Christian Steiner

About

Experience

• Lenzing AG (Lenzing, Upper Austria, Austria · On-site)
  • Vice President Finance Divsion Pulp
    Jan 2021 - Present · 5 yrs 6 mos

    Full responsibility of Finance operations of Division Pulp Legal Entities. Functional leadership of Joint Venture Finance operations. Leading and developing an international team of >20 FTE (incl. JV > 40) In line with Group policy setting-up a division specific planning process; harmonizing site specific reporting structure and route into Division Pulp reporting; Develop Division Pulp Finance Community; bank meetings and legal entity financing Director (“Geschäftsführer”) of Pulp Trading Gesellschaft GmbH and part of Lenzing Division Pulp Management Team

  • Head of Investment- and Purchasing Controlling
    Nov 2017 - Dec 2020 · 3 yrs 2 mos

    Responsible for capex approval process incl. workflow, economic calculations, project reviews, board presentation and discussion. Responsible for purchase controlling incl. introduction of new dashboard and regular review meetings on board level. Amongst others introduction of SAP Capex workflow, new capex monitoring process and Strategic Investment Planning Process.

• Team Lead Valuation Principles at The Linde Group
  Jul 2012 - Oct 2017 · 5 yrs 4 mos

  Full responsibility for group wide goodwill, asset and investment impairment testing and valuation projects; Analyze and derive industrial gas market specific standardized valuation parameters. Leading and developing the group valuation team; Business partner for segment and local Financial and Controlling teams;discussion partner for external auditors. Setting up new processes to ease and standardize tasks such as introducing the asset monitor or preparing the investment monitor.

• Referent Accounting at Man Group
  Jan 2012 - Apr 2012 · 4 mos

  Accounting: Focus on IFRS accounting for Financial Assets, Pensions and Leasing. Support in the preparation of the financial report 2011. Specialist for MAN Leasing subgroup requests.

• Manager Valuation and Strategy at PricewaterhouseCoopers AG Wirtschaftsprüfungsgesellschaft
  Feb 2005 - Oct 2011 · 6 yrs 9 mos

  Manager & “Wirtschaftsprüfer” in Advisory, Valuation & Strategy. Major activities comprise national and international projects in the transactions/M&A business including: Corporate Finance: Leading enterprise valuations projects and provide client specific business plan models Accounting: Successfully support clients in group consolidation issues and provide purchase price allocations, asset valuation and Impairment-testing services Provide internal training in the fields of group consolidation and impairment testing