Rainer P.
Senior Controller
Experience
Jan 2025 - Jul 2025
7 monthsSenior Controller
e. Stahlhandel-Servicecenter Bönen
- Controlling project work: implementing customer offer calculation with trading/forward calculation for sales
- Developed a cost of goods manufactured calculator
- Theoretical design and practical implementation: interim Excel version and integration into INFOR LN with requirements specification
- Project management with Loop, Jira, Excel, PowerPoint
- Regular reporting on contribution margins and post calculations
Mar 2024 - Dec 2024
10 monthsSenior Controller
Automobilzulieferer (MAGNA-Gruppe), Wuppertal
- Local and group reporting, planning and forecasting
- Proficient in Infor, Kepion, OneStream
- Accounting topics under HGB and US GAAP, reworking older financial statements, sales tax issues, publishing corporate figures
- Working capital management
- Mostly operational controlling tasks
Jan 2024 - Dec 2024
1 yearBerater
Stahl-Konzern, Niedersachsen
- Research and collection of external company data
- Enriching competitor information
- Deriving financial benchmark key figures
- Financial statement analysis of German and international companies
Oct 2023 - Mar 2024
6 monthsSenior Financial Controller
Anbieter für Cloud-Dienstleistungen, Köln
- Operation and further development of BI systems: ETL packages, database maintenance with SQL
- Use of Microsoft Visual Studio and SQL Management Studio
- Integration of forecast, budget and actual into BI system
- Connecting new databases in ERP conversion project AX → Odoo
- Various controlling tasks
- Special project: commercial support for GAIA-X funding program
Mar 2023 - Sep 2023
7 monthsSenior Financial Controller
Aluminiumgießerei, Soest
- Operational support in controlling, accounting and purchasing
- Building and optimizing finance processes after leaving the shared service center
- Focus on production, sales and financial controlling
- New internal reporting and planning setup (P&L/BS/CF/Capacity) for Dutch parent company and US group
- Integration project after group change
- Developed cash flow forecast with Excel, reporting key business drivers, headcount and KPIs
- Prepared annual financial statements including company acquisition
- Replacing SAP R/3 with SAP B1
Apr 2022 - Mar 2023
1 yearSenior Financial Controller
Glashütte, Marsberg
- Supported strategic targets with controlling tools: analysis and modeling
- Prepared and presented restructuring calculations
- 10-year planning model (P&L/BS/CF/financing needs) for expert report
- Fast close initiative to improve reporting efficiency
- Introduced profit center accounting and segment reporting for production
- Preliminary and post calculations for glass products
- Prepared make-or-buy decisions for finishing, melting, graphics, and supply chain
- Competitor financial analysis with key figure comparison
- Extended BI tool Cubeware for automated reporting, trained staff
- Created and rolled out reports in NAV/BC, Excel-heavy
Nov 2021 - Mar 2022
5 monthsSenior Financial Controller
Lebensmittelhersteller, Bönen
- Covered vacancy as financial controller
- Quickly familiarized with corporate planning and reporting under GKV and UKV
- Responsible for monthly reporting (HGB/IFRS) for UK head office and US parent, written and oral
- Expanded Lucanet and Excel reporting
- Introduced 52-week planning and unit cost calculation
Aug 2020 - Dec 2021
1 year 5 monthsSenior Finance Manager
IHK-GfI mbH, Dortmund
- Technical responsibility for accounting, tax matters, annual financial statements, reports and management report
- Communication with auditors and banks
- Responsible for corporate and forecast planning, cost center and cost object budgets, allocations
- Timely, high-quality reporting
- Further development of NAVISION, Jet Reports and Easy Workflow
- Project manager for COMPANY subproject in strategic project GfI 4.0
Aug 2016 - Jul 2020
4 yearsSenior Controller
SWYX Solutions AG, Dortmund
- Operational company planning and full responsibility for controlling topics
- Modeled long-term business cases (P&L/BS/Cash flow) with Corporate Planner
- Sales controlling: set up and managed analyses, sales cube in Cubeware, automated reporting
- Introduced cost center accounting and monthly reporting
- Used NAVISION and Excel
- Implemented Lucanet
- Due Diligence in acquisition process
Jun 2016 - Jul 2016
2 monthsBerater Unternehmensplanung
Utimaco Gruppe, Aachen
- Support for corporate planning 2016/17
Jun 2015 - May 2016
1 yearManager Finance & Controlling
CUBE Engineering-Gruppe, Kassel
- Responsible for accounting closings of eleven companies of various legal forms and tax systems
- Controlling and corporate planning, key figures, sales controlling, communication with sites
- Led due diligence for company acquisition by foreign investor
- Liquidity planning, receivables management
- Bank reporting and negotiation of credit lines
- Project management: costing and reporting
- Grant management
- Further development of SAP B1 and Maringo project management tool
- Financial management of a wind farm
Jan 2013 - May 2015
2 years 5 monthsController
Utimaco Gruppe (Sophos Gruppe), Aachen
- Created short- and mid-term business cases in Excel, presented to investors, auditors and banks
- Developed integrated corporate plans and scenarios in Excel, financial due diligence
- Set up cost center accounting, monthly reporting and coordination with responsible parties
- Participated in ERP implementation (SAP B1)
- Supply chain management: purchasing, orders, deliveries, goods receipt, incoming invoices, customer documents, warehousing; optimized purchase-to-pay process
- Developed a supply chain model in Excel to map all material flows
Feb 2010 - Dec 2012
2 years 11 monthsLeiter Finanzen und Controlling
Sophos Astaro Software GmbH, Karlsruhe
- Consolidated financial statements for ten companies (national and international)
- Corporate planning, monthly, quarterly and annual closings under HGB, US GAAP and IFRS for UK parent
- Cost accounting, liquidity planning, sales controlling and investment controlling
- Due diligence Astaro/Sophos, transfer pricing, revenue recognition, tax planning, supply chain model, workforce planning
- Implementation and key user for IT systems
- Winner of the Astaro Award 2010
Jun 2009 - Oct 2009
5 monthsBeteiligungscontroller
Altira CFC Industriebeteiligungen GmbH & Co. KGaA, Dortmund
- Integrated budget planning (P&L, balance sheet, cash flow)
- Liquidity planning and monitoring
- Implemented controlling processes and professional communication with portfolio companies
Jul 2005 - May 2009
3 years 11 monthsFinancial Controller
OBI Bau- und Heimwerkermärkte, Wermelskirchen
- Group-wide multi-year financial and results planning, cash flow and balance sheet planning
- Determined financing needs for stores and corporations
- Analyzed liquidity risks in domestic and foreign subsidiaries
- Reporting and presentations to management board and supervisory bodies
- Treasury activities including daily solvency report and working capital management
- Implemented Hyperion financial planning software
Apr 2004 - Jan 2005
10 monthsBereichsleiter Controlling
Venturion AG, Hamm
- Multi-year profit and liquidity planning, balance sheet and cost center planning, reporting and forecasts
- Cost reduction program and restructuring of accounting in DATEV
- Prepared IPO: created factbook
Apr 2000 - Sep 2003
3 years 6 monthsLeiter Controlling
PRO DV Software AG, Dortmund
- Central controlling responsibility in PRO DV group
- Implemented and administered NAVISION operations management system
- Project controlling: planning and resource management
- Annual planning and forecasts, performance management with variance analyses
- Sales controlling: setup, planning and CRM tool
- Receivables and liquidity management
Oct 1995 - Mar 2000
4 years 6 monthsController (Schwerpunkt Vertrieb)
Krombacher Brauerei Bernhard Schadeberg GmbH & Co. KG, Kreuztal
- Customer and product costing, sales reporting
- Budgeting, forecasting and planning
- Management of sales-focused field force behavior
- Introduced a management information system
Summary
- Trained bank clerk / degree in business administration
- Over 28 years in controlling and accounting
- More than 8 years as Finance & Controlling Manager
- Strong knowledge of P&L/balance sheet/cash flow, consolidation, financial statement analysis, and financial modeling.
- Participated in several M&As and financial due diligences
- Leadership experience
- All-rounder in finance
- Since Nov 21 independent consultant for accounting/controlling
Languages
German
NativeEnglish
AdvancedEducation
Oct 1990 - Feb 1995
University of Paderborn
Diplom-Kaufmann in accounting and taxation including controlling, banking management · Economics, Business Administration · Paderborn, Germany · 3,1
Aug 1985 - Jun 1987
Higher commercial school Brilon
Brilon, Germany
Aug 1979 - Jun 1985
Secondary school Brilon
Brilon, Germany
...and 1 more
Certifications & licenses
Certified Accountant (IHK)
Steuerfachschule Dr. Endriss
Certification in Financial Analysis
International Certified Accountant
Steuerfachschule Dr. Endriss
Basic Treasury Course
SchwabeLeyGreiner/Wien
Driver's license class 1
Driver's license class 3
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