Günther Lehner
Senior Manager
Experience
Senior Manager
WTS Digital GmbH
- Built and led the center of excellence for MS Office-based tools
- Conceived, designed and developed custom Excel VBA solutions
- Product Owner responsibilities
- Designed, managed and executed data migrations
Managing Partner
Laila Mahfouz & Günther Lehner KULTURGUTLEBEN GbR
- Company management
- Program planning
- Marketing
- Accounting
Freelancer
431verstaerker, Günther Lehner
- Systemic thinker: idea creation, idea refinement, modern court jester, versatile creative mind
- Conceiving, designing and developing custom Excel VBA solutions, optionally using a self-built application framework
- VBA.Flow(): training & sparring for Excel VBA developers for professional, object-oriented development with the best possible avoidance of technical debt
- What the Flow?!: life-system support in areas of (self)leadership, (self)management, (collective) proactive self-evolution, resilience and life happiness
Manager Accounting Advisory Services, Authorized Signatory
KPMG AG Wirtschaftsprüfungsgesellschaft (Hamburg branch)
- Participated in and led advisory projects related to Quality Close and Accounting Support services
- Developed software tools as part of the projects (MS Access, MS Excel – including VBA)
- Built and led a core competency team for developing and maintaining these tools
- Regularly attended internal meetings, especially the Quality Close Roundtable and management meetings
Head of Administration and Finance, Authorized Representative, Member of Management Board
Nilfisk-Advance GmbH
- Disciplinary and professional leadership of 11 employees
- Overall responsibility for external and internal accounting, including monthly reporting under IFRS
- Coordination of budgeting and forecasting processes
- Point of contact for authorities, auditors and lawyers
- Stock management
- Accounts receivable management
- Regular participation in meetings with the Group Executive Board, presenting financials
- Leading the in-house customer service and sales support
- Involvement in product pricing
- Participation in the management board
Head of Financial Accounting, Authorized Signatory
DaimlerChrysler Financial Services Austria GmbH
- Leading the day-to-day accounting
- Supervising two employees
- Capitalizing leased assets and managing fixed assets of around 13,000 items under HGB and US GAAP
- Capitalizing and posting hire-purchase contracts
- Preparing monthly, quarterly and annual financial statements under HGB
- Gathering data for the US GAAP reconciliation
- Handling all payment transactions, including operational management of refinancing lines
- Calculating all taxes and duties, preparing and settling the tax returns
- Daily determination and internal reporting of refinancing needs, including various financial analyses
Group Controller
MAN Roland CEE Gruppe
- Authority to direct all controlling and accounting staff at the subsidiaries
- Overall responsibility for external and internal accounting of the sub-group, including monthly management reporting (including consolidation), quarterly reporting, and annual financial statements under local GAAP and IFRS
- Coordinating annual financial audits
- Primary contact for finance, accounting and controlling within the group
- Managing all commercial matters that could not be handled locally by the subsidiaries
- Regularly taking on special tasks of various kinds on behalf of the board
Senior Audit Assistant
Deloitte & Touche Wirtschaftstreuhand GmbH
- Annual audit (single-entity and consolidated financial statements) under HGB, IFRS and US GAAP
- Leading smaller audit projects
- Financial Due Diligence Reviews
- Business valuation reports
- Preparation of consolidated financial statements
- Coordinating the audit of consolidated financial statements
Industries Experience
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Experienced in Information Technology (15.5 years), Professional Services (10.5 years), Arts and Crafts (6.5 years), Manufacturing (2.5 years), and Banking and Finance (1 year).
Business Areas Experience
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Experienced in Information Technology (15.5 years), Business Intelligence (15.5 years), Accounting (12.5 years), Project Management (8 years), Marketing (6.5 years), and Operations (6.5 years).
Skills
Generalist And Polymath Background:
- Intellectually Gifted At The Highest Level, Diagnostically Confirmed On April 12, 2022 By Giftedness Diagnostician Dr. Karin Joder
- So-called "Scanner Personality" With A Strong Thirst For Knowledge And Diverse Interests, Plus The Motto "Starting Anywhere And Improving From There Since 1973"
It Skills (Excerpt):
- Ms Excel, Ms Powerpoint, Ms Outlook: Very Good
- Ms Access, Ms Word: Good
- Ms Visio, Ms Project: Basic Knowledge
- Excel Vba: Very Good
- Access Vba: Good
- Sql: Basic Knowledge
- Php: Basic Knowledge
- Python: Basic Knowledge
- Ruby: Basic Knowledge
- Ruby On Rails: Basic Knowledge
- Javascript: Basic Knowledge
- Html5, Css3: Good
Methods:
- Scrum (As Product Owner And Scrum Master)
- Okr
- Getting Things Done
- Generally Good Understanding Of And Experience With Agile Methods
Languages
Education
Karl-Franzens University Graz
Magister of Social and Economic Sciences, thesis: New approaches to financial statement auditing · Business Administration · Graz, Austria · Very good
Montanuniversität Leoben
Petroleum Engineering · Leoben, Austria
Montanuniversität Leoben
Materials Science · Leoben, Austria
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