Bernd Harbauer

Experience

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  Hagemeyer Deutschland GmbH & Co. KG

  Jun 2002 - Dec 2005

  Controller

  Administered the daily financial expenditures for a division of the German affiliate of the Hagemeyer Group, a well-known wholesaler of electric and electronic goods with more than 2,000 employees in Germany. Acted as a key member of internal committees including hardware leasing, IT outsourcing, and business information systems, coordinated the financial end of major projects, and directed all financial aspects of a new corporate spinoff, ensuring the company maintains its fiscal discipline policies. Show less

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  Sandoz

  Dec 2005 - Jan 2008

  Finance

  Managed the financial consolidation of more than 100 affiliated companies of the generic business arm of Novartis, with more than 50,000 employees based around the world. Functioned as part of a comprehensive financial team including the company’s CFO, financial analysts, and accountants to consolidate incoming figures of all Sandoz companies worldwide, wrote monthly qualitative reports and quarterly balance sheet reviews, and worked with struggling divisions to improve their reporting. Acted as main point of contact for all financial inputting and cash flow questions and challenges.Highlights & Achievements:• Created and implemented a method of facilitating faster intercompany reconciliations, utilising an innovative IT platform to exchange documents and invoices.• Developed an organogram of more than 100 Sandoz and Hexal companies, describing their ownership structure and enabling more effective reporting functions.• Worked directly with the financial manager of the company’s affiliate in Denmark to improve their reporting with the parent company allowing the entire organisation to function more effectively. Show less

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  Jazz Pharmaceuticals Germany

  Feb 2008 - Jan 2017

  Finance Director

  Drive all financial functions, including month and year end closings, reporting, SOX compliance, and cash management, for the German sales and distribution affiliate of Jazz Pharmaceutical plc., an international specialty biopharmaceutical company with offices in Ireland, the US, the UK and France. Ensure cash flow calculations, cash transfers, budgets and forecasts maintain the highest level of accuracy. Compare forecasts with variances, create ad-hoc reports for headquarters, and act as first point of contact with lawyers, tax advisors, and banks. Supervise accounting and customer service representatives, oversee HR administration functions including interviewing and hiring new employees, creating employment contracts, and negotiating salaries, and work with the central IT department to maintain corporate IT systems. Manage internal and external audits and act as sales manager for all Austrian accounts.Highlights & Achievements:• Appointed Interim CEO of the company following the abrupt departure of the GM, successfully stabilising the company’s reputation and operations, reassuring staff, and positioning the company for long-term financial improvements and increased profits.• European Finance Manager for a business unit• Obtained a hard-to-get wholesaler license and passed internal pharmacovigilance and finance/SOX and external tax audits with no major findings. Show less

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  TESARO Bio Germany GmbH

  May 2017 - Sept 2017

  Director Finance & Business Operations DACH

  Set up and develop financial processes including supply chain in a start-up environment, implement a new ERP-System in close cooperation with European and world-wide headquarter, perform month and year end closings, create and monitor budgets and forecasts, negotiate with pharmaceutical wholesaler in Germany Highlights & Achievements: • Successfully negotiated purchase T&Cs with several German pharmaceutical wholesalers

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  Dornier MedTech

  Jan 2018 - Mar 2019

  Director Controlling & Customer Service

  Refine reporting to all relevant stakeholders within Dornier MedTech Europe GmbH as well as to the headquarter in Singapore and to reporting entities in France, Italy and Spain. Check and approve project calculations for the EMEA distribution area. Overall responsibility for order processing and custom declaration, especially for difficult countries in Middle East. As financial controller accountable for month- and year-end closing as well as day to day and ad-hoc reporting. Additionally, creating and monitoring budget, forecast and variance analysis to actual figures. Working closely together with the management team and other departments within Dornier MedTech group. Highlights & Achievements:• Reduce amount of non-valuable reports• Become a well-respected manager of direct reports and other employees Show less

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  Positive Times

  Apr 2019 - now

  Unternehmer

  Engagierter und sachkundiger Finanzspezialist mit 20 Jahren Erfahrung in Optimierung vonGeschäftsergebnissen durch effektive Leitung der Finanzfunktion. Zehn Jahre Erfahrung inGeschäftsentwicklung einer Tochtergesellschaft innerhalb einer multinationalen Organisation. Exzellentekommunikative Fähigkeiten gepaart mit sehr guten Zahlenverständnis und tiefgreifendem Wissen vonAccounting und Budgets/Forecasts, internen und externen Prüfungen und Vertragsverhandlungen.Nachweislicher Erfolg bei der Entwicklung von strategischen Wachstumsplänen, führen vonhochproduktiven Teams und Sicherstellung der ganzheitlichen finanziellen Solidität der Firma durchEntwicklung und Implementierung langfristiger, strategischer Umsatzgenerierung.Business Coach mit den Schwerpunkten Persönlichkeitsentwicklung, Stressmanagement und Steigerung der Mitarbeiterzufriedenheit und -motivation. Show less

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  MACH8

  Aug 2020 - now

  Mitbegründer

  Onlineplattform, die es sich zum Ziel gesetzt hat, kostenlos Menschen einfache Möglichkeiten zu zeigen,wie sie ihr Leben selbstbestimmt positiv und glücklich gestalten könnenIch zeige zusammen mit meiner Mitgründerin, in 30-mütigen Impulsvorträgen und anschließenderDiskussion, jeden Donnerstag unseren Zuschauern Methoden und Wissen auf, durch die sie u.a. durchSelbstreflektion Verantwortung für ihr Leben übernehmen und selbst gestalten können.

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  Karo Pharma

  Sept 2020 - Sept 2021

  Head of Finance DACH Region

  Operative und strategisches Entwicklung aller Finanzprozesse eines Start-ups im Konzernumfeld.Implementierung eines ERP-Systems für die deutsche und schweizerische Gesellschaft imKonzernverbund. Outsourcing der Buchhaltung zu einem externen Dienstleister. Erledigung aller täglichanfallenden Buchhaltungsaufgaben, Controlling- und Reportingtätigkeiten. Erstellung von Budgets undForecast und deren Überwachung. Verantwortlich für das Human-Resources der Gesellschaft inDeutschland und der Schweiz. Show less

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  Freiberuflich

  Sept 2021 - Nov 2021

  Interim Leiter Finanzbuchhaltung

  Führung der Abteilung Finanzbuchhaltung (Hauptbuch und Nebenbuch) mit 20 Mitarbeitenden.Fachkundige Begleitung aller Projekte der Finanzbuchhaltung (z.B. Einführung einer Abgrenzungs–rechnung und eines Obligo-Managements, Optimierung der Anlagenbuchhaltung) und aller Projekte mitfinanzbuchhalterischen Schnittstellen)