Stefan Rehkopf

Passionate Leader | Senior Management | Finance | Shared Services | Compliance | Values & Results | Digitalization & Change | Team Builder | International Experience

Greater Hamburg Area

About

• Experienced CFO/Managing Director/Finance VP with sustained success in medium-sized environments • Broad (international) financial expertise: commercial management, accounting, controlling, IT, shared services, investment controlling, compliance, and risk management • Extensive experience in transformation projects and in-depth digitalization expertise • International restructuring and change management projects: plant closures and relocations, cost and process optimization in sales and administration, establishment of shared service centers • Strategy development and implementation • Several years of experience abroad

Experience

  • Chief Financial Officer at EUROPA-CENTER AG
    Nov 2025 - Present · 8 mos

  • Beiersdorf (Hamburg, Germany)
    • VP Finance Corporate Real Estate and Managing Director Pension Fund
      Jul 2023 - Oct 2025 · 2 yrs 4 mos

      Responsible for the financial matters and the controlling of large investment projects & the administration of the pension fund (subsidiary of Beiersdorf), including the management and optimization of the real estate portfolio.

    • VP Corporate Auditing & Business Continuity Management
      Feb 2019 - Jun 2023 · 4 yrs 5 mos

      Chief Audit Executive of the group, responsible for all internal auditing activities of the group and global investigations. Responsible for the business part of the global Business Continuity Management.

    • VP Finance Processes & Transparency and Managing Director of Beiersdorf Shared Services
      Jul 2014 - Jan 2019 · 4 yrs 7 mos

      Responsible for a comprehensive finance transformation process of the group, i.e. global planning and reporting processes, transition of accounting services outside Europe to a 3rd party service provider and set-up of the global governance function. Global roll-out of a unified SAP template. Leading global accounting services (R2R, P2P, O2C, Cost Accounting, global IFRS reporting and reporting according to HGB) of the group with 250 FTEs in 6 globally located Shared Service Centers (captive and BPO managed).

  • CFO Poland and Baltics at NIVEA Polska
    Jul 2011 - Jun 2014 · 3 yrs

    Responsible for Accounting (IFRS and local GAAP)/Tax/Financial Controlling, Marketing Controlling, Sales Controlling, Supply Chain Controlling and the IT department. Supporting the marketing, sales and supply chain operations in Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia with a total of 300 employees.

  • Beiersdorf (Greater Hamburg Area)
    • Regional Business Controller
      Jul 2010 - Jun 2011 · 1 yr

      Regional Controller (Sales and Marketing Controlling) for the region AMERICAs. Financial Business Partner for the Regional Executive Board Member. Business Development for and within the Region.

    • Senior Supply Chain Controller
      Nov 2006 - Jun 2010 · 3 yrs 8 mos

      Controller for the global producton center network. Supporting the financial planning process of the worldwide manufacturing organization. Designing an efficient and key figure based controlling approach to steer and judge the performance of Supply Chain entities und processes. Development of a decision oriented financial reporting. International footprint and restructuring projects.

  • Controlling Department of Salzgitter Flachstahl GmbH at Salzgitter AG
    Aug 2002 - Oct 2006 · 4 yrs 3 mos

    Production and investment Controlling. Profitability/margin controlling and sales decision support for single products and product divisions. Development of a multi-level order profitability calculation. Determination of decision oriented financial indicators for yearly business plans.