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Copenhagen Area, Capital Region, Denmark

Responsible for Group Finance, Royalty, RPA, BI and Facility Managment.* Establishing strong ERP and strong financial processes.* Building new organisation to meet business needs.* Part of a number of acquisitions and mergers.* Building a new BI and RPA teams * Establishing industry first royalty site towards external authors.

Sweden

Copenhagen Area, Capital Region, Denmark

Copenhagen, Capital Region, Denmark

Copenhagen, Capital Region, Denmark

Denmark

• Responsible of the overall management of the company and its activities regarding both commercial and operational aspects. Deeply involved in market aspects, complex joint venture issues as well as involvement in.
• Strong improvement of business area on both sales and costs: Effect of bottom line was +8% and significant improvement of competitiveness.
• Reached approval of highest investment budget for in several years, which gave a strong confidence in the future among the employees and brought profitable replacements of critical production equipment.

Denmark

• Broad responsibility of Finance, IT, purchasing, HR and legal. Full responsibility on the company’s finance processes such as controlling, reporting, budgeting and forecasting. Deeply involved in investment and.
• Establishing purchasing department and improvement of purchasing processes resulting in savings of 7-8% of purchasing scope.
• Structured working with energy savings which ensured implementation of significant saving projects and subsidies of 2.5 M DKK.
• Clean-up of company structure: Reduction from 7 to 3 companies saving admin costs of 300 K DKK yearly as well as freeing up locked capital.
• Building efficient and automized models for annual report, tax report and internal reporting, budget and forecast. Results: Improved management of the company and savings on up to 400 K DKK yearly on audit and advisory.
• Clean-up and optimization of SAP as well as implementation of modules: Overtime accumulation was turned into a situation where a couple of employees could reduce their time and thereby a reduction of 5% of the salary.

Copenhagen Area, Denmark

• Responsible of team of 4 controllers providing management information covering companies in Finland, Norway, Sweden and Denmark. In addition responsible for describing and analyzing governance structure as well as.
• Project manager on acquisition of company in Finland: Additional sales following synergies and improved competitiveness.
• Following lack of effective price management tool in ERP I developed a model for daily update of price groups in Excel which could be interfaced to ERP. This as a minimum saved half a FTE for the manual entry task.

Københavnsområdet, Danmark

• Working on project to design and build a European financial shared service centre for a customer. Specifically I was responsible of, in corporation with customer, to design efficient and harmonized financial processes.
• Highly improved financial processes and visualization of issues within the credit management area towards the customer.
• Succeeded in getting the customer’s employees and consultants to work close together in a constructive and structured manager despite major professional and cultural differences.

Københavnsområdet, Danmark

• Responsible of controlling for companies in the Nordic. Furthermore working on pricing and margin management, credit management, de-merger project, investment analysis and risk management.
• Design and execution of model for profitability analysis: Resulted in increased visibility on customer profitability and was followed by adjustments of and objectives on working with sales prices. 5-7% improvement of.
• Establishment of model for cost distribution on Nordic level which ensured more precise internal cost control and improved transfer pricing documentation.
• Together with the Finance Manager I build a full functional finance department with accounting and controlling function in the form of a shared service center which covered Denmark, Sweden, Norway and Finland.

Assistant of cheif accountant focusing on controls in new system handling fees to business partners. Additionally working with a lot of ad hoc analysis on profitability on pension schemes.

High Perfomance Leadership, Management Science

Board Program

Various modules in tasks and duties of the board.

Master'S Degree, Management Accounting And Control - Cand.Merc

Highly theoretical education with a block of courses relating to management accounting and another block covering science.

Bachelor'S Degree, Economics And Business Administration - Ha Almen

Broard economical study with a long list of courses such as micro and macro economics, IT, marketing, decision analysis, accounting, law.

Hhx, Trade And Business