About me

Interim SAP consultant Finance & Control

Gained as Business Process Expert / Sr, Financial accountant in depth knowledge of integrated financial (SAP-)processes.

Specialized in migrating and/or integrating financial processes into SAP.

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Content

Skills

  • General Ledger

  • AP / AR / Banking

  • Cost & Profit Center Accounting

  • Asset Accounting

  • Period-end-close

  • Product Costing

  • Stock valuation

  • Investment Management / Project System


  • Team-player

  • Dedicated

  • Hands-on

  • Structured

  • Accurate and result oriented working style.

  • Strong cultural awareness

  • Intermediar

SAP Consultant Finance & Control (Partner - CFO)

November 2017 - Present

Ardacon Consulting B.V.


Business Process Expert Finance & Control

Jul 2014 - Augustus 2017

DSM Resins & Functional Materials

Worked as (Lead) Business Process Expert Finance & Control on several projects shaping the DSM Resins & Functional Materials SAP-landscape into one SAP-client.

Established standardization and optimization of the financial processes of the DRF-client, enabling a successful outsourcing of these processes to the Corporate DSM shared service centers.

Also gave global functional support to the finance population.

Supervised 3-4 FTEs during projects.


Business Process Expert SAP R/3

for Finance

2010 - Jun 2014

DSM NeoResins+

BPE Finance To Manage:

- Fixed Assets, General Ledger, Period-end closing. & CATS/PS

Key user for SAP R/3 Controlling & Product costing.

Functional and application support of NeoResins units.

Participated in (major) projects.


Business Process Expert SAP R/3

for Controlling

1994 - 2009

DSM NeoResins+

Business Process Expert for SAP R/3 modules Controlling / Product costing / Fixed Assets.

Key user for SAP R/3 module FI (Finance).

Functional and application support to other NeoResins units.

Participated in (major) projects.


















Senior Financial (RU) accountant

2006 - Jun 2014

DSM Coating Resins B.V.

Financial monitoring and reporting of the European DSM Coating Resins (former NeoResins) principal unit. Team member of the DSM Coating Accounting House (Zwolle - NL) and dedicated to the manufacturing site Waalwijk (NL).

Delivering high quality financial information within a scheduled time frame, based on the DSM Accounting Rules (IFRS).

  • Reporting Unit accountant for DSM Coatings B.V.

  • Fixed Assets administrator.

  • Accounts Payable senior.

  • Tax/Legal reporting (VPB / INTRASTAT / PRODCOM).

  • Master data owner (General Ledger / Vendors / Customers).

  • Team-member in Business Improvement Teams.


Assistant manager Cost Accounting

2000 - 2005

Avecia B.V / NeoResins B.V.

Control of the transformation process from raw materials to end-products concerning purchases, production and sales in accordance with the valuation principles and reporting guidelines used by Avecia b.v. and NeoResins b.v.

Coached 2-3 FTE´s.


Assistant Cost-Accounting

1989 - 2000

ICI Resins / Zeneca

Assignments


January 2022 - Present

Eswelt (NL)

Damen Global Support BV

Remote / Vlissingen / Gorinchem

Role: Interim SAP Consultant Finance (S/4 HANA 1909)

Stream R2R: Support SIT / UAT / Migratie / Hypercare

  • Damen Naval

  • Damen Workboats

  • Damen Services

  • Readsoft

February 2021 - January 2022

SHAERP (NL)

GeesinkNorba

Remote

Role: Interim SAP Consultant Finance & Control

Project assistance project "LIFT-OFF" (Part-time)

  • Assist Go-live Service unit NL
  • Implement Italy branch
  • After care / support
  • Assistance (interim) Plant Controller
  • Help preparing external Audits (NL/FR)

February 2021 - June 2021

SHAERP (NL)

GEA Frozen Food

Remote

Role: Interim SAP Consultant Finance & Control

Project assistance major upgrade to SAP ECC 6.0 (Part-time)

  • Pre-testing (custom0 transactions/programs
  • UAT support


June 2018 - August 2020

IT-People (NL)

Centrient Pharmaceuticals

(Former DSM Sinochem)

Rijswijk (ZH) - Netherlands

Rotterdam (ZH) - Netherlands

Remote

Role: Interim Business Process Expert Finance & Control

Covered maternity leave (6 months) and was extended for ongoing support & several projects.

Played key role as lead BPE FICO during several analytical (PWC) and Working Capital improvement (KPMG) initiatives enabling the financial transformation process initiated by BAIN (Private Equity).


Participate Business driven projects with IT component.

  • Carve out of Business unit Formulated Dosage Forms (FDF) activities to new company code
  • Name change (DSM Sinochem to Centrient)
  • New Holding structure
  • SAP ECC/BW Upgrade

Process improvements in Centrient organisation primarily based on standard (IT) applications/tools (SAP).

  • Support Budget process

Solution facilitator for new business requirements that arise due to new business models/products.

  • Implement SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC)

    • ECC Transactional data cleaning/enrichments for dashboard queries.
    • Reconciliation queries.
  • Implement Working Capital improvements

    • Factoring (FactoFrance)
    • Virtual Banking (Citi)
    • Analytics on AP/AR

Play a crucial role in standardization of the business processes across all business units, improve automation of the reporting and step up in data analytics.

  • Introduce Functional Cost reporting
  • Harmonize Product Costing


March 2018 - May 2018

Wipro Limited (NL)

Philips - Blue Heart Project

Eindhoven - Netherlands

Role: Interim FICO BPM / Business Analist for a global rollout to S/4 HANA.

Philips Blue Heart project is a global program to migrate all legacy systems to one integrated landscape running on S/4 HANA.

  • Deployment South LATAM region (postponed)
  • Deployment Iberia & Italy region
  • Fiori testing (Development & UAT)

Projects (DSM)

Carve-in DRP companies into the main DRF ERP platform

Jan 2016 - Jun 2017

DSM Resins & Functional Materials

Netherlands, Germany & Spain

O2 phase III (Carve-in DRP) will reduce the total cost of system landscape by migrating the last 3 Toller companies (DSM Resins bv, DSM Kunstharze Gmbh & DSM Coating Resins Spain) into the main DRF ERP platform.

This last step shall enable the DRF business to fully integrate and standardize her processes.

In scope are all financial processes including supporting modules like SRM, Plant Maintenance, CATS & Project System.

Technical upgrade (R/3 4.7 to ERP 6.0 Ehp7) of the main DRF ERP platform

Jul 2015 - Dec 2015

DSM Resins & Functional Materials

Netherlands

O2 phase II consists of a technical upgrade of the NR1 landscape including APO and BW.

This technical upgrade is essential to bring our platform to a high quality and sustainable level needed to continue support by SAP and to create a platform to realise future enhancements and improvements.

Integrate PCC & DFM principals into main DRF ERP platform (Project O2)

Jan 2014 - Jun 2015

DSM Resins & Functional Materials

Netherlands, Spain & USA

O2 phase I will reduce one SAP-client (PD1) by integration of the PCC & DFM principals into the main DRF ERP platform, allowing further standardization, optimization and integration of the DRF core processes; creating tremendous future value for the DRF business.

  • DSM Coating Resins (NL: Zwolle, Schoonebeek & ES: Santa Margarida)

  • DSM Functional materials (NL: Hoek van Holland & US: Elgin, Stanley)

Integrate DSM Coating Resins Inc. (Augusta - USA) into DCR SAP system

Nov 2013 - Apr 2014

DSM Resins & Functional Materials

USA

Integrate and standardize financial processes to merge DSM Powder Coating Resins Inc. (Augusta) and DSM NeoResins Inc. (Wilmington) into one legal entity.

  • Product Costing

  • Profit Center accounting

  • Stock migration

Implement Legal entity DSM Synres BV

Nov 2012 - Dec 2013

DSM Synres B.V.

Netherlands

Create a separate legal entity with both business and assets for a separate market positioning and future divestment.

Integration DSM Syntech (China)

2010

DSM Syntech (Shunde - China)

Netherlands

  • Stock cut-over

  • Implement Fixed Assets & Investment Management.

Introduction Principal-Toller-Agent model (TOPP project)

2007

NeoResins+

Netherlands

The objective of TOPP - Targeting Outside In for People & Processes - is to define, harmonize and streamline processes, organisation & IT systems with the aim of creating a new DSM NeoResins+ organization.

The TOPP project distinguishes multiple streams: New Business Development, Demand to Supply, Order to Cash, Purchase to Pay and Finance to Manage.

Bert has been SAP Business Process Expert Finance and Control in several of my SAP implementation and release change projects.
Within these projects Bert has been in charge of managing the FiCo workstream.
Bert is an experienced process expert, has a solid theoretical background and pratical experience.
He is dedicated and delivers as promised.
Bert is also a very appreciated and fine colleague to his teammembers.

References


Bert is an excellent senior accountant with a large experience and understanding of integral SAP processes in FI/CO. He has a drive for continuous improvement. Willing to support in SAP challenges, but takes full responsibility for regular tasks as well. Valuable asset in accounting team and easygoing with collegues.


I have been working with Bert for more than 8 years, and I must say that he is, first of all, an exceptional person. As a professional, he is bright, energetic, and able to meet all kind of challenges working hard and helping others. Participating in big projects such as R/3 implementation, he has demonstrated leadership and organizational skills. He is a team player.