About Christoph
Over the past decade, I gained extensive experience in:
- Project Management
- Risk Management
- Financial Services Advisory
- Regulatory Compliance
- Stakeholder Engagement
With this background, I consider myself as a versatile consultant, who can help your business with project delivery or support your finance function with subject matter expertise.
I work as well independently as in a team, where I like to learn from and get to know my peers and be part of creating an atmosphere in which everyone feels comfortable. I thrive most in inclusive, open-minded, diverse, and development-embracing environment.
German
Native or bilingual
English
Native or bilingual
Danish
Fluent
Dutch
Fluent
French
Fluent
Remote only
Primarily works remotely
Experience
- Too Good To Go ApSEnterprise Risk & Compliance ManagerDIGITAL AND ITOctober 2024 - February 2026 (1 year and 4 months)DenmarkRevision and professionalization of the enterprise risk framework
- Improved processes, adapted systems and governance structure, trained colleagues, implemented new roles, and led change management
- Reduced risk reporting complexity by 96%
- This prepares me to challenge your GRC setup, plan necessary adaptations and lead thei implementation
Management of inter-departmental projects across jurisdictions- Led the generation of the annual report, resulting in it being ready for audit two months earlier than in previous years
- This prepares me to step in to lead your complex projects from initiation to delivery
Fulfilment of reporting obligations- Took responsibility for reporting on DAC7, DPI, and 1099-K in time and data quality
- This prepares me to help your business filing the right data to the regulators
Enterprise compliance- Ensuring comprehensive compliance across all relevant regulation, together with legal, tech, ESG, public affairs, and tax departments
- This prepares me to conduct compliance gap analyses for your company, and advise on actions to be taken
Collaboration with regulators and business partners- Solved urgent matters and ad-hoc requests to secure business continuity
- This prepares me to answer regulatory request on your behalf
Generation of Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) and documentation centralization- Creation and continuous improvement of company-wide risk policy and handbook
- This prepares me to identify policy gaps, close these, and write your policy documents
Finance partner to the ESG function- Support with sparring and data provision on CSRD and carbon accounting
- This prepares me to support your data driven approach to ESG regulation
Regular exchange and collaboration with Information Security- This gave me insights in data regulation frameworks such as NIS2, GDPR, and ISO 200071/2
- This prepares me to support your Information and Cyber Security functions
- BDO AG WirtschaftsprüfungsgesellschaftManager Financial Services AdvisoryBANKING AND INSURANCENovember 2022 - September 2024 (1 year and 10 months)GermanyManagement of regulatory reporting projects
- Helped banks comply with solvency and transaction reporting, effectively preventing fining of several million EUR as well as irregular audits
- This prepares me to help you with reporting challenges and manage your projects in time and budget
IT-landscape modernization and customization- Led projects adapting banks’ IT systems in line with evolving business needs and regulatory requirements
- This prepares me to support you on advancing your IT systems
Close collaboration with high-level internal and external stakeholders- Successfully engaged high-ranking stakeholders, incl. C-level management, ensuring backing for project finances, plans, and extensions
- This prepares me to act as a trusted link between different parties within your organisation
Point of contact for regulatory bodies- Dealt with requests posed by regulators (BaFIN & ECB), challenged these and ensured they were answered in time and quality
- This prepares me to answer regulatory requests on your behalf
Revision of Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs)- Led a bank’s streamlining and improvement of the regulatory reporting written policy with over 200 documents, closing 2LoD compliance gaps
- This prepares me to collaborate with your functions on bringing documentation to the next level
Process improvement- Enhanced efficiency of a regulatory reporting team by challenging existing workflows and optimizing these
- This prepares me to identify gaps inyour processes and effectively close these
Project acquisition- Prepared pitch presentations and conducted negotiations with possible clients, securing new projects worth several 100k EUR
- This prepares me to support you on your vendor selection process or if you yourself answer to RFPs
- Federal Foreign OfficeProtocol OfficerPUBLIC SECTORAugust 2021 - September 2022 (1 year and 1 month)GermanyMultilateral conferences and summit meetings
- Planned and ensured smooth execution of events with participation of the German president, chancellor, or foreign minister
- This prepares me to securely navigate high-stakes environments and deliver my project results under pressure
Collaboration with embassies and foreign ministries- Working closely with officials of various cultural backgrounds fine-tuned my capabilities in recipient-oriented communication
- This prepares me to play key roles in diverse teams, always ensuring targeted, recipient-oriented communication
Navigating high-stakes, high-pressure environments- My work at the highest level of government sharpened my ability to main- tain calm and clearheadedness while paying cautious attention to detail
- This prepares me to act with calm and clear-headedness in any situation, focussing on the solution, not the problem
Engagement of high-level stakeholders- Managed to cater to the needs of numerous high-ranking officials involved in each project and facilitated necessary compromise
- This prepares me to effectively involve all levels and all colleagues necessary in processes and projects
Leading of project teams- Steered teams with the comprehensive responsibility for security, logistics, scheduling, and coordinating subject matter experts as well as interpreters
- This prepares me to take on responsibility for supporting your deliveries
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Education
- Master of Science Business AdministrationWestfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster2017Master studies with a specialization in Finance and Management
- Bachelor of Science International Business AdministrationEuropa-Universität Viadrina Frankfurt/Oder2013Broad business studies with an emphsis on finance topics
Certifications
- COSO Enterprise Risk ManagerFinance Executives International2025
- SCRUM Master Level 1Scrum.org2020