SAP FI 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;

• Agile Transformation Coach within an SAP-driven End-to-End Lead-to-Cash program, supporting leadership and management teams in implementing and evolving the Sherpa Way of Working, strengthening Agile practices, role definitions and responsibility clarity (RACI), and delivery effectiveness
• Member of the leadership core team for the Way of Working, shaping and evolving agile operating models, challenging existing practices, and driving pragmatic, system-level improvements
• Conceptualized a Polarion-based Scrum Master dashboard as a single, role-based entry point for sprint status, dependencies, risks, and governance artefacts, reducing reporting overhead and improving transparency
• Provided targeted 1:1 coaching to the Master Scrum Master and Scrum Masters, strengthening leadership capability, role effectiveness, and support for team-specific challenges, including the redesign of Scrum Master syncs and collaboration formats
• Worked with teams and leadership on End-to-End Lead-to-Cash process analysis and documentation in SAP Signavio, supporting alignment, transparency, and a shared understanding of process expectations across teams

The program supports the comprehensive realignment of the German Consumer Panel Services business. It combines a significant panel boost with the reprocessing of historical data and the integration of new receipt data. By significantly expanding and stabilizing the panel with the involvement of external partners, the aim is to improve the validity of the data base and create a reliable foundation for methodology, weighting and customer reporting. At the same time, historically grown processes for data delivery, OCR, matching, item QC, methodology and reporting are being harmonized, further developed technologically and reorganized. The goal is a scalable end-to-end landscape with higher data quality, clear responsibilities, reliable governance and sustainably manageable operational processes.

• Overall management of the restatement program, including the integrated roadmap as well as milestones, dependencies, risks and management decisions.
• Coordination of the panel boost and alignment of the required data deliveries, quality requirements and prerequisites for methodology, weighting and reporting.
• Alignment of business, product, data science, technology, operations and external partners around a shared target picture, aligned priorities and an integrated approach.
• Design of the organizational change triggered by the fundamental realignment of the data base, methodology and management logic, which has a lasting impact on established decision-making and collaboration patterns.
• Establishment and further development of governance, reporting and escalation structures as well as program-wide monitoring and operational processes for reliable management and sustainable handover.
• Management of critical data, technology and provider dependencies, including reprocessing, OCR transition and the timely synchronization of delivery, testing, methodology and reporting.
• Orchestration of international collaboration with teams and stakeholders in Germany, the United Kingdom, Portugal and Romania, as well as with external suppliers in Germany and Austria.

Impact Areas and Expertise: Program & Delivery Leadership, Business & Technology Alignment, Organization & Transformation, Governance & Sustainable Operations, Strategy & Target, Methodic Leadership, Transformation & Change Leadership, Executive Advisory

• 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

Project: Develop a new generational Pricing system & Integration analyst

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Implemented PROS Pricing integrated with SAP S/4HANA 2022 Greenfield implementation.
• Led pricing process transformation, improving business process efficiency through automation.
• Defined migration strategy, conducted user training, and supported solution rollout.
• Acted as Business Analyst for SAP BTP applications (Online ATP, Track & Trace, Order Status), translating business requirements into scalable solutions.
• Managed cross-functional delivery by coordinating SAP ABAP and Full Stack development teams.

• 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

• Analysis of affected business processes taking numerous stakeholders into account
• Interface analysis, architecture and system design
• Communicating and coordinating various subprojects and interface partners
• Creating epics and user stories, maintaining the backlog, workshops and review presentations
• Support during implementation between business departments and development
• Test management including strategy and approach definition
• Test case definition, execution and approval
• Cross-team organization of integration and acceptance tests
• Support of test environments
• Technologies and tools: Java, Angular, Kubectl, REST, AWS SNS/SQS, Kafka, S4/HANA, Bruno

• Conducted manual testing for claims creation, forwarding, repair cost calculation, parts selection and logging on the Gold.dat.de platform
• Automated key processes using ASKUI, including login, claim creation, calculations and parts selection
• Simulated user interactions (e.g., drag-and-drop) with ASKUI
• Integrated automated tests into CI/CD pipelines for early error detection
• Executed over 50 test scenarios and identified critical defects
• Reduced test time by 50% through automation
• Improved platform quality and user experience

• Organizational design & HR transformation project.
• OKR development.