Finance manager | Financial controller

Finance Controller a.i.

Taken en verantwoordelijkheden

• Backfilled ESIP Finance Controller role until permanent head got hired. (4.5 months)
• Supported Head of Finance ESIP in reshaping its major Royalty Forecasting and Actual reporting area, reaching beyond ESIP finance boundaries, to fundamentally change how contracts (productions) are handled and reported across the group by Legal, Operation Companies, ESIP Finance and Consolidation Teams
• Set up an executable project plan incl. milestones and action plan to materialize the change in production master and Royalty Process in a roughly 3-month period
• Supported Forecast and Budget preparation for External and Intercompany Revenues and related Cost of Sales, Royalty calculations
• Provided Accounting guidance on Royalty accounting for various income streams
• Format expert of the biggest 3rd party Format; successfully partnered with Endemol Shine International CFO to provide a historical overview to IP owner and set a way forward in reporting
• Advised on handling Creative Network Team results from commercial and financial perspective, touching sales and legal responsibilities
• Advised the business controller on handling a sustainable departmental performance measurement model, where conflict of interests arose
• Created I/C reconciliation templates enabling the IP distributor entity to proactively align with counterparts. (multicurrency environment with roughly 30 entities involved)
• Provided guidance to ESIP finance on Withholding Tax accounting and reporting, prepared 2017 reconciliation and aligned with Tax Department on way forward
• Cleaned up backlog discovered after the previous Finance Controller resigned
• Filled a gap in Systems trainings to team about SAP BPC to enhance efficiency and effectiveness