Manfred Paschek-Senior IT Project Manager EfA / OZG Online Services
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Senior IT Project Manager EfA / OZG Online Services
Senatskanzlei ITD Hamburg, Dataport, Police Hamburg
The online service "Special Use of Streets and No-Parking Zone" was in a partially completed state. The following tasks had to be carried out to reach final completion:
- Preparation of an expert report on the status of the online service, and recommendations for action
- Ensuring that all LEIKAS to be used are available (service catalog / service descriptions of the authorities)
- Creating and aligning concepts for complex IT projects (business/IT concepts, architecture, interfaces, roadmaps)
- Requirements management
- Multi-project management with 3 stakeholders (Police, Dataport, development company)
- Determining resource needs
- Coordination to identify technical requirements through the IT architects
- Creating use cases and test cases
- Creating action items
- Managing external IT service providers
- Coordination and management of all activities
- Conflict resolution / business mediation
- User Acceptance Test (UAT) and acceptance by Hamburg Police (Traffic Directorate, Policy Department, Central Road Traffic Authority)
Technical environment: .NET, EfA minimum requirements, Leikas, Administrative Procedure Act (VwVfG), HWG (Hamburg Roads Act), Atlassian Jira, Confluence, MS Office
Legal Council
Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs, L-Bank
Based on the initial applications submitted by the reviewing third party (usually a tax advisor) in the PEGA system, the applications are checked and approved. I was assigned to Team Red. The applications for Team Red are complex applications with a high review index (probability of fraud) and/or a high application amount. This team therefore handles the most demanding applications. We reviewed applications for ÜBH3, ÜBH3 Plus, and ÜBH4 (initial applications)
Focus areas:
- Review of management accounting statements, advance VAT returns, and balance sheets related to the application, estimated revenue
- Review of affiliated companies according to FAQ 5.2.
- Review of non-profit companies according to FAQ 5.3.
- Review of companies in difficulty (UiS) or in insolvency, FAQ 5.1
- Review of newly founded companies, FAQ 5.4
- Review of submitted costs / invoices regarding recognition as fixed costs under the application, FAQ 2.4.
Fraud review
- Regarding fraud alerts and action taken (§ 10 Anti-Money Laundering Act, KYC, § 154 AO for account openings)
- Regarding OFD reports (Regional Finance Directorate)
Approval process
- Approval (full funding amount according to the application)
- Partial approval (reduction of costs due to non-eligibility according to the FAQ)
- Rejection
Substantive review of the final statement:
- Review of management accounting statements, advance VAT returns, and balance sheets related to the application, actual revenue
- Review of affiliated companies according to FAQ 5.2.
- Review of non-profit companies according to FAQ 5.3.
- Review of companies in difficulty (UiS) or in insolvency, FAQ 5.1
- Review of newly founded companies, FAQ 5.4
- Review of submitted costs / invoices regarding recognition as fixed costs under the application, FAQ 2.4.
- Based on special requirements of the state of Baden-Württemberg, e.g. entrepreneur salary
- Communication with the tax advisor (reviewing third party) for queries, notice of a reduction, etc. via the PEGA system.
- Preparation of the final decision (approval, partial approval, rejection)
Legal basis: FAQ of the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs, EU Regulation 651/2014, implementation guidelines for granting Corona aid (Ministry of Economic Affairs Baden-Württemberg), Administrative Procedure Act (VwVfG)
Technical basis: PEGA, MS Office, Jira
Turnaround IT Manager (Crisis Manager)
NordLB
The project has the task of optimizing the bank's IT landscape through the use of SAP systems so that processes work automatically in the future. The project is in the three-digit million range, with around 300 people involved overall.
- Optimization of PMO processes
- Validation of processes on the general contractor side
- Introduction of project controlling using the Earned Value method
- Creating resource controlling
- Maintaining a project handbook (project governance)
- Participation in project management meetings
- Participation in PMO meetings on the side of the general contractor and the bank
- Maintaining the impediment process (obstacles according to Scrum)
- Evaluating velocity (the speed at which a team completes a task according to Scrum)
- Escalation management, conflict resolution / business mediation
Legal basis: MaRisk AT 4.2. (bank supervisory requirements for IT (BAIT)), §§ 25a para. 1, 25b KWG (requirements for IT and outsourcing)
Technical basis: SAP FSDP, MS Office, Jira, Confluence
Senior Project Manager
Dataport AöR Public Law Institution
For the Market Prices 2020 program, a senior project manager was assigned to project P3 (contract department, here contract principles) to carry out price adjustments. The project had a team size of 29 BID managers and 3 assigned team leaders.
- Multi-project management with 3 BID teams, and one major stakeholder (Senate Chancellery)
- Resource planning and control for the project
- Establishing reporting to department management and the executive board
- Collecting data volume structure (selecting contracts subject to price adjustments using SAP BI reports, here pure service catalog services)
- Creating user cases
- Creating action items
- Managing tasks for BID managers (contract staff, offer managers) to be processed
- Establishing a process model for handling the selected contracts for the BID managers (pre-check, price sheet creation, QA, dispatch according to the four-eyes principle)
- Cross-over coordination with other departments, e.g. billing department
- Weekly internal project meeting with department management, group leaders on the current status
- Coordination of customer feedback regarding completion
- Coordination of questions from BID managers
- Single point of contact
- Escalation management, conflict resolution
Collaboration with Program MP2020:
- Project planning for the dissolution of monolith contracts (flat-rate billed services outside the service catalog)
- Collecting the volume structure of monolith contracts (quantity x amount)
- Preparing simulation calculations for this
- Creating a presentation for the steering group
- Daily meeting with program participants, e.g. P1 (introduce cost accounting), P2 (SAP migration)
- Cross-over coordination with technical departments regarding pricing, e.g. SAN storage space, backup (managed server services)
Senior Project Manager Product Portfolio Restructuring
- Scoping activities and goals
- Creating a project plan
- Workshop user story for target design product portfolio
- Aligning the target product portfolio with user story style, SCRUM
- Setting up and running the steering group
- Coordination and alignment with Networks 2025 and MP 2022
- Tracking activities
Technical basis: SAP/SD (Sales and Distribution), Microsoft CRM database, MS Office, MS Project, Clarity, OZG (Online Access Act), Confluence, Jira
Risk Controller
Donner-Reuschel AG
To bridge an internal vacancy, the position of address risk controller (counterparty default risk) was filled on an interim basis.
- Monitoring the relevant risk limits by country / customer class / risk class
- Types of risk: market price risk, interest rate risk, country risks, counterparty default risk
- Development and execution of scenario analyses and simulation calculations (stress test)
- Assessment of concentration risks / cluster risks
- Participation in projects on topics within the area of responsibility
- Application and further development of risk controlling methods within the area of responsibility
- Taking on special tasks and substitutes within risk controlling
- Independent further development and management of risk management processes and methods, taking regulatory requirements into account, MaRisk, KWG, IFRS 9
- Creating, evaluating, and further developing risk reports, analyses, and decision papers for management and relevant committees
- Advisory sparring partner role for specialist departments, management, and adjacent functions (especially Finance, Compliance, IT)
- Documentation & process optimization, and if needed selection and advice on suitable IT tools for risk controlling
- Responsibility and first point of contact for internal and external audits related to risk controlling (annual audits by the external auditor, internal audit)
- Methodical basis: standardized credit risk approach (KSA)
- Metrics used: EL (expected loss), PD (probability of default), EaD (exposure at default), LGD (loss given default), IFRS 9
Legal basis: § 25a KWG, MaRisk AT 7.2. (minimum requirements for risk management), BaFin circulars
Technical basis: ZEB/CPM, B+S, CredaRate, WP2 (dwpbank), S+P (Standard & Poor's), Moody's
Interim Manager Finance, Interim Manager Migration
VG Bank AG
To bridge an internal vacancy, the Head of Finance was filled on an interim basis.
- Management of the financial accounting and accounts payable departments
- Contact person for other departments and auditors
- Decision-making in the NPP (New Product Process)
- Professional support in founding a branch in Bulgaria
- Functional project lead for the migration of factoring receivables into the EFDIS system
- Identification of backlogs in the month-end closing process, including solution implementation
- Lead of the controlling team:
- Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A)
- Create and validate business cases (net cash flow, net present value, payback period, contribution margin analysis), DCF (Discounted Cash Flow)
- Economic analysis of projects and acquisitions
- Post-project analysis
- M&A analyses (financial due diligence)
- Interim Manager Migration, Finance (replacement of DATEV)
- The goal of the migration is to replace DATEV as the general ledger and migrate it into the EFDIS system. The EFDIS system was partially migrated in 2013. EFDIS is a core banking software that is now used as a subledger.
- Requirements analysis (capture of the current state)
- Capture of the migration status from 2013 and identification of deltas (partial migration: loans, securities)
- Identification of manual workarounds and finding solutions for automated mapping
- Single point of contact to the EFDIS system vendor
- Creation of a migration concept
Legal basis: MaRisk AT 4.2. (Banking supervisory requirements for IT (BAIT)), § 25b KWG (requirements for IT and outsourcing)
Technical basis: DATEV (7.1 Kanzleirechnungswesen), EFDIS, MS Office
Management Consultant, Accounting and Taxes HGB / IFRS
DEG (subsidiary of KfW Bank)
As part of the expansion of the product portfolio, the following accounting policy questions had to be answered:
- Accounting for complex trust arrangements and establishment of offshore entities
- Analysis of framework trust agreement
- Analysis of target trust agreement
- Analysis of new offshore special purpose vehicle (SPV) and shareholder structure
- Accounting assessment under company law
- Presentation to legal department and corporate management
- Assessment of investments and loans under HGB and IFRS 10 (consolidated financial statements) and IFRS 12 (disclosure requirements for interests in other companies)
- Review and analysis of participation agreements
- Derivation of accounting aspects under BiLRuG (Accounting Directive Implementation Act) with the question of whether there is a consolidation requirement
- For classic loans there is no obligation
- IFRS 9 reconciliation statement
- Design of the reconciliation statement with integration of the technical framework
- Coordination with external supplier
- Coordination with parent company
- Initial setup with the help of Excel
- Optimization of accounting processes
- Capture of the current process, especially for month-end closings (cross-team collaboration)
- Identification of need for optimization
- Presentation of the target process to department management
- Implementation of the target process into the workflow (cross-team collaboration)
- KWG, IFRS 9 creation of work instructions and documentation in the organizational manual (MaRisk AT 5)
Legal basis: KWG, IFRS 9
Technical basis: SAP Bank Analyzer, SAP CML, MS Office
M&A Transaction, Due Diligence
Swiss Trend AG
In cooperation with the Swiss company, the capital requirements for a German mid-sized company were analyzed for an equity transfer and presented to investors.
- Analysis of the balance sheet under HGB
- Analysis of capital requirements
- Analysis of existing capital
- Analysis of loan collateral (real estate)
- Land register, sections I, II
- Asset value calculation
- Market value calculation
- Comparative value calculation
- Review of possible new equity participations and structures
- Review of contract drafts for the mid-sized company (from the company's point of view toward the investor)
- Presentation of results to the investor
Legal basis: German Land Register Code (GBO), HGB
Technical basis: MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio)
Management Consultant
Barclay Bank Gruppe
Change of legal form from the English PLC to a German stock corporation and application for a full banking license.
- Assignment as SME (Subject Matter Expert) for accounting and taxes
- Preparation of decision papers for the CFO
- Implementation of RechKredV requirements for HGB accounting
- Valuation of loans under HGB and IFRS with reference to IAS 39.AG79 (loans with a term of up to 1 year and without a fixed agreed interest rate versus present value calculation). Risk impact on Solvency II
- Accounting analysis: differences in accounting and valuation under HGB and IFRS for the entire balance sheet (assets and liabilities)
- Development and implementation of the delta method, and creation of specifications for new accounts
- Conversion of chart of accounts to HGB and IFRS
- Analysis of differences in impairment measurement under IAS 39 and IFRS 9 for phases I and II (change in IFRS holding category, impairment)
- Capture of changes for consolidated accounting
- Migration of loan portfolios with integration of legal requirements through Legal (which loans may be transferred to the new entity due to changes in the terms and conditions)
- Capture of process gaps
- Preparation of account mapping
- Creation of an organizational manual for the Finance department (including GoBD, § 146 AO proper bookkeeping, § 147 AO retention periods, etc.)
- Integration into the internal processes of the parent group and compliance
- Integration of IT systems and processes of the parent group
- Weekly status meeting with the CFO
- Project methodology: Scrum, role: Scrum Team as Subject Matter Expert
- Process capture and optimization: Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A)
- Create and validate business cases (contribution margin analysis)
- Economic analysis of projects and acquisitions
- Post-project analysis
- M&A analyses (financial due diligence)
Legal basis: IFRS 9, MaRisk, KWG, German Fiscal Code (AO), GoB/GoBD (generally accepted principles of proper accounting)
Technical basis: SAP (in-house development), Oracle, MS Office, Vision+, Hyperion
Interim Manager Head of Accounting
ABC Finance, Werhahn Gruppe
The head of accounting for a consumer finance bank was covered on an interim basis until a permanent hire was made. The main focus of the tasks performed was leadership of the department, as well as technical expertise. The technical tasks had been listed as open issues since the vacancy. Due to the company's organizational structure, clarification of these tasks falls to department management (= decision-making).
- BIC code: The company operates two BIC codes. It was internally assumed that one BIC code was incorrect. Contact with the German Bundesbank and SWIFT regarding the continued use of two BIC codes; payments and messages are processed only via the Deutsche Bundesbank. MT940, MT101, etc. Result: Due to the size of the institution, the German Bundesbank allows the use of two BIC codes if payment runs exclusively through the Bundesbank.
- Process analysis and optimization of forfaited lease receivables, receivables write-offs. Lease receivables that had been forfaited and written off due to uncollectible receivables.
- Coordination of follow-up tasks after an M&A transaction. A leasing company was acquired, and the customer portfolio was migrated into the servicing system (parent company). Due to different system landscapes, the data quality did not meet the desired standard. In essence, migration errors (portfolio to valuations) were corrected and offset against the acquired company.
- M&A transaction: Review of a VAT refund claim due to deviations in the purchase transaction.
- Process analysis and optimization of VAT returns and reconciliations. Due to technical gaps, the reconciliations were carried out manually, which led to deviations. The main task was process automation and coaching employees regarding the related tax return.
Legal basis: MaRisk, KWG
Technical basis: Navision, MS Office
Project Manager Accounting
Deutsche Bank AG, Postbank AG
The project has been running for 3 years. The goal is to integrate the new subsidiary (group) into the new parent company.
Technical responsibility for mapping, mapping rules for group accounting to the parent company
- Creating a mapping file (HGB and IFRS) to integrate the current group balance sheet of the subsidiary into the new group balance sheet structure of the parent company. The subsidiary currently uses full consolidation with its subsidiaries for its own group accounting.
- Spin-off of previous shareholdings of the subsidiary into a new joint holding company between the subsidiary and the parent company. Creating a mapping file while taking the new consolidation rule into account (equity method).
- Personnel management / HR: mapping of payroll types from the subsidiary to the new parent company. Background: the previous payroll tool is being replaced, and only the new tool of the parent company should be used.
- Clarification of issues in dealing with employees who are civil servants (the parent company has no employees with civil servant status)
- Clarification of issues in dealing with employees who are civil servants and hold a leadership position in a project
- Clarification of issues regarding the recording of civil service pay in the new software
- Coordination of all HR processes between the subsidiary and the parent company, as different methodological approaches are used here.
- Creating a group balance sheet for the subsidiary based on the new group accounting facts of the parent company and determining changes for each balance sheet and P&L item of the subsidiary.
- Project language: English, German
Technical basis: SAP/SEM, SAP/BCS, MS Office, SAP/FI
IT Migration Manager
AXA-Versicherung AG
Cut-over planning for an SAP migration (subledger) to SAP FAM for an insurance group. The project has been running for 2.5 years. The goal of the project is the introduction of SAP/FAM and the replacement of the legacy SAP systems SAP/CML, SAP DEG.
Creating a cut-over plan (project plan) for the subledger project using MS Project
- Planning activities (system migration, manual migration, prerequisites)
- Planning resources
- Planning dependencies to other subprojects
- Multiproject management regarding dependencies to the main General Ledger project
- Project controlling using the Earned Value method
- Weekly reporting to the Steering Committee
- Support with planning (activities, dependencies, resource utilization, etc.)
- Process optimization and migration of real estate from the legacy system to SAP FAM
- Subledger products:
- Loans (mortgages)
- Promissory note loans (purchased third-party promissory note loans)
- Legal classification of the product type and differentiation from bonds
- Differentiation between own issuance and purchased third-party promissory note loans, and processes regarding issuances
- Recording the current process from front office to back office
- Creating the target process from front office to back office
- Optimizing processes in SAP / CML and then in SAP/FAM => workflow management
- Clarifying questions on accounting according to HGB and IFRS
- Funds
- Derivatives
- Participation in Steering Committee meetings, participation in project manager meetings national and international
- Conflict mediation between the Subledger and General Ledger teams
- Project management method: V-model
- Project language: English / German
Technical basis: SAP/FAM, SAP/CML, SAP/DEG, SAP/BP, HPQC, MS Project
Project Manager
Bankhaus Sal. Oppenheim, Deutsche Bank Operations India
Project manager for an outsourcing project (shared service center) for accounting to India. The project has been running for 2 years. Due to the requirements of the parent company, the goal of the project is to outsource all manual postings in the Finance area to India. This is followed by staff reduction.
Project size: approx. 20 people on the German side, approx. 20 people on the Indian side
- Creating project plan in MS Project
- Budget responsibility
- Resource control of German and Indian colleagues
- Project controlling (resource utilization, activity control, target/actual comparison)
- Reporting to the CFO / department management
- Validation of the current process for the following business topics:
- Value adjustments / impairments on loans
- Provisions
- Shareholdings
- Fixed asset accounting
- Design of target process KOP (Key Operational Process)
- Establishing a Financial Control (review of postings carried out in India by the parent company, in line with the requirements of section 25a KWG)
- Quality assurance of the KOP (Key Operational Process) to be implemented by the Indian and German colleagues
- Compliance with and implementation of GoBD and GoBDV (section 146 AO proper accounting, section 147 AO retention periods) => technical responsibility
- Creating business concepts for specific loan loss allowances, provisions (posting, statements, etc.)
- Tracking the clarification of key issues to be created (data archiving in India, access rights, compliance with the four-eyes principle, etc.)
- Motivation training: due to previous layoffs, a motivation training offsite was held for the team
- Project management method similar to Deutsche Bank: CMMI
- Project language German / English
Legal basis: section 25b KWG, Fiscal Code (AO), MaRisk, GoBD (principles of proper accounting)
Technical basis: SAP/FI, MBS, Excel, Power Point, MS Project, JIRA
Quality Manager
Postbank AG
Quality assurance of business concepts for the introduction of a new impairment solution (group management / risk management) under HGB and IFRS 9. As part of the introduction of software for determining and posting impairments under HGB and IFRS (value adjustments), business concepts need to be created. The project has been running for 1 year.
- Technical support for the determination and posting of impairments IFRS 9 (value adjustments):
- Determination and posting of LGD (Loss Given Default), estimated amount of loss
- Determination and posting of unwinding
- Determination of the LIP factor (Loss Identification Factor)
- Determination of PD (Probability of Default), probability of default
- Data output to reporting (ZiSta, BiSta, SolvV)
- Posting of write-downs for SAP/CML and SAP/DM according to the target process
- Organizing and holding workshops
- Presentation of current and target processes for the target architecture
- Review of business concepts
- Conflict mediation between the external company business side and the IT side
Technical basis: SAP/CML, SAP/DM, SAP/Bank Analyzer (pre-systems)
Process Manager
Bethmann Bank / subsidiary of ABN AMRO Bank
For mapping a CA AML process (Client Account Anti Money Laundering / money laundering). The current process for the CA AML process for account opening for private and business customers is to be mapped.
- Analysis of the described current process in OpenText as BPM tool (Business Process Management) version 9.5.5
- Analysis of sub-processes
- Analysis of the workflow
- Carrying out a GAP analysis (weak point analysis)
- Creating the current process after fixing the weak points
- Coordination of the current process with the departments Quality Management, Compliance, Audit
- Process coordination regarding section 154 AO (Fiscal Code), account accuracy when opening an account
- Process coordination regarding section 24c KWG (German Banking Act), automatic account retrieval, in connection with section 93b AO (Fiscal Code), disclosure obligation of participants and other persons
- Process coordination to ensure compliance with the GWG (Money Laundering Act), including the PEP process (politically exposed persons from business and politics)
- Project language: German, English
Technical basis: OpenText BPM 9.5.5, MS Office, Visio
Technical Project Lead & Test Manager
GEFA / Societe Generale
Introduction of a core banking software for loans and leasing in the accounting / financial statements department (HGB, IFRS). For a bank serving commercial lending customers, the existing loan system KB Online was to be replaced by a new loan portfolio software.
Project size: approx. 30 people, project budget: approx. EUR 5 million
- Technical project lead on the bank side
- Project moderation: explanation of errors and then finding solutions together with the software vendor and the general contractor
- Reporting to project management in Germany and Paris
- Weekly project meetings with the CIO Germany, Head of Accounting, Account Manager Cassiopae
- Project language: English / German
- Project management method: V-model
- Creation of a test concept incl. test planning (MS Project)
- Creating test cases (User Acceptance Test)
- Compliance with and implementation of GoBD and GoBDV (§ 146 AO proper bookkeeping)
- Setup of the balance sheet and P&L structure in SAP/FI (RFBILA). SAP/FI 6.0 with ECC.
- Loan products: hire purchase, leasing, annuity loans, discount loans, installment loans, consortia
- Extension of accounting schemes (presentation of booking processes on T-accounts):
- Loan analysis / approval of loan applications, including collateral
- Opening, changing, closing loan accounts
- Non-performing loans, defaulted loans
- Posting of provisions
- Posting of individual value adjustments (EWB)
- Posting of write-downs
- Changes to the loan agreement, e.g. extending the loan term
- Moratorium
- Posting of insurance benefits (e.g. RSV, gap risk premiums)
- Early repayment of loans
- Posting of interest and principal in foreign currency
- Posting of accruals for interest
- Posting of deferred fees (discounts)
- Posting in case of customer insolvency (uncollectible receivables, partially collectible receivables)
- Voting on test results
- Documenting defects in HP Testdirector
Technical basis: Scrum; Java, HPQC, Cassiope, MS Office
Management Consultant
Dresdner Bank AG
Definition of booking processes for migration error posting accounts (MFK) as part of a bank merger. Due to the legal requirement that all balances must be transferred to the target systems (= legal inventory), CR 4431 "Migration error posting accounts (MFK) when records are filtered out during migration" was established. The non-migrated transactions and balances are intended to ensure that, through machine-based preparation of the erroneous postings and IT-supported posting, the legal inventory is correct after the big bang weekend.
- Definition of the booking process for MFK (for legal inventory and for customer account cleanup)
- Establishment of a specialist team for MFK processing
- Including creation of a functional concept
- Tracking open points from a Finance perspective
- Organizing workshops for post-processing of MFK for the business units after the big bang
Technical basis: HPQC (error logging and error tracking), SAP, mainframe systems (OSKAR, HGD, CoAktiv, JustAccount, deposits)
Management Consultant
HSH Nordbank
Management consultant for the creation of a bad bank. In accordance with FMStFG (Financial Market Stabilization Fund Act), it was decided for a regional bank to outsource non-strategic and toxic securities / loans. In the first process step, an internal wind-down bank was established for this purpose. A transfer matrix was created to transform the transactions and customers from the core bank into the bad bank. This is handled, among other things, using cost center attributes.
- Creating / maintaining a transfer matrix
- Quality assurance after technical transfer by the system owner
- Coordination in case of deviations between the system owner and the business unit
- Audit-proof documentation of the transactions that are to belong to the bad bank
- Reporting of the transactions in the old group balance sheet in the form of a segment report (as the transactions have not yet been separated into the bad bank)
Technical basis: SAP/CML, SAP/GP, SAP/BW, Kondor+, Midas, LoanIQ
Project Manager
Dresdner Bank AG
Project manager for the correction of balance sheet differences. As part of the annual financial statements, it was found that there was a delta when booking credit default swaps in the transition from HGB to IFRS. This particularly affected the booking and reversal of CDS, in connection with the accounts for provisions, EWB, impairment (IFRS), and the reversal of unused EWB on the HGB and IFRS side. The task included defining the procedure for clarifying the issue and creating a list of measures to resolve the discrepancy. Due to the importance of the topic, close coordination with department management was desired.
- Support for the Accounting department in process optimization.
Technical basis: SAP/BW, SAP/FI, MS Office.
Technical Project Lead
Santander Bank
Technical project lead for Accounting, Financial Reporting, Taxes for the migration of a global core banking system incl. introduction of SAP/GL.
- Post Merger Integration Project (PMI) of the new core banking system PARTENON at Santander Bank in Germany
- The project consists of 2 project streams (business and IT)
- Project size: approx. 20 people on the German side, 100 people on the Spanish side
- Project budget: total approx. EUR 50 million
- Technical project lead (Prince2)
- Creation of project plan in MS Project
- Resource management on the business department side
- Project coordination / activity planning with the technical project lead
- Weekly reporting to overall project management Germany
- Contact person for IT as SPOC (Single Point of Contact)
- Process analysis (as-is process) of current postings (HGB)
- Analysis of the bank's current chart of accounts for migration to SAP/GL (creating a mapping table)
- Setting up technical accounts in SAP (dummy accounts)
- Setup of the balance sheet and P&L structure in SAP/FI (RFBILA). SAP/FI 4.7 with ECC (ERP Central Component).
- Test manager for the introduction of SAP / GL
- Test management (creating test cases, test plan) for User Acceptance Test (UAT)
- Execution of business tests for SAP/GL
- Voting on test cases (passed, partially passed, failed)
- Tracking all business unit requirements to ensure implementation by the IT department
- Maintaining an incident list and forwarding it to the steering committee
- Weekly reporting to the foreign group parent company
- Design of re-tests
- Final approval of re-tests
- Conflict mediation between internal resources and external IT resources
- Project language: English and German
- Creating a preliminary study on the effort required for the implementation of BilMoG changes
- Change effort at accounting and taxes level from a business perspective
- Change effort at process level for accounting and taxes
- Change effort in IT
Technical basis: SAP/GL, SAP/BW, SAP NetWeaver (web-based), MBS, mainframe systems in the programming language Cobol on AS400
Business Consultant
NordLB
Business Consultant for the introduction of IFRS.
- Contribution to the reconciliation calculation (delta method and full method) for the introduction of IFRS
- Review of the correctness of the balance sheet for the respective EPF (earnings determination position) and of assets and liabilities
- Error analysis for SAP SDL (formerly FDB) and the upstream system
- Error tracking to the IT department and coordination of this
- Testing of error correction
- Coordination of requirements between the balance sheet department and the IT department
- Preparation of a reconciliation calculation for net interest income (interest expenses and interest income)
Technical basis: SAP SDL (FDB), SAP Bank Analyzer, SAP BW, SAP IAS Solution, MS Office
Business Consultant
BayernLB
Business Consultant for the introduction of IFRS.
- Contribution to parallel accounting using the chart of accounts method
- Review of requirements for factual correctness and validation of requirements
- Preparation of an IT-related specialist concept for loan system management
- Contact person for specialist questions (product-specific IFRS issues and their IT implementation) for the lending system between the specialist departments, the Center of Competence IFRS and loan system management
- Participation in the preparation of decision papers for the steering committee on specialist issues
- Professional project lead: migration of purchased third-party promissory note loans to another system platform
- Legal definition of the product type and differentiation of bonds
- Analysis of current business processes and booking logic under HGB and IFRS
- Design of target processes under HGB and IFRS including balance sheet item presentation
- Analysis of required changes in the credit system
- Preparation of an IT-related specialist concept
- Professional project lead for the migration process from WESKO to KREDIT
- Coordination of all activities including resources
- Project planning and project management
- Reporting: preparation of weekly status reports for department management and overall project management
- Project controlling (resource management, target / actual comparison)
- Function: external department specialist (department manager)
- Professional project lead / coordination for the migration of a synthetic asset to another system platform, taking into account HGB and IFRS booking and accounting requirements
- Specialist concept for the creation of a custody register for promissory note loans / registered securities
- Professional lead (concept and process description) of silent partnerships and profit participation rights under IFRS
- Specialist concept (including process description) of interest rate futures transactions on liabilities – own issues under IFRS
Technical basis: MS Office, DB2, CICS, Cobol, Assembler
Business Consultant
Landwirtschaftliche Rentenbank
Business Consultant for the implementation of requirements from IFRS and Basel II.
- Analysis of MaK requirements from BaFin
- Preparation of an IT-related specialist concept
- Testing of implementation
- Quality assurance of daily payment flows from the software
- Correction of payment flows
- Preparation of a small IT order to fix the errors
- Validation of requirements for the lending system regarding IFRS and Basel II
Technical basis: MS Office, AS400 / RPG
Test Manager SAP CML
HSH Nordbank
Test Manager SAP CML in connection with the introduction of IFRS.
- Test management (white box testing)
- Preparation of test concepts (taking interfaces into account, e.g. FDB)
- Creation of test cases
- Preparation of the test project plan in Artemis
- Evaluation of test cases (passed, partially passed, failed)
- Reporting of test results to overall project management / steering committee
Technical basis: SAP CML, SAP FDB (Bank Analyzer), MS Office, Artemis, Visio
Organizational Consulting / Outsourcing of a Call Center
Arcor AG
Spin-off of the call center from the group into its own service unit
- Recording of current processes
- Design of target processes
- Preparation of specialist concept
- Optimization of call binding times / profitability analysis
- Preparation of SLA between parent company and subsidiary
Technical basis: MS Office, Visio, ARS Remedy 5.0, ASPECT
IT Project Management Coaching
Landesbank Kiel
Coaching in IT project management for a SAP CML foreign currency implementation. The project aims to replace the existing HOST system for loan portfolio management with SAP CML. The project consists of 5 subprojects. Project size: approx. 30 people, project budget: approx. EUR 8 million
- Coaching in project management (technical and organizational)
- Project management (V-model)
- Quality management
- Risk management
- Scope management (project objectives)
- Contract law
- Project progress monitoring
- Project planning, project controlling, and variance analysis
- ILV (internal cost allocation)
- Identifying optimization potential
- Resource management
- Conflict management / facilitation / mediation
Technical basis: Artemis, MS Project, MS Office, Visio
Information Manager
WestLB
Information manager in the trading area / Global Back Office. Analysis and decision-making: purchase, leasing, sale or lease back of a trading software
- Analysis of the business processes in the trading back office
- Analysis of the technical processes
- Reengineering of the workflow processes in the trading back office area
- Analysis of the procurement of new software with regard to financing (purchase vs. leasing)
- Evaluation of the financing offers and presentation of these to the department management for decision-making
- Purchase of the software and coordination of the implementation
- Project language: English and German
Technical basis: MS Office, Murex, SunGuard
IT Multi-Project Manager
WestLB Systems
IT multi-project manager / establishment of a PMO. Project size: 250 people, project budget: approx. DEM 10 million
- Creating a multi-project management plan
- Coaching all subproject managers in project planning
- Central project controlling (progress tracking, resource utilization, target/actual comparison, variance analysis)
- Single point of contact for risk management across all subprojects
- Creating a central project report for the steering committee and overall project management
- Central contact person for questions from the steering committee and the Board of Management for Finance and IT
- Mediation in cases of differing views among individual employees or subproject managers
- Single point of contact for contract matters with external providers
Technical basis: MVS, DB2, Cobol, CICS, PMW (Project Management Workbench and Teambench)
Deputy Test Manager
BfG Bank AG
Reengineering project in the area of money / foreign exchange / derivatives.
- Project coordination
- Quality management (defect tracking and issue tracking)
- Initiating and coordinating retests
- Maintaining an incident list
- Ensuring documentation by the business departments
- Ensuring the acceptance process (acceptance by auditors)
- Acceptance of test results
- Reporting test results to project management
- Project language: English and German
Technical basis: MS Office, Condor+, Reuters
Interim Project Manager Construction Financing Software / Real Estate Loans
ABIT und Kreissparkasse Köln
- Restructuring the project plan with Kreissparkasse
- Monitoring project progress
- Analyzing and managing risks and issues
- Writing status reports for Kreissparkasse and ABIT
- Establishing approval processes (Kreissparkasse)
- Stakeholder management
Technical basis: C++; Viso, Jira, Confluence, MS Project, OSPlus
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Experienced in Banking and Finance, Information Technology, Government and Administration, Telecommunication, and Insurance.
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Experienced in Project Management, Information Technology, Finance, Accounting, Operations, and Quality Assurance.
Summary
Tools: MS Project, MS Office, Artemis, SAP/GL, SAP/CML, SAP/BW, SAP/PS, SAP Bank Analyzer, ARIS, Sybase Power Designer (tool for ERD modeling), HP Test Director (HPQC)
Methods: SCRUM, PMI, Prince2 (certification), V-Model, SAFe (Scaled Agile Framework)
E-Government & Compliance: OZG (Online Access Act), FIM methodology (services, processes, data fields)
Administrative expertise: EfA principle (One for All), standardization in the federal context
Operating systems: Windows NT, XP, Navision, DATEV
Skills
Tools: Ms Project, Ms Office, Artemis, Sap/Gl, Sap/Cml, Sap/Bw, Sap/Ps, Sap Bank Analyzer, Aris, Sybase Power Designer (Tool For Erd Modeling), Hp Test Director (Hpqc)
Methods: Scrum, Pmi, Prince2 (Certification), V-Model, Safe (Scaled Agile Framework)
E-Government & Compliance: Ozg (Online Access Act), Fim Methodology (Services, Processes, Data Fields)
Administrative Expertise: Efa Principle (One For All), Standardization In The Federal Context
Operating Systems: Windows Nt, Xp, Navision, Datev
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Education
RWTH Aachen
Dipl.-Kaufmann · Business Administration and Economics · Aachen, Germany
RWTH Aachen
Diplom Kaufmann · Business Administration and Economics · Aachen, Germany · 2.0
Focus: accounting law, banking law. Minor subject: applied computer science (project management, requirements engineering)
Deutsche Bank AG
Training as a bank clerk · Bank clerk
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