Ensuring all commercial functions (excerpt)
Finance and accounting
- Conducting out monthly, quarterly, and annual financial statements
- Introduction of cost accounting, lifecycle costing and controlling for international companies; Management of subsidiaries through product differentiation and product profitability accounting, cost center, and cost unit accounting including controlling
- Construction and integration of multi-client accounting systems into a closed system with cost accounting, interfacing the operational systems
- Adjustment of the accounting and monthly account statements to US companies
Corporate Planning / Forecast
- establishing Business plans for quarterly forecasts, budgets, and strategies for companies, products, and business areas (costs, earnings, balance sheet / P + L, financing, cash flow)
- Establish planning systems for Inc. and international SME companies; Specify rules, components, and premises for the production companies; Consolidate data
Controlling
- Group controlling for companies, including the management of subsidiaries
- Controlling in sales, production, purchasing, and investment
- Controlling of international medium-sized production companies of the supply industry (USA, Europe, Asia) and their subsidiaries;
Divisional / investment controlling for groups of companies with international production companies; Factory controlling on site
Financing / Investment
- Contacts for banks and factoring companies for all operative and strategic financing issues; Accompaniment of covenant breaks, refurbishments, refinancing
- Acquisition and conclusion of numerous national and international leasing and sale as well as leaseback contracts in the machinery and building sector (HGB, IFRS and US-GAAP)
- Short and medium term financial planning, daily financial management; Introduction of foreign exchange transactions for group-wide control of the currency uncertainties with foreign subsidiaries; Structure of debtor management for the promotion of incoming payments
EDP / Organization / Management Information Systems
- Project management for introducing ERP systems (such as SAP) in the areas of finance, purchasing, sales and production of domestic and foreign companies
- New introduction of major computer projects (cost accounting, finance, purchasing, production planning)
Purchasing / Logistics / Materials Management
- Build strategic purchasing; Realization of savings through energy management, lead buyer systems, C-piece bundling, and process streamlining
- Management of the purchasing, logistics, and other areas of materials management