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

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

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

• 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

• Consulting, training, and coaching in the financial sector on strategy, organization, and IT topics

• MorgenFund: Advising the operator of a fund platform on software selection for a sub-ledger "Cash Accounts" based on Virtual IBANs (VIBAN)

• Structuring requirements, market screening, creating RfIs, communicating with vendors, and conducting the selection process

• UniCredit/HypoVereinsbank: Workstream lead "Booking and Customer Reporting" in the payment transformation project "PULS"

• Business analysis, creating business requirements and aligning solution items as part of the functional specification with the bank's IT service providers

• Business analysis of SEPA CT and SWIFT MX (.camt, .pain, and .pacs formats), change management, team lead for a virtual team of fifteen line experts, and stakeholder management

• equensWorldline Germany: Program management for three projects of the SWIFT service bureau (CBPR+, ESMIG, and Euro1Step1 migration) as part of the SWIFT MX migration

• Managing individual project managers regarding overarching goals and requirements; reporting to internal and external committees and stakeholders; coordinating with dependent projects and programs

• Project management/PMO: interim project management, stand-in for project managers, resource planning, budget and cost management, general PMO tasks

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

• Controlling business partner for the central department managing complex quality projects in plant operations

• Bridging vacancy: Operational leadership of the controlling team in Germany, Spain and India, knowledge transfer and onboarding of the new Head of Controlling

• Year-end closing: Calculation and audit-ready documentation of various scenarios for provisions for impending losses and performance obligations

• Process improvements: Increasing transparency of the monthly quality cost forecasts, partial automation of provision calculation with PowerQuery/PowerPivot

• 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

• Led project management for over 150 validation and verification projects for medical ceramic implants (hip, knee, shoulder, spinal and dental) across international production sites, including presses, mills, turning, grinding, milling, polishing, proofing, laser, washing and packaging equipment, as well as cleanrooms
• Managed the validation team and overall planning of validation activities, including creation of application specifications, equivalence analyses, risk classifications and validation plans (VP/DP/IP/OP/PP/FAT)
• Performed FATs at suppliers, and prepared FAT and final reports for regulatory submissions to authorities and customers
• Participated in internal, regulatory and customer audits
• Senior project lead for SAP PS-BAU at a leading Frankfurt bank: led the development team, coordinated external service providers, acted as single point of contact for the business unit, and supported design phase and test management
• Provided consulting and conducted trainings and workshops on quality, validation and regulatory requirements for international equipment manufacturers and system integrators
• Provided consulting and project leadership in supply chain, logistics and procurement for international clients

• 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

• Consulting on SAP authorizations and governance
• Conducting governance consultations, iteration support and project coordination
• Developing solutions for effective control and monitoring of SAP authorizations
• Creating concepts and recommendations
• Drafting detailed concepts to improve the assignment and management of SAP authorizations
• Providing clear recommendations based on established methods and best practices
• Creating/customizing authorizations for MM including MDG/MDM as well as FI, PP including AIRC Services within SAP Finance
• Reviewing existing structures and processes
• Analyzing and evaluating current SAP authorization structures and processes
• Identifying weaknesses and developing optimization strategies
• Conducting trainings and workshops
• Planning and delivering trainings and workshops for awareness
• Sharing knowledge in SAP authorizations, including role assignment, support during iterations and consulting on role development in the pharmaceutical environment.