Functional Skills

Corporate Finance
Business Intelligence
Financial Management
Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A)
Cost Reduction
Finance Transformation
Financial Due Diligence
M&A Transaction Readiness
Software Implementation
Post-Merger Integration

Software Skills

PowerBI
Dynamics 365

Sector Experience

Financial Services
Business Services
Energy
Technology
Consumer Goods

Languages

Dutch
English
French
German
Spanish
21
years

Years of Experience

2/23

Member Since


Big 4 Accounting
Top Consulting Firms

Experience

 
Avantaga & Noktomezo Finance
Principal | Financial Management
04/2022 - Present
Avantaga enables intelligent automation of financial analysis and Noktomezo supports the growth & profitability of companies and the technology enablement of their finance departments.

Belmoca & Alusense Finance
CFO
03/2019 - 02/2022
Belmoca is a leading manufacturer of Nespresso compatible aluminum coffee capsules. Its empty capsule business is now trading under the name of AluSense.

- Grew profit faster than top line and optimized capital employed.
- Built growth acceleration plans and generated strategies to increase profitability, collaborating with the owners & CEO.
- Lead execution of mission-critical projects such as the demerger of the empty capsules business line into a new company called AluSense.
- Secured extra liquidity by raising debt & subsidies.
- Streamlined & automated finance & accounting processes and established better internal controls by implementing Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central.
- Accelerated & elevated the financial planning & analysis processes.
- Led a finance team of 5 responsible for AP, AR, credit risk management, reporting, audit, controlling, treasury management, and tax.

SipWell Finance
CFO
03/2019 - 01/2022
SipWell is the market leader in watercoolers in Belgium (+20k customers). It is now part of Primo Water.

- Secured & increased profit in difficult Covid times. Achieved this by very quickly reducing headcount & operating expenses, almost fully offsetting the drop in gross margin.
- Built a growth activation plan and generated strategies to increase profitability, collaborating with the owners & CEO.
- Enabled the sale of SipWell to Primo Water thanks to a stable bottom line and detailed insights in the top line.
- Secured extra liquidity by the sale & leaseback of the real estate to WDP.
- Lead execution of mission-critical projects such as due diligences & IT projects.
- Streamlined & automated finance, accounting & business processes, and established better internal controls by implementing Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central.
- Accelerated & elevated the financial planning & analysis processes by introducing Power BI for finance analytics and using Tableau for customer insights

4C Finance
CFO
11/2017 - 05/2019
4C was a leading European Salesforce consultancy (+250 consultants, 5 countries). It is now part of Wipro.

- Boosted profit and ensured liquidity needed to keep the business growing, bridging the period until new capital could be raised.
- Diagnosed the drivers of underperformance and collaborated with the country CEOs to eliminate them.
- Secured investment of Salesforce Ventures in 4C, after successfully restructuring Private Equity debt, by building trust and by ensuring reliable financial reporting.
- Formulated & executed an external growth strategy, cooperating with the owner, resulting in the acquisition of 3C Consult in Denmark.
- Steered sensitive projects such as due diligences, the negotiation of share purchase and shareholders’ agreements, and the restructuring of loan agreements.
- Secured extra liquidity by extending invoice factoring to the whole group.
- Led a finance team of 8 responsible for AP, AR, reporting, consolidation, audit, controlling, treasury management, t

Eiger Ventures Management Consulting
Principal | M&A Transaction Services
12/2015 - 10/2017
Eiger Ventures is a boutique consulting firm with former senior executives of Fortune-500 companies such as AB InBev

- Maximized projected profit, enabling Private Equity bids on Peroni & Grolsch and on SAB Miller Central Europe. Did so by identifying solid cost saving opportunities.

InVhestia, Energio Verda, Axoru & Kipando Start-Up
Founder, CEO & CFO
05/2010 - 11/2015
InVhestia (Kenya, Financial modelling), Energio Verda (Tanzania, Renewable energy), Axoru & Kipando (Belgium, Sustainable mobility).

KPMG Finance
Senior Manager | Financial Risk Management
01/2011 - 05/2011
Senior Manager | Financial Risk Management

BNP Paribas Finance
Business controller
01/2007 - 04/2010
Business controller for Global Markets and for Operations

Anheuser-Busch InBev Finance
Financial Controller
08/2004 - 01/2007
Financial Controller at Corporate level and for Central & Eastern Europe

PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) Finance
Senior Consultant | Financial Risk Management
01/2003 - 08/2004
Senior Consultant | Financial Risk Management