Commercially driven CFO with a track record of improving earnings, strengthening cash and scaling finance functions in PE-backed platforms, scale-ups and multinational consumer businesses.
Trusted by CEOs, boards and investors in situations where the business model must evolve and the numbers must move — and where finance must quickly catch up with complexity.
Erik operates best where there is both ambition and pressure: businesses that need finance to support real change – growth, integration, turnaround or building a scalable platform. He combines PE-backed operator experience with senior roles in global FMCG, specialised nutrition, hospitality and digital marketplaces.
His natural “zone” is a company between roughly €200m and €800m revenue, often multi-country and multi-entity, entering a phase of growth, integration, transformation or performance reset.
Based in the Netherlands; fluent in Dutch and English. Open to CFO and executive finance roles across Europe and internationally.
Right hand to the CFO in a complex post-merger, PE-backed environment. Strengthening Business Control & Performance across forecasting, cash visibility, cost discipline and performance management, while building team capability and supporting the implementation of NetSuite and OneStream as a scalable finance backbone.
FP&A Manager, Global Growth Controlling, Senior Global Procurement Controller and Regional Operations Controller – combining exposure to supply chain, procurement, operational performance, growth steering and global FP&A across Danone’s value chain.
Site & Supply Finance Manager, P2P Manager and Financial Analyst in a global blue-chip FMCG environment – building a solid foundation in operations finance, cost discipline, supply chain performance and core financial processes.
If you are working on a CFO search or considering how to strengthen the finance agenda for a platform, scale-up or consumer business in this range, I am happy to discuss fit, context and constraints directly.