Experience
May 2022 - Present
3 years 6 months
- Project management of an SAP S/4HANA greenfield implementation for the FI and CO modules
- Implementation of a standard chart of accounts (SKR4)
- Set up of profit center accounting (EC-PCA) and market segment accounting (CO-MA)
- Project coordination and implementation, including conducting steering committee meetings with the executive board
Feb 2022 - Apr 2022
3 months
- Business consulting and operational implementation
- Restructuring cost accounting and product costing in SAP CO and CO-PA
Jul 2021 - Jan 2022
7 months
- Managed software migration from SAP FI/CO to DATEV accounting system
- Advised management on financial matters, improving structures and processes
- Digitized the travel expense reporting process
- Took over responsibilities and projects from the outgoing Head of Finance and handed them over to the successor
Nov 2019 - May 2021
1 year 7 months
- Managed relocation of the Saxony production plant to Bavaria
- Implemented a software-based KPI system for production control
- Introduced shopfloor meetings in production
- Evaluated sites of the Chinese and American sales branches
- Implemented measures to increase profitability
Aug 2019 - Oct 2019
3 months
- Designed and implemented liquidity planning
- Optimized the monthly reporting system
- Laid the foundation for transparent project controlling
Feb 2019 - Oct 2019
9 months
- Established sustainable controlling structures
- Implemented an early warning system including a market and competitor monitor
- Designed and implemented a production dashboard for the manufacturing plant in Germany
- Introduced e-procurement with an interface to the ERP system for C-parts procurement to optimize processes and costs
- Carried out operational planning and forecasting
- Optimized monthly reporting by increasing information density and relevance
Nov 2018 - Jan 2019
3 months
- Prepared a forecast for the current fiscal year
- Executed operational planning of P&L, balance sheet, cash flow, and liquidity for the next year
- Led the year-end inventory count, including coordination with the auditor
- Determined current assets and evaluated inventory results
- Optimized processes and developed measures to improve the inventory procedure
- Designed an integrated controlling system
- Performed monthly and annual closing activities
- Created monthly reporting and bank reports
- Advanced personnel controlling by determining headcounts and FTEs
Apr 2017 - Oct 2018
1 year 7 months
- Developed and enhanced business process concepts within SAP-CO
- Migrated new companies into an existing cost accounting area, performed functional and integration tests in SAP
- Created SAP training materials and conducted training sessions for the department
- Set up a globally operating Center of Excellence
- Implemented and validated an IFRS 15-compliant module for reporting swap transactions
- Supported the establishment and organization of a financial shared services center
- Served as subproject manager for corporate projects and handled cross-departmental coordination tasks
- Reorganized reporting units within the system
- Further developed and implemented global standards for the internal control system related to accounting
- Designed and implemented a KPI system
- Performed monthly variance analysis between CO-PA and EC-PCA, including result adjustments
Feb 2017 - Apr 2017
3 monthsWeiden in der Oberpfalz, Germany
- Harmonized material and value flows in the ERP system
- Optimized product costing
- Carried out extensive master data cleansing
- Developed measures to improve master data quality
- Implemented processes for creating and maintaining item master data, including drafting a guideline
- Created and executed an authorization concept
Jul 2016 - Feb 2017
8 months
- Managed and enhanced corporate controlling
- Developed and implemented a goal-oriented KPI system for the C-level
- Designed and implemented profit center accounting within Navision
- Prepared and commented on monthly reports for management and the investor
- Defined and documented accounting processes to prepare for ISO 9001 certification
May 2016 - Jun 2016
2 months
- Conducting a restructuring project (merging a subsidiary into the parent company within SAP)
- Conducting a customer structure analysis as a basis for a new pricing model for selective distribution
- Training accounting staff on market segment accounting (SAP-CO/PA) and using the data warehouse (Cognos)
- Creating product profitability accounting for merchandise and giving related recommendations based on the results
- Analyzing purchasing cooperatives for their cost-effectiveness (cost-benefit analysis)
Nov 2015 - Apr 2016
6 months
- Professional and disciplinary responsibility for the accounting, controlling, and human resources departments
- Optimizing the ERP system with regard to business processes
- Creating a skills matrix and building a staff deployment plan based on it
- Redesigning the inventory process for over 5,000 items, reducing counting time by one third
- Implementing a digital picking process with integrated quality checks, lowering the complaint rate
- Overseeing risk management
Nov 2014 - Oct 2015
1 year
- Professional and disciplinary responsibility for the accounting, controlling, and human resources departments
- Coordinating with the auditor and tax advisor for the annual financial statement
- Coordinating the flow of funds within the company
- Structuring commercial processes
- Calculating sales prices
- Carrying out personnel planning for the current fiscal year
- Conducting a personnel structure analysis
- Designing and implementing cost controlling using SAP
- Implementing planning software for liquidity planning
- Establishing personnel management with related processes
- Managing the renaming of nicko tours to nicko cruises
Jan 2006 - Oct 2014
8 years 10 months
- Professional and disciplinary responsibility for the controlling department
- Supporting management in business management issues
- Regularly presenting company data to executives and staff
- Implementing a monthly reporting system
- Conducting multi-year planning including liquidity planning
- Implementing SAP CO-PA
- Implementing personnel controlling
- Introducing a BI solution (Cognos data warehouse)
- Designing and implementing a performance measurement system
- Carrying out a cost-saving program to increase profits (achieved savings of €0.5 million)
- Designing and integrating a new compensation system for field service
- Building extensive sales controlling
- Designing and implementing SAP-based cost object accounting
- Participating in defining the transfer pricing policy
- Designing and implementing KPIs for service
- Introducing a group-wide warranty and goodwill policy (saving €0.2 million)
Oct 2002 - Dec 2005
3 years 3 months
- Reporting to the board of directors
- Project management in customer service
- Participating in contract negotiation and drafting
- Optimizing SAP processes
- Coordinating special projects such as the CORE savings program
Feb 1998 - Sep 2002
4 years 8 months
- Determination of cost object overhead costs
- Control and monitoring of investment budgets
- Responsible for fleet management
- Implementation of inventory control
- Preparation of monthly reports
- Performing asset accounting and travel expense accounting