Project Review Consultant

• Project review of project setup, requirements management, schedule & cost planning, cost validation and risk management
• Reporting to the CEO
• Cost transparency & planning certainty
• Recommendations for risk mitigation and optimizations

• Managed tendering and contract management for hardware maintenance services covering over 10 data centers, over 30 data rooms and more than 3,000 hardware assets
• Coordinated contract negotiations and all contractual topics, finding solutions with internal departments, legal and procurement
• Reporting to the Director of Data Center Operations
• Multi-stage evaluation of vendors and proposals and preparation of all management decisions
• Secured a five-year contract (two-digit million € volume) with over 20% savings compared to budget

• Led vendor and contract management
• Led transformation management
• Coordinated escalations according to governance
• Reporting to the Director of IT Operations
• Delivered contractually required transformation services for IT operations, including data center consolidation and two data center relocations
• Coordinated two service improvement programs
• Closed the DIS arbitration with a settlement and defended against a double-digit million € claim

• Management of tendering and contracts for an IT operations outsourcing contract (1st generation outsourcing, including employee transfer) for Data Center Infrastructure & Network Services, Application Operations Services, Workplace Services, and IT Service Management
• Coordination of contract negotiations and all contract topics, finding solutions with business units, legal, and procurement
• Definition of the retained IT organization
• Reporting to the CIO
• Multi-stage evaluation of vendors and offers, and preparation of all management decisions
• 5-year contracts (three-digit million € volume in total) with >30% savings compared to budget
• Competency profile of the IT organization and definition of the retained IT organization

• Leading the IT project office for post-merger integration
• Definition of the target IT organization
• Reporting to the Director of Transformation & Integration
• Competency profiling and definition of the target IT organization based on the IT value chain
• Reduction of IT headcount by >30%

• Leading procurement management for IT outsourcing (1st generation outsourcing), i.e. from defining the procurement scope through EU announcement, selection procedure, procurement process, contract drafting, due diligence, negotiations to contract award
• Coordinating all relevant procurement and contract issues and finding solutions with business units and legal, i.e. with in-house legal department, external procurement law, external contract law, external tax law
• Analyzing, designing and implementing the retained IT organization
• Defining and setting up transition processes for managing and controlling the transition
• Reporting to the Purchasing Director
• Timely execution of the procurement process and contract award under EU procurement law, as well as start of the transition
• Designing and implementing the retained IT organization

• Creating a unified reporting system for top management, sales and marketing by integrating financial, CRM, contract, SEO and SEM data sources (using Oracle Database Machine Exadata and OWB for ETL)
• Providing management BI dashboards and reports based on OBI EE
• Training and mobilizing stakeholders / power users to support the data warehouse expansion
• Reporting to executive management
• Timely delivery of management dashboards and decommissioning of the previous reporting systems

Key focus areas:

• Program and project management
• Tendering, contract and supplier management
• BPO and IT outsourcing
• Transition management
• Business and IT transformation management
• Reorganization and post-merger management
• CIO advisory

Responsibilities and tasks within the company:

• Finance and controlling
• IT and organization

• Interim and project management for data migration within a program to build a new CRM and billing landscape (scope: approx. 100 interfaces, approx. 7m customers)
• Budget planning, project planning and tracking, management reporting, review and approval of concepts and deliverables
• Managed the vendor for nearshore development of migration software and execution of the migration (budget approx. €20m)
• Reporting to VP of Transformation
• Customer-centric migration approach vetted by business and auditors
• Scalable, error-free migration solution

• IT project management to shorten the group closing process (Fast Close)
• Reporting to CFO
• Shortened the closing process by 70% through adapted process structures, new reporting content and the introduction of reporting tools

• Solution responsibility and marketing for the World Class Finance area
• Responsibility for offshore development of project-specific software solutions
• Leadership and disciplinary management of the "International Accounting" competence team with staff and budget responsibility (17 employees)
• Program and project management:
• Program management "Capital Market Readiness / US-GAAP" at a media company; led 8 projects and 150 team members with the goal to overhaul the entire financial reporting and business processes
• Accounting transitions to IFRS / US GAAP
• Management and development of business intelligence systems / financial portals for management reporting
• Design and implementation of data warehouses and analytical systems

• Program management and responsibility for the capital markets program made up of eight projects and 150 team members including clients, auditors, and consultants with the goal to convert accounting from German GAAP (HGB) to US-GAAP
• Reporting to executive management
• Capital market readiness according to US-GAAP

• Project management, prototyping, analysis, design, implementation, testing and transition for a management reporting data warehouse and multidimensional dashboard systems
• Reengineered the group's internal reporting (including planning), integrated more than 20 heterogeneous source systems (SAP, Peoplesoft, Hyperion etc.), introduced a new consolidation for internal joint ventures, and classified reporting groups. Designed and built the Controlling Data Warehouse (CDWH), Business Management Controlling and Steering System (SGIS), and Business Management Planning System (SGIS-P)