business Process Re-engineering.
Business partner to Sales & Marketing and Supply Chain functions.

Oversee and manage global programs.
Analytical and accurate at overview and detail level.
People development, bringing different disciplines, functions and cultures together.

Build, develop and energise high-performance teams to deliver sustainable results.
Open to positive critics, always looking to improve myself.

Languages

Dutch (native), English and German.
Some French and Spanish.

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