Allan Karim
Head of Financial Management
Experience
Aug 2022 - Present
3 years 5 monthsGermany
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 monthsIsmaning, Germany
Project Manager
Freelance Project Manager
- Carrying out projects for various clients across a range of industries.
Apr 2022 - Jul 2022
4 monthsGermany
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 monthsGermany
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 monthsGermany
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 monthsIsmaning, 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 monthsGermany
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 monthsGermany
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 monthsGermany
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 monthsGermany
(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 yearsGermany
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 monthsGermany
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 monthsGermany
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 monthsGermany
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
NativeEnglish
AdvancedFrench
AdvancedKurdish
AdvancedEducation
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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