Summary

A Prince2 Certified Project/PMO manager with large experience in international projects in leading blue chip companies. Setup of tax & accounting & finance structure for a financial shared service center. Extensive experience with change management. Member of Steering Committees. Experience with implementation of ERP modules and tax engines. Improve tax processes.

I can lead large global, complex tax process improvement projects from start to completion.

My strongest competencies are fast situational analysis, decision-making abilities and strategic thinking.

Interim management assignments

04/2009 – 12/2010 and 11/2007 – 08/2008

Cisco Systems, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (employees >65.000; revenue >30 billion):

Interim Project / PMO Manager:

·           Working on global level (including Europe, Brazil, India, China, Indonesia, Russia, Singapore, Mexico, South Africa):

·           Liaison between Tax Business and IT,

·           Write functional tax specifications,

·           Manage solutions for tax migration strategy,

·           Manage implementation of new global buy-sell model: global tax setup, transfer pricing, indirect tax requirements (VAT, GST, business tax).

·           Manage project coordination, monitor budgets, etc

·           Manage implementation tax engines: Sabrix, Virtual Trader

·           Coordinate tax procedures together with logistic department

·           Manage issue resolution.

01/2005 – 10/2007 and 08/2008 – 03/2009

Pfizer Global Financial Shared Services, Dublin, Ireland (employees >82.000; revenue >40billion):

Interim Project Manager SSC

·         Implementation of VAT, Tax and accounting reporting on European level for the Shared Service Centre;

·         Liaison between Tax Business and IT department

·         Responsible for setting up country specific tax reporting with regard to:

·         VAT, Corporate Tax, Customs and Miscellaneous Taxes,

·         Responsibilities:

·         Manage Change management – Reengineering processes – Organization design

·         Manage gathering business requirements – Global design,

·         Manage test scenarios / Test scripts,

·         Manage Allocation of Responsibilities,

·         Manage functional designs,

·         Gathering user requirements,

·         Targets: Improving tax business processes, Reducing overall tax exposure and risks, Improving tax forecasting and planning.

·         Project coordination with GL, O2C and P2P, treasury and data conversion;

·         Contact with country Tax Directors and F&A Directors.

Corporate career

05/2001 – 12/2004                                                                              

Toyota Motor Europe, Brussels, Belgium (employees >70.000; revenue >40billion):

Manager Customs and Trade: Reporting directly to European General Manager Tax

·         Responsible for all customs related matters for concerned countries within triangle Norway - Turkey - Russia:

·         Singe European Authorization Customs Warehouse Type E and Inward Processing Relief,

·         Origin (Japan, US, Thailand, South Africa, etc),

·         Outward processing relief,

·         Customs value – transfer pricing,

·         Tariff classification,

·         Relief for testing purposes,

·         Excise duties, etc;

·         Responsible for relationship with EU Tax Authorities on Director/Executive level;

·         People management of the department (7 persons) - Lead, coach, train and develop team; Recruitment; Develop and monitor team performance,

·         Continuous looking for reduction of compliance costs and opportunities to improve the processes,

·         Responsible for the budget including IT, headcount and external consultants,

·         Closely working together with VAT and Finance & Accounting department and logistics,

·         Member of several Steering Committees.

11/1998 - 05/2001

Cobelfret Coördinatiecentrum, Wilrijk, Belgium (employees >1.000; revenue > 500million):

VAT and customs coordinator:

Implementation of VAT and accounting rules in CODA-financials; Audit VAT and customs procedures: international transport, chartering of ships, shipping agent, port agent, undisclosed agent, agent, fiscal representative - global VAT number, VAT-only warehouse, customs warehouse, import duties, etc; Operational audit: approval of invoices, information flows, etc.

11/1997 - 11/1998

Zespri Service Center, Antwerpen, Belgium (employees >100; revenue >10 million):

VAT & Customs coordinator:

Implementation of VAT/Tax in SAP (working visit New Zealand),

VAT & customs audit Europe, responsible for lease and rent contracts, etc

Educational record & additional training

1991-1996: University Brussels, Stormstraat 2, 1000 Brussels

                   Graduated as Master in Economics – Specialization: Tax

2000-2002: Certificate Customs Law

2010:          Prince2 Certified

Leadership seminars

11/2009: leadership meeting with Jef Colruyt – Chairman of Colruyt Group

04/2010: leadership meeting with Jan Vanhevel – CEO KBC Bank

05/2010: leadership meeting with US Ambassador Gutman

Language abilities

Language                  spoken                writing                  reading

Dutch                        fluent                    fluent                    fluent

French                good              good               good

English                      fluent                    fluent                    fluent

German                     notion                   notion                   notion

Computer skills

• MS Office                              Word, Excel and Powerpoint

Knowledge of:

• ERP systems:                        Oracle, SAP, J & D Edwards and CODA
• Tax engines:                          Sabrix and Virtual Trader