Andreas Rohrböck
Manager, Senior Expert IT (Special Tasks)
Experience
Manager, Senior Expert IT (Special Tasks)
MAN Finance & Mobility Services GmbH
- Project management
- Taking on special assignments for executive management
- Truck & Bus organization
IT Director / Head of IT (Expat)
VW FS CZ
Disciplinary and technical leadership responsibility for 5 direct reports (35 internal staff in total)
Budget responsibility for up to €15 million
Responsible for plan / build / run including data center services, service desk, and field service for VW FS CZ (e.g. host, Java, .NET applications, Atlassian Jira, Confluence, LeanIX: on-premises or AWS Cloud and MS Azure)
Ensuring regulatory requirements and point of contact for audits
Member of steering committees and other management boards, such as the IT Security Board
10% Run the Bank (RTB) cost reduction through optimizing the controlling approach (especially correcting allocations) and housekeeping
Increased compliance and security by prioritizing the closure of audit findings
Team building based on agile values and principles resulting in more trusting collaboration between IT teams
Head of Truck & Bus IT
VW FS Digital Solutions GmbH
Disciplinary and technical leadership responsibility for up to 7 direct reports (up to 28 internal staff in total)
Budget responsibility for up to €5.2 million (excluding infrastructure services)
Responsible for plan / build / run of all finance business services end-to-end in the Truck & Bus area for DE, AT, UK/IE (e.g. SAP ECC 6.0, Java, .NET applications, Atlassian Jira, Tricentis Tosca, Splunk, Confluence, LeanIX: on-premises, SaaS or AWS Cloud)
Ensuring regulatory requirements and point of contact for internal and external audits
Member of steering committees and other management boards, such as the IT Security Round Table, as well as group-wide committees
Central point of contact for the European SAP S/4 HANA program for the Germany and Banking markets (approx. 200 SAP systems)
Reduced RTB costs by 5% through automation initiatives and leveraging synergies
Cost savings through regular decommissioning of legacy systems and housekeeping
Company-wide highest system stability (no priority 1 or priority 2 incidents in the applications)
Building a new Target Operating Model based on agile values and principles and servant leadership
Strengthening alignment with HQ IT
Establishing an additive local SIEM to further enhance IT security
Building an Agile Release Train (business cluster) for Truck & Bus with three product teams under SAFe, involving business units, and promoting agile transformation
Saving 2 review iterations by improving the quality of functional design documentation through interdisciplinary collaboration
Reducing overhead costs and increasing efficiency by introducing agile team structures and reducing one management layer
Optimizing ITIL processes for a heterogeneous product team approach (agile, hybrid, managed)
Successfully initiating/executing a feasibility study for migrating from SAP ECC 6.0 to SAP S/4 HANA (Brownfield)
Clearer prioritization of business-relevant topics for each upcoming implementation cycle (SAFe PI)
Improving collaboration within the FS AG, strengthening the agile mindset, and supporting other departments in building new business clusters as a core member of the cross-organizational "SMART IT" team
Establishing an agile mindset in the department
Head of IT Operations & Processes
VW FS Digital Solutions GmbH
Deputy IT Manager
Disciplinary and technical leadership responsibility for 4 direct reports (14 internal staff in total)
Responsible for all activities regarding IT operations, application management, application security, IT processes, and field service (e.g. SAP ECC 6.0, Java, .NET applications, Atlassian Jira, Tricentis Tosca, Confluence, LeanIX: on-premises, SaaS or AWS Cloud)
Budget responsibility for up to €4 million (excluding infrastructure services)
Ensuring regulatory requirements as well as internal governance and point of contact for internal and external audits
Preparing and coordinating a future agile organization through various committees within the group
Responsible for meeting SLAs for managed services, e.g. infrastructure-as-a-service
Member of steering committees and other management boards
Increased efficiency through automation, leveraging synergies by using headquarters services for commodity IT services, and optimizing IT services (including migrating from Consol to Jira) and the IT landscape
Optimizing provider contracts (SLAs, increased performance)
Cost savings through regular decommissioning of legacy systems and housekeeping
Increased automation in monitoring/alerting
Successfully executing the data center migration to the new VW FS Data Center
Head of Applications & AMS
MAN Financial Services GmbH
Deputy IT Manager
Disciplinary and technical leadership responsibility for 4 direct reports (up to 25 internal staff in total)
Budget responsibility for up to €13.5 million
Responsible for plan / build / run (e.g. SAP, Java, .NET applications, Consol, Tricentis Tosca, MS SharePoint, Alfabet: on-premises, SaaS or AWS Cloud)
Responsible for meeting SLAs for managed services, e.g. infrastructure-as-a-service
IKS control and process responsibility
Ensuring regulatory requirements and point of contact for internal and external audits
Member of steering committees, the IT Risk Board and the Change Advisory Board
Collaboration with IT at Volkswagen Group, especially MAN Truck & Bus Germany GmbH and VW Financial Services
Reducing application incidents by 60% and avoiding major incidents by introducing and continuously optimizing central major releases and improved test management processes
Improving transparency for stakeholders by establishing regular release notes, an IT newsletter, and IT reporting with new KPIs
Introducing regression test automation (Tricentis Tosca) and ITSM standards (Consol)
Highest customer satisfaction by using an agile team to develop a new point-of-sale tool in the AWS Cloud, among other technologies Terraform, Docker, Bitbucket, Confluence, Jira
Cost savings through regular decommissioning of legacy systems and housekeeping
Successfully executing a full data center move from T-Systems to the VW FS Data Centers
Developing a method for onboarding new IT managers in VW FS country units, using VW Financial Services China in Beijing as an example
Successfully conducting a detailed feasibility study for a template-based rollout of the system landscape for 12 country units in Ankara, Turkey and Moscow, Russia
Introducing a structured enterprise architecture management with Alfabet (Software AG)
Introducing a standardized project management methodology for MAN Financial Services IT
Developing and aligning the procurement policy for MAN Financial Services GmbH in collaboration with Volkswagen Financial Services AG
Senior Manager
Steria Mummert Consulting AG
Disciplinary leadership responsibility for up to 10 employees
Senior Project Manager
Responsibility for budget and profit margin for each assigned project
Topic management
Presales
Proposal preparation
University marketing
Project management for replacing a core banking system using SAP GP/FI/CML, SAP add-in ABAKUS and ABIT Recht as well as migrating and integrating various systems at a German development bank
Project management in a time-critical SAP migration and optimization program after a post-merger integration of two large banks for data consolidation, efficiency improvement and simplification of the user experience
Project manager at a German energy provider for optimizing the existing SAP CRM system and coordinating with a simultaneous unbundling project
High customer satisfaction as well as meeting or exceeding planned contribution margins in projects through implementing best practices and strict project management
Organizing and conducting internal project management training to improve employees' skills
Successful presale / sales support for SAP solutions in various industries and realization of cross-selling potentials
Head of Business Area CRM South
Mieschke, Hofmann und Partner
- Disciplinary and technical leadership responsibility for 3 employees
Principal Consultant
CSC Ploenzke AG
Technical Support Consultant
SAP AG
Industry Experience
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Experienced in Banking and Finance, Information Technology, Professional Services, Automotive, and Energy.
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Experienced in Information Technology, Project Management, Operations, Customer Service, Sales, and Marketing.
Summary
Results-oriented Senior IT Manager / Head of IT with extensive experience in the disciplinary and technical leadership of teams of up to 35 internal staff as well as responsibility for budgets up to €15 million.
Proven success in optimizing IT services, agile transformation, Target Operating Models, as well as defining and implementing strategic IT initiatives to increase efficiency, boost automation, and ensure compliance.
Skills
- Team Building & Leadership
- Strategic Planning & Implementation
- Agile Transformation, Tom
- Budget Management & Cost Reduction
- Program/ Project Management
- Provider / Sla Management
- It Service / Continuity Management
- Governance, Risk & Compliance
- Enterprise Architecture
- Contract Negotiations
- Analytical Thinking
Languages
Education
Georg-Simon-Ohm University of Applied Sciences
Diploma in Business Administration (FH) · Business Administration with a focus on IT/Computer Science · Nuremberg, Germany
Certifications & licenses
SAFe 4 Agilist (“Leading SAFe” 4.6)
Senior Project Manager IPMA/GPM Level B
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