Chief Financial Officer (CFO) / Chief Information Officer (CIO)

Financial Strategy and Planning:

• Developing and implementing a long-term financial strategy in collaboration with the board and other executives.
• Responsible for budgeting, financial forecasting, and liquidity planning.
• Monitoring the company's financial performance and identifying risks and opportunities.
• Establishing financial principles.
• Developing strategies to optimize business processes.
• Improving or implementing management information systems.
• Leading financial communications, maintaining relationships with shareholders and investors, and overseeing internal audit.
• Personnel management and general services.
• Management of the entire finance department and all finance-related topics, including design of a financial, controlling, and reporting system for the company.

Financial Reporting and Compliance:

• Ensuring the accuracy and completeness of all financial reports and documents.
• Complying with all legal and regulatory requirements in the finance area.
• Leading the finance team and coordinating with external auditors and tax advisors.
• Managing off-balance-sheet transactions (acquisitions, mergers, disposals).
• Cash management and financing administration.
• Maintaining third-party relationships with bankers and auditors.
• Monitoring and validating corporate controlling: planning, budgeting, reporting, data analysis.
• Preparing and managing annual financial statements, accounting, management reports, federal gazette filings, and auditor liaison.
• Handling legal and tax matters.
• Creating financial business plans for the parent company and all future subsidiaries.
• Consolidating results.
• Coordinating due diligences and audits in the finance area.
• Mezzanine financing partners (MBG, IB, SEEDMATCH, token holders, financial partners).

Financial Management and Controlling:

• Implementing effective financial controls and procedures.
• Optimizing financial processes and systems to increase efficiency.
• Evaluating investment opportunities and risk management strategies.
• Preparing studies on industrial and financial investments.
• Liquidity management.

Information Technology Strategy and Leadership:

• Developing a comprehensive IT strategy to support corporate objectives.
• Ensuring the security and integrity of all IT systems and data.
• Responsible for selecting, implementing, and maintaining IT infrastructure and applications.

IT Governance and Compliance:

• Overseeing compliance with all IT policies, regulations, and standards.
• Identifying and managing IT risks and security threats.
• Collaborating with internal and external stakeholders to ensure IT systems meet business requirements.

Project: "New product range for the Christmas trade in the food market - main location SBSW in cooperation with regional food manufacturers"

• Coordinating the project.
• Planning, implementing, and designing the project.
• Customer contact.
• Budget responsibility.
• Strategic planning in cooperation with participants.
• Securing locations for food and confectionery production.
• Preparing statistics and location analyses.
• Creating service specifications.

Project: "Location change"

• Organizing and structuring the project.
• Management tasks and planning of further project steps.
• Establishing new organizational structures.
• Supporting customers in project execution.
• Preparing specifications and tenders.
• Customer communication.

• Project Management Office and freelance work in the controlling project management area.
• Analyzing and providing expertise on employees' working methods in the unITy PMO project.
• Restructuring the PMO for the project and building new structures through digitization.
• Planning travel for project staff using cloud-based software to simplify document access.
• Planning review meetings on project status including the VAT management team.
• Organizing and structuring the project.
• Management tasks.
• Personnel planning.
• Creating process documentation in Dynamics.
• Developing work templates for integration in the controlling area in Dynamics.
• Managing external projects: planning and coordination.

Travel company with over 80 locations worldwide, mainly active in corporate travel and conferences.

• Cash flow planning
• Controlling of the 80 offices worldwide
• Financial reporting
• Risk management plan for COVID-19 crisis intervention
• Forecast planning
• Budget planning
• Organization and structuring of the Liechtenstein office
• Management tasks
• Project creation for structuring the Salzburg headquarters
• Personnel planning

Collaborative Research Center 912 - Highly Adaptive Energy-Efficient Computing. The goal was to achieve high adaptability and energy efficiency in an integrable approach that spans all levels of abstraction – from hardware components to the application.

• Management of 25 subprojects including handling project funds with budgets of €500K to €4M
• Budget control
• Financial controlling
• Project accounting
• Administrative correspondence with funding agencies
• Handling personnel-related tasks
• Organization of events, conferences and workshops

The center works across faculties to coordinate teacher education, teacher training, and continuing education programs.

• Assist management in acquiring new research and third-party funded projects • budget control
• Contribute to study support information materials
• General administrative and management tasks