Germany
Finance professional with focus on people
Plant Finance leader for Accounting, Controlling - 25+ direct/indirect reports - Managing end to end finance activities for accouting (yearly audits, in & outgoing invoices, cash collection, tax, bank) & controlling (customer price qoutes, monthly closing/ forecasting, yearly budgeting) - Sales @ 600MM€ - Focus on profitability, process improvement & people leadership
- EU Finance Shared Service Roadmap & Model - Reduce Monthly Closing by 1 working day - SAP migration Roadmap & Vision - Accounts Payable Automatization Project - RPA & AI roadmap & integation - Support Global Finance Transform Initiatives - M&A activities
Regional Finance Director for EU SA Turbo plants. Sales 2Bn$. Summary: Having worked in Finance in 20 years, with deep understanding of financial processes, rules my main goal has been always to empower, motivate people to achieve efficient ways of working with & through increased sales and profitability. Broad experience in various levels of finance with different industry including local / HQ perspective as well of diverse nationality experience helped in my goals achivement throughout in my carreer. - 5 Eu & South America plant+ Indenpendent After Market EU, sales up to 2 Bn$ - 2 direct reports, 5 indirect reports (plant CFOs) - Support, coordinate & drive financial result in line with SOX and accounting guidelines - Focusing on drive profitability, people development - Change management in Finance organization to drive Finance to the 21st century way of working by standardizing activities, digitalize & automatize activities to drive value add activities performance - Shared Service Center increase in EU Turbo Finance
- Implementation of a Salesforce.com platform to improve key stakeholders & SSC ways of working - Proces mapping of: As is & To be of the 3 SSC with aligned SLA implication - Full Change management with the business leads, suppliers (80.000+), employees (8.000+) - 4 direct reports - Business case preparation & enforcement
- SSC Finance Manager of 1300 + employee; 40 MM $ of yearly budget - Monthly, Quarterly, yearly closing (Accruals, Intercompany rebilling, PO & approval) - Internal control set up & monitoring - Responsible for yearly budget achievements - Strong involvement of reporting establishment, cost reduction, cost avoidance responsibility - Yearly financial audit preparation - Government incentive monitoring & requirement enforcement of 250 MM $ - 5 direct reports
- European OPEX Controlling for plannig, responsible of 250 MM $ yearly budget - Monthly, Quarterly, yearly closing & forecast (Accruals, Intercompany rebilling, PO & approval) - True Cost & Variance Explanation for Operational & Financial Directors EMEA,WW - Recommendations for cost efficiency & cost savings - Launch & implementation of Business Planning tool for OPEX cost - Travel spendings monitoring, process controll, spending control - 7 direct reports (5 controllers, 1 reporting analyst, 1 AP analyst) - Restructuring financial analysis & outlooks - CFO of Lexmark International Technology Hungaria Kft
- Monthly, quarterly & yearly cost estimation for direct material, salary & indirect cost, value of 200MM$, 2000 direct workers - Monthly & quarterly variance explanation of productivity & cost difference - Monthly closing tasks (Invoice & Cost accruals, Productivity estimation, Co-factory charges & accruals, General Ledger Closure & reconciliation) - Standard cost creation & monitoring - Yearly raw material stock take - Calculation & presentation of Cost productivity; KPI’s calculation (scrap, headcount) - 3 direct reports
2006 07 – 2008.07. GE FMP - Financial Management Program • FMP is a world wide Leadership Program offered by General Electric to form future finance leaders. 4 different Financial Analyst postions are filled; and 4 semesters of financial and strategical courses are educated 4th rotation 2008.02-2008.08 GE Lighting Europe Headquarter, Budapest Financial Analyst of Manufacturing Finance • Monthly Closing processes; reports & forecasts of Non Productive Cost at Annual Budget Value 26 Million $; owner of 17 cost centers Price Variance report Project • Project leader of implementation of an automated reporting system of price change; purchase value for sourced product at value of 50 Million $ 3rd rotation 2007.08-2008-02.Corporate Audit Staff, GE Money, Denmark & Sweden Internal Auditor • Full Balance Sheet, Profit & Loss Audit to comply with GAAP principles • Audit owner of Deferred income / Expense & Revenue Recognition • Audit Findings and Absolute Financial Impact of 2.7 Million $ 2nd rotation 2007.02-2007.08 GE Lighting Europe, Sourcing, Budapest Financial analyst of Sourcing • Monthly, Quarterly reports of Direct Material Price Change and Purchase Value; Monthly, Quarterly & Yearly Forecast(Yearly Budget 250 Million $) • Active participation and support in business planning and calculating efficiency 1st rotation 2006.08-2007.02 Financial Planning and Analysis, Budapest Bank Financial analyst of GE Money Hungary • Consolidate, analyze monthly, quaterly closing data for consumer and non consumer products • Prepare Management Infomation Reports of Monthly; Quarterly; Yearly Balance Sheet, Profit and Loss statement for Senior Management • Prepare Trend, Market share; Product Analysis on Hungarian Consumer & Corporate Bank Market Operational Expenditure Analyst • Cost line owner of Postage; Legal; Cash Handling; Bankcard • Prepare 2007 Budget Plan at value of 10 Million $