Director of Finance (interim)

Senacor is an IT-Consulting firm focused on digital transformations in Financial Services & Automotive with ~€250m revenues and ~1,000 employees.

• Directed annual budget development and ExCo alignment. • Led assessment & preparation for roll out of SAP S/4 HANA Cloud, Public Edition. • Enhanced financial reporting by streamlining tools and introducing management dashboard. • Prepared annual financial statements (HGB).

• Managed day-to-day operations of the global finance department (120 FTE) of Emma Group (€1bn revenue, 1,250 FTE) and reorganized the team for future growth.
• Stabilized ERP (MS Dynamics) rollout project by adjusting governance, collaboration, and communication between departments.
• Optimized cash flow management and steered company-wide cost reduction program.
• Launched LEAN project to standardize and optimize core finance processes.
• Rolled out Financial Planning processes & tools.
• Managed the Finance, Human Resources, Legal/Compliance, Workplace IT, Customer Support, and Data Maintenance business units of the Solvians Group, a Software development & hosting provider for the leading investment banks (€8m revenue, 70 FTE in Germany, Switzerland, Hong Kong)
• Led as Interim Country Manager Germany (May-July 2023) the integration of Solvians into WSD Group on behalf of private equity investor Bowmark Capital Partners.
• Transformed multiple business units to prepare for future growth by among others standardizing processes, introducing ITIL for Customer Support, establishing Employer Branding, and unifying the offering portfolio.
• Internalized accounting function and implemented SAP Business ByDesign for all group companies, as well as prepared and audited individual and consolidated financial statements (HGB).
• Revamp the Workplace IT landscape by migrating to cloud services and rolling out Atlassian Jira to support an agile way of working across all functions.
• Established ISO27001-certified information security management system and business continuity management.

• Led development of a digital business model for a leading South African insurance group.
• Headed a globally distributed team to design new digital business models for a global insurance group; created business cases, go-to-market strategies and operating models.
• Developed new innovation strategy together with the CIO for the board of an international stock exchange.
• Ensured delivery of >€2 billion IT transformation for global insurance group including centralization of data centers, network consolidation and client virtualization.