Günther L.

Senior Manager

Möllenbeck, Germany

Experience

Dec 2020 - Present
5 years 1 month
Munich, 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 6 months
Möllenbeck, Germany

Managing Partner

Laila Mahfouz & Günther Lehner KULTURGUTLEBEN GbR

  • Company management
  • Program design
  • Marketing
  • Accounting
Oct 2010 - Present
15 years 3 months
Möllenbeck, 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 months
Hamburg, 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 months
Bergheim, 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 months
Salzburg, 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 months
Vienna, 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 months
Vienna, 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
Native
English
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

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