Richard Strauss

Digital Finance

Greater Toulouse Metropolitan Area

About

living and working abroad for more than a decade on 4 different continents, I gathered well founded experience in international (program) management; working as senior manager for global players, my target is to identify and realize benefits by digital transformation in the finance area.

Experience

  • AirPower ERP Transformation Project Manager at Airbus Defence and Space
    Aug 2025 - Present · 11 mos

  • Airbus (16 yrs 4 mos)
    • Head of Controlling & Customs Finance Transformation
      Oct 2021 - Dec 2025 · 4 yrs 3 mos

    • HO Reporting & Planning Financial Systems
      Oct 2017 - Sep 2021 · 4 yrs

    • Head of Global Finance and Accounting Tools
      Sep 2009 - Sep 2017 · 8 yrs 1 mo

      - digitization with focus on finance processes - provide methods & tools to operations mainly in the field of ‘deliver accounting’ (= accounting processes: Acc Payables, Acc Receivables, Inter Company, General Ledger, Closing, Asset Accounting, Travel Expense Acc) in order to improve financial processes in quality, speed and efficiency • front & backend automation (RPA /robotics for touchless processing) • paperless processing • legal electronic archiving • ERM automation • fraud protection automation • process mining • data analytics • last but not least: change management

  • SAP Projects team responsible for FI / CO / BI at Siemens
    1999 - 2009 · 10 yrs

    SAP projects with full implementation cycles (durations between 6 months and 2 years) in Moscow, , Bangkok, Singapore, Chicago, Mexico City, Sao Paulo Other assignments in Helsinki, Brussels, Madrid, Munich, Nurnberg