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Elena Peno

Accounting / CFO / Receivables Management

€840/day
Mannheim, DE
15+ years

Average response time: 1 hour

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About Elena

For 23 years, I have worked as a business administrator, primarily in financial accounting. I currently head the finance department of a municipality, the waterworks, and several foundations. In this role, I am primarily responsible for all accounting, payment transactions, and year-end closing activities. Under my responsibility, accounts payable and accounts receivable are managed, and receivables management is carried out.

Even before my work in accounting, it was essential to improve workflows through continuous optimization and to ensure the correct and timely execution of processes. As a consultant, I was able to support many administrations in introducing double-entry bookkeeping and in valuing all fixed assets. I also participated in the preparation of annual financial statements, where I could apply my profound and comprehensive expertise in accounting.

The business administration degree enabled me to expand my professional knowledge, acquire broad expertise, and develop strong analytical thinking skills. Therefore, I decided to further expand my skills by pursuing a Master's degree in Law.
  • German

    Native or bilingual

Remote only
Primarily works remotely

Experience

  • Tulos Consulting GmbH
    Accounting / Data Protection Officer
    CONSULTING AND AUDITS
    May 2025 - October 2025 (5 months)
    Speyer, Germany
    - Accounting for Tulos Consulting GmbH
    - Receivables management
    - Creation & maintenance of processing records
    - Creation of data protection-relevant documents
    - Review of specialized procedures for GDPR compliance.
    - Creation or review of data protection impact assessments
    - Advice on technical and organizational measures
    - Support in the creation of contracts for order processing
    GDPR Accounting Preliminary Accounting Compliance
  • ECE Marketplaces GmbH & Co. KG
    Interim Finance Manager Collection
    REAL ESTATE
    February 2024 - May 2025 (1 year and 3 months)
    Hamburg, Germany
    - Support with cleanup of accounting records in SAP
    - Independent processing of outstanding receivables in out-of-court dunning proceedings
    - Communication and negotiation with debtors, lawyers, and bailiffs
    - Analysis of existing systems and processes for the introduction of structured collections management – no prior process existed
    - Development and implementation of a process for statute of limitations monitoring, including integration of relevant departments for legally compliant receivables security and coordination with external service providers
    - Creation of Power BI reports for steering and monitoring
    - Preparation of decision proposals for team leadership
    - Complete project documentation during the conception and implementation phase
    - Support with objections to ancillary cost statements
    - Master data control and correction due to errors
    Receivables Management Project Support Account Reconciliation Accounting
  • Gemeinde Bad Schönborn
    Head of Finance
    August 2021 - February 2024 (2 years and 6 months)
    76669 Bad Schönborn, Germany
    - Management of the department with three teams and 12 employees
    - Budget and resource responsibility
    • Creation of the budget plan + financial planning for 3 years
    • Review and commenting on budgets
    • Support with consolidation and management
    • Documentation and presentation of finance-relevant content
    • Liquidity planning and ensuring liquidity
    • Year-end closing activities according to HGB and GemHVO
    • Receivables management and enforcement of execution proceedings as an enforcement authority
    • Support with cleanup of accounting records
    • Support with ongoing accounting
    Projects: Project 02/2020 to 07/2021 10 projects 03/2017 to 02/2020 02/2015 to 02/2017 Projects: • Ensuring accounting that is ready for closing with auditable items
    - Functional and disciplinary leadership of the area of responsibility
    • Steering internal processes
    • Review of contracts with external service providers regarding legal, financial, and content requirements.
    • Creation and preparation of decision proposals
    • Creation of statutes
    • Preparation of expert opinions
    - Personnel responsibility and further development of 3 teams
    - Foundation management (independent and dependent)
    Accounting Annual Financial Statements Receivables Management CFO

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Education

  • Master of Laws
    Saarland University
    2017
    Master of Laws - LLM, Recht
  • Master of Arts
    SRH University Heidelberg
    2012
    Master of Arts - MA, Wirtschaftswissenschaften

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