Project achievements

· Accounting and internal control restructuring and year-end-closing in Latin America for a Dutch insulation company with presence in 14 countries, collaboration with local professionals. Communication with local and Dutch management.

· Office setup including all related accounting, legal and control tasks in Panama Latin America for Norwegian government owned maritime company with global presence in 60 countries. Right hand of Dutch local director, communicating with US and Norwegian board.

· Financial audit leading to restructuring of internal control and financial processes in collaboration with local external and internal accountant. Communication with Dutch management and investment group.

· Integration of a business unit into the existing ERP-system after a merger of two dairy companies in The Netherlands. Management team member as financial controller with focus on monitoring new product introductions. Communications with group controller in the Netherlands.

· Providing and optimizing management information and business reviews in The Netherlands for waste service company operating in the Benelux and Germany. Development of cost monitoring tool. Communication with CFO, group controller in the Netherlands reporting to the French board.

· Project manager of implementation of Business Intelligence and management information system for board of directors, management board and operational departments for a FMCG in The Netherlands. Succesfully implemented dashboards, providing a central point of financial and operational information.

· Business controller warehouse management system, logistics, investment analysis, improvement plans, automation, guidance of management with financial impact of operational procedures.

· Various: process optimization, automation of management information and accounting tasks, forecasting & budgeting. Budget process redesign and automation shortening 50%, debt control process redesign achieving 25% lower outstanding debt, guidance of department transition from financial control to business control role, implementing automated weekly preliminairy operational reports enabling corrective action improving month-end result.

Client testimonials

“We couldn't have choosen better and Joris has impressed all of us with his persistant way of working. From day one he showed a high level of understanding our business issues and took ownership. His way of working inspired his collegues which is of an enormous importance.”
Jan van den Brand - Manager Financial Shared Service Center

“I would recommend Joris to European companies that need any type of business - control - legal - accounting support and guidance. I was very content with his trustworthy, professional and consistent support for an extended period, until we were self supporting. He took on all necessary tasks flawlessly, for me to focus on servicing our clients.”
Peter Pigmans - General Manager

“It was time to make the change to a more professional way of working regarding our financial processes. Joris executed the implementation very effectively, working with the local accountant and organizing our new financial department. He knows very well how to communicate with employees on different levels of the organization.”
Henri Kerkhof - CEO

“...We like to promote him. He is a qualitative, intelligent reliable, direct productive an efficient part of our management information team. I enjoyed working with him.”
Serge Flantua - Director Financial Services