Anocha Taejiw

Boutique consulting firms for Interim & turnaround management as well as angel investments.

Interim Manager specialized in PMO, FP&A and Cash/NWC Management since 2011 (AT Consulting).

The full CV including a comprehensive list of assignments and references is available on request.

Function: Interim Head of FP&A & PMO

• Reporting of B/S (balance sheet) and P/L (profit and loss) by channel and segments
• Ensure appropriate recognition of revenue and costs
• Develop and implement analyses and reports on business performance
• Ownership of monthly performance, budget, forecast, cost control, balance sheet reviews, working capital management and 13 weeks cash forecast
• Create and ensure quality, accuracy and integrity of information of monthly reporting
• Develop appropriate internal controls and improve financial procedures
• Integrate initiative plan, aligned with Business Transformation and other transformation initiatives
• Participates in Group FP&A Finance improvement projects
• Business Partner of the country organization and provide analytics and reports for the Management Board
• Work closely and coordinate with Country Management and Finance Team in close alignment with Corporate FP&A
• Support ad-hoc project requests

Function: Gap Management

• Member of the local management team with focus on shaping local corporate and finance strategy
• Finance Business Partner for all departments with functional leadership
• Monitor compliance with business processes and standards
• Compile and Review monthly reporting packages
• Analysis of KPI’s for corporate group, local management and business partners
• Planning and controlling of sales- and marketing budgets in coordination with the responsible divisions
• Analysing commercial data in order to derive recommendations for strategic development of clients-, product- and innovation-portfolio
• Defining and implementing new processes and systems in financial accounting and controlling including its continuous development
• Ensuring internal process specifications
• Preparing documentations

IT systems:

• SAP FI / CO / BW / BPC
• MicroStrategy Analytics
• MS Office

Function: Gap Management

Key Activities:

• Monitoring financial results and commenting the consolidated monthly reports
• Managing plan/actual values and budgets, in order to carry out target/actual comparisons
• Conducting variance analysis on corporate, divisional and product level
• Modelling of business performance and its impact on P/L accounts
• Monitoring sales activities and efficiency
• Providing advice on sales efficiency enhancement measures, including implementation
• Supporting sales department with profitability analysis
• Evaluation of stocks for month-end closing
• Responsible for marketing & sales standard reports for local management

Selected accomplishment:

• Standardization of D-A-CH Sales Report
• Improvement of KPI Report & Sales Cockpit

IT systems:

• SAP FI / CO / BW / BPC
• MicroStrategy Analytics
• MS Office

Function: Project Lead

Key Activities:

• Managing the cost center planning process
• Consolidation of cross-departmental cost planning
• Conducting budget- and forecast-reports
• Establishment and further development of the Treasury Department
• Management and optimisation of company's payment flows
• Development of an excel-based controlling cockpit
• Overall responsibility of the rolling financial planning
• Steering company-wide cash management
• Controlling of account payables and account receivables
• Optimization of Cash-to-Cash Cycle
• Optimization of company-wide controlling processes
• Conceptual and content improvement of reportings
• Implementation of a comparative cost analysis and deviation analysis
• Implementation of contract-based analysis and new KPIs
• Development of management report
• Contact person for local management team
• Ensuring business supports

Selected accomplishment:

• Improvement of Cash-to-Cash Cycle Time by 30%
• Implementation of direct costing method
• Implementation of cost center reports

IT systems:

• MS Office
• DATEV
• SAP FI / CO

Function: Gap Management

Key Activities:

• Preparing Mid-Term-Plan (MTP) and budget allocation
• Modeling and commenting business trends and scenarios
• Conducting risk analysis to improve its effects on MTP
• Calculation of COGS, discounts, premiums and incentives
• Revaluation of Last Estimates and budgets of parallel trades
• Analyzing and updating weekly sales in SAP BW
• Conducting Rolling Estimates of CGUs
• Make-or-buy analysis respective process improvement and cost reduction
• ad hoc analysis

IT systems:

• SAP FI / CO / BW
• BEx Analyzer
• MS Office

Function: Gap Management

Key Activities:

• Prepare weekly and monthly financial statements to the Executive Board and Board of Directors
• Prepare profit and loss statements and management accounting reports
• Analyze and review budgets and expenditures of different business units
• Analyze revenue and expenditure trends to ensure budget control
• Compiling target/actual analysis and cash flow analysis
• Performance evaluation and analysis

Selected accomplishments:

• New set up of cost calculation and cost center structure
• Improving workflow of the reporting process and data selections

IT systems:

• Cognos TM1
• SAP FI / CO
• MS Office
• iTREXS³
• CP Suite

Project Role: Project Specialist

Key Activities:

• Conducting data analysis and evaluating sales data
• Implementing new data structure and data analysis model
• Analyzing payment data to improve risk of default on receivables
• Drawing up a detailed implementation plan of new data modeling
• Preparing project schedules regarding budget and milestones
• Implementing a new score metrics and statistics
• Integrating an automated risk and claim management

Selected Accomplishment:

• Reducing payment default by more than 15% by improving fraud management
• Decreasing the probability of default by more than 20% after implementing a new monitoring system

IT Systems:

• Oracle ERP
• MS Office
• Adobe Analytics
• N-AVS