Christoph Queling

Shareholder-Managing Director; Auditor (part-time)

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Salem, Germany

Experience

Dec 2024 - Present
1 year 2 months

Shareholder-Managing Director; Auditor (part-time)

CMC Audit GmbH Wirtschaftsprüfungsgesellschaft

Aug 2020 - Present
5 years 6 months

Auditor 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 months
Munich, 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 year
Braunschweig, 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 month

Branch 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 month
Braunschweig, 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 months

Digitalization 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 month
Saarbrücken, Germany

Auditor

actis ag Wirtschaftsprüfungsgesellschaft

  • 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 months

Auditor 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 month

Interim 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 month

Tax 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 months

Managing 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 months
Saarbrücken, 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
Native
English
Advanced
French
Elementary

Education

Oct 1979 - Apr 1985

University of Saarland

Diplom-Kaufmann, specializations in auditing and tax law · Business Administration · Saarbrücken, Germany

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