Günther Lehner
Senior Manager
Experience
Dec 2020 - Present
4 years 8 monthsMunich, Germany
Senior Manager
WTS Digital GmbH
- Established and led the competence center for MS Office–based tools
- Designed and developed custom solutions with Excel VBA
- Product owner activities
- Planned, managed, and executed data migrations
Jul 2019 - Present
6 years 1 monthMöllenbeck, Germany
Managing Partner
Laila Mahfouz & Günther Lehner KULTURGUTLEBEN GbR
- Company management
- Program design
- Marketing
- Accounting
Oct 2010 - Present
14 years 10 monthsMöllenbeck, Germany
Freelancer
431verstaerker, Günther Lehner
- Systemic thinker: idea generation, idea improvement, modern jester, versatile creative mind
- Designed and developed custom solutions with Excel VBA, possibly using a self-developed application framework
- VBA.Flow(): training & sparring for Excel VBA developers for professional object-oriented development with minimal technical debt
- What the Flow?!: life system support in (self)leadership, (self)management, (collective) proactive self-evolution, resilience, and life happiness
Jan 2008 - Sep 2010
2 years 9 monthsHamburg, Germany
Manager Accounting Advisory Services, Authorized Officer
KPMG AG Wirtschaftsprüfungsgesellschaft (NL Hamburg)
- Contributed to and led consulting projects related to Quality Close and Accounting Support services
- Developed software tools during projects (MS Access, MS Excel including VBA)
- Built and led a core competence team for development and maintenance of these tools
- Regularly attended internal meetings, especially Quality Close Roundtable and management meetings
May 2006 - Dec 2007
1 year 8 monthsBergheim, Austria
Head of Administration and Finance, Authorized Signatory, Member of Executive Board
Nilfisk-Advance GmbH
- Direct and functional leadership of 11 employees
- Full responsibility for external and internal accounting, including monthly IFRS reporting
- Coordinated budgeting and forecasting processes
- Point of contact for authorities, auditors, and lawyers
- Stock management
- Accounts receivable management
- Regularly attended meetings with the group executive board and presented financials
- Led inside sales customer service and sales support
- Participated in product pricing
- Contributed to executive management
Jun 2005 - Apr 2006
11 monthsSalzburg, Austria
Head of Financial Accounting, Authorized Signatory
DaimlerChrysler Financial Services Austria GmbH
- Managed day-to-day accounting
- Led two staff members
- Activated leasing assets and managed fixed assets (approx. 13,000 items) under HGB and US GAAP
- Activated and booked hire-purchase contracts
- Prepared monthly, quarterly, and annual financial statements under HGB
- Prepared data for US GAAP reconciliation
- Handled all payment transactions including operational management of refinancing lines
- Calculated all taxes and duties and prepared and settled returns
- Calculated and reported daily refinancing needs within the group, including various financial math analyses
Apr 2004 - Feb 2005
11 monthsVienna, Austria
Group Controller
MAN Roland CEE Gruppe
- Authority over all controlling and accounting staff of subsidiaries
- Full responsibility for external and internal accounting of the sub-group, including monthly management reporting and consolidation, quarterly reporting, and annual financial statements under local GAAP and IFRS
- Coordinated annual audits
- Primary contact for finance, accounting, and controlling within the group
- Handled all financial topics that subsidiaries could not manage locally
- Regularly took on special projects from the board
Aug 2001 - Mar 2004
2 years 8 monthsVienna, Austria
Senior Audit Assistant
Deloitte & Touche Wirtschaftstreuhand GmbH
- Annual audit of individual and consolidated financial statements under HGB, IFRS, and US GAAP
- Led smaller audit projects
- Financial due diligence reviews
- Valuation reports
- Prepared consolidated financial statements
- Coordinated audit of consolidated financial statements
Summary
- Intellectual giftedness in the field of high ability, diagnostically confirmed on April 12, 2022 by high ability diagnostician Dr. Karin Joder
- So-called “scanner personality” with great thirst for knowledge and diverse interests, motto: “Starting anywhere and improving from there since 1973”
Languages
German
NativeEnglish
Advanced Education
Mar 1996 - Nov 2001
Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz
Magister of Social and Economic Sciences, Business Administration, Controlling and Corporate Management, Auditing, Fiduciary · Business Administration · Graz, Austria
Oct 1993 - Mar 1996
Montanuniversität Leoben
Petroleum Engineering · Leoben, Austria
Oct 1992 - Jun 1993
Montanuniversität Leoben
Materials Science · Leoben, Austria
...and 2 more
Certifications & licenses
TOEIC
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