SAP CO Experts in Hamburg

• Defined and established the areas of responsibility
• Built a governance model for the department and its areas of responsibility
• IT strategy, project management, process management, and quality and sustainability management
• Developed a communications strategy for the group
• Created the IT strategy
• Designed templates, guidelines, and processes for consistent ways of working
• Recorded strategic guidelines and grouped ongoing projects – derived a roadmap for strategic planning
• Reviewed ongoing projects
• Prepared staffing calculations and capacity planning
• Defined job profiles

Technical environment: BDC

• Design of BDC project: role design, space design, authorization concept, naming convention
• Template development of database artifacts for master and transactional data

• Improving processes in the purchasing area
• Digitizing purchasing processes
• Optimizing end-to-end manufacturing processes

• Vacancy cover: Operational controlling for four branches / plants, knowledge transfer, onboarding, and coaching of successor
• Monthly closing / reporting, forecasts, budget planning
• Created new dashboards and reports (transport costs, payroll processing) and optimized existing Excel tools with PowerQuery/PowerPivot

Industry: Recycling of slaughterhouse waste; parent company publicly listed

• Founded the company as a full-service consulting firm focused on purchasing and supply chain
• Commercial management of the company
• Digitalization and automation of work steps to reduce process costs
• Project management for optimization projects
• Connecting German companies with manufacturers abroad to achieve shorter delivery times and lower procurement costs at the same time
• Organizing B2B meetings between international companies
• Research on procurement markets (BestCostCountry) for the production of complex welded assemblies
• Taking on interim management assignments

• Project leadership for more than 150 validation and verification projects for medical ceramic implants (hip, knee, shoulder, spine and dental) in production areas with presses, mills, turning, grinding, milling, polishing, proof, laser, washing and packaging equipment as well as cleanrooms at international locations

• Management of the Validation Team and overall planning of validation activities, including preparation of application specifications, equivalence analyses, risk classifications and validation plans (VP/DP/IP/OP/PP/FAT)

• Execution of FATs at suppliers, preparation of FAT and Final Reports for regulatory submissions to authorities and customers

• Participation in internal, authority and customer audits

• Senior project leadership for SAP PS-BAU at a leading bank in Frankfurt: management of the development team, coordination of external service providers, Single Point of Contact for the business unit, support during the concept phase and test management

• Consulting and delivery of training and workshops on quality, validation and regulatory requirements for international equipment manufacturers and system integrators

• Consulting and project leadership in supply chain, logistics and procurement for international customers

• Project leadership and management
• Implementing reporting solutions in banks
• Enhancing and optimizing reporting processes in bank finance and risk departments
• Consulting through all phases of regulatory requirement implementation, including requirements analysis, defining business requirements, testing, tool development, and audit-compliant documentation
• Supporting regulatory implementation projects
• Analyzing business requirements and implementing reports
• Acting as a liaison between business and IT
• Publishing on regulatory changes
• Training internal colleagues on regulatory topics

• Bridging the Head of Finance position until it was filled again
• Use of SAP R/3
• Hybrid working model
• 10% English

Overall responsibility for the financial functions of a production site with over 600 employees and more than EUR 500 million in annual revenue. Actively shaping the strategic and operational site development in close collaboration with plant management. Shared P&L accountability, including budget, forecast, and investment control. Leading the controlling, reporting, CapEx, and accounting teams, ensuring transparent and performance-oriented control structures. Since 05/2024, additionally serving as deputy plant manager with joint responsibility for overall performance, organizational development, and site strategy.

• Successful resolution of a complex insurance claim in the multi-million-euro range
• Active contribution in an interdisciplinary core team to secure a multi-year contract worth over EUR 150 million
• Successful negotiation of a restructuring program as part of a three-person corporate negotiation team
• Sustainable optimization of cost structures and investment prioritization to stabilize results

• Implemented a group-wide project management and project controlling framework (SAP PPM / SAC)
• Designed an earned value based control system (costs, progress, schedule)
• Integrated quotation, product and financial data into SAP
• Led interdisciplinary teams in agile and hybrid setups

• Developing and updating training programs on BP, SD, MM, PP topics according to the needs of the company and its employees.
• Creating and updating training materials such as presentations, manuals, and online resources.
• Identifying the team's training needs (TNA/TBA).
• Independently implementing a new company structure in RE-FX.

• Project management and change management
• Blueprint-to-go-live including cutover
• Implementation in a greenfield approach
• Management of the integrator
• Designing, organizing, and executing change management
• Agile management in Jira and Confluence
• Fit-gap analysis, requirement engineering, development, testing, cutover, and hypercare
• Covering the processes Sales-from-Stock, Procure-to-Pay/-Receipt, Invoice-to-Pay

• Financial controlling, IT controlling, support of a change process, implementation of new cost center and cost unit structures, adjustment of finance workflow, IT budget planning and budget tracking, CAPEX, OPEX (HGB, SAP, XFlow; trading group) (since 2024-09-01)
• Project controlling, contract controlling, project contribution margins, project accruals for monthly and quarterly closing, reporting, accounting (HGB, Datev; advertising agency group) (2024-06-01 to 2024-06-30)
• Financial controlling support in a group environment; vacancy cover, operational controlling, revenue accrual in the year-end closing, process optimization, support for new ERP implementation, introduction of new reporting (KPIs, cost center accounting, service charge allocations), support of a change process/restructuring/reorientation (IT services) (2022-01-01 to 2024-09-30)
• Financial controlling with focus on working capital, cash flow projection, SOX testing (US advertising agency group, shared service) (2023-11-01 to 2024-05-31)
• FP&A, financial modelling, balance sheet planning (Lucanet) in an international corporate environment (solar industry) (2023-09-01 to 2023-11-30)
• Vacancy cover, overall commercial responsibility; operational accounting (Datev), collaboration with external tax advisor/auditor, coordination with British parent company (advertising agency) (2023-04-01 to 2023-08-31)
• Support for the general ledger team in a service group (US GAAP, SAP, Lucanet); preparation of HGB financial statements, reconciliation and submission of VAT returns, accounts reconciliations, support during tax audit (US media group) (2023-01-01 to 2023-06-30)
• Operational commercial oversight; financial controlling, operational accounting (Datev, Datev Unternehmen Online), collaboration with external tax advisor/auditor (film production) (2021-04-01 to 2023-02-28)
• Planning and budgeting, introduction of KPIs; structuring of monthly profit and loss statements and advising the management (digital agency) (2021-03-01 to 2023-01-31)
• Inventory and concept development for product and project controlling as well as implementation (gaming agency) (2022-10-01 to 2022-12-31)
• Financial controlling and improvement of accounting processes, redefinition of KPIs/controlling (event agency) (2021-08-01 to 2022-12-31)
• Reporting, financial controlling, ERP system change (easyJob), process optimization, realignment of KPIs, operational accounting, ensuring a smooth document flow (advertising agency group) (2022-04-01 to 2022-10-31)
• Vacancy cover of operational controlling/project controlling; revenue accrual in monthly closing (IT service provider/digital agency in a group environment) (2021-06-01 to 2021-12-31)
• Software selection and implementation of ERP system with a focus on digital workflow/remote work, interface to Datev, Datev Unternehmen Online (design agency) (2021-03-01 to 2021-12-31)

• Consulting, planning, and adapting (extension and rebuild) of the existing test framework to cover necessary test cases as part of quality assurance for initiative implementations
• Executing cross-team manual test cases during regular sprint cycles
• Setting up test automation
• Advising front-end and back-end development on quality assurance aspects
• Building a framework for end-to-end test cases
• Performing software quality assurance across various projects within a program
• Supporting the creation of test cases
• Coordinating within the team with all relevant stakeholders