Experience

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  Bundeswehr

  Jan 1986 - Jan 1988

  Lieutenant

  Military Service in missile artillery battalion, Bundeswehr officer with responsibility over 80 soldiers and 5 mio DM equipment

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  Treuhandanstalt berlin

  Jan 1991 - Jan 1992

  Privatization manager - pharmaceutical industry

  • Heading of privatizations for Halle Plastik GmbH, Eilenburger Chemiewerke, Berlin-Kosmetik GmbH, Laborchemie Apolda, Wasserglas Dehnitz and other small companies• Financial responsibility for BUNA and other chemical Treuhandcompanies (> 3 Bil. DM)

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  Bayer

  Jan 1992 - Jan 1996

  Biltroller latinamerica

  • Supporting Group Consolidation by preparing individual company data• Biltroller Latinamerica with build-up of reporting system forupper management

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  Bayer corporation

  Jan 1996 - Jan 2000

  • NAKA SAP-Project – direction of the F&A group to introduce a consolidated production reporting • Establishment of group reporting for 23 US-companies• technical responsibility for the Bayer Corp. financial statements (US-GAAP) and BKA-Transmissions from the USA

  • Group Bridge Standards Coordinator

    Jan 1998 - Jan 2000

  • Sr. Financial Analyst

    Jan 1996 - Jan 1998
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  Bayer

  Jan 2000 - Jan 2002

  Global process owner closing

  • Bayer Global Process Owner Closing (Bridge SAP Project) – Design of the global closing procedures under consideration of the shared-servicecenters Euroservices Leverkusen and Barcelona• Head for the FI-SAP introduction for CHEMION GmbH• F&A responsibility for the joined Strategic-Development-Project together with SAP Waldorf

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  Euroservice bayer

  Jan 2002 - Jan 2005

  Head of closing, reporting, internal projects, solutions & support

  • Build-up of all activities within the Euroservice Barcelona for the areas of responsibilities (in position mentioned)• Foundation, build-up and direction of the department EBSolutions & Support (IT/SAP)• Heading the closing procedures for all European companiesexcept Germany• Stabilizing of Ex-Lyondell takeover• Responsible for Audits• Up to 40 staff with corresponding Budget responsibility

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  Bayer

  Jan 2006 - Jan 2007

  Global project manager

  Preparation of all consolidated companies from the Schering-takeover to participate in the Bayer-Group-Reporting including also the build-up of all locally needed interfaces and trainings.Head of development for the electroninc global version of the BKA-guidelineProject Manager in the strategy for the delivery of the financial data for the Bayer Group (Prokon) and within that responsible for the development of the global Bayer Reporting Portal (BayReP)

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  Bayer

  Dec 2007 - Nov 2023

  Organize, review & guide new organizations like Monsanto to the Bayer Group operational accounting environment. Currently responsible for the accounting integration of 65 companies with aprox. 5,5 Bil.€ sales Organize, review & guide new organizations to the Bayer Group operational accounting environment like the pending Monsanto integration. Global Group Design & Oversight over the bookkeeping processes within the Bayer Group for all 3 Subgroups (Bayer Healthcare, Bayer Material Science and Bayer Crop Science) in the area of the income statement / logistics for Gross-to-Net, transportation, purchasing and small group entity systems.Conceptual process lead of the VISTEX implementation within the Bayer Group handling the commercial sales contracts and corresponding sales deductions / bonus agreements. Analysis and improvement of company structures and systems required to deliver results. Stabilizing of unstable and unreliable accounting based on SAP and administration procedures. Improved team performance in time and quality with reduced staff. Executing multiple projects in between including a 200 Mio US$ company split.

  • Head of Accounting Integration Managers

    Sept 2019 - Nov 2023

  • Head of Accounting Integration Manager (Ex-Monsanto)

    Feb 2018 - Sept 2019

  • Global Process Owner for the Bayer Group - Revenue Accounting (Logistic-Acctg.-Integration)

    Feb 2017 - Feb 2018

  • Global Process Owner - Logistic-Accounting-Integration (Sales and Sales Deductions)

    Mar 2012 - Feb 2017

  • CFO & CAO

    Dec 2007 - Feb 2012
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  Bayer finance & portfolio management s.a., chile

  Sept 2011 - Mar 2012

  General manager

  Build-up and implementation of a company portfolio within Chile to optimize the financial cash flow.

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  Bayer finance ltda.

  Sept 2011 - Mar 2012

  General manager

  Build-up and implementation of a company portfolio within Chile to optimize the financial cash flow.

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  Premium net ag

  Jul 2022 - now

  Aufsichtsratsvorsitzender

  IT, Netzwerke und Prozessoptimierungen für Hotel- und Gaststättengewerbe

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  Szo process & people gmbh

  Jan 2023 - now

  Geschäftsführender gesellschafter

  Prozess- und Effizienzberatung. Moderation von Unternehmens An- und Verkäufen sowie Fusionen. Interim Management.Consulting on process- and efficiency-improvements. Guidance and moderation of mergers & acquisitions. Interim Management.