Stephanie Gedeon-Customer Relations Coordinator
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IT Project Support / Release & Test Coordination (external consultant)
E.ON Energie Deutschland GmbH
Focus areas:
- Support of release management through the creation of reports and management presentations
- Building, maintaining, and monitoring dashboards (including filter maintenance and updates)
- Planning, moderating, and following up on regular release and update meetings
- Close coordination with Product Owners to ensure clear release information
- Monitoring, testing, and quality assurance of automated Microsoft Teams notifications in cooperation with internal IT specialists
- Creating, updating, and maintaining project and process documentation in Confluence
- Supporting feedback meetings to assess test resources; partly taking meeting minutes
- Conceptual work on a dashboard for managing test requests and budget overviews
- Collecting and developing ideas for building an internal training academy
- Creating a training concept for Tosca
- Taking part in Tosca specialist meetings for content alignment and quality assurance of the training concept
Methods & tools: Jira, Confluence, Tosca, Power BI, Microsoft Teams, SharePoint, Miro, Excalidraw Whiteboard, Outlook
Customer Relations Coordinator
SüdFactoring GmbH (LBBW)
- Creating and carrying out test cases from the business side (iMX V9, Zaphyr Scale)
- Working with the external IT service provider Codix on error analysis and system testing
- Project work on ESG-compliant contract revisions (text modules, documentation)
- Creating standardized factoring contracts and training handouts for internal processes
- Improving the electronic contract database in terms of access and search logic
- Working with the product team, sales, and business development to standardize processes
- Implementing the iMX upgrade and adapting text modules to ensure legal standards
- Putting the new changes into practice for faster retrieval from the electronic database
- Supporting the Business Development Manager as the link between sales and the customer
- Tools: Jira, MS Office, Dynamics Microsoft 365, Lotus Notes, Confluence, iMX V9, Zaphyr Scale
Legal Assistant
Landesbank Baden-Württemberg
- Supporting the introduction of electronic legal files, including document logic and formatting
- Responsibility for travel expense accounting, insurance communication, and invoice checks
- Managing domestic and international outgoing invoices and internal cost allocations (SAP R/3)
- Communication with internal departments and the executive assistant team
- Checking the relevance to practice and preparing and processing invoices on time
- Creating insurance invoices for LBBW subsidiaries and supporting travel insurance damage claims
- Monitoring deadlines and coordinating domestic and international business trips for lawyers
- Supporting general legal tasks and recording internal cost allocations in electronic legal files
- Formatting and submitting management board documents
- Tools: HMP Corporate Legal Management System, SAP R/3, MS Office (including Access)
Market Division Coordinator
Baden-Württembergische Bank
- Responsibility for monitoring and controlling the marketing budget in the market division
- Coordinating events, appointments, and communication measures with branches
- Coordinating and allocating the overall marketing budget and building communication bridges
- Tools: reporting lists, MS Office, Lotus Notes
Industry Experience
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Experienced in Banking and Finance and Utilities.
Business Area Experience
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Experienced in Accounting, Legal, Information Technology, Customer Service, Operations, and Marketing.
Summary
Stephanie Gedeon is an experienced project team member with more than 15 years of professional experience in the financial services sector, especially in contract management, test environments, and operational sales support. She has solid know-how in supporting system implementations, test management (including iMX, Zaphyr Scale, Tosca), and in acting as a link between the business team, product team, and IT.
She also brings experience in release management, including reporting, dashboard creation in Jira, and coordinating alignments with Product Owners and other stakeholders. Her way of working is marked by a structured approach, a strong focus on quality, and excellent communication skills. She is familiar with the demands of regulated environments and reliably supports projects in delivering both business and technical requirements.
In addition, Stephanie stands out for her high reliability and sense of ownership. Through her empathetic nature, she builds strong working relationships with stakeholders and teams and keeps thinking ahead even in difficult situations. Her work is always driven by a solution-oriented mindset.
Skills
- 15+ Years Of Professional Experience In Financial Services (Lbbw, SüDfactoring, Bw-Bank)
- Business-Side Testing In System Projects (Imx V9, Zaphyr Scale, Jira, Tosca)
- Experience In Supporting Releases, Including Reporting, Dashboard Maintenance, And Status Alignments
- Routine In Working With Product Owners, Business Teams, And It Service Providers
- Familiar With Regulatory Standards (Data Protection, Contract Formalities)
- Extensive Experience In Creating Meaningful Reports And Precise Analyses, Especially In Jira And Powerbi
- Structured, Reliable Way Of Working, With Strong Communication And Coordination Skills
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Education
FOM Hochschule Stuttgart
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) · Business Administration & Business Psychology · Stuttgart, Germany
Specialized in change management, work psychology, marketing, and management consulting
LBBW
Office Communications Clerk
Certifications & licenses
Professional Scrum Master I (PSM I)
Scrum.org
ISTQB Certified Tester Foundation Level (CTFL)
iSQI (German Testing Board)
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