Chief Financial Officer, Bestyrelsesformand

• Nov 2021 - Present

Head of In-House Consulting (Unternehmensorganisation)

• Aug 2017 - Oct 2021

• Finance Business Partner on a €60m automated warehouse project • Head of Portfolio Management for Strategic Projects • Head of Risk Management (New HQ, Strategic Projects, COVID-19 Strategy) • RPA & Digitalisation Feb 2019 - Nov 2019 Head of Insurance and Compliance (Interim) May 2018 - Oct 2018 Head of Controlling (Interim) Lean approach to month-end closing timetable and weekly board presentation. Nov 2017 - May 2019 Head of Business Analysis (Interim). Ad hoc analysis for board of directors and senior management. Show less

Chief Financial Officer

• Jul 2010 - Aug 2016

The Global Business Services (GBS) division of Deutsche Post DHL provides services for the Group’s business units from a single company in order to reduce costs, increase efficiency through scale, and boost service quality.DHL GBS (UK) Ltd employs 300 professionals across various disciplines ranging from Legal services, Procurement, Corporate Tax, Insurance & Risk, Finance Operations, IT, Pensions, Real Estate & HR.Responsibilities:• Represent Finance at Strategic and Board level meetings.• Report to the European CFO whilst supervising 7 accountants in addition to close liaison with outsourced transactional Shared Service teams in Holland, Czech Republic and India.• Provide overall financial governance for legal entity, including forecasting and compliance with internal reporting and external IFRS; liaise with internal stakeholders, local tax authorities and External Auditors. Sparring with directors and senior management to drive the business.• Finance Partner to European BPO team implementing integrated e-Procurement Purchase-to-Pay system thereby introducing paperless automated invoice approval and payments of orders from pre-defined catalogues from preferred suppliers.• Partnered with UK IT division to obtain reimbursement of £14.9m after the parent company transitioned to a single European-wide Telecom & Data provider, which resulted in erroneous invoicing due to contract novation complications.• Finance Partner on Procurement feasibility project into the purchase of 2500 UK company cars by exploring opportunities arising from the re-classification of Operational Lease in accounting standard IFRS 16 coming into effect 2019.• Project lead, analysing historical global Sales and Lead data to identify potential opportunities prior to customers going to market and the feasibility of a systematic data mining approach from across the various DHL Business Units. Show less

Financial Controller

• Jul 2008 - Jun 2010

Finance Partner to UK BPO team converting UK Accounts Receivables (collecting £1b p.a.) from paper to e-billing thereby saving £1.5m p.a. in printing & postage and contributing to reduced DSO due to speed of invoicing and moving from monthly to weekly billing cycles.Finished 3 years running within 3% of the annual cost target by building a detailed financial model to cope with material variables and timelines, thus improving confidence in the budgeting / forecasting process.

Financial Planning and Analysis Project leader

• Nov 2006 - Apr 2008

Designed and implemented a ‘single source’ Planning and Forecasting tool to replace various non-integrated forecasts. The tool established an audit trail between forecasts from Sales, Brand Management and Financial Planning. It restored integrity and confidence in the forecast, re-focusing the business Designed and implemented a ‘single source’ Planning and Forecasting tool to replace various non-integrated forecasts. The tool established an audit trail between forecasts from Sales, Brand Management and Financial Planning. It restored integrity and confidence in the forecast, re-focusing the business

Braun Export Controller

• Aug 2005 - Aug 2006

Controller to Braun Export Sales & Marketing Director with focus on Business Plan development for New Markets, viability of Product Launch, Price Setting and Promotional activities for New and Emerging markets worldwide. Budgeting and Quarterly Forecasting

Finance Manager, Germany

• Nov 2002 - Aug 2005

Setting up and integrating Germany into European FSSC. Manager of the Management Reporting and Statutory Accounting process for €1 Billion business in compliance with US GAAP, IFRS/IAS and Sarbanes Oxley. Extensive liaison with Treasury, Internal/External Audit and External Reporting. Analytical reviews and commentary. Budgeting and Quarterly Forecasting. 4 direct reports. Network of 35 pan European & 10 overseas primary contacts

Interrim Finance Manager for Germany, Austria & Switzeland

• Aug 2002 - Nov 2002

Short term Finance Manager contract within the VisionCare business unit. Short term Finance Manager contract within the VisionCare business unit.

Group Financial Controller

• Jan 2001 - Apr 2002

The Company had at the time found problems with it's accounting department, including incorrect maintenance of both sales and bought ledgers and inaccurate records and management accounts . I set above restructuring the system and rebuilding the finance team supporting the newly appointed Finance Director. All these outstanding issues involved a lot of management and work as well as the managing of the day to day business plus the reporting of up to date management accounts to the Board. The Company had at the time found problems with it's accounting department, including incorrect maintenance of both sales and bought ledgers and inaccurate records and management accounts . I set above restructuring the system and rebuilding the finance team supporting the newly appointed Finance Director. All these outstanding issues involved a lot of management and work as well as the managing of the day to day business plus the reporting of up to date management accounts to the Board.

Senior Financial Accountant

• Jun 1999 - Dec 2000

Primary responsibility was to look after the accounting controls and consolidation of NETg German speaking subsidiaries (Germany, Switzerland and Austria). - Control of the monthly Financial Statements prepared by local accountants. - Consolidation from local GAAP statements into US GAAP format - Verification of the monthly payroll runs. - Identify tax opportunities in close co-operation with the company external auditor and adviser Primary responsibility was to look after the accounting controls and consolidation of NETg German speaking subsidiaries (Germany, Switzerland and Austria). - Control of the monthly Financial Statements prepared by local accountants. - Consolidation from local GAAP statements into US GAAP format - Verification of the monthly payroll runs. - Identify tax opportunities in close co-operation with the company external auditor and adviser

Management Accountant

• Apr 1997 - May 1999

Management accountant responsible for review of Head office profit & loss accounts, balance sheet reconciliations and reporting of inter-company balances for Anadrill division. Management accountant responsible for review of Head office profit & loss accounts, balance sheet reconciliations and reporting of inter-company balances for Anadrill division.

Industrie-Kaufmann Lehre

• Sep 1988 - Jun 1991

German apprenticeship scheme whereby I rotated between 12 different apartments over a 30 months period whilst attending commercial school 1 ½ days a week. German apprenticeship scheme whereby I rotated between 12 different apartments over a 30 months period whilst attending commercial school 1 ½ days a week.