• Team leadership of 5 employees• Professional responsibility of 7 affiliated companies of the IKA-Group with regular exchange about finance and controlling affairs with the Managing Directors as well as the Directors Finance• Assessment, controlling and tracking of the budget and forecast process of all companies• Responsibility of the ongoing development of state-of-the-art processes and controlling tools• Responsible for the global transfer-pricing-processes• Global risk-, insurance and contract-management• Global cash and receivables management• Responsibility for the financial audits• Monthly reporting to the management board• Provide financial overview of the IKA-Group to the advisory board • Arrange and chair meetings with banks• Provide recommendations to the top-management• Participation in international projects like the foundation of new affiliates • Close cooperation with authorities, tax consultants, auditors and other departments• Cash management

• Management of a small team of 3 employees• Support of the worldwide 8 affiliated companies, the headquarters as well as local departments• Key user for the SAP implementation (review of the current situation FI/CO, process mapping und - development, concept and field manual, system configuration und consideration of the necessary structure for roll-outs)• Development and implementation of a transfer pricing system for the IKA-Group• Development and implementation of a system for the settlement of Group services• Audit investigation of financial statements for all IKA-companies and preparation of consolidated statements• Monitor and control of the Group-budgeting-process and the annual forecast for all IKA-companies• Review of contracts between the IKA-companies (service, license and loan agreements)• Analysis of company processes and identification of issues and improvements• Initiation of process optimization (best practices)• Monthly reporting to the management team, advisory board and banks• Collaboration on a business-intelligence-system and a sales-reporting system

• Annual budgeting and forecast (turnover, cost, investment and revenue) to present to the management team• Actual / target analysis• Calculation of overhead rates for product costing and valuation of inventories• Process-enhancements (product costing, cost distribution sheet, cost center accounting)• Representative for the head of finance and accounting• Development of a cost control system (COWeb-Reporting) for people in charge of cost centers• Development and implementation of a database for tax audits• Employee of the year award (2005)