Location:                     Leiden, The Netherlands

Date of birth               16th of May 1968

Phone:                         00 31 71 521 6036 (Home)

00 31 683656536 (mobile)

Languages:                  English                        Native

                                    Dutch                          Conversational

Professional

Qualifications:            Association of Charted Certified Accountants (England & Wales) FCCA

Systems Experience:   OutlookSoft (SAP BPC), Sun Accounting, HFM Hyperion Enterprise, Excel,  Cognos Controller, Cognos TM1(OLAP Excel based system), SAP, Access, Word, Visio(for SOX)

August 2011 - Present          ICTS Europe Head Office

                                    Financial Controller A.I.                    

-           Management of Budget Reporting

-           Process improvement of controlling and reporting

May 2011 - June 2011          LexisNexis Benelux (a division of Reed Elsevier)

                                    Project Manager Cognos TM1 A.I.    

-           Development of reporting tool to meet all business information requirements  including planning of project, analysis of business requirements, design and build of input processes/information structures of data and  reports

October 2010 - April 2011   Sita Aerospace

                                    Senior Financial Accountant A.I. , Consolidation Team

-           Year End audit including areas such as Derivatives, Leases, Available for Sale, Tangible & Intangible assets

-           Improvement of ongoing accounting processes in meeting statutory and business requirements

May 2007 - September 2010            TNT  Express

Responsibilities;          Reporting Controller, Head Office

-           Reporting for the Consolidated Financial Statements for the Division on an adhoc and periodic basis, from coordination of the close process to the production of presentations for the Management Board and other required reports

-           Maintenance and development of divisional reporting definitions, processes and underlying systems to meet business requirements

-           Development and control of reporting quality including business KPI's

-           Directing, Coaching & developing Reporting & Planning team including ad-hoc projects

-           Reporting to Finance Director

Projects

-           Phase 2 of TM1 Cognos management information tool including development of information structures within tool, provision of training material & training for users and managing the integration of the tool within monthly and adhoc reporting replacing SAP BPC (Outlooksoft)

-          Full management of new Decentralised Forecast process globally including all communication to the management of all subsidiaries

-          Co-management of Centralised Forecast process using the Budget as a basis for producing all entity and consolidated information within Outlooksoft 

-          Upgrading of reporting definitions after discussions with local and central business management

-          Working with outside consultant and internal users to develop an Economic data tool for use in business planning & control globally

August 2004 - May 2007

British American Tobacco, Amsterdam Corporate Office

Position:                      Reporting Manager

Responsibilities;         

•-                      Responsible for meeting audit requirements for the overall consolidated holding entities

•-                      Development of reporting to cover current business & statutory requirements including costs covering cross functional projects

•-                      Management of Dividend & other Treasury flows for fifty holding companies including the development and maintenance of processes  and  internal controls including cross functional authorisations

•-                      Development of Business Control KPI's

•-                      Responsible for meeting  reporting requirements on an actual,  forecast  and budget basis for the consolidated Holding companies group and managing the relevant planning and control cycles

•-                      Compilation of Board Reports on a quarterly basis.

•-                      Reporting to the Finance Director, Amsterdam Corporate Office.

Projects

-          Development and management of process to provide for dividend flows between multiple companies in different jurisdictions on the same day aligning actions across different functional groups in the BAT organisation

-          Development of system interfaces between Financial Accounting SAP, TMI Cognos consolidation and Hyperion reporting systems in complying with IFRS and management reporting requirements

-          Restructuring of the Balance Sheet of Holding Company entities across jurisdictions as a part of a cross-functional global project team

•-                      Development and upgrade of holding companies information within Dividend Database System and formal training of Tax & Legal groups within the UK Head Office of use of such system to allow more efficient flow through of dividends

July 2001 - August 2004

Equant N.V., Amsterdam

Position:                      Management Accountant

Responsibilities:

•-                      Responsible for meeting audit requirements for several dutch entities

•-                      Part of Divisional Financial Management Team overseeing Telecom Network cost on a global basis.

•-                      Financial Reporting of  Network capacity projects and meeting external & internal reporting requirements on a Global basis

•-                      Financial Management of  Telecom Contracts with External Suppliers and internal parties including Purchasing and Legal

•-                      Controlling function within two Dutch legal entities including reporting under US GAAP.

•-                      Reporting to Head of Corporate Accounting

Projects

•-                      Development and implementation of global accounting processes and internal controls covering external Off-Balance Sheet commitments, Fixed Assets, operational cost, R&D Capitalisation and Cost and Asset Acquisition Contracts with external parties

•-                      Development and completion of SOX 404 documents

•-                      Development of comparative risk analysis on potential capacity supplier's financial position including review of their US GAAP published accounts before the acquisition of material assets on a global basis

July 2000 - July 2001

United Pan-European Communications, Head Office, Amsterdam

Position:                      Project Manager

Responsibilities

Projects

•-                      Management of development of Oracle Accounting Payables  project within UPC Corporate

•-                      Development of Business model for the purposes of the merger of part of Chello with UPC, including the formulation of the project cost control and management information reporting, production of budgets and draft business plan based on a business review

•-                      Reporting to the Management Director, Corporate Reporting

June 1996 - June 2000

Marriott Hotels & Resorts (London Regional Office)

Position:          -           Finance Manager

Responsibilities:         

•-                      Responsible for meeting audit requirements for several UK entities

•-                      Management of Accounting Department on a day to day basis including oversight of the accounting US and UK GAAP reporting process

•-                      Assisting in the consolidation of reported information for the region using Hyperion Enterprise

•-                      Accounting Processes Audit review in local Hotels

Position:          -           Finance Analyst

Responsibilities:

•-                      Review of Revenue & Cost for the region on a property basis producing relevant analysis for senior global management.

•-                      Advising senior management on technical Accounting matters and training of Accounting staff

•-                      Assisting heads of departments in budget production

•-                      Supervision, co-ordination of audit and internal reporting including tax returns and statutory accounts completion

•-                      Reporting to the VP Finance, UK Middle East Africa

Projects

•-                      Working with the Project Manager on the implementation of Sun Accounting and the production of appropriate procedures in relation to the integration of the new Sun Accounting system across multiple Head Office entities

•-                      Project accounting including Year2000 Risk Assessment and planning and Purchasing Synergies reporting across the region

•-                      Review of all business activities within the Marriott offices in London as part of overall legal and tax situation assessment of Marriott International activities within the UK

•-                      Development of balanced scorecard for Senior Regional Management taking into account regional diversity

September 1993  - May 1996

South Bank University London  &  Emile Woolf Colleges

Various interim accounting positions in non-profit, media and wholesale goods sectors

1989 - 1993

Booz Allen & Hamilton UK Ltd. (London)

Position:          -           Senior Accounts Assistant

Responsibilities:

                        -           General Ledger  and Project analysis

                        -           Revenue analysis on an individual client basis actual and forecast

                        -           Completion of Tax Returns, both for Corporation Tax and VAT                 

1987 - 1988                 Accounts Assistant,    Wordplex (Ireland) Ltd.

1986 - 1987                 Post Leaving Certificate

1980 - 1986                 Irish Leaving Certificate