Experience
Jan 2025 - May 2025
5 months
- General and sub-ledger bookkeeping (accounts receivable, accounts payable, asset accounting, cost accounting)
- Incoming document management with Greyhound
- Optimizing open items
- DATEV Unternehmen Online
- Greyhound Docs
- Invoicefetcher, Flowwer, Buchhaltungsbutler
Apr 2024 - Sep 2024
6 months
- General and sub-ledger bookkeeping (accounts receivable, accounts payable)
- Incoming document management with ELO
- Payment proposals for accounts payable
- Managing advance payments received and final invoices
- VAT returns, reporting for third-country VAT
- ADATA financial accounting
- ELO Solution Invoice
Feb 2024 - Mar 2024
2 months
- Sparring partner for accounting staff
- Process management (recording, analyzing, optimizing, documenting work processes)
- SAP R/3 FI
- ELO Solution Invoice
May 2022 - Oct 2023
1 year 6 months
- Implementing SAP R/3 processes in the GL area in SAP S/4HANA
- Streamlining and optimizing workflows
- Process management (recording, analyzing, optimizing, documenting work processes)
- Z4 and Z5 reports, SOX reporting
- Intercompany reconciliations
- SAP R/3
- SAP S/4HANA
Nov 2021 - May 2022
7 months
- General and sub-ledger bookkeeping
- Processing and posting imported bank statements
- Direct debit for customers
- Dunning for accounts receivable
- Payment proposals for accounts payable
- Closing tasks (prepayments, provisions, updating schedules, inventory valuations, account reconciliations)
- Process management (recording, analyzing, optimizing, documenting work processes)
- SAP R/3
Jun 2021 - Oct 2021
5 months
- Process management (recording, analyzing, optimizing, documenting work processes, onboarding new staff)
- Daily general and sub-ledger work for three companies
- Payment runs for accounts payable for three companies
- VAT returns and EC sales listings for two companies
- Quarterly VAT reports for France and Poland
- Closing tasks (prepayments, provisions, account reconciliations, inventory valuations)
- Special tasks for the finance director
- J.D.Edwards (AS400)
Jun 2020 - Jun 2021
1 year 1 month
- Process management (recording, analyzing, optimizing, documenting work processes, onboarding new staff)
- Processing incoming documents (open items, forwarding to departments for review and approval, uploading to DATEV Unternehmen Online)
- Daily liquidity plan updates
- Payment runs for accounts payable
- Closing tasks (prepayments, provisions, account reconciliations, inventory valuations)
- Special tasks for the finance director
- DATEV Unternehmen Online
Jan 2020 - May 2020
5 months
- Closing tasks (prepayments, provisions, updating schedules, inventory valuations, account reconciliations)
- Process management (recording, analyzing, optimizing, documenting work processes, onboarding new staff)
- DATEV Unternehmen Online
Nov 2019 - Jan 2020
3 months
- Ongoing accounts payable bookkeeping, collaborating with purchasing via LOBO DMS workflow, invoice review
- Payment proposals
- Reconciliation of general and sub-ledger accounts, open item maintenance
- Asset accounting
- Process management (recording, analyzing, optimizing, documenting work processes, onboarding new staff)
- SAP R/3 FI
- LOBO DMS
Aug 2019 - Oct 2019
3 months
- Ongoing accounts payable bookkeeping, VERIFY workflow
- Collaboration with purchasing
- Payment proposals
- Consignment stock settlements; intercompany reconciliations
- Reviewing goods postings in the goods received/goods issued account, resolving quantity and price variances (purchase order, invoice), credit notes
- Account reviews and clarifications, verifying posted transactions
- Resolving open items (checking for duplicate postings or payments)
- Process management (recording, analyzing, optimizing, documenting work processes, onboarding new staff)
- SAP R/3
- HAP Verifier (workflow, DMS)
Jun 2019 - Aug 2019
3 months
- Ongoing sub-ledger accounts payable bookkeeping (ABAS ERP system)
- Handling complaints
- Resolving price and quantity variances
- Dunning
- Payment proposals
- Invoice review, provisions, accruals
- Process management (recording, analyzing, optimizing, documenting work processes, onboarding new staff)
- ABAS ERP
Mar 2019 - May 2019
3 months
- Ongoing general and sub-ledger bookkeeping (asset accounting, accounts receivable and payable)
- Payment proposals
- Intercompany reconciliations
- Account reviews and clarifications, verifying posted transactions
- Closing tasks (prepayments, provisions, account reconciliations, inventory valuations)
- Reviewing VAT returns and EC sales listings for accuracy and compliance
- ABAS ERP
Sep 2018 - Feb 2019
6 months
- Ongoing general and sub-ledger bookkeeping (asset accounting, accounts receivable and payable)
- Payment proposals
- Account reviews and clarifications, verifying posted transactions
- Closing tasks (prepayments, provisions, account reconciliations, inventory valuations)
- Reviewing VAT returns and EC sales listings for accuracy and compliance
- Process management (recording, analyzing, optimizing, documenting work processes, onboarding new staff)
- Creating a company-specific accounting manual
- proALPHA ERP
Nov 2017 - Sep 2018
11 months
- Client support in a large mandate ZEITGOLD (document archiving with integrated booking suggestions)
- DATEV Unternehmen Online
- DATEV Payroll
Nov 2015 - Sep 2017
1 year 11 months
- Ongoing posting of incoming payments and payment returns
- Direct debit, dunning, client support, installment plans, debt collection
- Monthly specific allowance adjustments
- Ongoing supplier invoice entry
- Payment proposals
- Credit card statements
- Managing various cash accounts
- Expense report review and booking
- Ad hoc reports for Chief Accountant and Head of Finance
- Account reconciliations for the year-end close
- SAP R/3
Jun 2015 - May 2017
2 years
- Ongoing general ledger bookkeeping (banks, cash) and sub-ledger (accounts receivable and payable)
- Payment proposals for accounts payable, direct debit for accounts receivable
- Provisions, year-end accruals, asset accounting
- Reviewing travel expense reports for internal and external staff
- Checking and posting credit card statements
- Fleet management, travel expense review and booking
- Accounting for small intercompany entities
- DKS (AS400)
- HR Works
Jan 2015 - Apr 2015
4 months
- Account reconciliations with updates to the internal accounting manual
- Supporting tax audits and financial audits
- Reviewing and recalculating provisions
- Updating accrual and provision schedules
- Verifying fixed asset schedules
- Other tasks (balance confirmations in accounts receivable and payable)
- DATEV Rechnungswesen
May 2012 - Mar 2016
3 years 11 months
- Ongoing general and sub-ledger bookkeeping
- Payment proposals
- Account reviews and clarifications, verifying posted transactions under GAAP
- Closing tasks (prepayments, provisions, account reconciliations, inventory valuations)
- Reviewing VAT returns and EC sales listings for accuracy and compliance
- SELECTLINE ERP
Oct 2010 - Dec 2014
4 years 3 months
- Ongoing general and sub-ledger bookkeeping
- Ongoing management of residential and commercial rentals
- Annual heating and utility billing
- Closing tasks (prepayments, provisions, account reconciliations)
- LEXWARE Accounting
Sep 2008 - Oct 2010
2 years 2 months
- Job application training
- Refresher course in bookkeeping for job-seeking accountants
- European Computer Driving License ECDL 4
Jan 2000 - Dec 2014
15 years
- Ongoing general and sub-ledger bookkeeping (asset accounting, accounts receivable and payable)
- Payment proposals
- Account reviews and clarifications, verifying posted transactions under GAAP
- Closing tasks (prepayments, provisions, account reconciliations, inventory valuations)
- Reviewing VAT returns and EC sales listings for accuracy and compliance
- Process management (recording, analyzing, optimizing, documenting work processes, onboarding new staff)
- Payroll accounting
- SELECTLINE ERP
- LEXWARE Payroll
Jul 1998 - Sep 2003
5 years 3 months
- Serving a fixed client base (30 companies)
- Financial accounting
- Payroll accounting, partial construction payroll
- Preparing for year-end close with the responsible closing specialist
- DATEV Rechnungswesen
- DATEV Payroll
- DATEV Construction Payroll
Jan 1996 - May 1998
2 years 5 months
- Ongoing general ledger bookkeeping (banks, cash) and sub-ledgers (accounts receivable and payable, asset accounting)
- Closing tasks (prepayments, provisions, account reconciliations)
- Collaboration with the responsible tax advisor
- SAGE CLASSIC LINE
Jul 1993 - Aug 1995
2 years 2 months
- Ongoing general ledger bookkeeping (banks, cash) and sub-ledgers (accounts receivable and payable, asset accounting)
- Payroll accounting
- Closing tasks (prepayments, provisions, account reconciliations)
- Collaboration with the responsible tax advisor
- Vehicle/leasing management
- DATEV REWE
- DATEV LODAS
Jul 1989 - Dec 2000
11 years 6 months
- Ongoing general ledger bookkeeping (banks, cash) and sub-ledgers (accounts receivable and payable, asset accounting)
- Closing tasks (prepayments, provisions, account reconciliations)
- Collaboration with the responsible tax advisor
- SOFTSYSTEM
Jan 1986 - Dec 1997
12 years
- Ongoing financial and payroll accounting for commercial businesses
- Closing tasks (prepayments, provisions, account reconciliations)
- Collaboration with the responsible tax advisor
- SOFTSYSTEM
- DATEV Rechnungswesen
- DATEV Payroll
- DATEV Construction Payroll