Rainer P.

Senior Controller

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Dortmund, Germany

Experience

Jan 2025 - Jul 2025
7 months

Senior 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 months

Senior 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 year

Berater

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 months

Senior 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 months

Senior 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 year

Senior 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 months

Senior 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 months

Senior 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 years

Senior 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 months

Berater Unternehmensplanung

Utimaco Gruppe, Aachen

  • Support for corporate planning 2016/17
Jun 2015 - May 2016
1 year

Manager 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 months

Controller

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 months

Leiter 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 months

Beteiligungscontroller

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 months

Financial 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 months

Bereichsleiter 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 months

Leiter 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 months

Controller (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
Native
English
Advanced

Education

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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