Flexmanager - CEO, CFO, COO, General Manager, Managing Director, Finance D

CEO, CFO, COO, General Manager, Managing Director, Finance D

Work Experience

Selected Experience:

2001- Accenture GmbH, Germany

Accenture is one of the world\'s leading management and technology services organization listed on the New York Stock Exchange (ACN).

Senior Manager Finance & Performance Management

Responsibilities & Areas of Activity:

* Focus on helping CFOs to address today’s significant challenges – rearchitect the back office, enhance revenue growth, enable new business models & champion value creation

* The activities cover the following service offerings:

Finance Strategy
- Organization and Function
- Post Merger Integration
- Finance Capability

Value and Performance Management
- Shareholder Value Concepts
- Planning for Value
- Performance Reporting Solutions

Finance and Accounting Solutions
- Financial Shared Services

Operations
- Outsourcing

1999-2001 TradeNetOne.com AG, Frankfurt

VC financed company offering internet based tools and services for the European logistics industry

Originator, Founder and CEO/CFO

Achievements: (more details)

* setting up founders` team, employing highly qualified staff, as well as attracting senior managers to join the supervisory board
* driving strategy of TNO
* presenting TNO at various Venture Capital congresses and closing two financing rounds raising in excess of DM 20 Mio; investors are SAP AG, Holland Venture, Part`Com, Wellington and Gold Zack
* placing the company in the e-25 of Focus Money (2nd. place)
* placing the company in research reports of leading Investment Banks (Deutsche Bank, Goldman Sachs, UBS Warburg, Lehman Brothers and DLJ)
* engaging UBS to identify take-over targets in Europe to initiate pre IPO consolidation
* successfully closing deals with strategic partners (Living Systems, TransCare)
* qualifying the company as SAP partner, ensuring the integration of the products into the SAPMarket world as well as a SAP Marketing Partnership
* setting up the financial system
* manage external resources (PwC – the company was part of a special support program – tax advisor, banks, insurance companies, head hunters, lawyers and notaries)

1998-1999 Lear Corporation European Head Quarter, Sulzbach, Germany

Globally operating automotive supplier. A Fortune 500 company listed on the NYSE.

European Finance Manager - M&A

Responsibilities: (more details)

* managing the acquisition process in Europe
acquisition of companies and plants (Poland, Italy, South Africa);
* valuation, risk assessments, negotiations, closing and monitoring of agreed targets for determination of final purchase price adjustments
* breaking up of joint venture and acquisition of plant in UK: valuation, negotiations and closing
* supporting the integration of acquired businesses of UTA in Poland and Hungary (finance and treasury)
- assess quality of top management (GM, CFO, etc)
- assess quality of financial system & reporting
* negotiating fees, managing of resources (accountants, lawyers)
* project work:
tooling: analyzing agreements with OEM in terms of co-development and cost reimbursement for tooling, determining of total cost incurred & reimbursements received

1994-1998 Coopers & Lybrand Deutsche Revision, Frankfurt

Big Six Accounting Firm, Corporate Finance and International Audit Department

Audit Manager: (more details)

Audit Clients: international clients in manufacturing, telecommunication, trading, construction, pharmaceutical, chemical; all areas of audit covered including US-GAAP adjustments

Project Manager Corporate Finance: (more details)

* numerous corporate finance projects partly in cooperation with C&L offices in the UK and the US covering companies with T/O ranging from DM 10 Mio to DM 1 billion + (e.g. the IPO of Merck KGaA, Darmstadt)
* valuation, risk assessment, participation in negotiations and preparations of contracts
* analyzing and evaluating the internal controls of a multinational concern
* research and summary of the legal aspects and regulations for the first world wide consolidation of a German group
preparing a study indicating social costs, legal risks and consequence of the liquidation of a German subsidiary

1993 Coopers & Lybrand, Budapest, Hungary

Corporate Finance & Management Consulting Services

* Privatization of a hotel chain
* Analyzing and restructuring of the purchase and sales order cycle for an int. operating consumer products company

Education

1990-1994 University of Hannover

Business Administration & Economics: majoring in management & organization, law and audit

Degree: Dipl. Ökonom

1987-1990 Technical University of Darmstadt

Business Administration & Mechanical Engineering

1973-1987 School

Matthias Claudius Gymnasium, Gehrden (Hannover) (1982-1984 Saint John\'s High School, Houston, Tx., USA)

Degree: Abitur

Skills

Computer skills:

* solid SAP skills
* solid knowledge of MS office products
* solid knowledge of Lotus products

Languages

* German: native
* English: fluent (due to an extended stay in the US from 1982 - 1984)

Other

Interest:

* technology
* sports
* reading
* traveling