Project Review Consultant

• Project review on project setup, requirements management, time & cost planning, cost validation and risk management
• Reporting to CEO
• Cost transparency & planning security
• Recommendations for risk mitigation and optimizations

• Led tendering and contract management for hardware maintenance services agreement covering over 10 data centers, 30+ data rooms and 3,000+ hardware assets
• Coordinated contract negotiations and all contract content topics with business, legal and procurement
• Reporting to Director Data Center Operations
• Multi-stage vendor and proposal evaluation and preparation of all management decisions
• Secured a 5-year contract (double-digit million € volume) with over 20% savings versus budget

• Led vendor and contract management
• Led transformation management
• Coordinated escalations according to governance
• Reporting to Director 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 dispute arbitration with settlement and defended against a double-digit million € claim

• Led tendering and contract management for IT operations outsourcing (1st generation, including staff transfer) for data center infrastructure & network services, application operations services, workplace services, and IT service management
• Coordinated contract negotiations and all contract content topics with business, legal and procurement
• Defined the retained IT organization
• Reporting to CIO
• Multi-stage vendor and proposal evaluation and preparation of all management decisions
• Secured 5-year contracts (triple-digit million € total) with over 30% savings versus budget
• Defined IT capability profiles and the retained IT organization

• Led the IT project office for post-merger integration
• Defined the target IT organization
• Reporting to Director Transformation & Integration
• Developed capability profiles and defined the target IT organization based on the IT value chain
• Reduced IT headcount by over 30%

• Led procurement management for IT outsourcing (1st generation), from defining procurement scope through EU notice, participation, tender process, contract drafting, due diligence, negotiation to award
• Coordinated all relevant procurement and contract topics and solutions with business and legal (internal legal, external procurement law, external contract law, external tax law)
• Analyzed, designed and implemented the retained IT organization
• Defined and set up transition processes for transition management and control
• Reporting to Director Procurement
• Completed the procurement process and award on time under EU procurement law and started transition
• Designed and implemented the retained IT organization

• Created a unified reporting system for top management, sales and marketing by integrating finance, CRM, contract, SEO and SEM data sources (using Oracle Exadata and OWB for ETL)
• Delivered management BI dashboards and reports based on OBI EE
• Trained and engaged stakeholders/power users to help expand the DWH
• Reporting to executive management
• Delivered management dashboards on time and retired previous reporting systems

Areas of expertise:

• Program & project management
• Tender, contract & vendor management
• BPO & IT outsourcing
• Transition management
• Business & IT transformation management
• Reorganization & post-merger management
• CIO advisory

Responsibilities and tasks within the company:

• Finance & controlling
• IT & organization

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

• Led IT project to shorten the group closing process (fast close)
• Reporting to CFO
• Reduced closing process time by 70% through adapted process structures, new reporting content and introduction of reporting tools

• Solution responsibility and marketing for World Class Finance
• Oversaw offshore development of project-specific software solutions
• Led and managed the International Accounting competence team with 17 staff and budget responsibility
• Program and project management:
• Program lead "Capital Market Readiness / US GAAP" at a media company; led 8 projects and 150 team members to revamp finance reporting and processes
• Accounting conversions to IFRS/US GAAP
• Managed and developed business intelligence systems / financial portals for management reporting
• Designed and implemented data warehouses and analysis systems

• Program management and responsibility for a capital markets program of eight projects and 150 client, auditor and consultant team members to convert accounting from HGB to US GAAP
• Reporting to executive management
• Achieved capital market readiness under US GAAP

• Led project, prototyping, analysis, design, implementation, testing and transition for management reporting data warehouse and multidimensional dashboard systems
• Reengineered internal group reporting (incl. planning), integrated over 20 heterogeneous source systems (SAP, Peoplesoft, Hyperion etc.), innovatively consolidated internal corporate transactions, classified reporting groups
• Designed and built controlling data warehouse (CDWH), Business Management Controlling & Steering System (SGIS), Business Management Planning System (SGIS-P)