Controlling | Interimmanager Finance | CFO Support | Post-Merger Integration

* Reporting to the European CFO
* P&L: Customer annual turnover ~450M EUR
* Conducting strategic projects
* Optimization of monthly closings, reporting & analysis
* Financial planning & analysis for the company's biggest global client
* Business partnering with the Operations Director for the above client - calculating business
cases, quantifying risks/opportunities, etc.
* Continuous improvement of reporting processes, open issues in the transition from the legacy
reporting structure and processes to TELUS International's standards
* Setting up the management team, distributing responsibilities, setting the agenda, prioritizing
tasks and distributing them to the respective Finance Managers (Accounting, Controlling,
Payroll, Financial Reporting and Integration)




Selected achievements:
* Monthly Closings process improvement
* Worked with all process stakeholders to identify bottlenecks and inefficiencies in the
closing process; identified shortcomings of used tools and ways to improve them
* Shortened the duration of monthly closings by two business days
* New weekly report for client Account Director
* Set up a customized weekly reporting for the Account Director of the largest global client
* Finance team reorganization
* Set up new team structure and responsibilities in Northern Europe's Finance Team,
created a new position, restructured task division


As Integration Manager Finance
* Reporting to the European CFO
* Helping in transitioning to TELUS International's finance processes and standards
* Preparing the roll-out of Workday Finance Module to 6 companies in 4 countries
* Coordinating processes internationally between CA and EU entities, i.e. AT, BA, CH, DE, ES, FR,
LV, PL, RO, SK, TR
* Gaining a comprehensive understanding of TELUS International's updated reporting structure
and requirements and effectively adapting and integrating this knowledge into the existing
framework
* Determining the appropriate timing for making necessary changes, devising implementation
strategies, identifying potential obstacles - variations in legal frameworks between EU and CA
* Adjusting accounting rules to ensure compliance with IFRS standards

Selected achievements:
* Programmed a tool to import & transform the trial balances of 16 companies to Workday, incl.
automatic change of account & cost center structure; created a unique VBA-based tool that
automatically transforms local trial balances with local accounts & cost centers into Workday
ledgers
* Prepared Go-Live for Workday Finance Module
* Structured the local legal and operational requirements for implementing the Workday
Finance Module in 4 countries and six entities (AT, DE, ES and LT)
* Found a successor to go through at the planned go-live date after promotion to the next
position

As Controlling Manager
* Reporting to the CFO; working with finance teams in AT, BA, CH, DE, ES, FR, LV, PL, RO, SK, TR
* Controlling responsibility for ca. 350M EUR revenue, leading a team (2 FTEs)
* Business partnering with Operations and Business Intelligence teams
* Preparing and analyzing monthly closings, including results discussion with the management
* Rolling forecasting, quarterly forecasting, annual budgets
* Further development of reporting tools, systems, and dashboarding (QlikView, Excel, VBA, SQL)

Selected achievements:
* Managed three financial vendor due diligences (Ardian Private Equity, Silverfleet Capital,
TELUS International)
* Designed and rolled out a self-programmed planning solution for 100 contributors to
rolling/quarterly forecasts and annual budgets * 1st ever automated planning solution that
consolidates all planning inputs automatically; display and analysis in QlikView
* Improved planning process - facilitating financial planning discussions and decisions
* Support in setting up a daily margin tracker tool
* Together with the BI team - designed and conceptualized a daily margin tracker tool to
report and analyze the customer gross margins daily * significant contribution to
steering the operational management




As Controller
* Pioneered Implementation of the reporting tool QlikView * 1st web-based self-service BI
dashboard in the company
* Redesigned reporting processes with the Finance Director * led to a higher data quality *
tools used for ten years