Bert Meinema

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About Bert Meinema

Strategic, client focused and innovative Finance Leader with international experience in Food, Financial services, Manufacturing and Chemicals industry. Hands-on self-starter and people manager with proven ability to (re)activate large teams and drive operations excellence to deliver quality and efficiency. I create impact by: understanding client needs, creating shared purpose, breaking down strategy into measurable actions and empowering teams to deliver in an open, trust based environment supported by technology. Expert in Financial accounting (US Gaap, IFRS and local Gaap) and service delivery in O2C, P2P and R2R with various partners and development of RPA tools. Delivered growth and transformation in- NPI's in Brasil, China and Saudi - Acquisition and restructuring scenario's in UK, Germany, France and Italy - Project execution in Risk, Treasury, Transfer-pricing, VAT, SOX, BPMS and IT - Use of quality tools like: Agile, LEAN and 6Sigma to drive client focused process improvements. Leadership experience includes: GE Breda site leader, Managing Director for GE and Tennant entities in the Netherlands and Germany, Development & recruitment lead at GE Plastics.