Frank S. - Principal Consultant

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Remscheid, Germany

Experience

Sep 2019 - Present

6 years 1 month

Munich, Germany

Principal Consultant

Unit4 prevero GmbH

Leadership responsibility: coaching consultants and project management
Reporting line to Team Manager Professional Services
Personal strengths: customer focus, conceptual skills, problem solving, business administration
Business and technical consulting on the use and optimal adoption of Unit4 products (ERP, FP&A, HCM)
Project management in energy, healthcare, service companies and public sector
Mentoring colleagues in process and project management (FP&A bootcamp for consultants)
Sales support and organizing/running client workshops
Supporting preparation of public tender proposals
Workshops on requirements analysis & design and training delivery
Implementing cloud-based financial planning & analysis software (FP&A) with smart forecast algorithms (predictive analytics/ neural networks)
Implementing people planning & analytics software (PPA)
Quickly learning clients’ business processes and requirements
Modeling custom planning models with MOLAP tools
Unit4 products, Azure Cloud, Azure DevOps, ServiceNow
Power BI, SAP (incl. S/4HANA migration)

Jan 2017 - Aug 2019

2 years 8 months

Cologne, Germany

Director Business Intelligence and Controlling

pfm medical ag

Leadership responsibility for 6 people, signing authority / cost center responsibility
Reporting line to Management Board / Chairman
Personal strengths: leadership, stakeholder management, change management
Redesigning the traditional controlling area (group and function controlling) into a modern BI-supported business partner model
Developing and implementing a BI and controlling strategy and a framework for business performance management
Creating data- and analysis-driven concepts to optimize business processes and supporting implementation
Running strategic and operational planning and reporting by preparing key figures with BI solutions
Bridging strategic and operational planning
Roll-out of FI and HR dashboards with the new BI tool prevero
Forecasting using predictive analytics in R
Improving service quality of the controlling department
prevero, MS SQL Server BI stack, SAP NW BW, SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC)

Feb 2009 - Oct 2016

7 years 9 months

Aachen, Germany

Head of Business Intelligence Services & Projects

Grünenthal Pharma GmbH & Co. KG

Leadership for 5-7 people, signing authority / cost center responsibility
Reporting line to Senior Vice President Corporate Controlling
Personal strengths: strategic thinking, appreciative leadership, resource planning
Defining BI strategy and BI governance
Evaluating and deciding on BI data and BI ETL architecture topics
Operating and enhancing corporate BI systems
Application management to support planning and reporting processes
Data integration from SAP and non-SAP systems
Requirements and project portfolio management, and service level agreements
Project lead for building the backend (central data warehouse) of a new performance management system and a new R&D planning system
Implementing ITIL-like processes in BI structure services and introducing standardized project approaches in BI development projects
Implementing service-cost-ownership concept in BI
SAP NW BW/BO, SAP FI/CO, MS SQL Server BI stack, Cognos TM1, SharePoint, QlikView

Jun 2003 - Jan 2009

5 years 8 months

Berlin, Germany

Group Lead Internal Audit

Toll-Collect GmbH

Toll collection (public-private partnership)
Leadership of 2 team leads during start-up phase
Direct report to Management Board Quality
Personal strengths: resilience, strategic risk management, goal orientation, CISA
Auditing central and decentralized IT systems/processes and reviewing procedures against management and client requirements
Operating and re-engineering a data warehouse for monitoring data flows
Identifying and reporting key performance parameters
Preparing and evaluating monthly management report for board and consortium partners
Advising management on quality and risk situations
Writing work and process instructions for quality assurance
Securing technical approval of monitoring system by expert reviewers
Federal bonus payment for high detection rate of toll evaders
Reducing data warehouse operating costs by €1.5M
Oracle DB, SAP BusinessObjects, TOAD for Oracle, ACL audit tool, SPSS

Jul 2000 - May 2003

2 years 11 months

Mönchengladbach, Germany

Group Lead International Information Management / Group Lead Projects & Services

CC-Bank (now Santander Consumer Bank)

Leadership of 6-10 people, budget responsibility / signing authority
Direct report to Head of Organization Department
Personal strength: communication skills
Multi-project management and change management
Coordinating international reporting channels and KPI management
Evaluating a globally deployable core banking system
Implementing and rolling out MS Office products in branches for office automation; integrating optical archiving
Carrying out organizational measures as bank organization representative on the anti-money-laundering committee
Building an integrated master database during CC-Bank and AKB-Bank merger
SAS and Oracle

Jan 1997 - Dec 2000

4 years

Wuppertal, Germany

Head of Controlling Information Management

BARMER Ersatzkasse

Functional area: Finance / Controlling
Leadership responsibility of 5 direct reports and project management

Jan 1996 - Dec 1997

2 years

Cologne, Germany

EDP Coordination & Organization Staff Unit

GLOBALE Krankenversicherung (DKV Deutsche Krankenversicherung)

Functional area: EDP/IT
Reporting line: Management Board (CIO)

Jan 1993 - Dec 1995

3 years

Saarbrücken, Germany

Database (IBM) and Network Administrator

SAVAG Versicherungen (now Generali Versicherungen)

Jan 1991 - Dec 1993

3 years

Saarbrücken, Germany

Research Assistant

DFKI – German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence GmbH

Working on the WIP project: The Automatic Synthesis of Multimodal Presentations
Knowledge representation: building semantic networks

Summary

With my experience leading various consulting projects and in disciplinary leadership roles in controlling, internal audit, organization and IT, I can set the course for a successful digitalization in your functional areas.

My work focuses on optimizing decision-making processes and improving internal business processes.

This is done, for example, by introducing and expanding Business / Artificial Intelligence (BI/AI) processes & tools, implementing ERP systems, building cloud-based/on-prem data architectures, and data analysis using SAP and Microsoft tools.

I’m confident in both classic and agile project environments, especially as a project manager.