Interim CFO - Kaufmännischer Leiter / GF / Finanzvorstand

Kaufmännische Leitung 
verhandlungen mit Banken
Finanzierung
Ausbau Controlling / Reporting
Liquiditätsplanungen
Personalarbeit
hands-on

* Holding company for its subsidiaries: fan frankenstolz Schlafkomfort,
Mainaschaff / H. Häussling, Neustadt a.d.W. / Centa Star, Stuttgart
* Approximately 1,000 employees, € 120 million turnover
* 5 factories in Germany
* Bedding items
* Foundation of the former owner Herbert Neumeyer (+2016)


CFO
Reported to the foundation council, 45 employees

Main responsibilities:
* Restructuring / Turnaround-Management
* Controlling, Finance, Accounting
- Implementation of a Management Information System
- Creating a monthly reporting system
- Planned and controlled budget
- Preparation of annual financial statements (HGB)
* IT (ERP: Navision)




- Development of secure IT-structures (backup, Emailarchiving
system, DMS)
* Human Resource Management
* Contact person and negotiating partner of the works council
* Process optimization
* Risk Management and operational Insurances
* Central contact person for auditors

Successes:
* Improved profit transparency:
- Product lines
- Customers
- Sales channel
* Enhanced forecast quality
* Process optimization (e.g. accounting)
* Self responisble sale of a production site (10% more than
expected)
* Reduced insurance costs by 20 %
* Successful selection process to find an IT solution for
production data acquisition system

Hannover
* Ticket vending machines, machines for data collection; in-house
development hard- and software
* Approximately 400 employees, € 80 million turnover
* Public company, Main investor: 75 % (PE-Company Droege Group,
Düsseldorf)

CFO - member of management board
Reported to the supervisor board, 82 employees

Main responsibilities:
* Strategy / reorganisation / restructuring
* Controlling, Finance, Accounting
- Planned and controlled budget
- Secured adequate financing
- Developed and maintained contact with banks and
financial partners
- Created quarterly reports for the entire group including
consolidated financial statement
- Managed / coordinated M&A activities (as a seller)
- Risk Management and Operational Insurances
- Central contact person for auditors
* Human Resource Management
* IT (ERP: SAP)
* Supply chain management / international procurement
* General Administration




* Legal department / contracts
* Risk management
* Facility management
* Contact person and negotiating partner of the works council
* Maintained contact with associations, authorities

Successes:
* Created transparency:
- Profitability of customers, products, business units
- Projects, project capacities
- Working Capital
* Improving the rolling forecast
* Digitalization (e.g. HR)
* Process optimization
* Reduced rental charges (30 % / 2,8 Mio. €)
* Reduced personnel costs (CFO unit) > 15 %
* Restructured organization CFO unit

* Products for the food retail market, the processing baking industry
* Approximately 370 employees, € 200 million turnover
* Owner-managed family business since 1888


07/2009 - 12/2014 CFO
Reported to the Managing Partner / Owner, 24 employees

Main responsibilities:
* Controlling, Finance, Accounting
- Planned and controlled budget
- Secured adequate financing
- Developed and maintained contact with banks and
financial partners
- Created quarterly reports for the entire group including
consolidated financial statement
- Managed / coordinated M&A activities (as a seller)
- Risk Management and Operational Insurances
- Central contact person for auditors
* Strategy
* Human Resource Management
* General Administration
* Contact person and negotiating partner of the works council
* Member of the bargaining committee of the Association for
Nutrition (VdEW)
* Maintained contact with associations, authorities, the
municipality, sponsoring partners, and universities

Management Board)
* Reported to the Managing Partner, 25 employees

Main responsibilities:
* Finance, Accounting, Controlling
- Quarterly and annual financial statement, business reports
including analysis / commentation for the financial partners
and the Advisory Board
- Adjusted the financial strategy to the strong growth of the
company
- Central contact person for auditing companies
- Managed negotiations with financial partners, insurance
brokers, and insurances
- Currency management
* IT
* Human Resource Management
* Strategically further developed the entire internal commercial
area
* Facility Management
* Contact person and negotiating partner of the works council

Projects:
* Comprehensively restructured the company
* Adjusted the financial structure/liability structure to
fundamentally changed company structures under difficult
framework conditions
* Implemented a concept for personnel development
* Introduced a continuous three-year planning
* Professionalized the vocational training (Assessment Center
introduction, appraisal system implementation)

Successes:
* Reduced staff costs by 6% by an innovative company
agreement




* Reduced costs of financing
* Improved "IT" services

07/1994 - 09/2001 Head of Finance and Controlling
* Reported to the Commercial Manager, five employees

Main responsibilities / Successes:
* Accounting
* Controlling
* Annual financial statements and monthly reporting
* Introduced ERP SAP R/3 in Finance/Controlling
* Created system specifications to optimize IT applications
* Developed a concept and implemented project controlling
* Developed plant controlling
* Introduced a Balanced Scorecard

* Leading European company for construction machines and
escalators with approximately 3,000 employees (as of 1994)

Commercial Manager (subsidiary in Berlin) /
Termination by myself for family reasons

Business area mobile communication
Reported to the Head of Controlling, BOSCH Mobile
Communication

Main responsibilities / Successes:
* Decision-related documents for the Management Board
* Result analyses and forecasts (identified, analyzed, and
commented on deviations from plan)
* Analyzed the effect of the result of sales measures
* Advised sales with regard to the result-oriented sales control
* Introduced a profit margin-oriented sales control
* Created system specifications for user programs