Transformation Controller
AkzoNobel
Total years of experience :21 years, 7 Months
• Performance monitoring & management of 14 workstreams
Monitoring performance of different projects within each workstream including milestones achievements and early warnings of deviations, implementation costs spend and bookings, highlighting new opportunities and compensating actions
• Business case controlling & review
Acting as pivotal member in filtering and pre-approving new investments/business cases requests to ExCo highlighting feasibility and savings/ROI in relation to corporate strategy.
• Board & Executive committee reporting
Ensure weekly, monthly and quarterly reporting of transformation office programs financial and non-financial results, with key messages to help management acting upon recommendations
• Covid-19 Response team
As a response to recent measures, formulate different financial scenarios to mitigate impact of COVID-19, and assess the impact of possible government subsidies worldwide (involving intensive country analysis together with local HR teams). Being the only source for management to judge actions to be taken in different countries to help maintaining cash flow levels within compliant environment to local legislations and aligned with corporate strategies
• Audit & ad-hocs
a) Be the key contact for all transformation related PWC requests
b) Prepare key inputs for the CGUs impairment analysis
c) Lead project team to develop standard automated reporting models
d) Lead project team to standardize FTE definition and cleaning HR systems
e) Develop tools to monitor and report contractors spends and pipelines
• Relation with service provider
Help the GBS management and CFO in taking the right decisions by presenting different scenarios to improve relationship/performance in away keeps the financial benefits of the project and ensures improvements of the BPO partner performance. Includes also agreeing and finalizing the contract corrections and SLA targets and credits.
• Budgeting and Forecasting
Monitor the team to provide regions/countries with right and accurate plans for the future including but not limited to Savings and employee ramp down plans
• Contract Compliance
Ensures and monitor the BPO partner towards the full compliance with the signed agreement, including the delivery of all obligations.
• FedEx SOX Compliance
Leading the plans with the SOX team and BPO partner representatives to ensure the full SOX compliance in all processes performed by the BPO partner, ensuring also that GBS department is compliant in all internal processes.
• Audit
Lead a team of joint efforts of Auditors, SMEs and BPO Partner contract management, to perform annual audits on processes performed to highlight risks and ensure mitigating actions are agreed and performed to operate risk free processes.
• Relation with service provider
Represent the group in all negotiations with service provider, including price checks, service and modeling the complicated agreement details into a dynamic model that serve reconciliation, performance monitoring and invoicing needs
• Board Presentation
Update board of management and project steering committee with detailed analysis that contains bridges from Original Business case to current status including any forecasts/budgets in the middle. Help board of management and steering committee in taking critical decisions by providing details scenario analysis on request that covers financial and operational implications
• Budgeting and Forecasting
Full responsibility of the group budgeting and forecasting cycles related to global business services in coordination with service delivery partner. Advise countries of all charges/credits to be booked and actual incurred costs to be reduced following the planned go live dates. Accuracy is critical in this and success was proven in a very short period
• KPI Trend analysis
Help service delivery team building and maintaining operational performance level with multiple dimensions to be able to help different sizes of entities in the group.
• Data Mining & consolidation
Project includes massive amount of data which needs proficiency in dealing with these data and transform it to a meaningful data to serve all project stakeholders
- Budget Controller and Budget model design 2011/2012 TNT Group
- Monthly reporting to Board of Management
- Quarterly Supervisory Board report
- Restatement Process
- Budget and Forecasting
- OutlookSoft templates design
- TM1 System maintenance and reports designing
- Ad hoc reports for group top management
- SAP Support
Managing a team of 8, specialized in AP, AR and Accounting and reporting
- Monthly closing group deadlines
- Credit control KPIs driven
- AP, KPIs Driven
- Implementation of different systems SAP, OLS
- Country Budgeting and Forecasting
- Cost Optimization plans
Gl Postings, Billing, Forecasting and budgeting
Restructuring Plans
Policies and Procedures design and monitor the implementation
Difference Processes flow charts
AP / AR accountant mainly focused on posting different journals