SAP CO Experts in Munich

• Development controlling systems:
• Validate various Business Cases
• Develop organization, task description, processes and systems of the controlling system to improve activities
• Harmonize ERP software within the Group (IT-Procurement – Plan data – controlling – reports)
• Budget Master data and Planning:
• Set-up phase oriented project planning
• Monitor and validate projects: OPEX and CAPEX due to laws and concern dependency rules
• Validate regulatoric calculations
• PMO assistance activities
• presentations and reports Tools: SAP 4/HANA; SAP ERP Central Component (SAP ECC): SAP FI/CO; SAP MM; SAP PPM; BOARD; TABLEAU; MS Office 365;

• Led a 16-person finance and accounting organization during a restructuring phase; strengthened closing discipline, financial control, cash transparency and accountability.
• Supported cost programs with approximately €2 Mio. in annual savings; established regular KPI reviews for P&L, working capital, POC and cash topics.
• Responsible for monthly, quarterly and annual closing under HGB/IFRS, management/group reporting, audit, tax and GoBD compliance.
• Finance automation with clear business benefits: 13-week liquidity planning, cash flow reporting, P&L versus plan, variance analysis and bank reconciliation; reduced manual work by 40–60 %.
• Improved accounts payable processes through OCR-supported invoice processing and three-way matching with exception handling.
• Sparring partner to management on restructuring, liquidity, working capital, risks and process simplification.

• Focus areas: restructuring, operations management, commercial management, purchasing, production
• Industries: automotive, metal processing, shipbuilding, electrical, elevators / escalators

• WRICEF objects (Reports, Interfaces, Conversions, Enhancements, Forms and Workflow) in the FI and CO modules of S/4HANA ECC using ABAP OO
• Use of SAP HANA Studio, AIF, SAP Solution Manager, Confluence and Jira
• Environment: SAP S/4HANA on Premise 2020

• Provided technical support for tax reporting and reconciliations from IFRS to HGB with focus on IFRS 15 in an international environment
• Prepared missing documentation for annual audits of 2021 and 2022
• Served as single point of contact for tax authorities, tax advisors, and auditors
• Utilized SAP for reporting and design processes

• Lead SAP Controlling, Product Costing and Material Ledger activities across multiple legal entities, improving standard-costing consistency, inventory valuation and month-end financial reporting.
• Contributed to a 30% reduction in the overall financial closing cycle by coordinating SAP Finance, Controlling, Material Ledger and plant-closing activities against a structured month-end calendar.
• Maintain 99.5% SLA adherence while resolving complex Level 2 and Level 3 incidents across Product Costing, Cost Center Accounting, Material Ledger, Actual Costing, WIP, variance calculation and production-order settlement.
• Execute and validate individual and mass standard-cost estimates using CK11N and CK40N, ensuring accurate costing based on current BOMs, routings, activity prices, purchasing conditions and overhead structures.
• Improved product-costing accuracy by identifying and correcting inconsistencies across material-master costing views, activity types, work centres, BOMs, routings and purchasing data.
• Reduced month-end delays by resolving missing cost estimates, incomplete settlement rules, incorrect activity allocations, variance-calculation errors and production-order settlement failures.
• Reconcile production-order costs, inventory values, purchase-price differences, work in process, production variances and settlement postings across SAP Controlling, Material Ledger and General Ledger.
• Execute Material Ledger and Actual Costing close activities, including price determination, purchase-price-difference allocation and periodic unit-price validation.
• Analyse manufacturing-cost variances across raw materials, labour, machine activity, subcontracting, production usage and overhead costs, enabling business controllers to identify root causes and cost-reduction opportunities.
• Configure and support costing variants, valuation variants, quantity structures, cost-component structures, overhead-costing sheets and automatic account-determination settings.
• Coordinate annual standard-cost planning, costing runs and standard-price releases with Finance, Procurement, Production and plant-controlling teams.
• Improved indirect-cost visibility through cost-center planning, activity-price calculations, assessments, distributions and cost-allocation cycles.
• Support profitability reporting through Account-Based CO-PA, enabling analysis by product, customer, market, company code and profit center.
• Developed reconciliation controls, standard operating procedures and costing reports that improved financial governance, closing accuracy and audit readiness.
• Facilitate workshops and knowledge-transfer sessions covering standard costing, Material Ledger, WIP, production variances and production-order settlement.

• Responsible for cutover planning and go-live management of several parallel IT releases in the e-commerce environment
• Creation and maintenance of cutover plans, runbooks and rollback scenarios as well as audit-proof documentation of all cutover activities
• Definition and management of Go/No-Go decisions, escalation paths and resource availability during the cutover window
• Coordination of technical and business workstreams, management of external service providers and ensuring data consistency
• Management and evaluation of dress rehearsals, structured handover to the hypercare phase
• Cutover reporting and communication before, during and after go-live at decision-maker and C-level level
• Result: All releases completed as planned, cutover structures sustainably established and handed over

• Built and maintained Power BI dashboards (DAX, Power Query, data modeling) tracking KPIs across 15+ global manufacturing sites — primary reporting tool for EU leadership decision-making.
• Developed a multi-screen Power Apps application (configurator-style tool) with SharePoint-based workflow integration for the sales team — designed jointly with business stakeholders and IT.
• Built and maintained automated Power Automate workflows connecting to SQL databases; independently identified and deployed an LLM-driven automation use case that eliminated 90% of manual reporting effort — self-pitched to leadership and taken end-to-end into production.
• Built a Python-based data pipeline (SQL) extracting, modeling, and validating data across 10+ EU plants — establishing reliable data models and KPIs for cross-site reporting.

• Relaunch of the project management conference “PM-Summit” of PMI Germany Chapter e.V.
• Call for Papers and evaluation
• Onboarding of speakers
• Program composition
• Uploading the program to the website with presentation titles and speaker information
• Conducted the Call for Papers and completed and published the program
• Tools & technologies: Miro, MS Teams, Office

• Support for an SAP S/4HANA migration
• Adjustments and bug fixes in SAP CATS
• Technical stabilization of existing developments
• Code analysis and cleanup of custom ABAP developments

• Full responsibility for finance (Accounting, Controlling, Tax, BI, Legal)
• Built clear structures and roles for scaling
• Introduced a monthly steering and forecast rhythm (KPI set, EBITDA bridge, cash) as a decision-making basis for management/investors
• Established working capital and liquidity management including scenarios and action tracking
• Built reliable management reporting based on Google database/Holistics/DATEV, focusing on data quality and automation
• Managed financing and contract issues as CFO sparring partner to the founder

• Overall process definition, planning, training, tools, effective execution, and progress and quality measurement of test activities at the release level
• Defining and improving the test process
• Scheduling of releases
• Coordinating alignment with release management for test setup and data provisioning
• Coordinating migration test planning for Westnetz, Mitnetz, and EON Grid
• Monitoring test progress, audit-proof documentation, progress tracking via defects, OSS reports, and incidents
• Designing and coordinating potential test automation

IT environment: Jira Zephyr, Confluence, SIGMA, PowerBI

• Program governance support: assisted in maintaining planning and resource utilization, ensuring alignment with scope, quality, and timeline constraints
• Meeting and communication strategy: facilitated organization of steering committees, working groups, and all-hands meetings; prepared materials, created meeting minutes, and coordinated logistics
• Project reporting and coordination: collaborated with project managers on comprehensive project deliverable reports and ensured effective communication across all levels
• Deliverables oversight: monitored and controlled project deliverables to meet program requirements
• Change initiative coordination: supported assessment of change impacts on the integrated program management plan
• Project management certifications: trained in Prince2, IPMA, certified Scrum Master, and Product Owner
• Problem-solving: proactively identified and resolved issues efficiently
• Analytical and organizational skills: exhibited strong analytical abilities and exceptional organizational skills in structured and unstructured environments

• Audit and interpretation of monthly and quarterly financial statements
• Support for multi-year planning
• Development of monthly reporting
• Ad hoc tasks for sales, auditors and management
• P&L, balance sheet and cash flow analysis
• Supervision of the intellectual properties project