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Stephan Appel

Financial Director & Head of Treasury

Stephan Appel
Munich, Germany

Experience

Apr 2023 - Present
2 years 10 months

Financial Director & Head of Treasury

Omega AG

  • Optimization and further development of operational processes in various departments
  • Creation of interest rate schedules and modeling of different scenarios
  • Management, monitoring and coordination of the financial statement preparation process
  • Assisting with the annual report and financial statements
May 2021 - Apr 2023
2 years

Head of Treasury & Financial Planning

Omega AG

  • Managing the Treasury, Financial Planning and Payment Operations department
  • Acting as the interface between asset and investment management, project development, financing, HR and accounting for all payment-related processes
  • Preparation and continuous improvement of short- and medium-term financial planning
  • Handling of payment transactions at project, portfolio and corporate group level
  • Implementation of group-wide cash pooling in compliance with all legal and tax covenants
  • Managing and expanding contractual relationships with Omega Group's commercial banks
  • Responsibility for the technical implementation of payment solutions on the IT platform
  • Development and optimization of cash management and operational processes, as well as data management within the finance function
  • Conducting budget vs. actual and ad-hoc analyses and deriving management recommendations
  • Supporting the executive board in the company's financial management and strategic decision-making
  • Participating in cross-functional projects on organization, digitization and staff development
  • Software used: Excel, Aareal Portal, Agicap, DATEV, Wowiport, d.velop
Nov 2019 - May 2021
1 year 7 months

Head of Controlling

Savvy Group GmbH

  • Monthly project controlling for the group
  • Project lead for the implementation of the controlling software LucaNet
  • Performing profitability calculations
  • Group cash flow and liquidity planning
  • Collaboration with accounting and finance departments
  • Preparation of company-level forecasts
Feb 2019 - Nov 2019
10 months

Head of Controlling

MEP Werke GmbH

  • Disciplinary and technical leadership of the controlling team
  • Preparation and validation of the strategic and operational company planning
  • Responsibility for liquidity and budget planning
  • Preparation of monthly, quarterly and annual financial statements in cooperation with financial accounting
  • Validation of the monthly forecast
  • Conducting profitability calculations, budget vs. actual and ad-hoc analyses and deriving action recommendations
  • Further development of controlling
  • Management reporting to the commercial director and managing director
  • Point of contact for auditors, banks and tax advisors
  • Optimizing processes and workflows
  • Continuous development of employees under functional and disciplinary supervision
Oct 2016 - Feb 2019
2 years 5 months

Financial Controller & Disciplinary Head of Accounting

M-Concept Baubetreuung GmbH & Co. KG

  • Creating a cross-project controlling system
  • Preparing company-level forecasts
  • Cash flow and liquidity planning, budget controlling
  • Monthly reporting to management
  • Budget controlling at cost group level (DIN 276)
  • Monthly project reporting to financing partners
  • Project-related cost tracking and reporting to management
  • Controlling of incoming purchase prices
  • Conducting profitability calculations
  • Disciplinary management of the accounting department
  • Spot checks of accounting
  • Point of contact for tax advisors
  • Analysis and optimization of process flows
  • Negotiation of financing agreements
Oct 2015 - Oct 2016
1 year 1 month

Controlling Consultant

Self-employed

  • Developed a controlling and liquidity planning system (Excel-based)
Apr 2015 - Oct 2015
7 months

Consultant Finance & Risk Services

Accenture GmbH

  • Structuring functional and technical requirements, designing solutions, and preparing proposal structures
  • Interface between business and technical teams
  • Developing project-specific KPIs for project management
  • Coordinating future project teams
  • Preparing proposal presentations
  • Conducting profitability calculations
  • Creating project plans and reports
  • Organizing and preparing project meetings
  • Managing project progress and performing variance analyses
Jul 2014 - Apr 2015
10 months

Financial & Risk Controller

V-Bank AG

  • Management reporting (preparation of monthly and quarterly financial statements, enhancement of control and reporting tools, strategic and operational planning)
  • Calculation of company-specific KPIs
  • Costing and preliminary control of products, services, and customer relationships
  • Monitoring target achievement and adherence to risk coverage potentials
  • Calculation of statistical risk parameters
  • MaRisk-compliant control and measurement of trading positions
  • Operational Risk Management
Jan 2013 - Jul 2014
1 year 7 months

Vice President Finance Team

Assenagon GmbH

  • Financial planning and controlling
  • Cross-entity consolidated management reporting (group controlling, budgeting and forecasting)
  • Intra-company transfer pricing according to AO / GAufzV / OECD guidelines
  • Point of contact for tax and internal audit issues
  • Accounting: pre- and post-processing, outsourcing controlling
  • Point of contact for auditors and consultants
Nov 2011 - Dec 2013
2 years 2 months

Financial Controller / Planner & Transfer Pricing Manager

Assenagon GmbH

  • Financial planning and controlling
  • Cross-entity consolidated management reporting (group controlling, budgeting and forecasting)
  • Intra-company transfer pricing according to AO / GAufzV / OECD guidelines
  • Point of contact for tax and internal audit issues
  • Accounting: pre- and post-processing, outsourcing controlling
  • Point of contact for auditors and consultants
Sep 2008 - Sep 2011
3 years 1 month

Assistant to the Head of Asset Servicing

SGSS Deutschland KAG mbH

  • Calculation and presentation of KPIs
  • Accounting
  • Support in risk controlling
  • Bachelor's thesis: performance and fixed income performance attribution (1.0)
Mar 2008 - Jul 2008
5 months

Project & Process Manager

BMW Financial Services GmbH

Feb 2006 - Aug 2006
7 months

Customer Advisor

Tecis Finanzdienstleistungen AG

Oct 2003 - Apr 2004
7 months

Forensic Analyst

Fast-Detect GmbH

Skills

  • Financial Planning / Budgeting / Forecasting / Cash Management

  • Preparation Of Annual Financial Statements / Strategic Cost Planning / Financial Controlling

  • Profitability Calculations / Variance Analyses

  • Project And Process Management / Process Optimization

  • Ms Office, Ms Visio, Ms Sharepoint

  • Datev Pro, Ziabris, Itrexs, Sap Fi/co

  • Lucanet, Wowiport, Agicap, Coor, Aareal Portal

Languages

German
Native
English
Advanced

Education

Mar 2010 - Sep 2011

Hochschule München

Master of Arts · Business Administration (Finance, Controlling, Auditing) · Munich, Germany

Oct 2007 - Mar 2010

Hochschule München

Bachelor of Arts · Business Administration (Banking, Finance & Risk Management) · Munich, Germany

Apr 2004 - Sep 2007

Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München

Economics · Munich, Germany

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