REXX Experts in Germany

• Available for interim assignments as Interim HR Director, Interim Head of HR, Interim CHRO, as well as HR transformation and project assignments; nationwide and pan-European, open to all industries.
• Focus: HR Strategy, organizational development, post-merger integration from Day 1, HR digitalization, performance management, building and scaling HR organizations.

• Strategic build-up, development, and operational management of the HR department
• Line management and continuous development of 16 employees
• Advised the executive board as well as consulting directors and business unit managers on all HR-related and strategic topics (direct report to the chairman)
• Developed and implemented a recruiting strategy and process; developed recruiters into talent acquisition experts
• Planned and executed an employer branding project for the DACH region and developed a sustainable employee retention concept
• Implemented the HR business partner concept
• Designed and rolled out a sustainable talent management program, including introduction and training on the Predictive Index (PI)
• Developed and implemented leadership development for junior managers
• Designed and introduced all HR management and organizational development tools
• Designed and introduced a sustainable onboarding and employee retention concept (adapted due to COVID-19)
• Moderated, designed, and conducted workshops and in-house trainings
• Digitized the HR department, including requirements analysis and vendor selection (Personio, SuccessFactors, Sage)
• Responsible for global site set-up (Finland, DACH, Spain, USA, APAC) and integration with headquarters
• Ensured a global payroll
• Managed external service providers, agencies, and consultancies

• Evaluated technical implementation options, including system selection (SAP SF, in-house development)
• Translated HR processes into IT requirements
• Coordinated the international project work streams

• Analysis, redesign, and rollout of HR core processes across the entire employee lifecycle
• Interface management between HR, IT, and multiple business units in a complex corporate environment
• Support for cultural change processes with a focus on mindset shifts and cross-department collaboration

• Support of HR processes throughout the entire employee lifecycle - from onboarding and transfers to salary changes and offboarding
• Preparation of employment contracts and references and maintenance in SAP SuccessFactors
• Management of personnel files, archiving of documents, and monitoring of deadlines for follow-up processes
• Handling inactive employment relationships
• Processing compensation-related changes - e.g. recurring payments, deductions, one-time payments, and reimbursements
• Handling work and commuting accidents and reporting them to the employers' liability insurance association
• Responding to employee questions about statutory and internal benefits such as parental leave, educational leave, or company car policies
• HR correspondence via email, mail, phone, and the HR ticketing system
• Close cooperation with HR Business Partners, Payroll, Finance, fleet management, and other internal interfaces
• Support of HR initiatives within the scope of M&A and Human Capital Management
• Ensuring compliance with legal and internal company requirements
• Creating reports and ensuring a reliable data basis

• Built and led global HR operations including payroll across EU & Singapore (team of 21 across three countries), supporting a workforce of 1,800 employees
• Reduced operational costs by EUR 5M through redesigning HR IT landscape (one group-wide HRIS, Workday implementation)
• Acted as trusted HR advisor for executive team on data driven decision making
• Transformed operations from legal entity focused to scalable group procedures to reduce headcount and transfer positions to best-cost country Poland
• Standardised end-to-end lifecycle processes (employees & external workers), enabling scalable international delivery and sustainable compliant operations
• Led HR programs and projects, including M&A initiatives enabling further international growth
• Defined strategy for payroll services including provider management, integrations built to Workday to ensure sustainable high-quality and compliant delivery
• Created structures to ensure global alignment and continuous improvement of various teams and stakeholder processes and IT tool management

• Supporting payroll processing with P&I Loga (including handling all payroll-related topics such as company cars, long-term illness, maternity leave and parental leave, furloughs, etc.)
• Maintaining and managing employee data
• Creating contracts, contract adjustments, contract changes
• Preparing various letters (parental leave, anniversary, bonus and special payments)

Implementation of anti-money laundering requirements in accordance with AMLA/KYC for an international large bank in Munich

Services provided:

• Clarification of the assignment, definition of the work package structure for the AMLA/KYC implementation project
• AI-supported project planning using my own AI workflow for project management
• Creation of the project management plan
• Resource and capacity planning
• Development of collaboration structures between IT service provider and bank client
• Alignment of responsibilities (RACI matrix)
• Management of 5 project members (core team)
• Project control, project monitoring, project reporting
• Communication management
• Escalation management
• Stakeholder management (11 stakeholders)
• Permanent member of the steering committee
• Project representation internally and externally
• Project reporting, management of decision-making bodies
• Project volume: 506 person-days (development effort)
• Risk management
• Quality management
• Organization and running of workshops

Methods: PMI PMBOK, EVM, GWG, DORA, BAIT, KANBAN, AML, AMLR, AMLA, GWG, KYC

IT environment: JIRA, Confluence, Sharepoint, Kantata Kimble, AI LLM Copilot, ChatGPT, anti-money laundering systems (in-house developments and SMARAGD)

I continuously expand my expertise in AI and automation, working with ChatGPT, OpenAI, Manus, Gemini, MS CoPilot, API, LangChain, Hugging Face, Manus, TensorFlow and Auto-GPT as well as Python-based ML frameworks and MLOps tools to intelligently transform classic software development, analysis, and testing processes.

• Leading HR departments worldwide
• Implementing digital tools, processes, and workflows
• Works councils at local, central, and group levels
• HR restructuring

• Introduction of giro card with Visa Debit card payment function (Combocard) for Commerzbank
• Support for the Card Processing Team (card processing; Clearing & Settlement incl. Dispute Management teams) in project work
• Creation of requirements for the Clearing & Settlement team, Authorization team (AZ) and Card Production team (KP) as part of a requirements catalog
• Requirements engineering (requirements management) with business contact person
• Participation in workstream meetings between VISA Inc., SRC Security Research & Consulting GmbH, Commerzbank AG and consulting firms (PwC and Senacor Technologies AG)
• Sprint planning with Jira tickets of type Task and use of Confluence
• Creation and presentation of weekly status reports for the Clearing & Settlement, Dispute Management and Reporting & GUI workstreams
• Coordination with network and file transfer teams for connection tests of new interfaces, e.g. setup of host keys, use of VPN or sipnet connections
• Coordination of the delivery of test files, e.g. exchange rates (FX rates; TC 56 of VISA rates), VISA Debit and Credit transactions (format Base II) and EANSS/ISS Base II clearing files to the Debit Clearing System (DCS)
• Conducting coordination meetings on the use of Visanet Settlement Service (VSS) and PSD2 reports and payment traffic statistics (ZVS)
• Organizing workshops with FiServ (First Data) on Dispute Management and complaint handling
• Setup and maintenance of Open Point List (OPL) in Confluence
• Technologies/methods: Jira, Confluence, giro card, VISA Debit card, payments, Kanban board, BIN, routing, CIQ, VPAY, ScalaTest, Dispute Management

• Served as a strategic advisor to internal stakeholders on recruitment-related topics
• Managed end-to-end recruitment processes, from sourcing to onboarding
• Developed and executed talent acquisition strategies to attract top talent
• Conducted active sourcing via various channels to build strong candidate pipelines
• Managed collaboration with external recruitment agencies
• Supported broader HR projects, including employer branding and process improvements
• Delivered recruitment training sessions for HR Business Partners and Hiring Managers
• Supervised and mentored a working student and an intern
• Supported process improvements in SAP SuccessFactors

• Responsible for all IT initiatives in the HR and Legal board division acting as IT Business Partner HR, solution architect, and portfolio/project manager
• Direct reporting to the CHRO as part of the 'HR Transformation' project
• Architectural planning and application strategy for all approx. 70 HR-IT applications
• Responsible for solution and integration architecture for 'Corporate' projects
• Developing digitalization solutions for the entire group (e.g., digital signature, no-code/low-code platforms)
• Part of the cloud task force, developing a cloud strategy and operational implementation of pilot projects in the cloud (AWS, Azure)
• Developing solution architectures and integration architectures

• Stabilization and skills development in the HR department (15 employees)
• Integration of HR functions and improvement of collaboration with central units at the HQ in France
• Restructuring and performance improvement at critical locations