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Your company is growing fast – but the financial structures aren't keeping up? Or are you facing a funding round, restructuring, or strategic realignment?
I work as anInterim and Fractional CFOwith high-growth companies (20-250 employees) that want to professionalize their finance function and use it as a real steering instrument.
For over **15 years**, I have been supporting startups and SMEs through growth and transformation phases – from building robust controlling and liquidity structures to overall responsibility as Managing Director and CFO. I understand the perspective of shareholders, investors, and operational teams – and combine strategic clarity with operational execution.
My approach is **technology-driven and pragmatic**: I implement integrated financial planning (P&L, cash flow, balance sheet), develop rolling liquidity models, create transparent KPI and reporting systems, and optimize your finance stack through automation and clear data structures. The goal is a reliable basis for decision-making – not just pretty reports.
At the same time, thehuman element is centralfor me. Sustainable finance structures only emerge when teams take responsibility and understand the connections. I meet your employees where they are, develop finance teams further, and establish clear roles, processes, and responsibilities.
I prefer to work on-site in Berlin and the surrounding area. Personal presence is crucial, especially during sensitive growth or transition phases – for trust, speed, and real implementation.
If you are looking for an experienced CFO who thinks strategically, gets operationally involved, and understands finance as a value driver, **let's talk**.
German
Native or bilingual
Can work on-site
Berlin (up to 50km)
Experience
- CFO-as-a-Service BerlinFounder & Fractional CFOCONSULTING AND AUDITSJuly 2023 - Today (2 years and 11 months)Berlin, GermanyCFO-as-a-Service for dynamic companies with 20-250 employees in growth, scaling, and transformation phases.
- Holistic CFO responsibility: integrated planning (P&L, cash flow, balance sheet), liquidity management, and reporting
- Structured support for financing processes – from documentation and development of a viable storyline, through discussions and coordination with banks, investors, or funding institutions, to complete process execution
- Technology-Driven Finance: integration of finance, technology, and AI for data-based decisions, automated reporting processes, and modern system and controlling setups – with the goal of achieving results not only more reliably but also faster and more efficiently
- Best-practice approaches for small and medium-sized enterprises: structured, pragmatic solutions with a clear cost-benefit focus
- Financial management starts with the data basis: clean bookkeeping logic, clear account structures, reliable processes – building upon this, scalable automation and integrated planning models
- Collaboration at eye level – from management to the finance team. I meet people where they are and create clarity and responsibility
- Support in M&A and integration processes
Available on-site in Berlin or remotely. - denkmodell GmbHManagement ConsultantCONSULTING AND AUDITSJune 2025 - Today (1 year)Berlin, GermanyFractional CFO (part-time / project-based)
- Management of a fractional CFO mandate with direct reporting to the executive board
- Successful structuring and implementation of a corporate financing process (data preparation, bank presentations, support and execution of bank meetings)
- Introduction of integrated, rolling corporate planning (P&L, cash flow, balance sheet) including scenario analyses
- Development of a binding chart of accounts as a basis for transparent, management-relevant reporting
- Close sparring partner for the executive board in strategic and operational financial matters
- Further development and enablement of the finance department (processes, structures, reporting competence)
- ComX.io AI for SalesInterim Chief Financial OfficerDIGITAL AND ITNovember 2023 - March 2024 (4 months)Berlin, GermanyCommercial Excellence GmbH (ComX) is a SaaS corporate group (including Global Sales Leaders and Global Sales Technologies) focused on optimizing sales and marketing processes. With around 130 employees, the group achieved approximately EUR 10 million in revenue in 2023.As a finance consultant and later interim CFO, I was responsible for the core financial processes of the entire group. I developed an integrated, group-wide corporate plan as a strategic management basis and introduced KPI-based reporting, including consolidation. By standardizing financial processes and implementing Candis group-wide, workflows became significantly more efficient and transparent.Furthermore, I established weekly liquidity management, thereby creating planning certainty for shareholders and banks at all times. Result: increased manageability, clear transparency over profitability and cash position, as well as a scalable finance structure for further growth.
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Education
- Master Business AdministrationUniversity of Wuppertal2011Wirtschaftswissenschaften mit Schwerpunkt Controlling und Rechnungswesen. Gesamtnote: 1,5
- AI Business ConsultantIU International University of Applied Sciences2025- Machine Learning - Deep Learning - AI Use Case and Evaluation - AI Use Case (Projektarbeit: Eigenentwicklung eines Chatbots zur Aktien-Analyse) Abschlussnote: 1,3