Wolfgang Cremer

Owner

Bornheim, Germany

Experience

Sep 2024 - Present
11 months
Hagen, Germany
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Douglas Informatik & Service GmbH

  • Led the subproject for transferring IT supplier contracts as part of the company’s renaming
  • Led the subproject to introduce a document management system (DMS)
  • Methodical, technical and conceptual consulting plus hands-on implementation
  • Defined scope, planned and controlled work packages
  • Prepared status reports for senior management
  • Identified relevant IT suppliers and drafted related letters
  • Monitored responses and initiated appropriate actions
  • Took inventory and gathered requirements for DMS rollout
  • Provided technical advice on selecting, implementing and configuring the DMS
  • Supported test data loading, training, piloting and roll-out into regular operations
May 2024 - Sep 2024
5 months
Frankfurt, Germany
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Finanz Informatik Solutions Plus

  • Designed and advised on the operationalization of a central provider management
  • Conducted and analyzed stakeholder interviews
  • Analyzed regulatory requirements (LkSG, CSDDD, DORA, MaRisk, BAIT)
  • Performed gap analysis and defined operational measures with a timeline
  • Determined organizational and process adjustment needs
  • Developed an operational approach model
  • Presented results to senior management
Jan 2024 - Jul 2024
7 months
Frankfurt, Germany
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Finanz Informatik Solutions Plus

  • Led the subproject to build a new business unit within the ReThink project
  • Provided methodical, technical and conceptual advice and coached the program manager
  • Defined, planned and controlled project phases
  • Prepared status reports and presentations for senior management
  • Designed technical and operational approach models
  • Advised on future organizational structure
  • Managed processes and contracts, including stakeholder interviews and governance setup
  • Created requirements specifications and market analyses for tool selection
  • Advised during implementation and communication
Sep 2023 - Aug 2024
1 year
Germany
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Public Sector

  • Led and executed the subproject on organizational study in the public health service digital pact
  • Offered methodical, technical and conceptual consulting and quality management
  • Acted as product owner and coached the project leader
  • Developed concepts and collected data for the as-is analysis
  • Analyzed administrative structure, interfaces, task optimization and staffing needs
  • Advised on process analysis, modeling and optimization
  • Produced a final report with recommendations
Nov 2022 - May 2023
7 months
Stuttgart, Germany
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W&W Informatik GmbH

  • Interim IT overall project management and PMO for the digital redevelopment of central end-to-end processes
  • Managed resources, contracts and vendors
  • Oversaw quality, risk and escalation management
  • Redesigned project organization and transparency
  • Planned project structure, schedule and budget with critical path
  • Used agile, hybrid and classic project management methods
  • Led project and development teams
  • Handled change requests and status reports with a risk cockpit
  • Implemented a requirements and acceptance process using JIRA
  • Prepared for go-live and stabilization phase
  • Facilitated workshops and steering committees
Sep 2020 - Nov 2022
2 years 3 months
Wiesbaden, Germany
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Hessisches Ministerium für Sport und Integration

  • Advised and coached overall project management in the vaccination IT project
  • Supported the rollout of electronic files (e-files) and medical documentation
  • Advised on organizational, operational, contractual and strategic issues
  • Acted as product owner for requirements, change, incident and risk management, processes and test management
  • Managed vendors and contracts up to EU tenders and audits
  • Handled risk management and optimized measures to achieve goals
  • Served as process scout and instructor to establish central end-to-end process control
Jan 2020 - Dec 2023
4 years
Leipzig, Germany
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Fokolar-Bewegung e.V.

  • Strategically and technically advised management (M&A) on the sale of a conference center
  • Managed the entire sale under a full mandate
  • Developed sales scenarios and repurposing strategies with action catalog and roadmap
  • Held negotiation mandate, including defining purchase agreement contents
  • Engaged and led external experts
  • Managed stakeholders and central communication
  • Handled change and conflict management
  • Documented the project with market opportunity evidence and archiving
Jan 2020 - Dec 2021
2 years
Hanover, Germany
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Finanz Informatik GmbH

  • Managed IT portfolio for the cooperative/regional building savings banks in the Portfolio and Cooperative division
  • Directed planning processes and follow-up actions from workshops and committee decisions
  • Built and updated the OSPlus order books
  • Re-prioritized and aligned annual planning with rolling updates
  • Coordinated between business units and clients up to IT director level
  • Prepared analyses, reports and decision templates for committees
  • Advised on governance development and digital process flows
  • Led and facilitated workshops in committees at all management levels
Jan 2019 - Dec 2020
1 year
Hanover, Germany
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Nordeutsche Landesbank

  • Developed an early warning system as an IT solution to identify credit risks
  • Assigned customer care levels to save costs (30% MAK)
  • Recommended a system to support intensive care, restructuring and winding down
Jan 2018 - Dec 2020
2 years
Frankfurt, Germany
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EXXETA AG

  • Designed a market entry concept to build and establish credit services in financial services banking including blockchain technology
Jan 2016 - Present
8 years 7 months
Bornheim, Germany

Owner

cremer consulting

  • Designed, initially populated, trained users on, and introduced a central document management system (DMS) at the IT subsidiary of a leading European retail company
  • Drafted a concept paper (feasibility study) to operationalize central provider management (including DORA, Supply Chain Act, EU Supply Chain Directive CSDDD) as part of the structural realignment of a S-Finance Group digitalization partner
  • Strategically built a new central unit including preparing technical requirements for contract and process management and document management system for a Sparkassen-Finanzgruppe digitalization partner
  • Conducted a strategic organizational study in the public sector to implement a maturity model under the public health service digital pact (process evaluation, task review, SWOT analysis, staffing)
  • Interim IT project management for a private building society to restructure the project organization in the technical and strategic-process redevelopment of central end-to-end processes on the new technology platform of the country’s largest mortgage broker portal
  • Ensured strategic-operational readiness of vaccination centers as program management consultant in the politically sensitive vaccination IT project for the Hesse Ministry of Integration and Social Affairs
  • Interim managed the IT project portfolio with cooperative partners at a data center as part of a multi-year technical plan and annual IT planning
  • Migrated master data from merged state banks into the overall bank’s system landscape and delivery stream to reduce costs and optimize the business portfolio
  • Coached a consulting firm on setting up and establishing credit services in financial services banking with innovative blockchain technology
  • Strategically and economically realigned conference centers in the D-A-CH region for sustainable viability under economic targets, including a negotiation mandate for selling a conference center at an NPO
Jan 2016 - Dec 2020
4 years
Vienna, Austria
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Fokolar-Bewegung

  • Chaired and managed the overall project to strategically realign five conference centers
  • Handled stakeholder management and strategic advice
  • Designed the methodological approach model
  • Selected external consulting firms and developed future scenarios
  • Derived, prioritized and scheduled the measures portfolio roadmap
  • Coordinated centrally with center managers, committees and external consultants
  • Managed change, conflict and escalations and coached center managers
  • Provided strategic-economic advice and audit support as a board advisor
Jan 2016 - Dec 2020
3 years
Hanover, Germany
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Nordeutsche Landesbank

  • Business analysis, project and quality management for IT migration of wholesale master data
  • Managed resources and facilitated with escalation management
  • Drafted functional designs for rating and risk provisioning
  • Analyzed and designed data transfer processes
  • Supported test concept and test case development
  • Organized and executed migration in all phases
  • Managed errors and ensured goal achievement through corrective measures
Jan 2015 - Dec 2017
2 years
Germany
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Genossenschaftliche FinanzGruppe

  • Led strategic and technical workshops at board level on business processes, digitalization, organizational structure and strategy
Jan 2015 - Dec 2015
1 year
Hanover, Germany
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Finanz Informatik

  • Ensured system integration by organizing and quality-assuring nationwide training
  • Created, coordinated and checked training and technical discussion plans for about 130 sessions at 12 locations
Jan 2014 - Dec 2015
2 years
Hamburg, Germany
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Junge & Co Versicherungsmakler

  • Developed a certified end-to-end portfolio management system with sub-ledger
  • Interim project lead to restructure project organization and introduce agile methods
  • Performed peer reviews and assessed project risks
  • Coordinated eight subprojects and about 40 staff with a €6.5 M budget
Jan 2014 - Dec 2015
1 year
Frankfurt, Germany
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Deutsche Leasing Gruppe

  • Built a new organizational unit for market follow-up in retail business for production control and system integration, including risk management
Jan 2014 - Dec 2015
1 year
Frankfurt, Germany
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MHK Group AG

  • Increased efficiency of a sales product process by replacing manual and silo solutions with an integrated end-to-end IT solution
Jan 2013 - Dec 2017
5 years

Principal Business Consulting

Subito AG

  • Project management and leadership tasks
  • Technical consulting, quality and requirements management
  • Led business unit development and sales responsibility
  • Provided technical, regulatory and strategic advice to financial service providers and insurers
  • Restructured organizational and process structures
  • Analyzed, designed, reorganized and implemented digital end-to-end business processes
  • Built a new business unit to diversify client and service portfolios
  • Evaluated regulatory standards for business models and consulting approaches
Jan 2013 - Dec 2015
2 years
Mörfelden-Walldorf, Germany
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Subito AG

  • Strategically built a group-wide central back-office unit with 35 staff at three locations to boost efficiency and reduce costs
Jan 2011 - Dec 2014
2 years
Düsseldorf, Germany
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IKB – Deutsche Kreditbank AG

  • Feasibility study, implementation and go-live of a regulatory IT clearing process for OTC derivatives (CCP)
  • Coordinated about 60 work packages and 45 internal and external staff
Jan 2011 - Dec 2013
1 year
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Postbank AG

  • Implemented a strategic medium-term plan for the statutory IT project portfolio at the bank-wide level
Jan 2009 - Dec 2011
2 years
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Postbank AG

  • Agile development of the central regulatory management system RADAR (prototype) to reduce bank-wide regulatory risk and meet supervisory requirements
Jan 2007 - Dec 2014
7 years

Senior Consultant

SKS Unternehmensberatung GmbH & Co. KG

  • Project management and leadership tasks
  • Technical leadership and quality management
  • Sales responsibility and contract management
  • Provided technical, regulatory and strategic advice to banks and financial service providers
  • Analyzed, designed, reorganized and implemented digital end-to-end business processes
  • Designed client-specific digital management systems for uniform control
  • Developed and ran procedures for own-fund optimization, including gap analysis
  • Managed project portfolios including risk assessments
  • Maintained the RADR database and conducted impact analysis of regulatory changes
  • Assessed and managed credit portfolio risks
  • Initiated and developed new strategic consulting approaches
  • Independently explored potential new markets
Jan 2004 - Dec 2008
3 years

Head of Product Management and Statistical Methods

BV Risk Solutions / BdB

  • Member of the management team and overall project lead
  • Requirements, quality and contract management
  • Managed service providers
  • Led the team both disciplinarily and technically
  • Liaison for the supervisory authority
  • Developed IRBA-capable rating procedures for a pool of 25 banks across about 20 main segments
  • Prepared technical specifications and ensured requirements in IT implementation
  • Advanced digital processes and release planning
  • Conducted technical approvals and roll-out/go-live
  • Defined service level agreements
  • Designed and delivered training and info sessions
  • Realigned IT architecture to reduce development and testing efforts
  • Restructured the unit to reduce dependence on external consultants
  • Prepared supervisory documentation for analytical procedures
  • Reorganized after successful IRBA certification
  • Led external project partners and consultants
  • Aligned regulatory issues with the supervisory authority
  • Represented the department to project banks and in committees
Jan 2002 - Dec 2005
4 years

Project Lead, Bank Control Department

Bundesverband der Volks- und Raiffeisenbanken

  • Led the group-wide project committee and provided methodical leadership
  • Requirements, quality and risk management
  • Contract management and service provider oversight
  • Positioned and led the retail competence team
  • Liaison for the supervisory authority
  • Developed and implemented IT-based Basel II-compliant VR retail rating
  • Integrated all client and product data into risk assessment
  • Restructured digital credit processes and optimized advisory tools
  • Gathered data, analyzed requirements, designed solutions and ensured quality
  • Ensured technical requirements in IT implementation
  • Deployed in three data centers including technical approval and roll-out
  • Contributed to e-learning for user training
  • Presented the method in group-wide roadshows
  • Restructured project organization including external partners
  • Provided strategic analysis of group-relevant issues and communication at board level
  • Selected, contracted and managed external service providers
  • Supported on regulatory and group-strategic issues
  • Led group-wide working groups and presented in group committees
Jan 1998 - Dec 2003
4 years

Senior Consultant

INFORMA Unternehmensberatung

  • (Co-)led projects and provided technical leadership
  • Managed requirements and contracts
  • Held sales responsibilities
  • Advised national and international clients
  • Built the business consulting practice focusing on retail, SMEs and insurance
  • Developed application and behavior scorecards
  • Collected data, analyzed requirements and designed solutions
  • Reorganized and optimized digital credit decisioning and customer management processes
  • Designed and implemented operational strategies
  • Trained on procedures and systems
  • Business development
Jan 1981 - Dec 1999
18 years
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Deutsche Bank AG, Konzern

  • Developed and implemented a bank-wide retail rating system for real estate with IT, reorganized credit and decision processes and supported roll-out
  • Drafted strategic position papers and portfolio analyses
  • Contributed to governance and group policy implementation
  • Participated in risk management projects
  • Established a group-wide business review group and developed audit concepts
  • Led nationwide audits and assessed organizational structures
  • Prepared audit reports for the divisional board
  • Enhanced a system to capture, monitor and analyze real estate exposures
  • Led quality improvement projects in real estate financing
  • Built a cross-branch mortgage advisory center in Königstein/Taunus
  • Managed and was accountable for market and results in mortgage teams in Frankfurt and Düsseldorf
  • Helped build the corporate SME division

Summary

Thanks to my many years of work and success as an independent consultant, specialist and executive in banks and associations, and as a senior consultant in consulting and outsourcing firms, I have a unique range of experience and a repeatable ability to bring this to bear individually and usefully for clients and assignments.

My strengths lie in an analytical-conceptual approach as well as implementation- and solution-oriented work. In addition, I am characterized by a highly independent, effective and quality-conscious work style, teamwork skills, customer focus and strong communication at all levels.

Thoughtful, networked action combined with assertiveness in designing and managing business-strategic as well as technical and politically sensitive complex projects or integration/reorganization processes complete my profile.

Languages

German
Native
English
Elementary

Education

Deutsche Bank

Bank Clerk

Certifications & licenses

Prince2 Certification

Professional Scrum Master (PSM I) Certification