Gitte Aaberg Olesen Email & Phone Number

Copenhagen, Dk

Copenhagen Metropolitan Area

The Finance department at Dansk Industri (Confederation of Danish Industry) is going through a transformation phase to serve the Danish industry even better. In the process, I have been entrusted a leading role heading the internal controllers (budgeting, internal, and external reporting) and the payroll department. The main driver of the transformation is implementation of #D365 F&O and in this connection automate and simplify the processes. I have a leading role in:- Central design of D365 F&O- Design of new registration framework- Design of governance framework- Process redesign

København Og Omegn

After the recent acquisition of Codan Forsikring, Alm. Brand Group is now the second largest insurance company in Denmark. I was offered the position as head of the consolidated department. My operational areas of responsibility remained the same (including the general accounting part) and in addition I contributed to the decisions regarding the future operating model along with my colleagues. Examples from my areas are:- Design of new period end close processes across the finance departments - Ensure an operating model that is fit for purpose- Decision to continue or stop outsourcing of operational processes- Insourcing of reconciliations including tools, governance

During spring 2021 the Scandinavian accounting function was added to my area of responsibility. This team was poorly staffed and one of my first tasks was to add 2 employees to the team plus 1 to the Order to Cash part of the team. At this point it was known to the public that the group owning Codan Forsikring had been sold thus the future was insecure. Nevertheless, the team and I succeeded and managed to accomplish with my goals:- Lead my employees through the insecurity and changes within the past 1,5 year regarding split of Scandinavian perimeter and acquisition by Alm. Brand.- Deliver accurate and timely registration of our financial data including reconciliations of balance sheet accounts- Separate Scandinavian Accounting activities and hand over relevant tasks to our peers in Tryg Forsikring- Implement new bank agreements in connection with the demerger to ensure that our payment channels were still functional afterwards- Work with the rest of Finance to transform our previous Finance datamodel (Chart of account, booking dimensions etc.) to accommodate IFRS 17 requirements- Establish new accounting and order to cash processes around updated company structure (including adding 2 new branches)Successes - Maintaining a curious, optimistic and positive atmosphere in the team through first a demerger followed by the completion of the acquisition by Alm. Brand- Successful delivery of month-end activities after introduction of new IFRS 17 datamodel without delays in the reporting process

København Og Omegn

I was interim Scandinavian head of Order to Cash while a colleague was on paternity leave. When he returned I continued as Head of the Danish perimeter. - Lead the Scandinavian team through first phase of Covid-19 pandemic- Ensure that daily activities were executed timely and with required quality (booking and registration of manual incoming payments)- Improve the quality in the outsourced teams by reviewing and updating the processes and controlsSuccesses - New ways of leading to maintain team motivation and productivity- Coached to the team to get better structure in the daily activities to further improve the processes

I the role as a process developer I have great success in improving the collaboration with other areas if the organisation through dialogue and workshops. Furthermore the introduction of Scrum has a huge impact on our ability to prioritise and complete improvements. It is my responsibility to:- Support leaders in Finance Operations and Accounting to optimise core processes in close collaboration with our customers inside and outside of Finance. - Introduce and implement Scrum (acting as a part time Scrum Master) in the internal development and process improvements activities within Finance Operations and Accounting.- Plan and execute workshops with other departments to identify improvements in the process and agree on roles and responsibilities- Engage with leaders in the organisation at all levels to improve end-to-end process across Codan at a Scandinavian level- Lead clarification of complex existing processes and provide recommendations for process optimisation- Support leaders in identification of RPA candidates and implementation- Support leaders in monitoring and specification of training needs for our outsourced teams Successes - Clear communication as well as roles and responsibilities leading to far more efficient processes with fewer misunderstandings- Automation of booking and registration of incoming payments leading to concrete FTE reduction

Copenhagen Area, Denmark

- Lead agile implementation of performance management tool (Anaplan) from initial start-up to successful delivery of infrastructure and budgeting/forecasting models in Denmark, Sweden and Norway.- Optimisation of budgeting/forecasting processes to be more agile and value-adding to the business- Preparation of roadmap for future expansion in Anaplan covering description of initiatives, development of inhouse resource/profile requirements, governance modelSuccesses - High engagement and motivation of project team members leading to very high performance - Reduced system processing time from days to minutes enabling a far more efficient budgeting process

Copenhagen Area, Denmark

Placed in the department Company Projects, Operation & Process I am responsible for defining and implementing a process documentation framework throughout Finance. The aim is to increase transparency, reduce complexity and increase efficiency.Moreover I am training lead in a project that implement a common GL system (Microsoft Dynamics AX) in Codan Group.

With base in the Finance & Business Partner Organisation, my responsibility is to control, report and support most of the scandinavian support functions (CEO, Finance (including facility management) Internal Audit, Legal & Compliance, Risk, Nordic Underwriting). The support functions comprise approx. 300 FTEs and a total budget of 700 MDKK. Key responsibilities:Monthly reporting, budgeting and forecastingTransfer pricingAd hoc analysis

Copenhagen Area, Denmark

Preparing financial information for SII implementationParticipating in consolidations, reporting and analysis in Financial Reporting

Internal audit - primarily responsible for audit in life and health insurance Participation in SII program - preparation of data for SII reporting

Audit of subsidiaries to the Danish agricultural food industry from the EU.

Cand.Merc Økonomistyring, Økonomistyring

Cand.Merc, Økonomistyring