Marco Nijsten

I support organizations in strengthening their financial performance, sharpening strategic direction, and accelerating sustainable growth. Acting as a trusted advisor to executive teams and shareholders, I bridge finance, strategy, and commercial execution to translate ambition into measurable results.

With a hands-on and pragmatic approach, I help companies improve profitability, cash flow, and operational efficiency, while building scalable business models and identifying new growth opportunities. My work typically spans both strategic advisory and execution, ensuring that plans are not only well designed but also effectively implemented.

• • Overall financial leadership and governance, including full responsibility for financial strategy, planning, reporting, and performance management

• • Strategic business partnering to the CEO and executive leadership team, translating corporate strategy into measurable financial outcomes

• • Reorganised and restructured the finance department, to improve efficiency, controls, and business partnering.

• • Capital structure, funding, and liquidity management, optimizing working capital while securing financing to support long-term investment programs.

• • Budgeting, forecasting, and cost control, ensuring margin optimization, capital efficiency, and disciplined resource allocation

• • Risk management, internal controls, and compliance, safeguarding the company's financial integrity and regulatory standing, and audits

• • Oversight of accounting, treasury, tax, and financial operations, ensuring accuracy, transparency, and timeliness of reporting.

• • Support for growth initiatives and strategic projects, including upgrading to SAP S/4HANA, capacity expansion, operational optimization, and infrastructure investments aligned with Vision

• • Enhanced profitability and performance: Orchestrated the monthly financial reporting cycle, internal and external audits, and the FP&A cycle. Proactively identified variances, implementing corrective strategies that significantly improved profitability across operational units.

• • Strategic leadership in finance: Lead the European finance team, aligning financial management with strategic and operational goals, driving both revenue growth and cost efficiency.

• • Corporate transition management: Played a critical role in navigating PAC through a significant shareholder structure transition, ensuring seamless integration while maintaining focus on commercial objectives and profitability.

• • Operational efficiency and integration: Successfully incorporated a newly acquired UK entity into our organizational framework, enhancing operational efficiency and fostering cross-functional teamwork.

• • Optimized cash flow: Refined accounts receivable management by implementing strategies that accelerated collections, improved collaboration with sales, and strengthened cash flow.