Allan Karim

Head of Financial Management

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Ismaning, Germany

Experience

Aug 2022 - Present
3 years 5 months
Germany

Head of Financial Management

  • Financial management in a private equity transaction as part of the company's operational leadership.
  • Operational and strategic responsibility for construction cost control for the private equity's Europe-wide real estate projects.
  • Budget and cost planning.
  • Weekly cash flow planning.
  • Managing processes in accounting and payments.
  • Overall leadership and responsibility for controlling.
  • Forecasting and reporting.
  • Technologies: Microsoft Excel, SAP R3.
Aug 2022 - Present
3 years 5 months
Ismaning, Germany

Project Manager

Freelance Project Manager

  • Carrying out projects for various clients across a range of industries.
Apr 2022 - Jul 2022
4 months
Germany

Product Owner

  • Specifying requirements and optimizing processes for a new ERP platform for dealers as part of order management.
  • Providing expert advice on implementing the dealer management platform in finance, sales, supply chain, and operations.
  • Defining stakeholders and developing the product vision.
  • Release planning.
  • Managing iterations and sprint reviews.
  • Backlog management.
  • Conducting workshops for feature specification.
  • Capturing key functional and non-functional requirements.
  • Technologies: JIRA, Confluence, Azure DevOps, MS Office Suite, Figma.
Dec 2021 - Apr 2022
5 months
Germany

Project Lead

  • In-depth analysis as part of a software due diligence of two technical mobility platforms to support an M&A transaction.
  • Presenting possible transition scenarios.
  • Technical evaluation of both assets as a basis for the M&A deal.
  • Budget and cost planning.
  • Identifying and assessing risks for each software architecture.
  • Economic and technical evaluation of both software solutions.
  • Analysis of market trends and stakeholders.
  • Technologies: Microsoft Excel, Confluence.
Jun 2021 - Mar 2022
10 months
Germany

Test Manager

  • Leading preparation and coordination of process and test management during the core banking system migration.
  • Executing test cases in close collaboration with the new system's service provider.
  • Defining bank-specific processes (back office, private banking, asset management).
  • Optimizing automated processes for verifying customer data to meet KYC requirements.
  • Developing and creating test concepts.
  • Defining and controlling test activities.
  • Leading and managing the test team.
  • Documenting and preparing results.
  • Process analysis and optimization.
  • Monitoring quality goals.
  • Technologies: JIRA, Tambas, kdPrevent, MS Excel.
May 2021 - Sep 2022
1 year 5 months
Ismaning, Germany

IT Project Manager Finance/Banking & Senior Consultant Finance/Banking

Reqpool Deutschland GmbH

  • Implementation of IT projects in the banking and finance sector.
  • Managing software requirements (requirements engineering) and process optimization.
  • Coordinating project workflows and planning.
  • Developing IT concepts for digitalization and software replacement.
  • Supporting software rollout and acceptance processes.
  • Assisting management with strategic alignment.
  • Taking on software process engineering for project implementation.
Feb 2021 - Mar 2021
2 months
Germany

Auditor

  • Conducting a proper audit of the migration of the inventory management system.
  • Reviewing project documentation, logging, test management, release procedures, data migration, and acceptance by specialist departments.
  • Reviewing the technical system details of the migration.
  • Risk assessment according to IDW PS 850.
  • Preparing the audit report as a decision-making basis for the board.
  • Technologies: MS Excel.
Nov 2020 - Apr 2021
6 months
Germany

Consultant

  • Analyzing and restructuring internal workflow management.
  • Implementing financial analyses to secure short- and medium-term liquidity.
  • Analyzing and evaluating annual financial statements.
  • Assessing and classifying the current financial situation.
  • Developing measures for immediate impact.
  • Technologies: MS Excel, MS Navision.
Jun 2020 - Mar 2021
10 months
Germany

Auditor

  • Project-related audit of the migration from SAP BYD to S/4 HANA.
  • Ensuring the proper migration of the financial accounting system.
  • Reviewing project documentation, logging, test management, release procedures, data migration, and acceptance.
  • Reviewing the technical system details of the migration.
  • Reviewing change management in the context of the migration.
  • Risk assessment according to IDW PS 850.
  • Technologies: Microsoft Excel, Audicon IDEA, SAP BYD, SAP S/4HANA.
Sep 2019 - Apr 2021
1 year 8 months
Germany

(IT-) Audit Consultant

BDO Wirtschaftsprüfungsgesellschaft AG

  • Supporting data analyses for annual financial statements.
  • Auditing ERP systems and IT-based financial processes.
  • Auditing IT systems and standards with regard to MaRisk, BAIT, etc.
  • Project-related audit of Identity and Access Management (IAM) including authorization concepts.
  • Process modeling and analysis.
  • Use of tools such as Microsoft Dynamics, SAP R3, S4/HANA, Tambas, MS Visio.
Jan 2019 - Dec 2021
3 years
Germany

Data Analyst

  • Performing data analyses as part of year-end audits in various projects.
  • Preparing data from different sources like SAP, S4/HANA, Navision.
  • Reviewing data sets and determining reconciliation totals.
  • Validating general ledger values.
  • Merging individual data sets.
  • Analyzing data consistency and applying statistical analysis methods.
  • Auditing according to standards: IDW PS 330, IDW PS 261, IDW PS 880, IDW PS 850, BAIT, VAIT, COBIT.
  • Technologies: Microsoft Excel, Audicon IDEA, Qlik Sense.
Oct 2018 - Jun 2019
9 months
Germany

Co-Founder

Levado Media

  • Independently developed chatbots for sole proprietorships and small businesses.
  • Business development and technical implementation.
  • Managing and controlling lead generation.
  • Process automation.
Oct 2018 - Jan 2019
4 months
Germany

Consultant/Developer

  • Designing and implementing a Facebook chatbot to generate qualified leads for private real estate marketing.
  • Adapting the chatbot to existing real estate agent systems.
  • Analyzing, evaluating, and classifying the chatbot for the current strategy.
  • Process analysis of existing sales processes.
  • Designing and customizing based on a standard solution.
  • Technologies: Microsoft Excel, Facebook Ads Manager, Zapier, Google Sheets.
Jun 2017 - Sep 2018
1 year 4 months
Germany

Co-Founder

Mcubus

  • Startup in the e-commerce and 3D printing sector.
  • Business development, marketing, and sales.
  • Controlling and planning.

Skills

  • Microsoft Office
  • Microsoft Project
  • Ms Rap-s, R, S3, Stata, Spss, Matlab (Examples)
  • Audicon Idea
  • Qlik Sense
  • Microsoft Excel
  • Jira
  • Confluence
  • Microsoft Devops
  • Azure Devops
  • Figma
  • Sap Byd
  • Sap S/4hana
  • Html
  • Css
  • Latex
  • Python
  • Javascript
  • Sql
  • Linux
  • Macos
  • Windows
  • Audit
  • Controlling
  • Business Development
  • Digitalization
  • Product Owner
  • Test Management
  • Project Leadership
  • Business Analyst
  • Process Optimization/modeling
  • Requirements Engineering

Languages

German
Native
English
Advanced
French
Advanced
Kurdish
Advanced

Education

Sep 2014 - May 2017

Christian-Albrechts University of Kiel

M.Sc. Industrial Engineering · Industrial Engineering · Kiel, Germany

Sep 2010 - Aug 2014

Christian-Albrechts University of Kiel

B.Sc. Industrial Engineering · Industrial Engineering · Kiel, Germany

Certifications & licenses

ITIL v4 Foundation

SAP FI/CO/MM

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