Riccardo Arz

-Process improvement in the Accounts Receivables area within a multinational shared service center environment comprising 14 countries -Documentation and enforcement of processes within the department and the whole group -Line Management (team consists of 7 employees) -Implementation of reporting systems within the AR Department

- Responsible General ledger Accountant for the French and Belgium entities within a shared services environment - Calculation and booking of all (tax)accruals / provisions / depreciation and prepayments - Maintaining the Accounts payable subledger - Ensure in-time payment of due invoices - Preparation of the weekly Cash-Flow forecast - Prepare and submit monthly / year end accounts to the UK HQ (in line with IFRS) - Liaise with French payroll offices, lawyers, external Auditors, Accountants and bank

 Maintaining Accounts Payable and Accounts Receivable including invoice handling  Reconcile and clear several accounts incl. credit card maintenance  Interaction with all area branches to resolve accounting related issues  Performing direct bookings to subledger and ledger  Assistance in monthly, quarterly and year end reporting  Maintaining intercompany invoicing processes

- Fixed Assets Accounting, responsible for the whole region Italy - Capitalizations, transfers, depreciation and retirements of assets - Providing all Fixed Assets related data and reports directly to the management in Italy, presenting the output via telephone conferences - Performing bookings to subledger and general ledger using SAP - Clearing of intransit accounts - Performing monthly intransit reconciliations as well as ledger / subledger reconciliations - Monthly, quarterly and year end reportin

Contact person for customer-problem resolving issues related to India, Saudi-Arabia and Cuba  Planing of fair exhibitions and be a part of the team on location responsible for customer-care  Working on export-financing projects including consultations and negotiations with international banks  Local supervision of visitors (customers and clients)  Assistance in improving of process-performance related to the finance division  Developing incentive-models for employee-compensation packages

 Liaise with the internal auditing team to ensure SOX-compliance  Allocation of costs to the proper departments  Preparing of presentations for the CFO  Management of suppliers requests concerning payment issues as well as cooperation with the European headquarters in the Netherlands concerning suppliers and costumers unresolved problems  Working on the annual report and balance-sheet (US-GAAP, German-GAAP as well as Austrian-GAAP)  Be the contact person for the European headquarters concerning genera

International Accounting Auditing