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large Transformation and GBS Programs

Martien Ravestijn, 25+ years of international consulting experience in Finance Transformation and Multi Functional Global Business Services

Why would you work with me?
How do I bring value to you?
What can I do for you?
Impact cases
Who am I?
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What can I do for you?

Impact cases

Who am I?

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Why would you work with me?

How do I bring value to you?

Why would you work with me?

Basically, in the following situations:

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  • You are about to start, or already engaged on a (Finance) Transformation journey, and not getting the value you had anticipated
  • You are thinking about Shared Services or Global Business Services, and pondering about "captive or outsourced"
  • You want to set-up or get more benefit out of your Global Business Services organization
  • You are about to contract a Consulting firm or BPO partner (or renew a contract)
  • You are not receiving the value of your supplier as anticipated
  • You have an issue with your supplier and need remediation – fast!

How do I bring value to you?

Bringing value to your organization, in line with my values. Value based on:

WAY OF BRINGING VALUE TO YOU:

  • Support you to initiate Finance Transformation and GBS programs, whilst you stay in the "Pilot Seat" and I'll be your "Co-Pilot"
  • Get a derailed project/program back-on-track
  • Act as a bridge between the business and the 3rd party provider to ensure your goals are articulated in a way that is understood and ACCEPTED by all stakeholders
  • Devise action and mitigation to prevent or remedy failure and avoid litigation
  • Knowing what the above-mentioned parties motivates (“What makes them tick”)
  • Team-up with your legal- and other specialist teams


COMPETENCE

  • Ability to make people work together
  • Getting stakeholders on the same page
  • Solid academic background in Chemistry: Leiden University
  • Finance knowledge from Columbia University
  • Strategy from IMD Business School
  • Negotiation from Harvard University
  • Coaching from the MMS worldwide institute
  • Fluent in 4 languages

METHODOLOGIES USED:

  • Translate Vision in a pragmatic Strategy
  • Understand your goals in depth
  • Weighing the goals of all parties
  • Understand the situation you are in, in-depth (and see how Partner Value can be created)
  • A library of contracts and frameworks
  • Network of specialist around the world
  • Hard work, detail focused
  • Combine head, heart and hands

EXPERIENCE:

  • 25+ years in consulting/BPO
  • Profound insight into (Digital) Finance Transformation and Multi Functional Global Business Services
  • Led multi-cultural and multi-functional teams
  • Worked across 5 continents and lived in 3 of them
  • Partner/MD roles in: KPMG, BearingPoint, Deloitte, Genpact, EY, Accenture

What can I do for you?

Working with you and your team(s) in the following situations

EXISTING PROJECT

  • Co-lead the program/project with you, whilst you stay in the driving seat!
  • Work with you to get the value from the supplier you anticipated
  • Support your delivery team, to complete the project successfully
  • Support you and the legal team, to prepare for litigation
  • Prepare for the renewal of a Consulting or BPO contract

EVALUATING A NEW PROJECT

  • Perform a Finance Transformation / GBS Initiation assessment
  • Support you to prepare for a RFP with Consulting or BPO providers
  • Negotiate on your behalf with Consulting or BPO providers
  • Evaluate from a business perspective, the proposal that was presented to you by your envisioned transformation partner

What can’t I do for you:

Provide you with legal advise. If needed I work with your legal team to given them your perspective and the one coming from your supplier.

Impact cases

Various geographies, setting up a SSC/GBS organization, my role was:

  • Prepare feasibility studies to create a SSC / GBS
  • Prepare contracts, including clear KPIs
  • Lead the teams to implement the SSC / GBS (Finance – HR – IT – Procurement)
  • Get the team to work together, aligned and with fun
  • Stakeholder management and make them aware of their roles in the process
  • Deliver process & organizational redesign
  • Deliver Change Management
  • Deliver an efficient and effective SSC / GBS

Mexico: a Plant Maintenance Management system implementation was de-railing, my role was:

  • Understand the root-cause of under-delivery
  • Build a team of the existing consultants and ensure that they deliver on-time and aligned with the project goals
  • Re-negotiate the contract to make it balanced: to ensure a long-term beneficial relation in the interest of both parties
  • Control all deliverables before submission and ensure alignment and consistency
  • Negotiate with sub-contractors that did not deliver as contracted

Western Europe, the transition from finance processes to a BPO provider did not go as planned, my role was:

  • Understand the root-cause of the undesired situation
  • Align the team of consultants (including many contractors and sub-contractors) in how to deliver
  • Coordinate the creation of a Transition Methodology to ensure smooth future transitions
  • Work with Stakeholders to provide them with insights regarding the short-term and long-term pro’s and con’s of the BPO contract = manage their expectations
  • Show Stakeholders their role to make the project successful

Middle East: a national Healthcare system needed to be revamped, my role was:

  • Understand ALL goals of the client and the elements that were NOT wanted
  • Identify parties that could deliver the final system in cooperation
  • Brief the parties and prepare them for the meetings
  • Provide clear insight into pro’s and con’s of the envisioned system
  • Set-up contracts with multiple parties (together with legal) and ensure alignment between them
  • Create the business case for the project
  • Define the KPI’s for both the implementation and the “Business As Usual”- state afterwards
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Who Am I?

Martien Ravestijn

Seasoned Finance Transformation & GBS Consulting professional with experience in Europe, Asia, North- and South America

Headlines of my CV:

  • Led large Finance Transformation - GBS - Organizational Redesign - Change Management projects and programs
  • Managing Director at KPMG/BearingPoint (Netherlands, Argentina and Mexico)
  • Partner at Deloitte with focus on Finance Transformation and GBS
  • CEO of Genpact in The Netherlands
  • Executive Director at EY working on large GBS-deals focused on the Middle East & UK
  • Managing Director at Accenture focusing on Oil & Gas, Finance, AI and robotization
  • Director Partnerships at Cevinio, focussing on Artificial intelligence based improvement of the Account Payable and Accounts Receivable processes
  • Fluent in English, Spanish, Dutch and sufficiently fluent in German

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If you would like to know more, please send me an e-mail to the e-mail below and I will contact you.

martien.ravestijn@valuefromchange.com

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