Interim

                Assignments

                     United Transport Tank

                    Containers Group

                    Interim FD and CFO

 

Scope:

Safeguarding the “ship” for one year, awaiting my replacement

 

Interim CFO Dutch logistics company

(international transport & warehousing)

 

Scope:

amongst other things, embraced:

Complete roll out Oracle finance over

24 companies Europe wide

Setup complete financial reporting including Consolidated P&L, Balance sheet, Cashflow and KPI’s

 

Full reporting reduced from 3 months (once a year for majority of all entities (12) outside the Netherlands) initially to 5 weeks finally within 3 weeks.

 

Additional activities

Beyond finalising the 2006 holding company statutory books, caught up the backlog  in statutory books and corporation tax returns of the daughters outside Holland.

Re-capitalisation loss making daughters

M&A - Arranging Finance

Scoping and analysing due diligences such as Finance, IT, Legal, HRM/pensions, etc

Contacts with Banks: Supply performance information, financing acquisitions, re-financing loans and installed IRS (interest rate swaps)

 

Interim CFO International Aviation service company

Assisted an Aviation service company to re-finance their debt package shortly after the company was acquired by a Venture Capitalist.

 

Advisor acquisition logistical service company

Advising Director/Owner in acquiring a competitor and implementing a new IT functionality to cater for the new activity to its portfolio of services

 

Acquisition of a Russian focused tankcontainer operator

Advising Director/Owner in acquiring this competitor and assisted to integrate this  Company in the existing organisation

 

Advise, guide and (re-)finance new & existing entrepreneurial ventures

As part of the objectives of Fimmar BV, Fimmar help to develop new & existing Entrepreneurial ventures, mainly run by people in their twenties and early thirties like the foldable steel container, fashion bag company, a small tank container operator, etc.

 

April 2010 Interim CFO of a leading steel construction group

Scope: transfer the group from a family company into a corporate body.

Principal assignment for 18 months

 

Achievements / introduced:

 

Complete roll out Exact Globe finance over 80 companies Europe wide including implementation of a group wide communication network with mirroring back-ups

 

Setup complete financial reporting structure including Consolidated P&L, Balance sheet, Cashflow, KPI’s and covenant testing for the current year results, forecast and budget (Group never forecasted or budgeted before). Together with a standard Board Meeting report format

 

Full reporting reduced from 3 months (once a year for some entities outside the Netherlands) to 5 weeks initially and finally within 3 weeks after implementing detailed timetables.

Enhanced the ICT function

Intercompany group wide reconciliation system

PPA acquisition accounting

Functional currency change in Poland

M&A: sale of a complete division

 

References are available on request