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COMPETENT. FLEXIBLE. IMPLEMENTATION-ORIENTED.
- Experienced entrepreneur, managing director, CFO, project manager, business partner, and supervisory board member
- 30 years of professional experience in various functions and positions, 25 of which in management positions
- Responsible for the monthly achievement of the company's commercial and financial goals and their implementation in various industries, functions, areas, and company phases
- Experience with/in international small, medium-sized, multinational, and listed companies, private equity and family offices, start-ups, as well as founding and integrating new locations
- Sustainable success through joint identification and realization of growth and expansion potentials, comprehensive optimization of ROI through development and implementation of cost reduction, turnaround, and change measures, relocation of sites and functions, as well as realignment and optimization of corporate structures including organizational development
- Initiation, support, control, and execution of program and project management
- Optimization of the company's systemic and systematic risk management
- Appreciative and convincing interaction with employees, specialists and managers, shareholders and owners. Through communication, motivation, and my dedicated work ethic, I lead people, projects, and companies to success.
German
Native or bilingual
English
Fluent
Can work on-site
Zug (up to 50km), Zürich (up to 50km), Basel (up to 50km), Genf (up to 50km), St. Gallen (up to 50km)
Experience
- FINEXCON GmbH | Professional Business ManagementCFO | CRO | PMO | CEO ad interimCONSULTING AND AUDITSJanuary 2013 - Today (13 years and 7 months)Steinhausen, SwitzerlandFINEXCON stands for tailor-made, execution-driven solutions in special and critical corporate situations, combining financial leadership, operational excellence, and sustainable value creation.Focus Areas, Key Priorities and Services
- Operating Partner for PEs, Family Offices, and Entrepreneurs - Building scalable finance organizations, performance monitoring, process optimization, and realization of value-creation potential.
- Finance Transformation and Process Digitalization - Design and implementation of efficient organizational structures; introduction of ERP and BI systems (SAP FI/CO, MS Dynamics 365 BC, LucaNet, Power BI) as well as cash and treasury management systems.
- Restructuring and Turnaround Management - Stabilization and development of companies in transition or crisis situations; safeguarding liquidity, cost optimization, and cash management.
- Project and Program Management - Structuring, steering, and execution of complex transformation and post-merger integration initiatives. Setup and leadership of PMOs. Efficiency gains through modern tools and methodologies.
- Interim Management - Effective assumption of executive and entrepreneurial roles as CFO / CRO / CTO / PMO Lead / CEO ad interim – operational, strategic, conceptual, and result-oriented.
- VariousCFO | Head of Finance, HR, Supply Chain Management, Customer Service & ITJanuary 1994 - January 2017 (23 years)Almost 23 years of cross-cutting, comprehensive and long-standing professional experience in a variety of sectors: chemicals, pharmaceuticals, cosmetics, the consumer goods industry (FMCG), wholesale, services, logistics, IT and banking. Over two decades of professional experience in the international environment, more than 10 years of which have been spent in executive positions in Anglo-American companies Wide-ranging, in-depth professional experience. Responsible for the monthly attainment of the commercial and financial goals of the company and their implementation in the areas of management and business leadership (19.7 years), finance (financial accounting 21.8 years, controlling 14.3 years), human resources management (10.7 years), customer care and key account management (9.9 years), M&A (9 years), purchasing and supply chain management (17.8 years), organisation, administration and law (14.1 years) as well as IT and telecommunications (9.5 years) Reflection and comprehensive experience in companies with a variety of key activities, including manufacturing businesses, retail companies and services and sales-oriented companies Sustainable success due to the shared seeking of potential for growth and expansion and the successful initialisation and guidance of growth (organic or M&A) and improvement of the profitability in agile start-ups (2.6 years), with small and medium-sized businesses (15.1 years) and multinational corporations (4.1 years) Optimisation of the ROI through the phase-specific development and implementation of cost-cutting, turn-around / change management programmes, relocations of locations and staff, as well as the realignment and optimisation of business structures. Strategic development of the company through the active implementation of the growth and profitability management,
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Education
- Master of Business Administration - MBA, Business Administration and Management, GeneralLudwigshafen University of Applied Sciences2002Master of Business Administration - MBA, Business Administration and Management, General