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CV – Joachim Wiech

Controlling Consulting and Interim Management

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

Interested in working together?

I look forward to hearing from you – please feel free to get in touch.