Uitspraak
GERECHTSHOF AMSTERDAM
1.Het geding in hoger beroep
2.Feiten
I expect [appellant] to demonstrate that he can manage smoothly the country financial plans in the context of Gemini for both HT and LS in certain countries.(…)
I also expect him to develop mid term sustainable local capital structures’ en ‘
I expect [appellant] to push and challenge M&A on those discussions and to focus on the big picture(…)
also rather than only on WACC’en
‘I do expect from him more ownership and push on analysis.’ en ‘
I expect him to sell internally and drive it to the finish line’ en ‘
[appellant] is a good asset to the Corporate Finance department but there are core competencies that he needs to develop to progress been the main ones communication internally and externally and capacity to drive to the finish line projects on an autonomous basis.’.
On the FHR, despite been an expert on the topic, I believe his output did not stand at the quality required for Philips Corporate Finance, mainly due to lack of a flexible model which was required to adapt. I think that has been his biggest task during the year and did not fulfil the expectations.’ en ‘
Analysis needs careful attention from other team members with needed follow ups (with FP&A for example) required to be pushed by other members’ en ‘
I think that [appellant] has the willingness to fulfil expectations, however I think he has not taken the necessary ownership of key tasks required for the department like FHR and the new FHR model which was finally developed by a joint CF and FP&A team.’.
’s performance from a rating perspective is OK from a support side but lacks strategic and communication vision: model was too complex
[appellant] seems to have developed a good interaction with APAC treasurer but cannot assess anticipation on the needs at this stage.’ en ‘
[appellant] has good intention but there is a lack of key capabilities to succeed in this position: 1) ownership and 2) communication. Delivery of FHR insightful analysis was mainly driven by other team colleagues. WACC publication had some errors as detected by other colleagues which were later sorted out by [appellant] . There is also a lack of ownership which requires a lot of additional work from team. For example Rating Agencies presentation was done by line manager and on local capital structure there has been a lot of interaction’ en ‘
I think [appellant] has the energy but lacks key capabilities to succeed in leading change.’.
Your improvement is not good enough. First half of the year was characterized by your no acknowledgment of the PIP and the agreement on the objectives which led to a number of meetings between manager and HR. First half of this year there were again issues, listed in the detailed PIP file that we review every 2 weeks. In particular in corp finance team it requires interactions with many stakeholders, communication skills and drive to complete the tasks are important. Here there is a gap in your competence that should no longer be there after so many years in the job. Whilst you are trying hard on your position we see two issues: (1) attitude - the challenging times over this period were not handled in a positive and