Experience
Sep 2024 - Nov 2024
3 months
- Optimization/automation of accounting processes
- Clearing accounting backlog in Datev
- Dunning and payment runs
Jun 2024 - Sep 2024
4 months
- Preparation of monthly financial statements
- Implementation of group reporting to the French parent company
- Intercompany reconciliation
Mar 2024 - May 2024
3 months
- Mapping current processes along the value chain (purchasing, sales, inventory management, finance and accounting)
- Aligning/adapting current processes to EDEKA’s required processes
- Revising/updating fixed assets
Mar 2024 - Apr 2024
2 months
- Optimization/automation of accounting processes
- Optimization of reporting to investors
- Clearing accounting backlog in Diamant
Aug 2023 - Feb 2024
7 months
- Implementation of group reporting to the British parent company
- Implementation of various finance processes according to corporate guidelines
- Creating a concept for preparing monthly and annual financial statements
- Integration of fixed assets in Navision
Jul 2023 - Aug 2023
2 months
- Preparatory activities for due diligence
- Setting up, managing and owning the data room
Apr 2023 - Jun 2023
3 months
- Optimization of reporting to investors
- Clearing accounting backlog in Datev
Aug 2022 - Feb 2023
7 monthsKirchheim unter Teck, Germany
- Daily, weekly and monthly reporting for the British bank (financing partner)
- Optimization of booking processes in s2k (American ERP system)
- Implementation of automatic postings in s2k
Jul 2021 - Nov 2024
3 years 5 months
- Preparation of monthly and annual financial statements according to HGB
- Preparation of monthly reporting
- Preparing annual budgets with regular variance analyses
- Support in software implementation in accounting/controlling
- Optimization and digitization of business processes
- Posting and booking of AP, AR, GL accounts, travel expenses and credit card transactions
- Handling payments and dunning
- Developing business analyses via Power Query (Excel)
- Contact person for tax advisors, auditors and public accountants
- Systems used include SAP R/3, Navision, Sage B7, Diamant, Datev, Addison and Lexware
Jul 2017 - Feb 2022
4 years 8 months
- Responsible for preparing monthly and annual financial statements
- Reporting to the US public parent company
- Preparing monthly reports at product, segment and region level
- Coordinating product, segment and regional planning
- Also responsible for purchasing and logistics
- Project manager for changing/updating financial accounting and ERP software (AlphaPlan)
- Responsible for monthly inventory valuation
- Developing business analyses on behalf of the parent company
May 2012 - Jun 2017
5 years 2 months
- Building up the GmbH in all areas after insolvency
- Leading, motivating and developing employees and managers
- Ensuring smooth processes in commercial operations in close coordination with the investor
- Introducing modern commercial and controlling structures
- Preparing monthly and annual financial statements
- Financing company growth/liquidity planning
- Designing and introducing project billing
- Expanding product costing
- Setting up reporting to investors and banks
- Onboarding new suppliers
- Contact person for tax advisors and auditors
- Contact person for lawyers and insurance companies
Apr 2009 - Apr 2012
3 years 1 month
- Preparing annual budgets with regular variance analyses
- Liquidity planning
- Contact for cost center managers
- Contact for banks/tax advisors
- Leading 10 employees
- Engineering and architecture firm with about 200 employees
- Planning national and international construction projects
- Clients: public sector, US armed forces, industry (MAN, ZF Sachs)
Oct 2005 - Nov 2007
2 years 2 months
- Responsible for the entire commercial area
- Conducting a special audit with external auditors
- Leading 5-8 employees
- Special machine engineering with about 400 employees
- Manufacturing and distribution of straddle carriers for the world’s major ports
- Setting up international service and spare parts distribution
- Highlight: Leading and organizing due diligence with internationally staffed consulting teams (PWC/ Ernst & Young)
Apr 2003 - Mar 2009
6 years
- Preparing monthly and annual financial statements
- Controlling the financial accounting
- Converting HGB financials into IFRS
- Introducing reporting to the US public parent company
- Responsible for intercompany accounts
- Preparing annual budgets with regular variance analyses
- Contact for cost center managers
- Contact for auditors
Mar 2002 - Mar 2003
1 year 1 month
- Preparing monthly and annual financial statements
- Setting up product costing
- Introducing a new cost accounting system
- Implementing reporting software
- Introducing sales statistics
- Introducing an internal control system in receivables management
- Integrating the accounting of an Austrian subsidiary
- Contact for auditors
- Leading 5-8 employees
- Mining company, kaolin extraction and further processing; about 350 employees
- Highlight: Introducing a costing module (Access database)
Oct 2000 - Feb 2003
2 years 5 months
- Investment controlling for an Irish site
- Project leadership for a cost reduction program in production
- Investment calculations
- Reporting for management and the management team
- Contribution margin accounting for product and customer groups
- Contact for auditors
- Leading 5-8 employees
- Finishing of eyeglass lenses; about 500 employees
- Highlight: Introducing investment controlling at the Irish subsidiary
Nov 1992 - Sep 2000
7 years 11 months
- Introducing cost accounting, costing and production control for the Structured Wall Pipes production area
- Introducing profit center accounting for the UNICOR group
- Introducing reporting for UPONOR (publicly listed) after the acquisition of UNICOR
- Production controlling for a Swedish site
- Accounts receivable/payables and intercompany reconciliation
- Contact for tax advisors
- Contact for auditors
- Leading 5 employees
- Special machine engineering (corrugators), production of plastic pipes for civil engineering, heating and sanitary; about 1,100 employees
- Highlight: Introducing and conceptually designing cost unit accounting in special machine engineering