Robert Fuhrmann
Accounting finance / automation / Python / bi /
Experience
Sep 2023 - Present
1 year 6 months Berlin, Germany
Interim Director of Accounting
Foodspring
- Leading accounting team of 6 FTEs
- Training and development of employees
- Automation of accounting processes with SQL, Python and PowerQuery
- Owning year and month end close
- Taxation topics
- Audits
- Netsuite Admin and further development
Apr 2023 - Sep 2023
6 months Berlin, Germany
Interim Head of Accounting
Zeotap
- Owning finance and accounting team
- Growth / training new team members
- Full responsibility for audit, taxation, month and year endclose
- ERP Netsuite customisation and continuous improvement
- Automation of finance landscape with Python, SQL and Power query
Sep 2022 - Mar 2023
7 months Berlin, Germany
Interim Senior Accounting Manager and Head Finance System
T-Knife GmbH
- Automation Accounting and Finance with Python, Excel power query
- Building team and growing/onboard team members
- ERP Admin Netsuite and continuous improvement and implementation of new automation financial tools
- Responsible for Audit, month and year endclose, taxation and Sox
Jan 2021 - Aug 2022
1 year 8 months Berlin, Germany
Accounting Manager / Finance Systems Lead
Gorillas Technology GmbH
- Took accounting inhouse for all countries (Employee Number 3 - living the whole growth cycle until Exit)
- Monthly and yearly close
- Controlling
- ERP implementation (Netsuite)
- Automatisation of accounts payables, cost of sales and receivables for whole group with Python+SQL
- Help center / crossfunctional support for treasury, accounting, BI und finance team
- Onboarding of new joiners
- KPI und adhoc reporting
- Project work / implementation of new tools to increase automation in accounting
Jan 2020 - Jan 2021
1 year 1 month Berlin, Germany
Startup Finance Business Analyst and Management Accountant Consultant
Self-Employed
- Automised whole finance and book-keeping processes with Python, VBA Macros
- Yearly and monthly endclose according to German Local Gaap(HGB) and German Tax law
- VAT statements
- Adhoc excel controlling reports
- Audit
- Communication with tax advisor and auditors personally
Jan 2019 - Jan 2020
1 year 1 month Berlin, Germany
Senior Accountant
Zenjob
- Automatisation of whole accounting processes with python, vba excel and SQL Postgres
- Controlling
- Full responsibility of audit with the financial auditor
- Reporting: 3 financial statements (cashflow, pnl, balance sheet)
- Investor reporting
- Leading junior accountants
- Adhoc KPI and accouting reports
- BI: Postgres, SQL, Sisense/Tableau
- Helping/hands-on with all bookings AP, AR, bank, assets, accruals, prepayments
Jan 2018 - Jan 2019
1 year 1 month Berlin, Germany
Finance and Accounting Lead
DrSmile
- Brought inhouse the accounting
- Built finance and accounting team from scratch
- Automated the whole finance and accounting processes with Excel, VBA Macros
- Tax structure for whole company
- Yearly and monthly end close, cashflow, pnl, balance sheet
- Helping/hands-on with all bookings AP, AR, bank, assets, accruals, prepayments
Jun 2017 - Apr 2018
11 months Berlin, Germany
Tax Adviser Associate / Management Accountant
Volker Wiebe Tax Advisor
- Yearly and monthly end close
- Worked with a lot startup clients and different industries
- Vat and corporate tax declarations
- Balance sheet book-keeping
- Tax structure
Summary
I worked several years in different tax offices. My true passion is to work in startups. I have built finance and accounting teams from scratch. I love to automate all financial and accounting processes and to teach people new things. I like always to educate myself to the next personal and business level.
Languages
German
Native
English
Advanced
Education
Sep 2012 - Jun 2017
HWR Berlin (Business School of Economics and Law)
Bachelor of Arts · Business Administration · Berlin, Germany
Aug 2009 - May 2012