About Gert Jan
Senior FP&A professional and interim controller with 8+ years in financial services, including 3+ years as Financial Planning & Controller at Hiscox. I help finance teams deliver clarity and control across full budget cycles, reforecast programs, and strategic finance initiatives.
I work best with insurers, financial services firms, and international businesses that need senior FP&A capability on a project or interim basis, without the overhead of a permanent hire. Having worked across Germany, the Netherlands, Portugal and Belgium, I bring both technical depth and cross-cultural stakeholder management to every engagement.
Available for remote and on-site projects. Currently based in Lisbon, Portugal.
English
Native or bilingual
Dutch
Native or bilingual
Portuguese
Fluent
German
Fluent
Can work on-site
Lisbon (up to 50km)
Experience
- Hiscox SA - GermanyFinancial Planning & ControllerBANKING AND INSURANCEMay 2022 - Today (4 years and 3 months)Munich, BY, Germany
- Preparing the entire budget and reforecast expense planning for Hiscox Germany
- Controlling of actual expenses versus budget and reforecast
- Supported the implementation of the organisational restructering of Hiscox Germany
- Supporting the Group in expense ratio reduction program
- Managing budget conversations with cost centre heads to discuss current and future plans Directly supporting the Finance Director with strategic initiatives, meeting preperations, presentations and BAU activities in operating a Finance department
- Hiscox SAFinancial Planning Junior AnalystBANKING AND INSURANCESeptember 2020 - May 2022 (1 year and 8 months)Lisbon, Portugal
- Contributed to the building of the Business Plan & Reforecasts for our European business
- Supported country Finance Manager's in delivering 3-year budget plans in Oracle
- Redesigned and streamlined processes regarding Budget & Reforecast submissions
- Control & analysis of business partners budget inputs
- Managed Quota Share reinsurance calculations & submissions
- Hiscox SAAccountant BeneluxBANKING AND INSURANCESeptember 2017 - April 2022 (4 years and 7 months)Lisbon, Portugal
- Controlled the Benelux expenses on a monthly basis against budget and reforecast
- Supervised accounts payable and treasury processes for the Benelux
- Booking of monthly accruals in line with expected costs / missing invoices
- Prepared yearly tax declaration for personnel expenses in the Netherlands & broker commissions in Belgium
- Prepared quarterly & yearly declarations to National Bank and other branch organizations in the Benelux
- Managed the delivery of a new automatic reconciliation tool as part of our Finance Tranformation Program
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Education
- Master of Science (MS)RSM Erasmus University RSM Erasmus University2012Master of Science (MS)
- Master of Science (MS)RSM Erasmus University RSM Erasmus University2010Master of Science (MS)