Marco Trautmann
Director of Finance (interim)
Experience
Nov 2023 - Present
1 year 4 months Frankfurt, Germany
Director of Finance (interim)
EMMA Sleep GmbH
Jul 2019 - Jul 2023
4 years 1 month Frankfurt, Germany
Group COO/CFO & Member of the Board of Directors
SOLVIANS IT-Solutions GmbH
- 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.
Nov 2015 - Mar 2019
3 years 5 months Frankfurt, Germany
Co-Founder, COO/CFO & Member of the Board of Directors
savedroid AG
- Built and managed commercial functions of savedroid AG incl. subsidiaries in Netherlands and Liechtenstein as COO/CFO.
- Raised funds of > €3m from Business Angels and institutional investors, executed successful ICO with > €40m revenues, released a mobile app with > 100,000 downloads, built up a team of 25 employees.
- Managed vendors including partner bank and other strategic business partners.
Jan 2013 - Oct 2015
2 years 10 months Frankfurt, Germany
Engagement Manager, Business Technology Office (BTO)
McKinsey & Company
- 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.
Jul 2007 - Nov 2012
5 years 5 months Kronberg, Germany
Manager, IT Strategy (SITE)
Accenture GmbH
- Led IT strategy and cost reduction projects mainly for financial service clients.
- Supported IT transformation programs and business case building, implemented new IT service pricing and chargeback mechanisms.
Summary
Bringing > 19 years of experience helping companies accomplish missions and drive growth. Passionate leader with a focus on Finance, IT, Customer Service, and HR functions. Experience in transforming and digitalizing business functions in management and consulting roles with hands-on mentality and entrepreneurial mind-set.
Languages
English
Native
German
Native
Education
Oct 2006 - Jun 2007
EBS University
Diplom Kaufmann (MBA-equivalent) · Business Administration · Oestrich-Winkel, Germany
Oct 2005 - Apr 2006