Interim CIO, CFO, CEO | Project Manager | Process Analyst | BI Developer

Head of Controlling, HR, Accounting & Legal

Project Manager in ERP Projects Microsoft D365 | Talent | CE (CRM) Presales

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%.

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.

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

Trainee in banking / sales & back office