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Aarburg, Ag, Ch

Olten, Solothurn, Switzerland

Baden, Aargau, Switzerland

Flamatt

• Finance business partner to the global functional heads (CFO, CIO, Vice President HR) in the shared services organization in respect to overseeing their global budgets of >50Mio CHF and >180 FTEs.• Owner of the central services Quarterly rolling forecasts/planning & financial results reporting processes using relevant cockpits and dashboards • Assisting in overseeing the timely monthly CO close and providing the commentary for the monthly sales, incoming orders and backlog reporting• Develop financial models and analyses to support strategic initiatives• As part of our international corporate finance department, drive improvements of reporting tools and business intelligence solutions• Participated in senior finance leadership team tasked with evaluating a functional strategy that will be consolidated to create an overarching group strategic plan and future direction until Year 2025.• Leading monthly country review calls for Asian region (Japan, Korea, Malaysia and China) with annual Sales of >100 Mio CHF in order to monitor performance & provide analysis that enables the business to meet its commitment and respond to targets.

Kestenholz, Switzerland

• Reported to the Group CEO and collaborated closely with the subsidiary CEOs in the definition and implementation of a matrix group structure• Implementing and establishment of the Group-wide controlling processes and procedures across 15 legal entities worldwide• Setting up the monthly and quarterly reporting and commenting on the group wide performance indicators for the management • Coordinating and preparing budgets and forecast for the group • Support and monitoring of the local accounting and controlling staff of the group companies• Setting up cash management system across the group of companies leading to greater control of liquidity and operational risk• Established a capital investment appraisal monitoring process• Successfully migrated new subsidiaries into existing controlling structure to maximize process efficiencies

Basel Area, Switzerland

•Management reporting on a monthly basis to company internal and corporate headquarter level entities•Gathering relevant financial data from Hyperion, business warehouse and SAP, and performing analysis on the company results as and when required in order to provide back up for forward looking statements to be made by management in management reporting documents•In close co-operation with the production sites, I analyzed the monthly EBIT impact from the operating activities of all the manufacturing sites as well as preparation of the forecast for the period costs and management of the expected variances•Preparing the monthly commentary and consolidated presentation for the global M&T (Manufacturing and Technology) operations management team meetings•Acted as a backup for product cost consolidation activities by regularly tracking and updating of product prices into SAP both manually and via workflows•Running improvement projects in the area of functional reporting such as Capex plans and gross margin analysis

Zürich Area, Switzerland

As a resourceful member on the Financial Planning and Analysis team for the EAME region, my responsibilities included:• Establish and maintain relationships with the key personnel in the operating divisions and serve as a point of contact for finance issues regarding the budget and Forecast.• Gathering the divisional budgets, implementing data quality checks and loading them to Hyperion via detailed and complex excel based templates.• Acquire and maintain an understanding of the strategies, priorities and issues of the divisions supported.• Collaborate with colleagues and management in a matrix organization structure.• Act as a business partner by contributing new ideas and finding solutions to business challenges for divisions supported.• Promoted to Financial analyst/manufacturing controller in the supply chain finance team, I was reporting to the EMEA VP supply Chain Finance, and my responsibilities included:• Executing monthly Actual costing, ensuring month end close accuracy and enhanced financial/business reporting, and business planning support.• Providing finance support to the supply chain functions - planning, logistics, purchasing, master data - including traditional budgeting and forecasting• Analyzing monthly reports from the EMEA manufacturing plants, computing key KPI´s and communicating the findings to the VP manufacturing.• Coordinating, organizing and executing moderately complex quantitative and qualitative financial analysis on product costs issues (e.g. PPV, Transfer pricing) for the VP supply Chain Finance and making recommendations based on findings• Participate in the implementation of continuous improvement of Lean Six Sigma projects to increase efficiency of processes and or tools used by the finance organization.

Basel Area, Switzerland

• Ensuring completeness and the adherence to the group timelines and reporting frameworks• Provide SAP based reporting systems support and training to global product reporting teams • Retrieving month end reporting reports, analyzing them and identifying of PURP (Provisions for Unrealized Profits) issues• Ensure an adherence to the internal control environment within the product reporting processes• Critical analysis and commenting of monthly actual data• Analysis and coordinating the budget cost collection and auditing processes• Proper documentation and documentation management of product reporting processes

Master Of Science In Finance, Major In Financial Analysis

2 year Joint Universities Master of Finance Degree

Master Of Finance, Financial Analysis

2 year Joint Universities Masters of Finance degree.

Master Of Science In Finance, Financial Analysis

2 year Joint Universities Masters of Finance degree.

Bachelor Of Business Administration, Accounting And Finance