South Africa
Responsible for leading, recruiting and designing the new dedicated Finance & Controlling team for DTB: managing all financial reporting, budgeting and forecasting. Managing 16 staff members responsible for Controlling and Accounting across Wholesale and Retail functions. Liaising with Auditors as well as Daimler’s central Finance functions such as Treasury, Tax, M&A and Accounting Shared Service Centre.
Responsible for controlling of sales subsidiaries in several European countries (UK, France and six other countries), managing a team of two. Target setting (sales volume, profit etc.) for all markets in cooperation with Daimler sales subsidiaries; Plan/Actuals as well as plan/plan analyses; Calculation of business cases; price setting for Mercedes Benz passenger vehicles in cooperation with sales department.