Denis Kessel

Head of Financial Planning Solutions @ Bayer

Cologne Bonn Region

About

Experience

  • Bayer (13 yrs 7 mos)
    • Head of Financial Planning Solutions
      Jan 2023 - Present · 3 yrs 6 mos

      Leading a team of solution managers... ...providing a state-of-the-art financial planning ecosystem to the global Finance and Controlling community ...designing, building and continuously improving both related systems and processes supporting financial planning and forecasting ...taking end-2-end accountability for the execution of all group-wide planning and forecasting processes Personally acting as Project Lead for the desgin, implementation and roll-out of new large-scale solutions

    • Director Performance Management Solutions
      Sep 2019 - Dec 2022 · 3 yrs 4 mos

      Leading an agile cross-functional team... ...designing, developing and rolling out group-wide BI solutions for cost planning and reporting ...supporting the company's digital agenda by enabling efficient self-services and driving transformation towards Shared Service Center network ...building on broad end-to-end experience from guidance in data recording in SAP R/3 to user-friendly BI-based solutions 2022: Full-time Project Lead "Legal Entity Finance Management" to fully integrate and partially automate planning of unconsolidated financials (incl. P&L, Exposure Planning, Liquidity Planning, HBI Impairment Testing)

    • Head of Controlling Headquarter Companies
      Feb 2017 - Aug 2019 · 2 yrs 7 mos

      Providing leadership and change management to a team of legal entity controllers across 3 sites Acting as Project Lead for the design and implementation of a simplified headquarter cost steering approach along with a lean tax-driven charging of group-internal services

  • Bayer Material Science (Leverkusen, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Deutschland)
    • Global Finance Business Partner Polyurethanes
      Feb 2009 - Nov 2012 · 3 yrs 10 mos

      Owner of all strategic and operational financial models Providing insights to development of all KPIs and overseeing global business cases to enable better decision making

    • Senior Manager Management Accounting & Financial Reporting
      Oct 2004 - Jan 2009 · 4 yrs 4 mos

      Multiple roles laid the foundation for my career by building in-depth E2E process understanding and knowledge in ERP and BI solutions, i.e. ... ...consultancy for SAP-CO implementations (region Asia/Pacific) ...global expert for financial segmentation of the company's balance sheet using Profit Center Accounting (SAP EC-PCA) ...Product Costing incl. buildup of a BI-based consolidated product cost tool as a core project member (Tool is still in place at Bayer more than 15 years later) ...Providing financial statements according to local gaap, IFRS as well as tax rules; Contact for all auditor requests

  • Cost Accountant at Bayer
    Jul 2002 - Sep 2004 · 2 yrs 3 mos