Christoph Queling
Shareholder-Managing Director; Auditor (part-time)
Experience
Dec 2024 - Present
1 year 2 monthsShareholder-Managing Director; Auditor (part-time)
CMC Audit GmbH Wirtschaftsprüfungsgesellschaft
Aug 2020 - Present
5 years 6 monthsAuditor and Tax Consultant (part-time, freelance)
Dr. Herberger GmbH WpG StBG
- Primarily served as auditor and tax consultant
- Tax planning advice and preparation of financial statements for medium-sized companies
- Consulting on digitalization and optimization of national and international accounting processes
- Transfer pricing and reporting
Oct 2018 - Apr 2020
1 year 7 monthsMunich, Germany
Interim Head of Accounting
International Construction Company
- Led accounting teams in Germany and Poland
- Set up an international accounting shared service center in Poland
- Supported national and international tax audits, including transfer pricing
- Accounting under HGB, various GAAP, and IFRS, with special projects implementing IFRS 15 and 16 and reporting
- Prepared monthly financial statements, forecasts, sales flash, and budgets under IFRS
- National and international tax declarations (permanent establishments and subsidiaries abroad), international VAT
- Process optimization and IT digitization, implementation of new software
- Coordination with controlling, budgeting, and reporting under IFRS
- Development and implementation of international tax compliance
Oct 2017 - Sep 2018
1 yearBraunschweig, Germany
Freelance Associate
ETL WIWAG GmbH Steuerberatungsgesellschaft
- Accounting and reporting (HGB/IFRS)
- Supported the implementation of SAP for a newly acquired subsidiary of a listed group
- Preparation of financial statements (fast close)
- Support on tax and corporate law issues
- Business consulting and start-up advice
Sep 2014 - Sep 2018
4 years 1 monthBranch Manager/Interim Manager
ETL AG
- Statutory annual audits and special audits, e.g. due diligence, M&A, and after-merger transactions
- Supported SAP rollout for accounting and reporting at a newly acquired subsidiary of a listed group
- Preparation of financial statements (fast close)
- Support on tax and corporate law issues
- Business consulting and start-up advice for a large audit/tax advisory group
Sep 2014 - Sep 2017
3 years 1 monthBraunschweig, Germany
Managing Director
ETL WIWAG GmbH Steuerberatungsgesellschaft
- Advising medium-sized companies from various industries on annual financial statements, taxes, and business management consulting
- Post-merger project for a listed group's construction company acquired in Germany, implementing SAP, restructuring accounting, and reporting (HGB and IFRS)
- Developing processes and preparing forecasts, monthly and annual financial statements
- Tax declarations and support during audits
Feb 2014 - Aug 2014
7 monthsDigitalization and ERP Consultant; Tax Structuring Advisor
Freelance work
- Project-based digitalization and ERP consulting
- Tax structuring advice for medium-sized businesses
Jan 2013 - Jan 2014
1 year 1 monthSaarbrücken, Germany
Auditor
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- Leading audits and advising an international meat and sausage group (GmbH & Co. KG)
- Business analyses and consulting
- Expert opinions on the restructuring and merger of a federal government-owned group
- Preparing annual financial statements for medium-sized companies, including related tax returns for the companies and their shareholders
Jul 2011 - Dec 2012
1 year 6 monthsAuditor and Tax Advisor (Freelancer)
Freelance work
- Project-based audits and tax structuring advice for medium-sized businesses
- Advisory services for a small private equity firm
Jun 2010 - Jun 2011
1 year 1 monthInterim CFO
Private Equity Investment Company
- Advising management on company acquisitions and sales, valuations, and finance and tax due diligence
- Preparing and conducting management meetings and shareholder assemblies
- Developing strategic concepts and financial plans in collaboration with management
- Leading finance and accounting, liquidity and financial control, (investment) controlling, and internal and external reporting (responsible for an average of 6 employees)
- Initiating and implementing related IT projects
- Planning and leading projects for corporate restructurings and operational optimizations
- Point of contact for lawyers, banks, and external financial service providers
Jan 1991 - Present
35 years 1 monthTax Advisor and Interim Manager (part-time)
Self-Employed
- Preparation of business valuation reports
- Project management for company transactions
- Annual financial statement audit and tax advice for medium-sized clients
Jan 1991 - Jun 2010
19 years 6 monthsManaging Director; Auditor and Tax Advisor
WK Wirtschaftsberatungskanzlei Queling GmbH
- Acted as auditor and tax advisor focusing on mid-sized companies, establishing the Berlin office and later in Kaiserslautern
- Extensive advisory services for the Federal Ministry of Finance (BMF) and the Berlin Trust Agency in company sales
- Advised a major waste disposal group at the finance board level on buying and selling equity stakes and carried out finance and tax due diligence
- Special advisory services for a Berlin-based private mid-market investment firm (transaction services, tax planning advice and finance leadership)
- Standard auditing and advisory services for mid-sized and small listed companies on audit, accounting and tax issues
- Business analyses, external controlling, business plans and advice on business planning and budgeting
- Set up and optimized firm-internal processes in accounting and tax consulting
- Corporate restructurings, succession planning and transaction services for company acquisitions and sales
Apr 1985 - Dec 1990
5 years 9 monthsSaarbrücken, Germany
Audit and Tax Advisory Assistant; Tax Advisor; Auditor
Treuarbeit AG (today PWC)
- Audited and advised medium-sized and large companies on accounting and tax matters
- Business valuation of a large trading group
- Assisted with the implementation of accounting systems (especially SAP) for various clients
Summary
- Auditor and tax consultant
- Extensive experience as a long-time auditor and tax advisor providing comprehensive support to medium-sized and large private and public-law companies in auditing and/or consulting (excluding banks and insurance companies)
- Tax declarations and advisory services including structuring an international trust, transfer pricing, and more
- Financial statement audits, company valuations, and consulting on corporate transactions including related contracts for succession and after-merger services
- Head of Accounting & Tax (Interim)
- Head of accounting and taxes for a large international company in Munich, primary contact for auditors and banks
- Preparation of monthly and annual financial statements, international reporting, and consolidation (HGB and IFRS)
- Optimization and digitization of finance and accounting processes; set up of a shared service center in Poland
- Responsible for national and partly international tax law and tax compliance, especially international VAT
- Management consulting
- Development of commercial business areas and processes, especially in finance and accounting, budgeting, reporting & controlling, and taxes
- Project manager for transformation in digitalization/use of IT/AI in the finance environment (e.g. purchase to pay).
Skills
- Various Erp Systems (Sap, Navision, Proalpha, Khk/sage, Bau-su), Lucanet, Ms Office Applications (All), Idea, Audicon, Datev, Etc.; It-savvy Thanks To Computer Science Knowledge Gained During Studies (3 Semesters)
- Also Common Business Software Like Ms Office, Open Office, And More
Languages
German
NativeEnglish
AdvancedFrench
ElementaryEducation
Oct 1979 - Apr 1985
University of Saarland
Diplom-Kaufmann, specializations in auditing and tax law · Business Administration · Saarbrücken, Germany
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Law
Certifications & licenses
Auditor
Tax Consultant
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