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• Developing and managing budgets, ensuring alignment with organizational goals and objectives.• Presenting monthly financial results and budgets to senior executives• Conducting comprehensive financial analysis to identify drivers behind deviations from the budget• Implementing cost control measures• Identifying and assessing financial risks, implementing proactive mitigation strategies• Business partnering by providing financial guidance and support to department heads and executives• Preparing business cases and participating in deal reviews.• Initiating and overseeing process improvements to increase efficiency• Conducting performance management to the Sales team• Guiding and inspiring a high-performing finance team, fostering mentorship and professional development

Responsible for Gross Margin, OPEX and Headcount planning and controlling of Business Unit Automotive

Responsible for OPEX and Headcount planning and controlling of the integration and customization engineering department of Business Unit Automotive

Monthly reporting and analysis of the performance of the R&D activities (Unit size ~2500 FTE)Planning and forecastingAd hoc reporting per request

Design and development of reporting solutions on SAP BI (Internal reporting)Management and maintenance of SAP master data structures (Cost Centers, Profit Centers, Product Hierarchies etc)Data flow management and reconciliation among SAP Modules (FI, COPA, COOM)

Member of the Retail team until September 2011 / Member of the Distribution team until August 2013Weekly – monthly reports to the Headquarters about the performance of the Company (Statement of Comprehensive Income, Statement of Financial Position, Statement of Cash Flow in compliance with the IFRS’s and other business reports)Forecasts about the performance of the following months – years and analysis of the variances (KPI’s: Revenue, GP, Overheads, OP, PBT, Inventories, Working Capital)Communication with the Headquarters about various technical issuesParticipation in the inventory management processParticipation in the group consolidation process