John Schram

Financial Consultant | Project Manager | Change Management Expert | Business Process Improvement Professional

• Multiple roles as Product Owner and Scrum Master, leading and improving the Agile structure around accounting and reporting processes. • Responsible for setting up Agile meeting structure and Kanban board / implementation of Snow. • Business manager off-shoring, covering full project life cycle. • Assessing business processes and making measured improvements, including business process re-engineering. • Coordination of Innovation and start-ups. • Supporting in coordination of Annual Reports

• Led and improved IT business planning and reporting processes through Agile, including setting up a new analysis of financial results and re-design of monthly presentation packs based on ESSBASE (Oracle). • Responsible for IT Budget Control (> € 150mln Baseline and Client/Discretionary Change) and supporting managers for the Global IT Function worldwide. • Liaised with their functional senior business leaders to understand and advise on opportunities relating to driving business performance.

Developing and participating in business propositions

• Managed the Operational Readiness and successfully completed ‘Project Oval’, creating a new DB Finance platform to merge the activities of the N.V with the AG Netherlands Branch, which was the final part of the Erasmus programme. • Owned and managed the project plan. • Prepared test plans and performed functional testing and analysed defects in collaboration with IT teams and facilitated User Acceptance Testing (UAT). • Acted as overall Audit Manager to manage annual final report

• Managed the Interest Project at a Group level • Successfully increased the quality of internal risk reporting and external reporting for collaterals, guarantees, off-setting and past due, ensuring accurate and reliable data. • Designed and implemented integrated policies and prepared annual financial statements.

Development of new business propositions in South-East Asia

• Assessed and advised on setup of financial framework, evaluated deliverables and advised on staffing capabilities. • Coached the Finance Manager on behavioural skills, in order to develop a greater sense of the interpersonal communication and organisational behaviour.

• Successfully completed implementation of new DB Finance Platform as part of the Erasmus programme. • Challenged and redesigned more than 100 finance processes for day-1 readiness and organized the smooth handover from Change-the-bank to Run-the-bank finance teams and to the off-shore locations. • Facilitated User Acceptance Testing (UAT), prepared test plans and co-ordinated user acceptance testing, including training on changed processes and new applications and managed the migration of data.

• Managed the implementation of ex-Fortis reporting systems and achieved a smooth integration of the Intercompany process within ABN Amro. • Developed the setup of a reconciliation process between Cartesis Magnitude and Intellimatch for Intercompany (Balance Sheet, P&L and Off-balance). • Designed and implemented integrated policies, procedures and guidelines. • Coordinated the completeness of internal controls and monthly management reporting packs.

• Managed the Internal Settlements (Cost charging mechanism) and Intercompany (P&L and Balance Sheet) within the project of separation from the Consortium Partners (RBS and Santander). • Managed the segregation of RBS data and coordinated the monthly reconciliation process for Intercompany (Balance Sheet, P&L and Off-balance). • Developed a framework including detailed processes, guidelines and management reporting in order to operate “standalone” and prepare for the integration with Fortis Bank.

• Lead the business planning processes for 2010 (including rolling estimates) and detailed budgeting. • Completed the analysis of financial results (income statement and balance sheet) and monthly presentation packs. • Managed the quarterly closing and ensured timely, accurate and complete results reporting.

• Lead the business planning processes (including rolling estimates) and detailed budgeting. • Completed the analysis of financial results and monthly presentation packs including internal controls. • Achieved as project manager the migration of FP&A activities to Shell SSC Chennai. • Managed the implementation of a new finance system worldwide. • Acted as project manager for the implementation of a new Expense Management System and a new Global Corporate Credit card.

• Interim Team lead International Reporting, Stahl International B.V (Waalwijk, NL) • Interim Senior Controlling Analyst, BU Consumers, Schiphol Airport N.V. (Hoofddorp, NL) • Interim Senior Controling Analyst, Waterboard Delfland (Delft, NL)

• Post-Master program for Executive Master of Finance and Control (Graduated as Executive Master of Finance and Control / Register Controller).

Major in Accounting