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