Peter Rützou-Hjelmkrone

Experience

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  DHL Aviation

  Jan 1997 - Jan 2004

  DHL Worldwide Express (Express Courier/Transport) in Denmark, Belgium and Germany Owned by the German Post Office – DHL merged with Danzas in 2002 – 135.000 employees in 227 countries. Head office in Belgium. Responsibility/assignments Aug 1993 to Oct 2004 – with exception in the time as General Manager and Reporting Manager Europe: • Member of the local Senior Management including tasks and assurance of strategic and management tasks. • Assurance of the financial control tools and the understanding of the data by Management, as well as ongoing development of the tools.• Usage and participation in the company strategic goals.• Formulate, develop, control and implement • Accounting – period and month – internal as external.• Budgets & Forecasts – rolling estimates on existing and coming activities.• Reporting – development, control and more• Management of staff – control, development, efficiency and motivation• Economical analysis.• Economical IT tools.• Training – of personnel and Management.• Salary – security, control, analysis and approvals.• Purchasing – control & negotiations.• Controlling – Overall main task, strategic and operational of the company activities.• Cost control – Main control and guidelines.---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------NORDIC FINANCE MANAGERFrom 2002 to 2004:Nordic Finance Manager, DHL Aviation Nordic (Copenhagen, Denmark) 350 employees with revenue above DKK 100 million. Management of: 4. Reference line: Nordic Director Aviation. Projects:• Implementation of TQM, Balanced Scorecard, ISO 14001 and ISO 9001:2000.• Centralization of Finance into Brussels, Belgium. Show less Area Finance Manager, DHL Aviation Germany, Austria and Eastern Europe (Cologne, Germany) with 900 employees and revenue above EUR 90 million. Management of: 20. Reference line: Germany & Alps Director within Germany Projects:• Savings on salaries – target was a deduction of 15% on hourly pay. Result achieved via negotiations with organisations and by union connection by two companies.• Implemented, trained and developed two independent finance departments.• EURO Transition Project – Business Programme Manager for Aviation Europe. Responsible for achieving the EURO project in Euro countries currency change – accounting as reporting wise. Show less General Manager, DHL Aviation GmbH (Frankfurt, Germany) 400 employees with revenue above EUR 40 million in 9 locations. Reference line: General Manager Germany. Responsibility/assignments: as a member of Senior Management the task was to ensure the daily business as well as ensuring the strategy and targets of the company was fulfilled. Projects:• Controlled move to new buildings with new efficiency machines in Frankfurt. • Responsible for the control of the expansion to new facilities.• Participation in doing new strategic goals and frames for the ongoing growth.• Doing the administrative routines more efficient. Show less Finance Manager, DHL Aviation GmbH (Frankfurt, Germany) Management of: 12. Reference line: General Manager Germany Projects:• Developed a system for location and control of fixed assets. Identified capacity in excess. • Ensured economics and finance in connection with expansion of new facilities in Germany – – Investments over MUSD 120 • Introduction, training and development of a new cost management system for achieving productivity increases. Huge recognition from head office for strong cost control. In 1999 we documented productivity increases in excess of 10%. Show less Reporting Manager Europe, DHL Aviation NV (Brussels, Belgium) Covered 9 countries. Management of: 4. Reference line: Finance Director Europe. Responsibility/assignments: to ensure equal reporting in Europe including developing understandable, relevant and logical reports for Senior Management. Projects:• Short term position with the purpose of ensuring standards the internal reporting of the company for financial and productive data in 9 countries for senior management. Target achieved in 6 months. Show less

  • Area Finance, Reporting and General Manager

    Jan 1997 - Jan 2004

  • Area Finance Manager, Germany, Austria & Eastern Europe

    Jan 2000 - Jan 2002

  • General Manager, Aviation Germany

    Jan 1999 - Jan 2000

  • Finance Manager, Germany

    Jan 1997 - Jan 1999

  • Reporting Manager Europe (Brussels, Belgium)

    Jan 1997 - Jan 1997
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  BiogenIdec

  Jan 2004 - Jan 2012

  Nordic Finance Director

  Biogen Idec A/S (Pharmaceutical industry - US controlled NASDAQ company). Nordic Finance Director (Copenhagen, Denmark). Responsible for Denmark, Sweden, Norway,Finland and Iceland in which we have local offices in 4 countries. Total company is in excess of 5.000 employees in more than 24 Countries. Responsibility/assignments: • Controlling – Overall main task, strategic and operational of the company activities.• Member of the local Senior Management (BOD – Board of Directors) in all the countries including tasks and assurance of strategic and management tasks. • Assurance of the financial control tools and the understanding of the data by Management, as well as ongoing development of the tools.• Usage and participation in the company strategic goals.• Formulate, develop, control and implement • Accounting – period and month – internal as external.• Budgets & Forecasts – rolling estimates on existing and coming activities.• Reporting – development, control and more• Management of staff – control, development, efficiency and motivation• Economical analysis.• Economical IT tools.• Training – of personnel and Management.• Salary – security, control, analysis and approvals.• Purchasing – control & negotiations.• Cost control – Main control and guidelines.Key results:• Ensured the best compliance and result in the first Intern Audit (US auditors) for the Nordic region.• Made Finance training with success in 5 full days for non-Finance Executives in the company (coming fra all over the world) in year 2010.• The Nordic region won in 2010 internally the price of best reporting and compliance worldwide. • Presenting budget 2012 to Worldwide top management. Everything approved with no comments ! Show less

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  RH Invest Ltd.

  Jan 2013 - Jan 2016

  Head of Finance and Project Manager

  Overall responsible for Finance and Accounting worldwide. We have activities within Switzerland, Denmark and Sweden. The company present main activity is secured high yield foreign exchange investments for clients - private as corporate. Superior risk management combined with consistent trading methodology is the key. Responsibility/assignments • Corporate Finance, Compliance, Economical analysis, financial strategy, Funds controls• Controlling – Overall main task, strategic and operational of the company activities.• Usage and participation in the company strategic goals.• Formulate, develop, control and implement Accounting, Budget, Forecast and reporting.• Cost control – Main control and guidelines Show less

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  Rovsing A/S

  Jan 2016 - Jan 2018

  CFO

  Rovsing A/S is an independent Danish company, with 20 years of progressive Space systems expertise and currently expanding its operations into the Automotive Systems sectors. Our success comes from our experiences with software development, verification and validation for European space communication and transportation systems which allow for zero defect software only. We have recently expanded to the US marked and has just started contracts in China. Our mission is to transfer these experiences to automotive electronic systems where we have conducted successful projects with major OEM and TIER1 customers in Germany.Rovsing A/S Headquarters is in Skovlunde, Denmark, where our main hardware development laboratories, software development environment and system integration facilities are located. The Company is listed on NASDAQ OMX Nordic Show less

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  RH Management

  Jan 2018 - now

  Consulting within international Financial & Management Accounting with strategy in focus. Highly experience within international Transport, pharmaceutical biotech companies, cross border Investment company, Audit and others.Ensuring operational and long term controlling, cross border trading, financial controls, contracts, development of business, participation in Company strategic goals, accounting, budgeting, forecasting, reporting, economical analysis, cost control, compliance, client reporting etc.Main Customer is a foreign investment company with a balance in excess of CHF 1,75 million and a profit target YoY exceeding 40% for their customers. Responsibility / assignments: • Corporate Finance on an international level.• Compliance• Economical analysis.• Financial strategy & development.• Funds controls• Controlling – Overall main task, strategic and operational of the company's activities.• Usage and participation in the company's strategic goals.• Formulate, develop, control and implement • Accounting – period and month – internal as external.• Budgets & Forecasts – rolling estimates on existing and coming activities.• Reporting – development, control and more• Cost control – Main control and guidelines.• Simplification of procedures and tasks. Show less

  • CFO & Co-Founder

    Jan 2013 - now

  • Head of Finance - Consultant

    Jan 2018 - Jan 2020
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  Firstcom Europe (DK)

  Jan 2021 - Jan 2023

  Head Of Finance

  Business communication made easy.Firstcom Europe A/S are experts in providing a range of cloud communication solutions to support businesses of all sizes including voice, collaboration, connectivity and CCTV that makes working from home or in remote offices easy with secure and accessible information.