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Lumentum Switzerland AG
- Accounting Manager
2015 - maintenant
Responsible for implementing the outsourcing of all financial, accounting and payroll aspects of the Swiss subsidiary to external partners and a shared service center in China.
Statutory accounts with adjustments from US-Gaap to Swiss Gaap. Local audit. VAT.
Systems enhancements for the Swiss entity. Problem solving for Oracle R11 to R12 migration issues.
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Interoute Managed Services Switzerland Sarl
- Financial Controller<
2006 - 2015
Responsible for all of the financial and accounting aspects of the Swiss subsidiaries, reporting to the Regional Finance Director. Key tasks:
- Supervising the accounting team (AP/AR/GL/FA/billing), timely reporting for financial and statutory accounts (UK Gaap), leading audits, budgeting, treasury, some payroll activities, VAT,handling complex accounting (i.e. financial leases), etc.
- Management reporting, controlling and business analysis (revenue analysis, forecasting models, complex computations from different systems for cost analysis and control), support to sales or engineering departments on key customers or suppliers.
- Driving force for process changes and systems, use of Oracle financials, Hyperion
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PSI Net Europe / PSI Net Switzerland (Vianetworks)
- Reporting Analyst/Consolidation manager/Business Analyst
2004 - 2006
Group finance specialist leading some of the monthly headquarters closing activities, in particular the accounts consolidation under US-Gaap, UK-Gaap, and I.A.S, the reporting activity (PL, BS, cash flows, payroll,) on Cognos and Excel, budgeting, revenue forecasting, complex foreign currencies issue solving, and part of the audits (inter-company, transfer pricing, etc).. Specific analytical tasks for intercompany transactions. Temporary replacements of local finance managers.
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PSI Net Europe
- Business Unit Controller/Consolidation analyst
2001 - 2004
Management accounts reporting during transition phase. Due diligence activities.
Heavy involvement in implementation of several new systems and tools. For example: 1) Data transfer between different accounting systems, 2) Conception of a reporting for consolidated accounts based on the integration between an Oracle data basis and Excel sheets, 2) analytical reporting by business units 3) Set up of a system for transfer-pricing based on product standard costing, 4) process for forecasting and variance analysis, 5) several other projects including computation and approval of all bonuses and sales commissions for European Employees, contribution to developments of the Purchase Order System, etc.
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PSINet Europe, PSINet Switzerland, Vianetworks, Interoute
- Financial Controller, Reporting Analyst/Consolidation manager/Analyst, Controller
2001 - 2015
Above 3 jobs belongs to the same employment contract. It is the company that changed name while it has been acquired 3 times, and the role within the company which has changed
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Brazil, Peru, Cuba, Mexico
- Sabbatical year
2000 - 2001
Travelling
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RAMCO Systems, Basel
- Project and Product manager ERP
1996 - 2000
Project and Product manager » for the financial modules (AP/AR/GL and controlling) of the Enterprise-Ressources-Planning Software Ramco Marshal, a competitor of SAP based in India.
In particular: specification of the functionalities required for VAT computation in European countries.
Feb. 98 till June 2000 : Project leader Finance of the ERP system implementation for SWATCH AG (Process analysis, modelisation, training of users, pilot instalation, ...) focus on solution finding for finance, purchasing and selling processes, and specification to programming team in the frame of the project
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CIBA-GEIGY, Basel
- Group Controller
1990 - 1996
Group Controller in different Planning and Control departments
-Strategic and operational Controlling of the subsidiaries; definition of objectives at product and entity level; analysis of cross-entity product costs, participation to various organizational and EDP projects; preparing and conducting courses; minutes and presentation of stragegic information for management meetings; organization of workshops in the subsidiaries together with the management of headquarters; etc.
