Experience / selected work
External audit taught me rigor. Internal audit broadened my lens. Controllership made me an operator. Entrepreneurship taught me where capital and attention create value.
10+ years · Big Four · multinational companies · founder experience
Career timeline
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Internal audit, controls, risk-function and SOX-readiness assignments across financial services and multinational organisations.
Developing Microsoft Copilot agents to accelerate research, documentation, knowledge management and engagement delivery.
Why I moved
When my learning curve at PwC flattened, I chose international internal audit for wider operational exposure. COVID then interrupted a planned travel break, so I joined Kraft Heinz deliberately to understand finance from inside the business.
I moved into independent consulting to fund a growing e-commerce operation. Running both sharpened my judgement: growth only matters when the model, working capital and my attention can sustain it.
Realterm taught me property and fund accounting and informed my own real-estate investing. Once that role became too narrow, I sought cross-border IFRS reporting, transformation and management assignments.
After a long-planned travel break and a finance manager role, I returned to KPMG for complex global organisations, world-class teams and practical exposure to AI-enabled work.
Selected case studies
SK AeroSafety Group · 20+ entities
Led the post-acquisition group and entity reporting for a global aviation safety group. Converted Dutch, UK and local GAAP positions to IFRS; built the lease model from scratch; coordinated country managers; and produced the complete annual report through group audit.
Ecommerce venture
During COVID, I built an e-commerce company end to end: product research, Chinese sourcing, brand and packaging design, paid acquisition, accounting, fulfilment and customer service.
3 brands
200 SKUs at peak · 10m² storage to 3PL
By year two, storage, customer service and accounting were outsourced. But the model depended on constant trend discovery, while post-COVID demand fell and offline alternatives competed near cost. I chose to wind it down rather than chase scale without durability.
The lasting lesson was disciplined capital allocation: I redirected proceeds into Dutch real estate and focused my professional energy on higher-value finance work.
50+
properties across six European countries
70+
flights while auditing internationally
3 brands
e-commerce venture, 200 SKUs, 10m² to 3PL