Microsoft Dynamics 365 Experts in Frankfurt

Asset of GPP (Private Equity)

• B2B, Provider of cooled packaging solutions for the pharmaceutical industry
• €20m in revenue, 50 employees, 2 locations

Responsibilities:

• Responsibility for all commercial and financial activities
• Establishment of a finance and reporting structure
• Carve-Out / Post-closing transition management

Achievements:

• Preparation of investor reporting package (sales, financials, cash) using Power BI
• Development of a sales funnel
• Business process redesigns and implementation of regular business reviews

• Led discovery phase and POC for Shopware to Shopify Plus migration across EMEA markets, evaluating platform suitability, technical architecture, and multi-brand/multi-country capabilities against business requirements.
• Designed reference architecture for Shopify Plus implementation incorporating headless front-end patterns (Vue.js, Nuxt.js), CMS integration (Magnolia), and Azure middleware (APIM, Functions, Logic Apps, Service Bus) for 11 EMEA markets.
• Defined migration strategy analyzing data mapping, cutover approach, and zero-downtime deployment patterns using Varnish caching, GitOps pipelines, and CI/CD orchestration across six vendor teams.
• Architected multi-tenant Shopify Plus governance model with centralized admin, localized storefront customization, and compliance controls (GDPR, data residency).
• Prototyped AI-driven search optimization (LLM.txt, JSON-LD) for product discoverability in Google AI results, demonstrating post-launch performance opportunities.
• Defined EMEA expansion roadmap for 15+ markets through C-level strategic workshops, identifying phased rollout, market-specific configurations, and resource requirements.
• Tech Stack: React, Nuxt.js, Vue.js, Magnolia CMS, Shopware, Shopify Plus, Azure (APIM, Functions, Logic Apps, Service Bus, Front Door), Varnish, SAP, MS Dynamics, Docker, Kubernetes, GitHub Actions, PostgreSQL, Kafka

• Analysis of the existing reporting platform, including processes and governance topics, with stakeholders from Sales and Marketing.

• Detailed analysis and evaluation of customer-defined requirements for existing reporting and new dashboards to be established.

• Support for stakeholders in managing sales processes and identifying KPI trends at an early stage.

• Use of Microsoft Power BI as the central analysis and reporting platform.

• Development of a proposal for the required further development of processes and the Power BI platform.

• Documentation of AS-IS business processes and derivation of company-wide KPIs, including coordination with stakeholders.

• Analysis and assessment of the customer's Power BI platform.

• Analysis of processes and data governance.

• Documentation of AS-IS business processes.

• Development of recommendations for further developing processes and the reporting platform.

• Design and implementation of dashboards in Power BI.

• Development of company-wide KPIs and coordination with stakeholders.

• Microsoft Power BI.

• Data analytics.

• KPI definition and reporting.

• Dashboard design and data visualization.

• Stakeholder management and requirements management.

• Procurement of service providers such as building cleaners, caretakers, landscaping and garden construction companies, maintenance companies (HVAC, electrical); conducting negotiations and tendering framework agreements

Further development & digitalization of key sales and application processes in a regulated banking environment, including requirements structuring, roadmap development and AI-supported use case assessment

Responsibilities & Impact:

• Management of existing digital products to ensure stable operations (Keep the lights on) amid growing regulatory complexity
• Product vision and development of a consistent, implementable roadmap
• Strategic backlog prioritization based on business goals, dependencies and technical feasibility
• Coordination of release planning, backlog, quality assurance and go-live readiness with business departments, IT, implementation teams and management
• Identification, structuring and assessment of AI-supported use cases at the interface of business departments, IT and the regulatory environment
• Analysis, structuring and translation of complex business requirements into epics and user stories
• Facilitation of team, stakeholder & alignment formats to ensure clarity of objectives, collaboration and decision-making ability
• Transparency on capacities, dependencies, delivery status and KPI/status aspects as a basis for product & management decisions
• Compliance with transparent structures and documentation (LeanIX, application profiles, runbooks)

Contribution to results:

Stabilization and further development of key financial processes under high regulatory and technical complexity. Improved transparency, decision-making ability and implementability through structured requirements, auditable documentation and AI-supported ways of working.

• Manage and coordinate various software development projects between product management and agile dev teams of external service providers
• Communication with all stakeholders
• Promoting transparency and focus on project topics
• Facilitating alignment between business departments and external partners
• Supporting Product Managers and Product Owners in preparing and managing requirements in workshops and tools
• Using short feedback loops to optimize agile collaboration
• Supporting hybrid and agile collaboration

• Led assessment and preparation for finance and business management transformation including roll-out of SAP S/4 HANA Cloud, Public Edition.
• Enhanced financial and project reporting by streamlining tools and introducing a management dashboard.
• Introduced opportunity management reporting as part of business operations activities.
• Prepared annual financial statements (HGB).
• Directed annual budget development and aligned it with the ExCo.

• Responsibility for the specialist department
• Effective stakeholder management
• Management and prioritization of the backlog
• Resource and capacity planning
• Risk management
• Cost calculation and budget control
• Compliance with security guidelines and data protection regulations in a high-security environment (Bank regulations)
• Creation and monitoring of project timelines
• Planning and execution of workshops as well as the creation of user manuals
• Development and coordination of architecture maps with service providers and internal IT
• Creation and tracking of milestone plans
• Recording, analysis, and documentation of defects, including retesting until final approval for launch
• Coordination and execution of penetration tests
• Organization and management of User Acceptance Tests (UAT)
• Definition of Go / No-Go criteria for the launch
• Collaboration and organization of multinational teams

• Led the migration of local SharePoint sites to SharePoint Online, including planning, coordination, and communication
• Advised on governance, security, and data protection
• Created project documents: project charter, project plan, communication strategy plan, risk and risk mitigation plan, scope of work documents
• Analyzed manual processes and developed automated solutions

• Directed global digital transformation programs enabling enterprise adoption of AI-powered retail analytics solutions
• Led migration from legacy platforms to cloud-based ecosystems, improving data processing performance by over 40%
• Served as strategic technology advisor to enterprise customers, aligning technology roadmaps with business objectives
• Managed cross-functional global teams of 100+ resources across multiple regions

• Design, architecture & development/programming of ETL/ELT data pipelines, DWH, BI solution
• Technical project lead, POC – proof-of-concept creation
• Liaison between business units and technical teams
• Azure DevOps Boards & Jira
• Data modeling & data engineering – data warehouse & data mart
• Azure (Data Factory, Azure SQL, Azure DevOps CI/CD, Azure Data Lake V2, Business Central REST API, OData API, OAuth2 tokens)
• SharePoint lists & API for ADF, Firebird DB, Postgres DB, DB2
• Power BI (Power Query), DAX, Excel PBI add-on, GIS data
• Automated ETL process monitoring/logging, performance monitoring, error monitoring – capturing & resolution
• Index performance tuning & statistics monitoring, Transact-SQL
• Data security – MFA (multi-factor authentication) & OAuth2, MS Graph, Azure networks & firewalls, gateways, roles, user groups – with read/write permissions
• Sources – Vario Bill, Camunda, Radius, Geo Database, OTRS, PAST, MS Dynamics Business Central, Azure Blob Data Lake, SharePoint lists

• Definition and testing of processing steps in the Financial Data Warehouse

• System analysis and requirement engineering
• Designing and architecting system components
• Application consultation and best practices
• Developing system components
• Implementing Power Platform adoption and governance
• Migrating data to target system using best practices
• Conducting end user trainings