Munich, Bavaria, Germany
• Managing the financial controlling team; overseeing tasks, responsibilities, and providing training while fostering both professional and personal growth. • Consulting executives, partners, and business unit managers of Reply subsidiaries on monthly financial life cycles of forecast & budgets, providing guidance and derive actional recommendations to grow revenues and optimize operational costs. • Working in close collaboration with Reply’s board of directors to develop and showcase financial dashboards and ad-hoc reports for informed strategic decision making. • Partnering across subsidiaries and functions to identify and resolve operational weaknesses within controlling and finance operations. • Identifying and mitigating financial risks associated with Reply SE subsidiaries to ensure and optimize free cash flow.
• Drove financial project management by maintaining forcasts, controlling expenditures, and planning resource allocations to support successful project delivery. • Responsible for the monthly closing of all customer projects ensuring sustained profitability of projects. • Conducted ad-hoc financial analyses for the chief executive officer (CEO). • Closely cooperated with the chief operating officer (COO) to develop client partnerships and create new offers for current and future customers. • Provided status-quo financial reports to support strategic decision-making by higher management.
• Provided financial management advisory to 12 companies across the REPLY Germany network, with annual revenues spanning €300K to €20M. • Led monthly pre-review financial meetings to prepare and analyze month-over-month (MoM) revenue forecasts, assess sales and pipeline performance, and review financial statements. • Created annual budgets and business plans year-over-year (YoY). • Responsible for financial analysis in due diligence processes for major M&A transactions. • Provided monthly presentations on the financial overview of executive management company networks, presented to stakeholders and members of board. • Collaborated with the financial accounting team to assess and mitigate accounts receivable risks for operating entities in compliance with IFRS standards.
• Developed individual financial models for analysis of convertible notes to the board. • Assisted in controlling of quarterly and yearly spreadsheets for financial planning. • Supported and optimized monthly target-performances, in addition to formatting the company’s income statement into a standard form for future use. • Produced daily updates of internal performance dashboards for the sales and media team. • Made monthly adjustments to the operating CRM platform, in addition to processing incoming bills and reported them in the company’s CRM system.