Timex Group
AmsterdamFP&A / Commercial Finance
Forecasting, budgeting, management reporting, commercial performance analysis and financial decision support.
ABOUTFinance should make
Finance should make
the business easier
to understand.
I’m José Ferreira, an FP&A professional based in Amsterdam.
My experience covers commercial finance, FP&A, forecasting, budgeting, management reporting, financial control, cash-flow planning, business analysis and financial modelling.
I created Navigator Finance around a simple idea: growing companies often already have accounting, but management still lacks forward-looking financial visibility and decision support.
Navigator Finance is where I turn that experience into practical reporting systems, forecasts and financial models.
PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND
Selected experience
My experience spans commercial FP&A in consumer products, financial analysis and control in financial services, and business controlling in technology.
D2X Group
AmsterdamFinancial Analysis & Control
Budgeting, forecasting, cash-flow planning, executive reporting, financial control and finance operations.
Earlier experience
Business Controlling
Reporting, financial analysis and finance-process improvement.
Experience listed above was gained in employed roles. These organisations are not presented as Navigator Finance clients or sponsors.
HOW I THINK ABOUT FINANCIAL MODELSClear enough to understand.
Clear enough to understand.
Flexible enough to change.
A model should not become a black box. The person using it should be able to understand the assumptions, trace the calculations and see what drives the result.
- 01Business-specific drivers
- 02Transparent assumptions
- 03Understandable calculations
- 04Decision-focused outputs
- 05Automation where it genuinely saves time
BACKGROUND & TOOLS
Education
MSc FinanceTilburg University
BSc ManagementISEG, University of Lisbon
Tools
- Excel
- Power BI
- Power Query
- ChatGPT
- Claude
I work within the finance environment a business already uses, rather than forcing a new software stack.
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