Professional Experience:
Finance Manager - GL & Reporting
- Responsible for financial closings.
- Review, audit and analysis of the HQ and consolidated offices financial results.
- Accounting/financial support and coaching to the WWF offices (Europe, Africa, Asia).
- Definition and establishment of Accounting processes and procedures (e.g. global intercompany)
- Development and maintenance of the WWF financial reports.
- Team member for the Oracle roll-out, in charge of the Chart of Account, the Oracle GL module and the accounting/financial migration.
- Swiss GAAP FER accounting framework project team member responsible for the setup of the financial reporting.
- Management, development and maintenance of the global Chart of Accounts.
- Oracle GL module and Noetix reporting tool superuser.
- Organization and providing of local and international training on accounting/finance, Oracle, reporting tools and Excel. Developed WWF International consolidation process using KPIs to monitor and evaluate performance of the countries consolidated.
GL & Consolidation Specialist WWF-Int'l
- Develop and improve WWF global consolidation process and reporting tools, using KPIs to monitor and evaluate performance of each consolidation office.
- Review and approve offices consolidation packages and consolidate data into WWF global statutory accounts through WWF Consolidation Ledger.
- Define and organize training to all consolidation offices in relation to Swiss GAAP FER and consolidation reporting package
- Act as global process owner to provide sufficient and timely support to all offices.
- Direct setting of global standards for any changes in set up / processes / reports to accommodate local legal requirements. Adapt scripts & training material accordingly.
- Play a key role in the successful roll-out of the Oracle to offices.
- Lead the implementation of new Oracle intercompany functionality.
Finance Manager in WWF China
- Led and managed a team of twenty-five professionals at the headquarters and nine field offices, including hiring, objective setting, performance management, coaching and training.
- Established and maintained accounting, financial reporting and control systems according to the standards and requirements of WWF International.
- Led the organization’s annual budgeting process under the guidance of the senior management team to ensure that the annual budget of USD 20 million were correctly allocated for conservation deliveries executed by one hundred and fifty staff across the organization; identified dependencies and possible issues through periodical financial review and recommended necessary financial adjustments to the senior management team.
- Designed, developed and implemented contract reviewing process being used to manage over 400 out-going contracts of USD 12 million annually.
- Developed projects annual audit plan based on risk assessment and conducted quarterly