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• Contracted to build lean, robust & sustainable financial infrastructure & overall financial intelligence as Amarin establishes its footprint in Europe, with planned launches in 14 countries across continent, ramping up EU to 300 FTE.• Shaped & headed fantastic commercial finance team of 3 in Switzerland, and shared-service finance of 6 in Ireland.• Facilitated improvements in global finance processes, reporting system implementation, and cross-functional dialogue.

Lausanne, Ch

*With Honors*• Maximized own business acumen across spectrum of Leadership, Strategy, Marketing, Cultural Transformation, Digital Transformation, Artificial Intelligence, Innovation and Finance.• Projects for adMare BioInnovations (100 FTE):--> a.) developed internationalization strategy,--> b.) devised strategy to digitally transform company into a platform business,--> c.) generated outcome-based understanding for customers’ value proposition,--> d.) assessed team culture & promising actions to translate current into desired company culture.• Collaboration with Intuitive Surgical (8k FTE): Designed case study linked to value demonstration, market access and stakeholder influencing for robotic-assisted surgery.• Collaboration with Cellestia Biotech (15 FTE): Advised on business strategy; executed pitch to Silicon Valley venture capitalists.• Developed business plan of medical aesthetics beauty clinic chain start-up project.

Tokyo, Jp

*** Note: Shire part of Takeda since 01/2019 ***• Promoted to Chief of Staff to CFO of Global Product Strategy business unit, and appointed to parallel Head of Finance leadership roles, consistently heading 2-3 of the following 4 business areas.• STRATEGIC ANALYSIS: Oversaw strategic financial analysis & decision support for company’s full product portfolio, P&L/OPEX management and long-term planning, and partnered with business unit’s commercial leadership teams to maximize financial long-term success.• NEUROSCIENCE: Transformed financial focus of Neuroscience franchise as its Head of Finance from an in-market product setup to an early-commercial focus, incl. company’s #1 top promising multi-billion dollar Narcolepsy pipeline program.• ONCOLOGY: Headed global Oncology franchise from a finance perspective and facilitated divestiture of Oncology business ($300m revenue, $2.4b transaction) to Servier, ensuring well-informed deal execution.• INTEGRATION: Executed bottom-up budgeting for newly integrated business unit after Takeda/Shire acquisition, and shaped integration cost processes, resulting in optimized OPEX, delivering significant synergy savings.• Coordinated finance team of 10, guided 1 direct report, and mentored 2 up-and-coming talents.

Tokyo, Jp, Jp

Global Finance Lead for a portfolio of 7 brands of the Internal Medicine Franchise:• 3 mature brands to treat kidney, adrenal gland & bone marrow diseases ($300m revenue)• 1 launch brand to treat short-bowel syndrome ($300m revenue & $1.1b expected peak sales)• 3 pipeline programs for lung/brain of premature babies & liver ($1.6b expected peak sales)

Tokyo, Jp, Jp

• Led month-end reporting & financial consolidation process for EU commercial (>20 countries).• Developed, improved & led the team through budgeting / planning / forecasting processes.• Drove accountability by creating a clear reporting structure, and by empowering roles across new EU Finance Business Partner team.• Managed and supported upwards into International Commercial organization (>60 countries).• Led management accounting integration of acquiree NPS for International Commercial.• Acted as system subject matter expert related to management reporting system, and implemented a new reporting system in collaboration with IT.• Coordinated team of 15, and led up to 4 direct reports.• Ad interim: Finance Business Partner Lead of Italy-Greece cluster in Milan, conducted e.g. business review, month- / quarter-end, forecast, training of new FD.• Ad interim: Head of Finance Greece in Athens during Baxalta Integration, responsible for the full spectrum of Finance.• Stretch assignment: Covered key elements of the Head of Finance Europe's main tasks ($1.0b revenue at that time – biggest region within Shire International) during vacancy (8 months) on top of role of Finance Manager; direct business partnering with Head of Region Europe and EU clusters’ General Managers plus management teams (- many new -); finished fiscal year with YoY revenue growth of +7% (CER) for mature European market while having optimized Commercial OPEX spend to -2% YoY (CER).

Dublin, Ie

• Monthly reporting, consolidation, transformation, reconciliations & process management on the basis of heterogeneous source systems (60 countries).• Supported strategic/financial planning, budgeting & forecasting.

Cham, Zug, Ch

• Evaluated & critically analyzed business cases with significant capital expenditure (22 countries, capex budget of € 50+ million, financials / risks / strategy items).• Developed & implemented Group post-investment appraisal process.• Defined terminologies, calculation standards & key metrics for Group investment policy.• Performed financial & commercial review of strategic business cases.• Actively collaborated with region & country management teams, prepared & provided the basis for investment decisions for Group´s senior management and Board of Directors.

Zug, Ch

• Developed business case controlling (~ project controlling, investment controlling).• Long-range planning (EVA & DCF simulation via P&L, balance sheet and cash flow modeling).• Monthly reporting / variance analysis.

Zug, Ch

Stage 1 - ”IT Controlling“:• Guided global IT planning process (50 countries).• IT budgeting (costs, prices, quantities, projects, investments).Stage 2 - ”Project, Production & HR Controlling“:• Developed project & portfolio controlling.• Monitored costs of goods sold.• Developed KPI matrix for a manufacturing facility.• Analysis of manpower & productivity.Stage 3 - ”Internal Control System & Service Controlling“:• Implemented key elements of internal control system USA & Canada.• Developed field service tracking tool (utilization, profit per branch).

• Planning & budgeting of US sales.• Determined & distributed key performance indicators.• Enhanced & optimized reporting.• Supply chain analyses, benchmarking, forecasting.

Ingolstadt, Bayern, De

• Developed multidimensional database for strategic financial product controlling.• Created financial reports & target/actual-comparisons.

• Tutor “Business Information Systems”.• Business Intelligence laboratory.• Website development.

San Jose, Ca, Us

Europe-wide import of commodities as well as selling.

Executive Mba

Certificates, Management

Cgma/Acma

Diploma, Controlling

Mba, Business Administration & Information Technology