Victor Siemons, V.Siemons@wxs.nl

Current

• Finance Director & General Management at GEZE Benelux BV
• Director at CF Consultancy Siemons

Past

• Managment Consultant at Stichting Metalektro Recycling
• Management Consultant at Stichting NVMP
• Business Controller a.i. at Schoonenberg Hoorcomfort

• Controller a.i. at Bavaria
• Managing Partner at Ministerie Verkeer en Waterstaat
• Controller a.i. at UWV
• Manager Planning & Control at Pfizer B.V.
• Business Controller Marketing & Sales at The Greenery International B.V.
• Assistant Financial Manager / Controller at Van Melle Nederland Verkoop BV / Van Melle Export BV
• Functional Consultant at Tigchelaar
• Functional Consultant at Datastream International Ltd.

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Education

• Hogeschool West Brabant
• Avans Hogeschool
• Avans Hogeschool

• HEAO Breda
• Avans Hogeschool

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Connections

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Industry

Management Consulting

Victor Siemons, V.Siemons@wxs.nl’s Summary

Interim Manager Control
- 2007 - present Geze benelux Ltd financial director and general manager ad interim
- 2007 SMR 1 month, Management Consultant
- 2007 NVMP 1 month, Management Consultant
- 2006 – 2007, Schoonenberg Hoorcomfort BV, Business Controller a.i.
- 2006-, 5 months Rijkswaterstaat, Corporate Services, Managing Partner a.i.
- 2004-2006, 2 years Bavaria NV Group Business Controller a.i.
- 2002- 12-2003 : 2 years UWV Facilities. Business Controller a.i.

Victor Siemons, V.Siemons@wxs.nl’s Specialties:

Management Control
Strategic Planning
Transferpricing (Advanced Pricing Agreements)
US GAAP / Dutch Gaap
Credit Management

Victor Siemons, V.Siemons@wxs.nl’s Experience

• Finance Director & General Management

  GEZE Benelux BV

  (Building Materials industry)

  October 2007 — Present (1 year 2 months)

  - - 2007 - present Geze benelux Ltd financial director ad interim & general director ad interim.
  Replacement and reorganisation of the administration which coped with large delays. Next to this regular control tasks such as management information, planning & control cycle and the annual report as per June 30th. Replacement of General Manager who left the company in mutual consent as per February 1st.

• Director

  CF Consultancy Siemons

  (Financial Services industry)

  April 2002 — Present (6 years 8 months)

  Interim Management Controller. +31 6 30478210

• Managment Consultant

  Stichting Metalektro Recycling

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Consumer Electronics industry)

  July 2007 — August 2007 (2 months)

  To develop of a transparent cost model of the company for justification toward the shareholder.

• Management Consultant

  Stichting NVMP

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Consumer Electronics industry)

  June 2007 — July 2007 (2 months)

  Analyses of the company processes, determining mutual consistency between the departments and definition of new proceses to establish a more efficient and more effective organisation. As well as an analysis made of the required information. This has resulted in a recommendation to modify the administrative processes and data collection in order to be able produce the required management information.

• Business Controller a.i.

  Schoonenberg Hoorcomfort

  (Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Consumer Electronics industry)

  October 2006 — June 2007 (9 months)

  To develop and implement a management information system, optimalisation of financial and administrative process, develop and implement a european IFRS based consolidation tool for the European Holding.

• Controller a.i.

  Bavaria

  (Management Consulting industry)

  2004 — October 2006 (2 years)

• Managing Partner

  Ministerie Verkeer en Waterstaat

  (Government Agency; 5001-10,000 employees; Executive Office industry)

  May 2006 — October 2006 (6 months)

  Ad-interim fulfilment of management control functions To draw up and safe guard the financial and operational goals defined, develop and implement a management information system.
  - National responsible for the subsidiaries (12 Regions and 6 Specialized Service companies)
  - Operational auditing the operational and financial process and procedures.
  - Analyzing the operational processes and advise about possible optimizations.
  - Develop & Implement Planning & Control Cycle and Strategic Planning.
  - Defining and implementing Accounting standards.
  - Develop & Implement Decision making models to support business initiatives, based on Return on Investment and or Economic Value Added.

• Controller a.i.

  UWV

  (Management Consulting industry)

  2002 — 2004 (2 years)

• Manager Planning & Control

  Pfizer B.V.

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Pharmaceuticals industry)

  May 1999 — April 2002 (3 years)

  Major Business Objectives :
  - developed and implemented a Dashboard as a MI-tool.
  - Re-structuring of the Accounting Department.
  - Re-definition and re-implementation of the accounting software (SUN systems union).
  - Design, implementation and control of a strategic planning process.
  - Design, implementation and control of treasury software (CERG.
  Tasks and responsibilities :
  1. Translation of business plans into financial statements and a task budget.
  2. To draw up and safe guard the financial and operational critical performance indicators in relation to the set of goals defined.
  3. Analysis and optimize the operational process.
  4. analysing the set strategy and actions of the company.
  5. Investment analysis.
  6. Periodical reporting, operational & financial.
  7. To draw up and safe guard the financial and administrative procedures and guidelines.
  8. Close co-operation with the Finance Director and Line management.
  9. Repporting using US GAAP and Dutch GAAP

• Business Controller Marketing & Sales

  The Greenery International B.V.

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Consumer Goods industry)

  January 1997 — July 1999 (2 years 7 months)

  - Design, implementation and control of a management model.
  - Select and implement an ERP system (SAP R3).
  - Business design.
  - Acquisition
  - Restructure the shared service center.
  - credit-management
  Tasks and responsibilities :
  1. realisation of the financial policy
  2. Translating business plans into financial statements and a task budget.
  3. To draw up and safe guard financial and operational critical performance indicators.
  4. Analysing the operational process and advise about possible optimisations.
  5. Backing of the management by analysing the set strategy and actions to be taken with regard to the financial objective of the company. Including analyses of the product chain, to identify the margin in the product chain and the actions to be taken to shorten the product chain.
  6. Investment analysis.
  7. Periodical financial reporting.
  8. To draw up and safe guard financial and administrative procedures and guidelines.
  9. Reporting to the Board of Directors.

• Assistant Financial Manager / Controller

  Van Melle Nederland Verkoop BV / Van Melle Export BV

  (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Consumer Goods industry)

  October 1992 — October 1997 (5 years 1 month)

  - Establishing a finance department and creating a new management information system based on EVA.
  - Implementing SAP R3, key user for SAP FICO and COPA.
  Tasks and responsibilities :
  1. Responsible for financial and commercial accounting.
  2. Responsible for implementing EVA.
  3. supervising 3 administrative employees and indirect of 4 administrative employees
  4. Periodic Reporting
  5. investment analysis including "what-if".
  6. credit-management.
  7. administrative organisation and internal control.
  8. implementing Economic Value Added.
  9. costprice calculations.
  10. plant control of production: year end reporting, financial budgets, periodical financial updates, long term business plans and periodical results.

• Functional Consultant

  Tigchelaar

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Management Consulting industry)

  January 1992 — October 1992 (10 months)

  1992 Automation-project Ford Tigchelaar BV.
  Functional Consultant
  Tasks and responsibilities :
  1. Reorganisation of the car-rental department.
  2. Describing the administrative organisation of the car-rental department.
  3. Acting IT manager

• Functional Consultant

  Datastream International Ltd.

  (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Financial Services industry)

  January 1990 — January 1992 (2 years 1 month)

  Tasks and responsibilities :
  1. Supporting clients throughout the implementation of Interport (=software for investment accounting)
  2. Supporting clients throughout Europe concerning topics on investment accounting, software and automation.
  3. Preparing Sales-supporting presentations
  4. Liaison officer with headoffice in London regarding Interport.

Victor Siemons, V.Siemons@wxs.nl’s Education

• Hogeschool West Brabant

  AC, Management Control, 1998 — 1998

• Avans Hogeschool

  1986 — 1991

• Avans Hogeschool

  1986 — 1991

• HEAO Breda

  Msc, Business Economics, 1986 — 1991

• Avans Hogeschool

  Marketing 1986 — 1990

Additional Information

Victor Siemons, V.Siemons@wxs.nl’s Interests:

Management training, Performance Management, Fiscal Law, Management Control, new business oppertunities, interim asignments, permanent job

Victor Siemons, V.Siemons@wxs.nl’s Groups:

•    Finance & Accounting Professionals
•    Consultants Network
•    ex-Pfizer Employee (~2500 members)
•    Dutch Interim-management / Freelance network
•    Freelance Finance Professionals (zzp) in Nederland

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