Cor Koopmans

Within a rapidly growing organisation I built a confident accounting team which consists of an Accounting team and an AP team. My responsibilities included statutory reporting, all month/year end closing activities, internal/external audit coordination and process improvement projects.

I consulted the board on the oil/currency/interest/credit developments + advice on the consequent course of action. Also, I hedged the oil and currency risks with oil traders and banks. In addition, I revised the hedge strategy in terms of horizon and intensity, in relation to market developments and competition and consult the board on possible adjustments. Also, I wrote an implementation plan for Martinair cash management to integration into KLM + Currency Overlay Program.

In this temporary assignment, I managed a team of 5 people responsible for the accounting of several entities and markets across Europe. These responsibilities include all month end closing activities, all sub ledger and general ledger activities, VAT declarations, intrastat declarations, credit control and yearend audit coordination.

I ran the operational side of the finance department of the Shared Service Centre. Responsibilities included, treasury management, month end closing of several legal entities, all sub/general ledger activities such as all (world wide) payments, cash management + (Intercompany) debt collection. Achievements: Setting up a foreign currency exposure forecasting system/profit & loss analyses within a complex transfer pricing environment. I conducted a bank tender and negotiated conditions regarding cash pooling.

As part of various project teams, I conducted financial and procedural audits for a wide variety of clients like stock specialists and brokers, real estate agents, production companies, trading companies and several governmental bodies. In addition, I did several stock takings.

In this role, I was responsible for the sales audit for all the 100 shops. This meant that the amount the shop managers should have received on one particular day was polled as well as banked. I was also responsible for the bank reconciliation regarding the shop takings. In the event of cashing up and banking differences, my duty entailed posting the differences onto the accounting system as well as notifying the responsible regional managers.

During this period, I was responsible for all the payments to suppliers throughout Europe. My duties entailed supervising junior staff, liaising with various departments, distributions centres, suppliers, tax authorities, solicitors and banks, as well as processing invoices in several currencies, reconciliations, journal entries and accruals.

Processing production and delivery orders, coordinating export deliveries and invoicing. My responsibility also involved giving production orders to the different production locations as well as authorising shipments from various loading locations. Furthermore, I verified bills of lading, health certificates, certificates of origin and proofs of deliveries. My portfolio consisted of Western Europe.

International Finance and Legal Studies