Controller
Strategist
Troubleshooter
Coach
Hello!
My name is Richard.
My passion is to take people to the next level!
I also love guiding teams towards a shared future, from discussion to collaboration.
Transparent and compassionate, that is my way of creating added value!
Which solutions are you looking for?
Finance & Control
As Project Controller or Plant Controller improving the collaboration with the business partners, but also simplifying routines, performance analysis of the portfolio, or presenting renewed insights into the business model.
Strategic Planning
Organising and constructing the most important decision for any organisation: Where and how to deploy people & resources most effectively, and how much that costs! Smart prioritising of Opex/Capex will make the real value drivers visible, also within the accounting!
Management Intervention
As Troubleshooter, relieve and motivate the team to cope with changes that (seriously) disrupt the company’s results, incl. (re)defining the strategic goals with weekly smart monitoring of KPI’s.
Existential Coaching
For people who do not shy away from self-reflection yet seek answers to the ‘why’ question or feel they lost space and want to be more authentic again!
Where does my experience come from?
Within a turbulent economy, constantly changing legislation and widely varying business cultures, you learn that before strategy or financial results, it is the people that bring it about!
As a business strategist, I gained a lot of practical experience in Brazil. For more than 10 years, I helped several companies making the necessary adjustments.
In the Netherlands, I advanced firmly into corporate governance and finance business partnering.
I use my experience of managing real business risks and crises as an art to translate strategy into daily practice. You want decisions to be supported with factual insights from the organisation, and redesigning activities or processes should create value.
Tips & Tricks
Central to FP&A is monitoring the roll-out of the strategy through a rolling forecast. Below are various applications and influences.
Rolling Forecast – Case Study: A Review of Management
A rolling forecast is not only about seeing the future unravel, but a constant evaluation of the management team…
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Rolling Forecast: 3 Cases towards Agility
By presenting 3 different cases, you will get an idea of the range of possibilities a Rolling Forecast can have for the business…
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How To Improve The Long-Range Forecast
Financials need to look beyond current events and steer away from business plans based on extrapolation…
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How Much Bias Is in Your Forecast?
Sometimes, what you forecast needs to change dramatically, due to e.g. market disruption or internal changes…
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Breakpoints in Forecasting
The aim here is to create deeper awareness of ‘forecasting’ by presenting some structural elements…
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Finance has the responsibility to support management with executing the strategy. It is the people and processes that determine the impact on the financial results.
Strategic Planning is about ‘Talks & Figures’
To avoid drilling deeper and still find nothing, reverse engineering the strategic role of the financial will show another route to be of value…
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Talking to Marketing… about spend!
For most marketing managers doing the annual budget is a bore or waste of time…
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Going Local and Winning Support using KPI’s
Working at a local business unit often doesn’t give you access to sophisticated corporate systems to monitor performance…
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The 3-page Change Plan
It only takes three pages to design a process and identify new roles and responsibilities…
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Capital Allocation & Internal Funding
FP&A specialists can hold a key-position when it comes to facilitating the process of capital allocation…
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Finance has a fiduciary role: preserving the organisation’s value. As such, you need to understand the value proposition ‘front to back’.
Corporate Insight: The Monthly Narrative
Depending on the corporate structure, there are different narrative reports, each with a different focus…
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Understanding Value Is a Calculated Business!
Focussing on ‘value creation’ is sometimes considered ‘rocket science’…
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How to Leverage FP&A into the Business
If there is no financial planning, there is no financial control… FP&A’s fiduciary duty is to secure the realised value…
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Financial Planning: Sources of Soft Date
Soft data needs to be collected and incorporated. The big question is, what and where is that data?…
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Risks: How to Make Risk Appetite Visible?
How is risk mapped? Where is this risk appetite? And, how to manage it?…
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