Stephan Appel
Commercial Director & Head of Treasury
Experience
Apr 2023 - Present
2 years 4 monthsCommercial Director & Head of Treasury
Omega AG
- Optimizing and further developing operational processes across various departments
- Creating interest rate lists and modeling different scenarios
- Managing, monitoring, and coordinating the financial statement preparation process
- Contributing to the annual report and financial statements
May 2021 - Apr 2023
2 yearsHead of Treasury & Financial Planning
Omega AG
- Leading the Treasury / Financial Planning / Payments department
- Acting as liaison between asset/investment management, project development, financing, HR, and accounting for all payment-related processes
- Developing and continuously improving short- and medium-term financial planning, and handling payments at project, portfolio, and group level
- Implementing group-wide cash pooling, ensuring compliance with all corporate and tax covenants
- Managing and expanding relationships with the Omega Group’s commercial banks
- Responsible for the technical implementation of payment solutions in the IT platform, and for improving cash management, process flows, and data management in the finance function
- Conducting actual vs. plan variance analyses, ad-hoc analyses, and deriving action recommendations for management
- Supporting the executive board in business management control and strategic decision making
- Participating in cross-functional, company-wide projects on organization, digitalization, and employee development
- Software used: Excel, Aareal Portal, Agicap, DATEV, Wowiport, d.velop (all with excellent proficiency)
Nov 2019 - May 2021
1 year 7 monthsHead of Controlling
Savvy Group GmbH
- Monthly project controlling for the group
- Project lead for the "Implementation of the LucaNet controlling software"
- Conducting profitability calculations
- Group cash flow and liquidity planning
- Collaborating with accounting and financial reporting
- Preparing forecasts at the corporate level
Feb 2019 - Nov 2019
10 monthsHead of Controlling
MEP Werke GmbH (insolvent)
- Disciplinary and professional leadership of controlling staff
- Creating and validating strategic and operational business planning
- Responsible for liquidity and budget planning
- Preparing monthly, quarterly, and annual financial statements in cooperation with financial accounting, and validating the monthly forecast
- Performing profitability calculations, variance and ad-hoc analyses, and deriving recommendations for management
- Advancing the controlling function
- (Management) reporting to the commercial director and managing director
- Point of contact for auditors, banks, and tax advisors
- Optimizing processes and workflows
- Continuous professional and disciplinary development of subordinate staff
Oct 2016 - Feb 2019
2 years 5 monthsFinancial Controller & Disciplinary Head of Accounting
M-Concept Baubetreuung GmbH & Co. KG
- Developing a cross-project controlling system
- Preparing forecasts at corporate level
- Cash flow/liquidity planning, budget controlling
- Monthly reporting to management
- Budget controlling at cost group level (DIN 276)
- Monthly project reporting to financing partners
- Tracking project costs and reporting to management
- Purchase price input controlling
- Conducting profitability calculations
- Disciplinary supervision of accounting
- Spot checks of accounting
- Main contact for tax advisors
- Analyzing and optimizing process flows
- Negotiating financing agreements
Oct 2015 - Oct 2016
1 year 1 monthFinancial Planning and Controlling
Selbstständiger Consultant im Bereich Controlling
- Developing a controlling and liquidity planning system (Excel-based)
Apr 2015 - Oct 2015
7 monthsConsultant Finance & Risk Services
Accenture GmbH
- Structuring business/technical requirements, designing solutions, and preparing proposal frameworks
- Acting as 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, conducting actual vs. plan comparisons
Jul 2014 - Apr 2015
10 monthsFinancial & Risk Controller
V-Bank AG
- Management reporting (preparation of monthly/quarterly financial statements, development of control and reporting tools, strategic and operational planning)
- Calculating company-specific KPIs
- Calculative pre-control of products, services, customer relationships
- Checking target achievement/compliance with risk coverage potentials
- Calculating statistical risk parameters
- MaRisk-compliant management and measurement of trading portfolios
- Operational risk management
Nov 2011 - Jul 2014
2 years 9 monthsFinancial Controller / Planner & Transfer Pricing Manager from 01/2013 Vice President Finance Team
Assenagon GmbH
- Financial planning, controlling, cross-entity consolidated management reporting (group controlling, budgeting, and forecasting)
- Internal transfer pricing according to AO / GAufzV / OECD guidelines:
- Point of contact for tax and internal audit matters
- Accounting: preparation, follow-up, outsourcing controlling
- Liaison for auditors and consultants
Sep 2008 - Sep 2011
3 years 1 monthAssistant to the Head of Asset Servicing
SGSS Deutschland KAG mbH
- Calculating/presenting KPIs, accounting, supporting risk controlling
- Bachelor thesis: performance and fixed income performance attribution (grade 1.0)
Mar 2008 - Jul 2008
5 monthsProject & Process Manager
BMW Financial Services GmbH
Feb 2006 - Aug 2006
7 monthsCustomer Advisor
Tecis Finanzdienstleistungen AG
Oct 2003 - Apr 2004
7 monthsForensic Analyst
Fast-Detect GmbH
Summary
- 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
Languages
German
NativeEnglish
Advanced Education
Mar 2010 - Sep 2011
Hochschule München
Master of Arts, Finance, Controlling, Auditing · Business Administration · Munich, Germany
Oct 2007 - Mar 2010
Hochschule München
Bachelor of Arts, Banking, Finance & Risk Management · Business Administration · Munich, Germany
Apr 2004 - Sep 2007
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Economics · Munich, Germany
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