My experience and expertise
Financial Management & Controlling
Leadership experience as finance directore/financial manager, controller/management accountant, finance business partner in the following areas:
- Improvement of end-to-end accounting and structures
- Budgeting, preparation of forecasts, investment planning
- Management Information, KPIs, reporting
- Development of internal control systems (ICS) for business and finance
- Working capital management
- Project Controlling
- Lecturer: "international management accounting" at various universities and business schools
Process Optimisation, Change Management Outsourcing, Offshoring
- Restructuring of financial and business processes and organisational units
- Shared Services development and implementation for Finance and IT
- Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) of IT infrastructure
Risk Management, Assurance & Compliance
- Identification, evaluation, documentation and management of strategic and operational risks and opportunities
- Strengthening the corporate risk culture
- Further development of corporate governance, assurance and audit instruments
- Development and implementation of compliance guidelines and standards
- Speaker and advisory board member at corporate risk management conferences
Investment and Joint Venture management
- Planning, implementation and management of international joint ventures
- Joint venture value creation
Please also read my LinkedIn blog post on this topic:
Treasury
- Cash and liquidity management
- Implementation of a treasury management system
- Development and restructuring of the treasury organisation
Development and implementation of a banking strategy - Process optimisation and automation (straight through processing)
IT & Digitalisation
- Development and integration of IT applications
- IT/SAP implementations and project management
- Digitalisation of business processes along the entire value chain, including robotic process automation and data analytics
- Identification of competitive advantages