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The relationship between risk and performance improvement is an increasingly complex and central business challenge, with business performance directly connected to the recognition and effective management of risk.

Whether your focus is on business transformation or sustaining achievement, having the right advisors on your side can make all the difference.

As a director of Ernst & Young – Belgium, together with 18,000 other advisory professionals, we form one of the broadest global advisory networks of any professional organization, delivering seasoned multi-disciplinary teams that work with our clients to deliver a powerful client experience.

We understand that to achieve your potential as an organization you require services that respond to your specific issues, so we bring our broad sector experience and deep subject matter knowledge to bear in a proactive and objective way.

Our advisory professionals bring personal experience of working with major organizations to make change happen. They can help you deliver measurable and sustainable improvement in the performance of your business.

We assemble the right multi-disciplinary teams, use consistent and proven global methodologies and tools, and draw on the full breadth of our global reach, capabilities and experience to help our clients, wherever they are in the world.

Our General Risk division offer strategic and operational services that help companies around the world evaluate and enhance their risk and control functions.

Our areas or focus include:

Enterprise Risk Assessment
Risk and Control Framework Assessment
Internal Audit
Internal Control
Risk Remediation
Program Advisory Services
Contract Risk Services

As Regional Accounting Manager I was responsible for:
- Providing financial and accounting management for group of legal entities/ledgers (Belgium, Netherlands, Luxembourg, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Iceland) – 14 entities
- Control environment and underlying integrity of books and records
- Meeting all statutory compliance requirements for entities under my control
- Accurate and timely preparation of ledger - based numbers for FR&A review
- Liaising with both internal and external auditors and agreeing the timing and scope of audits
- Delivering against requirements of agreed FR&A Service Level Agreement (SLA)
- Ensuring compliance with SOX both within outsourcing partner and within OBS monitoring Controls
- Coordination of mergers, acquisitions and recapitalisations for entities under responsability
- Implementing job descriptions for my team
- Improving efficiency in relation to audits and reduction of audit lead time

Specific areas of responsibility include:
- Ensuring that all sub processes and external data feeds have successfully interfaced into the General Ledger
- Preliminary P&L and full Balance Sheet analysis per country.
- Ensure compliance with statutory, legal and tax requirements
- Primary point of contact for all entities - specific compliance queries

Management Responsibility:
- Responsible for day to day line management of in country Field Finance Managers (7 direct reports)
- Provide leadership and continuous development of outsourced GL teams (in Poland and India) for which they are responsible (5 direct reports)
- Matrix Management of Outsourced process teams in all transaction processing areas (AP, AR, CM, FA, CH etc.)