Christoph Queling
Managing Partner and CEO
Experience
Managing Partner and CEO
CMC Audit GmbH Wirtschaftsprüfungsgesellschaft
- Acted as an auditor.
Audit Partner and Tax Advisor
Dr. Herberger GmbH WpG StBG
- Activities mainly as statutory auditor and tax advisor.
- Focus on tax structuring advice and preparation of financial statements for medium-sized companies.
- Consulting on digitization and optimization of national and international accounting processes, transfer pricing and reporting.
Interim Head of Accounting
Constructing-Unternehmen
- Management of accounting teams in Germany and Poland.
- Established a shared service center “International Accounting” in Poland.
- Supported national and international tax audits (including transfer pricing).
- Financial reporting according to HGB, various GAAP and IFRS (projects: implementation of IFRS 15 and 16).
- Preparation of monthly financial statements, forecasts, sales flashes, and budgets under IFRS.
- National and international tax filings (including permanent establishments and foreign subsidiaries).
- Process optimization and digitization, deployment of new software.
- Coordination and collaboration with controlling, budgeting, and reporting.
- Development and implementation of international tax compliance.
Start-up Consultant and Interim
Runtime
- Supported the implementation of SAP (accounting and reporting).
- Preparation of financial statements (fast close).
- Assistance with tax and corporate law issues.
- Commercial consulting and support for start-ups.
Branch Manager / Interim Manager
ETL AG
- Conducted statutory annual audits and special audits.
- Activities in due diligence, M&A and after-merger transactions.
- After Merger project (3 years) for a German-acquired construction company.
- Implementation of SAP, restructuring of accounting and reporting (HGB and IFRS).
- Process development and preparation of forecast financial statements.
- Support during tax audits and tax filings.
Independent Consultant for Digitization and ERP
Freiberuflich
- Consulting on digitization and ERP for medium-sized businesses.
- Structuring advice on tax matters.
Auditor
actis ag, Wirtschaftsprüfungsgesellschaft
- Led audits and advisory services for an international meat and sausage group.
- Business analyses and consulting.
- Expert opinions on the restructuring and merger of a federally owned group.
- Preparation of annual financial statements for medium-sized companies and related tax returns.
Independent Auditor and Tax Structuring Consultant
Freiberuflich
- Project-based auditing and tax structuring consulting for medium-sized companies.
- Engagements for own mandates and as a consultant for a small private equity firm.
Interim CFO
Private Equity-Unternehmen
- Managed commercial organization of the parent company and subsidiaries.
- Advised executives on mergers and acquisitions.
- Business valuations, finance and tax due diligence, contract drafting.
- Development of strategic business concepts and corporate planning.
- Led finance and accounting, liquidity management and controlling departments.
- Implemented and executed IT projects.
- Point of contact for lawyers, banks and external financial service providers.
Self-employed Tax Advisor and Interim Manager
Selbstständig
- Part-time work in a small own firm for family & friends.
- Conducted company valuation reports.
- Project management in the context of a corporate transaction.
- Annual audit and tax advisory services.
- Project-based and occasional freelance work for medium-sized mandates through colleagues.
Auditor and Tax Advisor, Managing Director
WK Wirtschaftsberatungskanzlei Queling GmbH
- Performed standard audits and consulting for medium-sized companies.
- Advised the Federal Ministry of Finance and the Treuhandanstalt Berlin (1991–2002).
- Provided consulting for a leading waste management group (2002–2004).
- Consulting activities for a private investment company (2004–2010).
- Transaction services, tax structuring advice and finance management.
- Corporate law restructurings and business succession.
- Advisory board activities for a venture capital firm.
- Optimization of internal processes.
Audit and Tax Advisory Assistant, Tax Advisor, Auditor
Treuarbeit AG (Heute PWC)
- Audited and advised medium-sized and large companies.
- Conducted business valuation for a large retail group.
- Supported implementation of accounting systems, particularly SAP.
Summary
Extensive experience as a long-standing auditor and tax advisor with comprehensive support of medium-sized and large, private and public sector companies in auditing and/or consulting (excluding banks and insurance companies).
Tax declarations and structuring advice up to the design of an international trust, transfer pricing, etc.
Financial statement audits, business valuations and consulting in corporate transactions including relevant contracts for business succession and after merger services.
Head of Accounting and Tax of a large international company in Munich, contact person for auditors and banks. Preparation of monthly and annual financial statements, international reporting and consolidation (HGB and IFRS). Optimization and digitization of processes in finance and accounting; establishment of a shared service center in Poland. Responsible for national and partly international tax law and tax compliance, especially international VAT.
Development of commercial corporate areas and processes, especially in finance and accounting, budgeting, reporting & controlling, taxes. Project manager for transformation in the area of digitization/IT/AI usage in the finance environment.
Member and chairman of the Finance Committee of the Supervisory Board of Lausitzer und Mitteldeutsche Bergbau-Verwaltung GmbH, Senftenberg (federal company) from 2009 to 2014.
Languages
Education
Universität des Saarlandes
Diploma in Business Administration (Diplom-Kaufmann) · Business Administration, specializing in Auditing and Tax Law · Saarbrücken, Germany
Certifications & licenses
Auditor
Tax Advisor
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