Education
Abitur (A-levels) at Wirtschaftsgymnasium City Nord, Hamburg
Vocational training as wholesale and foreign trade merchant, Bosch Hamburg
Degree in Business Administration at the University of Hamburg.
Qualification: Diplom-Kaufmann. Majors: Industrial accounting and organisation,
marketing, industrial economics
Professional Experience
Since 2019 – Freelance Controlling Consultant & Interim Manager
2025 – 2026
Hansefit GmbH / Epassi OY
Corporate Health & Wellbeing
Project Manager Lucanet Consolidation & Reporting (current)
- Data migration into a group-wide Lucanet data model
- Lucanet system administrator
- Implementation of consolidation for the German sub-group
- Development of reports in Lucanet (P&L, balance sheet, cash flow, KPI reports)
- Preparation of consolidated monthly and annual accounts including analysis and commentary
2025
Tallence AG
IT Consulting / Software Development
Head of Finance & Controlling (5 months)
- Management of the finance team
- Development of project controlling
- Financial reporting and preparation of forecasts
- Development and preparation of corporate planning
- Creation of financial models
2025
PMG Holding GmbH
Automotive Supplier
Manager Restructuring Controlling (3 months)
- Preparation and evaluation of restructuring measures
- Creation of a consolidated plan including restructuring measures
- Controlling and reporting on restructuring measures
- Monthly reporting (restructuring P&L and cash flow) in Lucanet
2024 – 2025
Deutsche Giganetz Infra GmbH
Telecommunications / Fibre Optics
Manager Controlling: Building corporate controlling from scratch (6 months)
- Setting up cost centre and cost unit accounting
- Building the planning and forecast model
- Establishing corporate reporting
- Setting up inventory accounting
- Building liquidity planning
2024
German Naval Yards Kiel GmbH
Shipbuilding / Defence
Manager Controlling & Reporting (3 months)
- Analysis of the reporting system (Corporate Planner) and synchronisation with SAP
- Development of a cash flow model for project liquidity management
- Creation of an obligations (Obligo) reporting
2023 – 2024
Merkur Offshore Service GmbH
Renewable Energies / Offshore Wind
Manager Controlling (7 months)
- Preparation of the annual budget plan for the offshore wind farm
- Financial modelling for the business case including company valuation
- Liquidity planning and cash flow modelling for shareholders and banks
- Monthly and annual closings
- Reporting to management, shareholders and banks
2022 – 2023
NTT Germany AG & Co. KG
IT Services / Telecommunications
Manager FP&A (9 months)
- Preparation of the annual budget plan
- Monthly reporting and forecast for the European parent company
- Further development of the BPC planning and reporting model and integration of the forecast model for Germany and European subsidiaries
- Development and preparation of a cost centre report in Power BI
2021 – 2022
Hansa-Heemann AG
Beverages / FMCG
Financial Modelling / Corporate Finance (12 months)
- Development of an integrated corporate planning model
- Monthly reporting with variance analyses
- Creation of an analysis model for granulate price effects in the P&L
- Integration of reporting into the structures of Refresco Deutschland GmbH (company acquisition)
2021 – 2022
German Naval Yards Kiel GmbH
Shipbuilding / Defence
Head of Controlling (14 months)
- Management of the controlling team
- Oversight of multi-year large-scale project controlling
- Preparation of budget calculations
- Maintenance and preparation of ongoing cost tracking
- Maintenance and coordination of project structures
- Maintenance and further development of forecast processes
- Technical optimisation and standardisation of calculations
- Preparation of project reports for project managers and senior management
2019 – 2020
FAM Magdeburger Förderanlagen und Baumaschinen GmbH
Mechanical & Plant Engineering
Head of Group Reporting (14 months)
- Introduction of a uniform group reporting system for the preparation of consolidated annual accounts under HGB
- Process optimisation in finance and accounting
- Development of a cross-company management reporting concept and implementation in SAP BPC
- Monthly reporting for 12 individual companies and the group including variance analyses for shareholders and banking consortium
- Preparation of corporate planning for the international group
2019
Covestro Deutschland AG
Specialty Chemicals
Project Controlling Consultant (6 months)
- Project cost and resource planning
- Forecasting and reporting of Capex and Opex for five sub-projects
- Earned value analysis and cost influence analyses
- Risk assessments for individual sub-projects
- Creation and management of the project structure plan in SAP
- Project closing
Permanent Positions
2011 – 2018
A. Hartrodt GmbH & Co, Hamburg
Freight Forwarding / Logistics
Senior Group Controller
- Controlling of international subsidiaries: budgeting, forecasting and reporting, working capital management, development of financing strategies
- Management of restructuring projects for international subsidiaries
- Introduction of group-wide management reporting
- Development of a management information system (MIS) based on an OLAP database and automation of standard reports
- Preparation of business plans and profitability analyses for investment projects
- Company valuations for various acquisition targets
2006 – 2011
Oiltanking GmbH (Marquard & Bahls), Hamburg
Tank Storage / Energy Logistics
International Controller
- Controlling of international subsidiaries: budgeting, forecasting and reporting
- Support of international M&A projects for asset and share deals
- Preparation of business plans for acquisition targets
- Development of valuation models (discounted cash flow) and financial modelling
- Preparation of financing strategies for acquisition targets
- Coordination of on-site due diligence teams and execution of financial due diligences
- Project management for the introduction of a Balanced Scorecard including dashboard presentation
2004 – 2005
Sarnamotive Paulmann & Crone GmbH, Lüdenscheid
Automotive Supplier
Controller
- Division controlling: budgeting, forecasting and reporting for the European automotive division with consolidation of monthly accounts and preparation of group reports
- Restructuring measure controlling
- Support of management in the sales process and financial modelling for company valuation
- Project management overhead cost reduction project
2001 – 2004
Freelance IT Consultant, Hamburg
IT Consulting for medical and dental practices
- Network administration
- Database programming
- Development of web presences
Further projects:
Deutsche Shell GmbH, Andersen Consulting Strategic Services, Premiere Medien GmbH
IT / Software Skills
| ERP / BI | SAP (CO, FI, MM, PS, BW), SAP BPC, Lucanet, Cubeware, Cognos |
| Office / Tools | Microsoft Office (Access, Excel, PowerPoint, Word, Outlook) |
| Programming | VBA, Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL |
| Visualisation | Power BI |
Additional Competencies
| Languages | Business-fluent English, basic knowledge of Spanish and French |
| Methods | Project management, presentation techniques, negotiation strategies, Monte Carlo simulations |
| Soft Skills | Rhetoric and communication |