CFO services and financial management

CFO services, M&A consultant, project management, auditing and process optimization

  • Managing and coordinating a controlling department
  • Preparing annual and monthly integrated budgets (including variances analysis and alternative P&L breakdowns)
  • Implementing KPI systems
  • CAPEX planning, project-based investment and ROI calculations
  • Supervised actual monthly reporting and variance analysis
  • Subsidiary management
  • Contact person for issues related to group reporting and non-operational parts of the budget
  • Ad-hoc direct management functions for subsidiaries
  • Managing finance and accounting department
  • Preparing annual, quarterly and monthly financial statements according to statutory, IFRS and US-GAAP
  • Contact person for all issues relating to commercial and tax law and accounting and closing of financial statements
  • Forecasting for cash and loan requirements; cashflow analysis for group companies
  • Cash and loan management
  • Supervising net working capital and impairment review for long term assets
  • Contact person for government authorities, attorneys, tax consultants, auditors, banks and insurance brokers
  • Support bankruptcy administration and restructuring
  • Managing digitalization projects in Finance & Administration (digital invoice processing, time registry, travel expense management)
  • Supervising and administration of financial activities for construction of new buildings and factory extensions valued up to 30 million euros
  • Planning, budgeting and implementation of restructuring projects
  • Managing process and workflow optimization
  • Incorporation and management foreign branches and subsidiaries
  • Implementing upgrades and new SAP applications
  • Implementing shared desks and remote management concepts
  • Business valuation for acquisition of target companies
  • Managing the M&A process and financial due dilligence
  • Supervising group internal mergers, carve outs and legal restructurings
  • Managing post-merger integration of newly acquired companies
  • Year-end audits of financial statements according to statutory, IFRS and US-GAAP
  • Review of internal control systems (according to SOX 404, J-Sox)
  • Audit and audit-related projects (25+ years)
  • Acquisition of new audit clients
  • Managing an internal audit department
  • Auditing internal control systems in group administrative and operative areas
  • Managing voluntary audits of group companies
  • Compliance reviews
  • Supervision of 100 outlets of a company-owned trade chain (as internal audit manager)
  • Reasonability reviews of budgets and projections
  • Administrative management of an IT Department
  • Responsible for corporate counsel, exports control and tariffs
  • Administrative management of reception service / cafeteria services / facility management