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Senior finance & accounting Manager

Senior finance & accounting Manager

Work Experience

Employer AVG Technologies NV
Dates From December 2011 to date
Position Held Group Accounting and Consolidation manager

In this highly demanding role I have range of responsibilities which ultimately leads to monthly internal management reporting and quarterly/annual external reporting to NYSE. I manage a team of 4 accountants in Amsterdam who consolidate the results of 18 subsidiaries world-wide and indirectly lead the local controllers responsible for these entities.

I have a role in planning resources, reviewing and approving results and Financial Statements, managing the relationships with external auditors and accounting advisors and improving or creating processes. My daily role varies from reviewing the monthly results and working with department heads in reviewing results v budgets and forecast to giving advice to project managers or local controllers in accounting matters.

Key achievements include

1) Helping this private equity held company through an IPO with a successful full listing on NYSE in 2012. Including help restate 3 years of IFRS accounts to US GAAP and preparing an F1 document to support the listing.
2) Led a team of 4 accountants through a transition period from reporting under IFRS in 2010 to reporting under US GAAP for 2011 as a foreign private issuer (FPI) to NYSE plus three quarter closes in 2012. This included helping to prepare a 20-f for the company for the first time. This annual report was successfully filed on time.
3) Helped create a SOX framework for the major entities and processes for this newly listed company with a view to full SOX compliance within the framework of the JOBS act in relation to FPIs.
4) Preparing restated IFRS annual report for 2011 resulting from the listing.
5) Bringing together the team together in Amsterdam during December 2011 to prepare for the above. Up to November 2011 they were located in Czech Republic and included two contractors. I have help prepare this team for the challenges of working for a listed company and have also successfully integrated two new permanent staff to replace the contractors.
6) Managed the integration of 6 major acquisitions in same period ranging from asset purchase to full business combinations. There were also 2 minority investments in the period which I managed on a quarterly basis to ensure compliance.
7) During my time with AVG I assisted in major project to replace the current e-shop software used. This was a multi-million dollar project and my role was to help with budgeting (Capex & Opex) and also to assist the IT and planning departments in resource management and planning.
This included identifying internal and external resources (mostly people) and planning usage and ensuring the correct resources were available when needed.
I worked on a weekly basis with this team to achieve the goals required. This also required me to review purchase contracts, SOWs and LOIs to ensure maximum benefit for AVG.

Employer BMC Software Distribution BV
Dates From August 2007 to November 2011
Position Held Accounting Manager Central & Southern Europe

In this role I had responsibility for a wide range of areas which include supporting the quarterly and annual reporting of a NYSE listed company to ensure the Europe Middle East & Africa (EMEA) was compliant in all aspects of USGAAP leading to a consolidation of results at corporate level.

In Amsterdam I managed a team of 6 Assistant Controllers whose primary aim was to review the GL work of a Shared Service Centre team in India. I acted as liaison between the two groups ultimately reporting the results directly to the Corporate and Consolidation teams in US.

During my three years I helped to manage a successful transition of all processing roles to the FSSC in India whilst developing the local Amsterdam team into their role of as controller. I also continued to review processes and suggest improvements to optimize resource deployment.

A second but not less important role was to ensure Statutory compliance in all countries of Central & Southern Europe up to an including filing of reports. This entailed daily liaison with external audit/tax partners and in some case external accountants.

I also led a developmental role in improving the local management accounting and reporting function to support the overall profitability of the company in Europe and also worldwide.

I directly improved the EMEA ability to provide timely and accurate information to support the 10Q/K reporting requirements of the Headquarters.

I was also responsible for preparing completing the SOX related controls for the EMEA region including working the Internal audit team to improve the process.

Additionally I played a part of BMC continuous restructuring program with respect to Office Leases. I acted as representative for the Corporate Real Estates department in reviewing and or negotiating new rental deals due to the constant changing face of BMC’s business. This was also linked to my role in helping prepare country and departmental annual expense budgets.

Key achievements include:

Successful transition of all GL processing activities previously performed in Amsterdam, to a newly formed team in India.
Restructuring of the local team into the new role of Assistant Controller role including mentoring staff through the change in their role.
Streamlining of Statutory Accounting cycle to improve quality and maximize usage of internal and external resources leading to significant cost savings.


Employer Readers Digest Netherlands (ESS) bv
Hoogehilweg 17
1101CJ
Amsterdam ZO
Dates From December 2006 to July 2007
Position Held Accounting Manager for Shared Service Centre

In this role I managed the financial operation of a European Shared Service (ESS) Centre for a publishing company.

I had responsibility for the management of all GL and Cash activities of the ESS to ensure a timely turn around of financial data to ensure that the 18 countries supported met deadlines. I had a team of 5 to support me here and I supervised this team to ensure accuracy and also compliance to both US and local GAAP.

I am also helped role out a further development of the Oracle Treasury module for the 18 countries supported plus also integrating two new entities (Turkey and a German Holding company)

Key achievements include:

Streamlining of treasury process within the EMEA region by leading a project to introduce Oracle Treasury module
Developing the vital intercompany process within Reader’s Digest, in conjunction with the new treasury project, to improve the efficiency of the process.

Employer Huawei Technologies (Netherlands) bv
Karspeldreef 4
1101CJ
Amsterdam ZO
Dates From June 2005 to November 2006
Position Held Financial Controller

Like Lucent, Huawei is a telecommunications company but has a strong Chinese influence. I took the role of Financial Controller to improve myself as there was little room for advancement at Lucent due to business restraints.

In this role I was responsible for the entire finance department including statutory and management accounting. This job offered more of a challenge as Huawei are very new to Europe, are a very dynamic company but also are governed by many rules and regulations from China.

As Huawei was a new starter company in 2005 my team was responsible for creating and documenting all financial processes to be used locally.
It was my responsibility to ensure they adhered to local requirements as well as translating results to the requirements of the IFRS standards used by HQ.I was also responsible for developing the role of the Dutch company to become a European HQ for Finance and Logistics.

Key achievements include:

Creation of complete new team capable of completing the required local filings of statutory accounts.
The team also provided vital support for the sales teams of this new company to ensure corporate compliance and acceptance within the business world in Europe.
Assisting in guiding Huawei in many projects to help them establish a foothold in Europe as a trusted business partner.

Employer Lucent Technologies bv
50 Larensweg
1221CN
Hilversum
Dates From December 2000 to May 2005
Position Held Controller/Project Accountant

Main duties: -

I was responsible for the management of a team of 2 project accountants to ensure the timely and accurate recognizing and reporting of all revenues, costs and Balance sheet entries related to PA. We managed, concurrently approximately 50 projects ranging from short term with $100k revenue up to multi-year contracts in excess of $10m.

My role in Revenue management began as advisor to the contract management team in helping them create business cases which optimised the revenue streams for Lucent.

It would be my responsibility to ensure that project members were aware of the rules governing future revenue and cost streams and clarifying the documentation required to comply with US GAAP. In this process we used Siebel sales tools to manage the funnel of future revenues.

During each quarter close I consolidated trial balances at a project level and the whole legal entity. This also involved continuous reviews of the reports with my counterparts in program management to ensure the maximisation of Lucent’s potential for current and future business. I also reported back to the Corporate HQ highlighting KPIs

An important part of my role was chief liaison with External auditors (PWC) to continuously review the processes used locally and produce, with PWC and internal audit and on-going plan for change and improvement. As Lucent is principally a service and project based environment my role covered approximately 75% of all P&L and balance sheet activity.

Lucent is a very dynamic company and I was involved in the development and implementation of a new SAP Quote To Cash system for Lucent B.V. and a subsequent worldwide implementations.

I also played a major part in the preparation of the controls and process for the newly implemented SOX process for Lucent. This was lengthy two year project as Lucent had few or weak internal controls in many areas relating to finance processes and I worked as part of the team that first identified key processes, then built a framework of controls through to finally gaining clearance from internal and external auditors for the complete set of controls.


Employer TDG Logistics bv
‘t Zands 10
2181 TJ
Hillegom

Dates From December 1999 to
November 2000
Position Held Office Manager

Education

Matthew Boulton FE College
Birmingham
Dates: -1988 to 1991


Qualifications
Year Course Grade
1990 BTEC HNC in Business & Finance Passed NVQ 3
1991 Association of Accounting Technicians Qualified as Accounting Technician.
NVQ 4(This equates to a university degree and gives me an exemption to final year CPA studies)

Skills

Systems Knowledge
SAP
Oracle
Hyperion Financial Management
Business Objects
Advanced understanding of Microsoft products such as Xls, Word and powerpoint


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