Carsten Schönberg
Interim CIO, CFO, CEO | Project Manager | Process Analyst | BI Developer
Experience
CFO
Kabs Service & Logistik (Kabs PolsterWelt)
Head of Controlling, HR, Accounting & Legal
Head of Shared Services (HR, Controlling, Accounting)
moebel.de Einrichten & Wohnen AG
Hamburg, Deutschland
Senior Project Manager (ERP)
Hitachi Solutions Europe (Germany)
Project Manager in ERP Projects Microsoft D365 | Talent | CE (CRM) Presales
Interim- & Project Manager
Carsten Schoenberg | Interim- & Projectmanagement
Assignments:
- ERP Project Manager
- BI Consultant
- CFO / CIO
- Senior Controller
- ERP & Process Consultant
Managing Director Shared Service Centre / Head of Finance Germany
Eurofins
I did lead transactional Finance for Eurofins Germany. Which means 400 Million Euros Turnover and 5000 colleagues in 100 Legal Entities.
I do this as Managing Director of a Shared Service Centre with 50 employees.
I enabled the achievement of bottom-line results by developing and implementing both financial and operations management plans for approximately 100 legal entities and 5000 employees. I maintained a trajectory of growth while avoiding obstacles arising from constantly changing demands of staff and operations across three departments. I increased staff’s performance and motivation levels of total 5o employees in three departments through three direct reports.
- Managing indirect spend and maximising savings by implementing P2P Platform (COUPA) in 70 legal entities.
- Introduced a ticket system to maximise service quality for more than 2.000 customer requests per month
- Replacing parts of an ERP system with a modern cloud solution and replacing OCR scanning of ingoing invoices and PDF (Email) utilisation for purchase orders by 50%.
Head of Finance IT Germany
Eurofins
I was the Department lead for Finance IT Germany. Leading multimillion dollar Migration and ERP rollout projects.
I was responsible for 1st level support of the ERP System with 1700 Users in Germany.
I was the lead of the internal project & process management team for Eurofins Germany (Shared Services)
I assembled, coached, deployed, and monitored high-performing team of five personnel for seamless operations. I rendered exceptional financial management advice as a consummate professional by rigorously reviewing all internal and external financial operations in Germany. I introduced workflow and project management systems to streamline day-to-day activities of SSC. I lead company’s demand management to forecast, plan, and manage the demand for products and services while conducting business analysis to deliver value to stakeholders.
- Acknowledged for completing 20 post-merger integration projects in two years, reducing the time from initiation to end from six months to two months.
- Designed a project management framework for whole company and introduced a new project management software; reduced ramp up time for migration and integration projects from weeks to 0-5 days.
- Built business intelligence tools to increase data transparency into financial and operational KPIs by 100 %.
Project Manager Finance & IT
Hermes Fulfilment GmbH member of OTTO Group
I created the business analysis to drive the main financial controlling processes.
I lead projects that shapes the operations of several thousand employees and the complete finance department. I drove projects related to IT and finance management operations under strict time and budget constraints. integrated systems/sources of information and implemented a time tracking system by establishing management information and controlling system in SAP, BI, and CATS. I expanded and optimised the creditors accounting for the e-commerce business of external customers, including Escada, LEE, Wrangler, and Adidas by using Microsoft Dynamics NAV.
- Recognised by higher management for changing and boosting overall systems and processes efficiency by transforming paper based invoice workflows into electronic workflows (SAP FI).
- Invented a complete business dashboard for account payment department controlling based on an IT/BI project.
Financial Controller
DSV
I was the financial controller for DSV Germany shared services and several business units.
I transformed the operations and reporting for all internal allocations and cross charge activities fundamentally.
I was driving sales centring and played a vital part in profit maximization activities.
I identified threats and risks associated with the shared service Centre Germany while crafting business continuity plan accordingly. Set-up financial budgets and oversaw P&L activities for administrative areas of DSV in Germany. I enforced end-to-end controls for operational compliance with set standards/policies for subsidiaries of DSV road. I calculated costs and allocated all overheads in SAP FI / CO, leading to an accurate cost calculation of products and activities in many operational areas.
- Set up a detailed full scope reporting for all financial flows between the shared service centre and all operational Business Units ad Legal Entities to support higher authorities for the decision-making process.
- Decreased time for budgeting of all German SSC SUBBU´s, departments, and cost centres by 40%.
- Reduced the time spent for preparing, executing, reporting, month-end activates, and closing in SCC from 20 days to four days by establishing several digital tools (mostly VBA based).
Finance & Treasury Specialist
Hansa Heavy Lift GmbH
I set up the Treasury department from scratch in a startup.
I invented and designed all treasury processes.
I drove the entire hedging, cash management, debt management and investment controlling for multimillion dollar projects and operations.
Acknowledged for designing all treasury related processes & organizational structures in the treasury department of a PE backed Shipping Start Up. Established operational excellence in all cash management, derivative handling & risk management processes for a fleet of ore than 20 multi purpose & heavy lift vessels. Generating multi millon dollar savings & revenues by:
- refinancing a complete fleet for natural currency hedging reasong. Creating interest payment savings of 3 Millon EUR p.a.
- Designed an Access based database for all hedging & financing activities in the company. Maximising transparency reducing all reporting time from days to minutes
- driving FX & Bunker hedging activities generating profits / savings of several millon dollars
Treasurer & Controller
Beluga Group
Beluga Group was the worlds largest provider in Heavy Lift & Project Shipping.
All kinds of Projects in Corporate Finance Restructuring Budgeting of Chartering Department Vessel Financing & Loan Admin Cash Management FX, Interest & Commodity Price & Risk Management / Hedging
Private & retail banking
KSK Walsrode
Trainee in banking / sales & back office