Profile |

• 14 years line and project experience in the financial area

• Responsibility as finance director in corporate functions and subsidiaries

• Management responsibility for up to 230 people

• Project management with direct responsibility for projects up to 8 million € budget

• Over 14 years of experience in retail, distribution, consumer goods and business services

• International experience: 5 years in Belgium, 7 years in the Netherlands, 1 year in the UK and responsibilities as international project manager

• Integrated European university degree as Diplom-Kaufmann Univ. and European Master of Business Sciences (E.M.B.Sc.)

•Fluent in German and English. Very good French and Spanish language skills

Working Experience

• Independent interim manager since 2014

• Head of European Finance and Accounting - Staples Europe, Amsterdam / NL (€2bn sales; 7,000 FTEs)

• Responsible Program Manager for centralization and outsourcing of the European finance and accounting activities - Staples Europe, Amsterdam / NL (€ 2bn sales; 7,000 FTEs)

• Finance Director Benelux - Staples Office Centre, Almere / NL (€ 285m sales; 1200 employees)

• Project manager for European financial processes and systems - Staples Europe Retail, Brussels / BE (€850m sales, 3,500 FTEs)

• Senior Internal Auditor EMEA - Avnet Inc., Brussels / BE ($23bn sales; 17,000 employees)

• Management consultant - Kurt Salmon Management Consultants - Dusseldorf / DE (30 consultants in Germany, 400 globally)

Education and Qualifications

• Diplom Kaufmann - Otto Friedrich University of Bamberg / Germany (focus areas: Business Management & Controlling, Marketing, Finance, European Affairs)

• European Master of Business Sciences (E.M.B.Sc.) – integrated European university programme with study year at the Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh / UK

• Study term abroad at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid / ES

• Certified Internal Auditor (CIA) – The Institute of Internal Auditors Brussels/BE