Daniel Koch Email and Phone Number

• Financial management und controlling of all European Tooling & Engineering projects• Lead of the monthly closing process for all European Tooling & Engineering related projects and cost centers• Coordination and consolidation of the monthly forecast process as well as the yearly budgeting of this scope• Monitoring of the US-GAAP and HGB Compliance for the project controlling• Monitoring and forecasting of all project related movements (Cash as well as profit and loss accounting) in cooperation with the respective project controller, project manager as well as the Senior Vice Presidents Engineering and commercial• Weekly preparation of a 13-week-cash forecast for the whole European Tooling & Engineering sector incl. variance analysis of all movements• Definition of financial project targets incl. tracking of compliance and variance analysis• Improvement of system applications in SAP and HFM (maintaining of organizational structure and project related management)• Verification and evaluation of existing business practices within the project section with the aim to provide the convenient data to the IAC group as well as to be compliant with legal requirements• Provide data and support to internal and external auditors• Personnel management of 4 project controllers

• Similar business experience compared to the manager function • Development of concepts with regards to reporting of theEuropean SG&A related organization within the FP&A department• Personnel management of 3 employees

• Support in the preparation and analysis of the monthly reporting package for the US based corporate management• In charge of the weekly European Flashlight-Reporting (month/quarter); coordination, consolidation, analysis and preparation for the management, incl. upload into Hyperion Enterprice• Responsible for the monthly European forecast for full year (coordination, consolidation, analysis and preparation for the management, partially incl. upload into Hyperion Enterprice)• Preparation and upload of the monthly European Segment Reporting for Corporate Finance, incl. comments to variances on the basis of regional information• Accomplishment of ad-hoc analysis (e.g. analysis of personnel, travel and maintenance costs, as well as further analysis with regards to SG&A dedicated costs, Q&A impairment test KPMG)• Support and coordination of the organization of budget planning as well as enhancement of company planning, consolidation and compilation of „Mid-Term-Planning“ onEuropean level, active link between Europe and Corporate Functions in the US• Communication with the Group and Plant Controller of theEuropean organization• Contact person for the management, Group and PlantController in terms of Forecast, Flashlight-Report, Budget,CAPEX etc., along with the coordination of these subjects• Identification of potentials for optimization, development of proposals for the implementation of corresponding inter-divisional processes• Enhancement and maintenance of the Management-Information-System, analysis and development of steering related information (KPIs, CAPEX Reporting Tool and CAPEX Data Base, Working Capital Tracking Tool, Commercial Tracker Tool, Margin Reporting)• Conversion of reports based on Hyperion Enterprice to Hyperion Financial Management – HFM (structural and formula adjustments incl. reassessment of the reporting structure)• Personnel management of 1 employee

Senior Manager / Corporate Controlling / Analysis, Planning and Interfaces• Preparation and analysis of the monthly reporting package for the management board and other committees• Coordination and analysis of primary costs of the Cognis group, steering of the reporting, interface between period accounting (GKV) and Technology Based Cost Reporting• Identification of potentials for optimization along with the implementation of corresponding inter-divisional processes• Coordination of company-wide common business analysis, preparation and assessment of detailed data and documents for the business integration BASF and the respective Data Room• Responsibilities within the BASF/Cognis integration, amongst others in the team „Synergies & Value Capture“, monitoring of the integration process (e.g. Post Merger integration Corporate Controlling and Finance organization, assignment of duties, processing of relevant activities, archiving)• In charge of the weekly 6-month forecast (implementation, consolidation and preparation for the management)• Execution of ad-hoc analysis (e.g. analysis of primary costs related to e.g. personnel, travel and infrastructure)• Enhancement and maintenance of the Management- Information-System, analysis and development of steering related information (KPIs)• Personnel management of up to 10 employees• Responsibility and organization of budgeting along with theset-up and development of the corporate planning, consolidation and establishing of „Short-Term-Planning“ and „Mid-Term-Planning“ on group level, active link between Top- Down targets and Bottom-Up results

Corporate Controlling / Company Projects in the Holding of the Cognis Group

Corporate Controlling / Implementation Controlling in der Holding der Cognis Gruppe, Monheim

Corporate Controlling / Corporate Operations & Investment Controlling in the Holding of the Cognis Group

Sales Controlling for Cognis Deutschland GmbH & Co. KG, Düsseldorf, in the strategic business unit Functional Products

Production Controlling for Cognis Deutschland GmbH & Co. KG, Düsseldorf (previously Henkel KGaA)

Clerk sales & distribution, ACF Chemisch Technische Markenartikel, Henkel KGaA