Katarzyna G.
Regulatory Reporting Manager
Experience
Sep 2024 - Present
1 year 2 monthsRegulatory Reporting Manager
Consulting for a financial and payment services provider
- Reviewing and submitting regular reports to the Deutsche Bundesbank and BaFin (forecast, actual monthly statements, payment transactions statistics, passive participations, capital planning).
- Documenting the processes for the reports and monitoring and updating the reporting calendar according to the German Payment Services Supervision Act (ZAG).
- Coordinating with the Accounting and Controlling departments.
- Supporting regulatory approval and licensing procedures both domestically and internationally, and coordinating approval or licensing processes with third-party service providers.
- Complaint management: handling complaints using the OCM tool used in the group.
- Independently recording external ordering processes and invoice coding.
- Ongoing monitoring of regulatory requirements and banking accounting (under the German Banking Act (KWG) and IFRS).
- Developing proposals for concepts and measures to meet the reporting requirements.
- Advising on the preparation and follow-up (including minute-taking) and conducting the monthly Operations and Risk Committee and the monthly Organization Committee.
- Software: SAP S/4 HANA, Dynamics 365.
Apr 2023 - Feb 2024
11 monthsKaiserslautern, Germany
Commercial Specialist
Leibniz Institute of Composite Materials GmbH
- World-leading research institute in the field of composite materials.
- Preparing the spin-off in the area of fiber-thermoplastic composites in the EXIST research transfer project.
- Project management:
- Creating the project plan.
- Defining milestones.
- Preparing progress reports.
- Tracking project costs.
- Budget control.
- Pricing calculation.
- Developing the business plan for producing hydrogen pipelines:
- Developing the business model.
- Defining the delivery and service offerings.
- Setting up the product costing.
- Preparing profit and financial planning.
- Competition / funding programs:
- Preparing and submitting applications.
- Pitching the business idea to various committees.
- Organizational and administrative preparation of the spin-off.
- Software: Teams Planner, Obsidian.
Mar 2017 - Apr 2023
6 years 2 monthsKaiserslautern, Germany
Manager of Finance and Human Resources
ThinkParQ GmbH
- Software provider of parallel file systems in high-performance computing.
- Accounting under the German Commercial Code (HGB):
- General ledger and sub-ledgers such as accounts payable, accounts receivable, dunning, asset accounting, financial accounting, payroll accounting, and ongoing payment transactions.
- Accounts receivable management.
- Preparing annual financial statements.
- Point of contact for the tax advisor.
- Planning, controlling, and reporting:
- Budget planning, evaluations and analysis, cash flow monitoring, regular reports for management and shareholders.
- Sales - inside sales / customer support:
- Creating quotes, order confirmations, and invoices.
- Reporting to the Deutsche Bundesbank (Form Z4 for incoming and outgoing payments under the Foreign Trade and Payments Regulation (AWV)).
- Expertise in integrating and implementing payment gateways and online payment methods like PayPal and credit cards.
- Maintaining and managing license agreements.
- Implementing Weclapp (CRM system 2017):
- Research, automating the entire business process: implementing a workflow for seamless handover from quotes to order confirmations to invoices and dunning, data preparation/cleaning/import, staff training, manual creation, rollout, and system administration.
- Implementing Salesforce (CRM system 2020):
- Configuration, data preparation/cleaning/import, staff training, manual creation, rollout, and system administration.
- Implementing the HR tool (perbit):
- Research, configuration, data preparation/cleaning/import, staff training, manual creation, rollout, and system administration.
- Implementing the accounting software (Buchhaltungsbutler):
- Research, configuration, data preparation/cleaning/import, staff training, manual creation, rollout, and system administration.
- Competence in integrating payment service providers (PSPs) and banking systems to automate payment processing, collections, and invoice management.
- Human resources:
- Recruiting, contract management, master data management.
- Quality management:
- Process instructions for sales, accounting, and controlling.
- Project management:
- Introducing project management with Trello for all large projects.
- Administrative planning, organization, and monitoring of company projects.
- Software:
- Accounting: DATEV, Buchhaltungsbutler.
- ERP: weclapp.
- HR: perbit.
- CRM: Salesforce.
- Project management: Trello.
- Business analysis: Power BI.
- MS Office.
Nov 2015 - Nov 2016
1 year 1 monthKaiserslautern, Germany
Board Assistant Corporate Finance
Saitow AG
- Manufacturing and selling e-commerce systems.
- Supporting the CEO in strategic projects:
- Documenting the business strategy in the business plan.
- Supporting M&A projects (company profiles, term sheets, review of contract terms).
- Supporting the company's digitization processes (Industry 4.0):
- Agile management.
- Introducing the project software Jira and the knowledge software Confluence and training employees.
- Controlling project progress.
- Software: project tracking with Jira, Confluence.
May 2007 - Jun 2014
7 years 2 monthsMainz, Germany
Credit Analyst in Central and Eastern Europe
Westdeutsche ImmobilienBank AG
- New business and portfolio business in commercial real estate financing with a focus on Poland (credit authority level B).
- Preparing credit proposals (analyzing appraisal reports including cash-flow modeling, market analysis, credit analysis, creditworthiness checks on borrowers).
- Reviewing developments according to standard practices (KWG, Basel III, MaRisk, SolvV, credit manual, IFRS).
- Checking loan, collateral, and syndicate agreements.
- Disbursing loans.
- Monitoring loans (construction progress monitoring).
- Validating and approving ratings.
- Software:
- SAP R/3.
- Setting up and maintaining accounts, customer master data, links in the IT system, and customizing (related to SAP R/3).
- SAP R/3 modules: Finance and Accounting (FI), Treasury and Risk Management (TRM), Real Estate Management (RE).
- Status (SAP R/3): Key user.
- Lotus Notes.
- SAP/R3 – Key user for the Treasury module for banks and Real Estate Management.
- Responsibilities as key user:
- Setting up and maintaining accounts.
- Customer master data.
- Payment transactions.
- Dunning.
- Loan monitoring.
- Country reporting.
- Account linking.
- Report configuration.
- Key user activities:
- Providing technical support to the front office and back office on application issues and conducting staff training.
Languages
Polish
NativeGerman
AdvancedEnglish
AdvancedRussian
ElementaryEducation
Sep 2001 - Jun 2006
University of Economics in Poznań
Diploma, Capital Investments and Corporate Finance Strategies (Corporate Finance) · Business Administration · Poznań, Poland
Sep 1997 - May 2001
Second Gymnasium in Konin
Abitur · Konin, Poland
Certifications & licenses
SAP S/4HANA Financial Accounting / Controlling
Deutsche Angestellten Akademie & SAP SE
SAP/R3 Key User Treasury Module for Banks, Real Estate Management
Driver's license class B
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