SAP CO Expert in Munich

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

• 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.

• 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.

Freelance consultant in a family foundation and other companies in the role of commercial manager/CFO in the real estate/construction industry Responsibilities

• Treasury & Financial Planning
• Controlling
• Accounting
• Human Resources
• IT

• Group-wide responsibility for developing new business models, strategic support of corporate start-ups and managing equity in start-ups
• Direct management of 3 employees
• Direct reporting line to executive management
• Business Development: designing and building an information platform on the global machine base and customer sales/margins in the aftersales area based on SAP data, supporting sales planning as part of the budget, advising project teams on profitability calculations
• Digital Ventures: defining terms, developing processes to generate and develop new business models, operational validation of new business models to expand the group's business areas, strategic support of project teams in implementing new business models, cooperation project with Munich University of Applied Sciences, steering and supporting equity investments in start-ups

• Developed organization, task descriptions, processes and systems of the controlling system to improve activities.
• Harmonized ERP software within the group across IT procurement, plan data, controlling and reporting.
• Designed the basis for an agile and modern IT control system.
• Set up budget plans and supported master data and planning.
• Monitored and validated projects in the PM tool Sciforma, covering OPEX and CAPEX in line with legal requirements and group rules.
• Performed PMO assistance activities including meeting minutes, presentations and reports.
• Tools: SAP FI/CO, SAP MM, SAP PPM, PM-Tool Sciforma, MS Office 365.

• Responsible for cutover planning and go-live management of multiple parallel IT releases in the e-commerce environment
• Creating and maintaining cutover plans, runbooks and rollback scenarios, plus audit-ready documentation of all cutover activities
• Defining and managing go/no-go decisions, escalation paths and resource availability in the cutover window
• Coordinating technical and business workstreams, managing external service providers and ensuring data consistency
• Managing and reviewing trial cutovers, structured handover to the hypercare phase
• Cutover reporting and communication before, during and after go-live at decision-maker and C-level
• Result: All releases delivered on schedule, cutover processes sustainably established and handed over

• 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

• Migration to HANA BP.
• MDM-Team.
• Master-data-management.
• System landscape: SAP ECC to S4-HANA.

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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