SAP Business ByDesign Experts in Germany
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David Stein
Last position:
Senior Controller at DNS-Net
- Management reporting
- Analysis of COGS and close collaboration with accounting
- Variance analysis vs plan/forecast
- Establishing sales controlling
- Business partnering for the CSO area
Stefan Rübener
Last position:
Corporate Controller / Private Equity Controller (PE) interim at Amedes Medical Services GmbH
- Responsibility for group-wide financial management with a focus on management, PE, and lender reporting.
- Focus on an integrated financial model (P&L, balance sheet, cash flow), robust liquidity and covenant management, and preparation of decision-ready materials for financiers, auditors, and rating stakeholders.
- Establishment of reporting standards, data logic, and closing routines for high-frequency scalability.
- Further development of an integrated financial model (P&L/BS/CF), including scenario capabilities, sensitivities, and driver-based forecasting logic.
- Design and management of a rolling liquidity plan (short-/mid-term), including working capital mechanisms and financing instruments.
- Preparation and quality assurance of lender reporting, including covenant calculations, bridge analyses, and variance explanations.
- Support for the CFO agenda in financier and stakeholder communication (Q&A, documentation logic, key messages, data consistency).
- Coordination and content input for rating- and financing-related deliverables (e.g., presentations, data rooms, management commentary).
- Management of IFRS/accounting topics (e.g., IFRS 16 lease logic, accrual and reconciliation concepts) to ensure reporting and audit readiness.
- Standardization of reporting structures, templates, and KPI definitions across entities to increase transparency, comparability, and speed.
Marco Trautmann
Last position:
Chief Financial Officer & ExCo Member at Senacor Technologies AG
- 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.
Michael Schleier
Last position:
Head of IT Project Management and Software Development DACH at Webhelp Holding Germany GmbH
- Established and developed the IT organization in the DACH region (including Poland and the Balkans)
- Directly reporting to the CTO, handling various special tasks (e.g., GDPR, communication with the works council, data protection support and CISO)
- 9 years of disciplinary and technical leadership of project management teams (internal and external clients) and software development in the DACH region
- 4 years of disciplinary and technical leadership of the IT Service Desk for the DACH region (1st level)
- Defined strategy and developed roadmaps in collaboration with the CTO (infrastructure renewal, digitalization, security, BCM)
- Derived projects from the roadmap, prioritized, planned and executed them
- Team leadership (managing project teams up to 50 people; disciplinary and technical leadership of 12 people)
- Data center build/relocation (one build, three relocations/mergers)
- GDPR implementation (initial registration, maintenance process, procedure directories)
- Managed ISO27001 initial certification and two recertifications (ITSM, IT processes, hardware and software inventory, development guidelines)
- Established and took responsibility for IT requirements management
- Responsible as system owner for in-house developments (automation platform, tracking and security tools)
- Process analysis (gathering, alignment, analysis, improvement, design)
- 6 months as interim CTO (due to the CTO's illness)
Britta Frahm
Last position:
Freelance Creative Director, Researcher, UX and Service Design Consultant at Freelance
- Works internationally on a project basis for various agencies and clients in roles ranging from service design, branding, product vision and concept to product development
- Defines the creative scope of projects
- Interviews users about their needs and behaviors to support a holistic design process
- Designs and implements innovative ideas and prototypes for all digital platforms
- Presents creative concepts at executive levels
- Collaborates with development teams to bring concepts to life
- Agencies: AmplifiedbyDesign, collectingcolours, Designit, Designworks, frogdesign, IDEO, zigzag
- Clients: Amgen, Arvato, Brooklyn Bridge Park, Brooklyn Historical Society, Columbia University Journalism School, Consorsbank, Daimler, DER Touristik, Deutsche Bahn, Deutsche Telekom, eBay, Helios Health, IKEA, Interhyp, Loewe Technology, MINI, Nokia, RWE, Škoda, Swisscom, Unify, VW Group, WMF
Olaf Wilde
Last position:
Business Processes Principal Consultant, Value Prototyping Team at SAP AG
- Managed proof of concept and prototype projects for SAP Rapid Prototyping across multiple industries
- Conducted As-Is reverse engineering and To-Be business process, requirements and pain-points workshops
- Designed streamlined, pragmatic end-to-end business solutions integrating SAP ERP, PI, APO and legacy systems
- Developed structured project proposals and online repositories for sprint planning, tasks, requirements and documentation
- Encouraged continuous improvement with lean/agile, user-centered project management style
- Executed rapid prototyping to support key design decisions in running systems
- Provided production support and training for midsize and global companies
- Delivered jump-start implementations, upgrade strategies, feasibility studies and risk assessments
Leonid Ravin
Last position:
IT Business Analyst / Requirements Engineer at S-Payment GmbH / Sparkasse (DSV-Gruppe)
- Business analysis of payments for the introduction of Wero EPI in Germany.
- Analysis and optimization of merchant processes in the context of acquiring and issuing.
- Analysis of interfaces for instant payments.
- Analysis of SCT-Inst processes, settlement mechanisms and reporting processes.
- Identification and clarification of gaps in merchant processes.
- Analysis and documentation of clearing and settlement processes.
- OSPlus process analysis and documentation.
- Coordination and alignment with scheme management as well as various payment service providers and financial institutions on merchant processes.
- Preparation and follow-up as well as active participation in EPI meetings on technical coordination and regulatory topics in payments, including content familiarization and prioritization.
- Preparation and documentation of project and steering committees in the EPI environment.
- Creation of status reports for the subproject.
- Maintenance and structuring of Confluence pages for project documentation.
- Coordination and alignment with the issuing teams on individual customer processes as well as aligning with bank processes and acquirer processes in the Wero environment.
- Communication with payment service providers regarding merchant and bank processes in the Wero environment.
- Organizational support for project management in special tasks in the EPI and Wero environment.
- Digital filing and documentation in Confluence and Microsoft Teams.
- Planning, implementation and tracking of work packages and steps.
- Quality assurance and project control.
- Consulting on IT strategy, IT architecture and interface management in the EPI and Wero environment.
- Technical environment: Jira, Confluence, XML, JSON, MS Office (Word, Excel, Teams, PowerPoint), SharePoint, Draw.io, Innovator, 3rd-level support, ITIL, creation and updating of software documentation, interface management, OSPlus, Scrum, KYC, payment, European Payments Initiative (EPI), Wero, Microsoft Loop, Instant Payments, SCT-Inst.
Özgür Tükenmez
Last position:
Management Consultant – Interim Manager at Self-employed Management Consultant – Interim Manager
- Managing ongoing bookkeeping – DATEV, ODOO, SAP FI
- Abacus/Davinci
- Support in preparing annual financial statements – HGB
- BPMN 2.0
- Modeling and automating business processes – RPA & BPMN
- Blockchain
- Advising on the implementation of artificial intelligence in accounting – Hypatos
- Data modeling and creating interactive dashboards – MS Power BI
- CAD
- Building and monetizing websites – current project Instagram @finanzabflug
- Canva
- Dapps
- Datev
Stephan Hartl
Last position:
President (CEO) at Lenermia eG
- Consulting, CFO-as-a-Service, Interim Management
- Support of companies from various industries (e.g. IDnow, Vizrt, EasyVista)
- (Financial) controlling, FP&A, process optimization, PMI
Christian Engert
Last position:
Product Owner Mobile Integration at PAYBACK
- Create epic and user stories for seamless integration of PAYBACK features in PAYBACK partner apps
- Discuss solution with partner dev teams to kickoff integration on partner side
- Create roadmap 2023 for Partner Integration Crew
- Mentor internal Product Owners
Joerg Schaefer
Last position:
Senior Solution Architect at Serrala
Klaus Hetterich
Last position:
Project Manager and Scrum Master at Autobahn GmbH des Bundes
- Customizing Scrum to customer-specific needs for Autobahn GmbH
- Introducing Scrum at Autobahn GmbH for 3 SAP IDM teams
- Teaching, facilitation, mentoring and coaching as Scrum Master
- Conducting quality gates according to the definition of done
- Program and project planning and controlling as project manager
- Optimizing DevOps processes
- Risk management
- Stakeholder management
- Reporting to steering committee and line organization
- Technologies used: SAP IDM, SAP HCM, SAP SuccessFactors, SAP S/4HANA, SAP Analytics Cloud, Azure DevOps, ServiceNow, Confluence
Jörg Schwingel
Last position:
Interim Enterprise Architecture Manager at BayWa r.e. AG
- Strategic IT consulting
- Enterprise Architecture Management
- Designing a global enterprise architecture strategy for the entire BayWa r.e. group with 150 country subsidiaries
- Aligning the strategy with all relevant stakeholders, top management, the holding company and corporate functions (Cyber Security, Information Security, Data Protection, IT Service Management)
- Coordinating the strategy with all business units (Wind Projects, Solar Projects, Services, IPP Asset Management, IPP Energy Trading, Solar Distribution, Energy Solutions)
- Analyzing, designing and consolidating the different target landscapes of all business units into a consistent, aligned overall target landscape
- Reducing IT risks, standardizing and harmonizing the application landscape
- Implementing a cloud-first strategy and further developing or replacing the strategic systems
- Managing the selection process, handling technical and commercial contract negotiations, and developing the implementation concept for a new EA application (LeanIX)
- Operational responsibility for the EA team, participating in daily business, and selecting candidates for open positions
Michael Von Radloff
Last position:
Project Manager and IT Consultant at Freelance
Gurpreet Dhami
Last position:
Anonym – German building materials manufacturer
- Creation of the profit center report and statistical key figures report
- Gathering and analyzing requirements regarding the forecast for revenue and costs
- Implementation of various time series analyses and optimization of predictions
- SAP process knowledge, SQL, Python
- Python with various libraries for time series analysis and machine learning
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Statistics of experts using SAP Business ByDesign
Aggregated from the professional profiles of matched freelancers.
Experience
21 years
Position duration
4.1 years
Positions per freelancer
11
Top business areas
Information Technology, Project Management, Finance
Top industries
Information Technology, Professional Services, Manufacturing
Certification focus areas
Information Technology, Project Management, Accounting
Bachelor's degree or higher
86%
Master's degree or higher
71%
Doctorate
7%
Certifications per freelancer
3
Most common languages
German, English, Spanish
Speak two or more languages
95%
Based on our profile pool as of 30 Aug 2026.
Daily rate distribution
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Average rates of experts in Germany using SAP Business ByDesign
Rates are based on recent contracts and do not include FRATCH margin.
The average daily rate is the mean of all daily rates from recent contracts of comparable freelancers on our platform.
The median daily rate is the middle value of all daily rates — half of comparable freelancers charge less, half charge more. Unlike the average, it is barely affected by outliers.
Calculated based on our freelancers’ daily rates as of 30 Aug 2026. Actual rates may vary depending on seniority level, experience, skill specialization, project complexity, and engagement length.
About the technology
What it is
SAP Business ByDesign is a cloud ERP suite for mid-sized companies that want one system for finance, sales, purchasing, projects, and service. It is often called SAP ByDesign or ByD. Companies use it to keep core processes in one place and work with the same data across teams.
Where it fits
It is a good fit when a company needs a managed ERP without running a large on-premise landscape.
- Financial accounting and controlling
- Sales and customer management
- Procurement and supplier flows
- Project and service operations
- Reporting and process approvals
Ecosystem skills
Strong professionals around SAP Business ByDesign work across configuration, extensions, integration, and user support. They know how to shape business objects, adjust workflows, and connect the suite to adjacent systems through APIs and middleware. They also understand how to keep master data, roles, and processes clean.
When to bring in help
Companies usually look for freelance expertise during rollouts, process changes, integration work, or clean-up after a messy setup. In Germany, that often means working with local business teams while supporting distributed finance or operations groups remotely. Clear communication in English is common, and German helps when workshops involve local users.
What strong experts do
A good SAP Business ByDesign specialist does more than configure screens. They translate business needs into stable processes, document changes clearly, test end-to-end flows, and make sure finance, sales, and operations stay aligned. They also spot where a standard feature is enough and where an extension is really needed.
Common project signs
- The system is live but reporting or approvals are inconsistent
- New subsidiaries or business units need a shared setup
- Integration with payroll, CRM, or logistics is missing
- Users rely on manual workarounds
- The team needs support after implementation or upgrade work
Frequently asked questions
What clients ask us most about SAP Business ByDesign — answered in short.
SAP Business ByDesign is used to run core business processes in one cloud ERP suite. Companies rely on it for finance, purchasing, sales, projects, and service management when they want less system sprawl and clearer process ownership.
SAP Business ByDesign is the product name most people use, and it is delivered as a cloud service. When searchers say SAP ByDesign or ByD, they usually mean the same suite, not a separate product line.
SAP Business ByDesign is usually chosen for a more standardized ERP setup, while SAP S/4HANA is often used in larger or more complex landscapes. A strong specialist can explain which processes fit the standard suite and where a different SAP path is better.
A good SAP Business ByDesign freelancer usually understands process design, data migration, reporting, and integration work. Knowledge of APIs, master data, testing, and finance or supply chain processes is often important too.
A SAP Business ByDesign project needs someone who has handled full process flows, not just menu settings. For new implementations, integrations, or cleanup work, look for professionals who can explain consequences across finance, sales, and operations.
Yes, SAP Business ByDesign work is often well suited to remote delivery because many tasks are configuration, process design, and testing. In Germany, on-site workshops can still help when key users need process alignment or sign-off on sensitive changes.
A strong SAP Business ByDesign specialist gives concrete examples of real process work, not only broad SAP knowledge. Look for clear documentation, clean change control, solid testing habits, and the ability to connect business needs with the right system setup.
SAP Business ByDesign experts are often brought in for implementations, process optimization, integration work, reporting fixes, and user support after go-live. They are also useful when a company needs to extend standard functions without turning the ERP into a custom-heavy system.
The average hourly rate of freelancers in Germany who have used SAP Business ByDesign in their recent projects is 119 €, which corresponds to a daily rate of about 953 € based on an 8-hour working day.
Of the freelancers in Germany who have used SAP Business ByDesign in their recent projects, 86% hold at least a Bachelor's degree, 71% hold at least a Master's degree, and 7% hold a doctorate.
On average, freelancers in Germany who have used SAP Business ByDesign in their recent projects have 21 years of professional experience, with a single engagement typically lasting around 4.1 years.
The most common languages among freelancers in Germany who have used SAP Business ByDesign in their recent projects are German (100%), English (95%), and Spanish (26%).
The most common industries among freelancers in Germany who have used SAP Business ByDesign in their recent projects are Information Technology (89%), Professional Services (84%), and Manufacturing (47%).
The most common business areas among freelancers in Germany who have used SAP Business ByDesign in their recent projects are Information Technology (89%), Project Management (74%), and Finance (53%).
Main locations of FRATCH Experts, who have recently used SAP Business ByDesign
Our freelancers and interim experts are at home across the DACH region — available on-site in the major business hubs or fully remote. Choose a location to discover matched specialists, local market insights and up-to-date availability.
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