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Finance Director

Work Experience

UCB Pharma (Brussels) 05/05–01/10

* Senior Director Financial Control Emerging Markets
Responsibility: in charge of the Finance function of Emerging Markets (+Japan), with sales >500 M€, reporting to the Controller Global Operations. Management of 10 local/regional controllers.
Achievements:
• successfully performed the role of business partner of the Vice President Emerging Markets
• managed with success the forecasting exercises in a difficult context of exchange rate fluctuations, the existence of multiple partnerships and several re-organizations
• successfully integrated the activities of Schwarz Pharma
• reduced the overdue receivables in Russia from 21M€ to 5M
• participated in various business development projects and negotiations

SANOFI Pharma

* Finance Director Asia 01/03–09/04
(Paris)
In charge of the Finance function of the Asian division, including Japan (sales = 600 M€), reporting to the Director Finance and Administration Intercontinental. Management of 5 people. Temporarily also in charge of Middle-East and Eastern Europe.

* Project Manager Asia, Middle-East and Eastern Europe (Paris) 04/02-12/02 Negotiated various agreements, such as the termination of a joint venture agreement in Taiwan, the termination of 2 licence agreements and the setting-up of an affiliate in Israel, a distribution agreement in Vietnam etc.

* Head of Transfer Pricing Implementation 07/99-03/02
(Paris)
Responsibility: special project in the Tax Department in the context of the Sanofi/Synthélabo merger. Management of approximately 25.000 products with 3 pricing officers.
Achievements:
• implemented a new European transfer pricing policy
• implemented consignment stocks in Singapore and toll manufacturing agreements
• created a transfer pricing data base

* Director Finance & Administration 09/96-06/99
(Warsaw)
Responsibility: in charge of Finance, Supply Chain, Purchasing and IT of the joint venture between Sanofi and a local partner (sales = 60 M€, 2 plants, 400 employees). Management of 30 people.
Achievements:
• implemented the manufacturing controlling
• implemented the treasury and purchasing functions
• implemented SAP (modules FI-CO-MM-SD)
• negotiated with banks credit lines of 15 M€ and exchange rate hedging

* Operational Controller Europe 04/94-08/96
(Paris)
Managed the reporting and forecasting exercises of a 250 M€ activity. Evaluated number of business development projects, participated in the negotiation of an acquisition in Spain and of a joint venture agreement in Poland

* Head of Controlling and Planning 10/88-03/94
(Munich)
Controlling of the German affiliate with turnover of 100 M€, integration of 2 companies taken over and implementation of the industrial controlling. Managed a team of 6 people.

CABLERIES D’EUPEN 10/85-09/88
* Trainee program in the Cost Calculation, IT and Analytical Accounting departments.

Education

- Master in Economics at the Université Catholique de Louvain (UCL) (1983) – cum laude

- Master in Business Administration at the Institut d’Administration et de Gestion (1984) – cum laude

- Other trainings: Strategic Value Analysis (London), Transfer Pricing (London), Legal and Tax aspects in M&A (Paris), Advanced Negotiation Skills (Brussels)

Languages

- German (monther language)
- French (fluent)
- English (fluent)
- Dutch (very good)

Other

- IT: MS Office (Excel, Word, Powerpoint), HFM, implementation of SAP (FI/CO/MM/SD)
- Former member of the FEIB (Financial Executives Institute of Belgium)
- Hobbies: golf, skiing, art

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