Tobias Kirves Email & Phone Number

Mckinney, TX, US

Dubai, United Arab Emirates

• Promoted to CFO of the global division Airport, Cargo, Ports of Siemens Logistics headquartered in Dubai, UAE operating in Americas, Europe, Middle East, Asia, and Africa
• Leading the global division together with the CEO in times of extraordinary market impacts to the Aviation sector due to COVID-19 with the target to safeguard profit and cashflows in the short terms and being setup.
• Introduced clear close out plans for crisis areas through change in staffing, customer negotiations, and selection of future business
• Developed Full Potential Plan for the division with clear targets and controls to achieve competitive benchmarks for profit and FCF (Main areas: PMO, procurement excellence, engineering efficiency)
• Interaction with Board Level Management in Germany for bid approvals, project status reviews and Full Potential Plan

Dallas/Fort Worth Und Umgebung

• Appointed as the corporate controller for the newly created legal entity Siemens Postal, Parcel & Airport Logistics LLC as part of the divestment from Siemens.
• Responsible for the accounting, FP&A and treasury function of the company
• Created and implemented the stand alone concept for treasury, tax management, accounting and performance controlling.
• Integrated third parties for accounting and tax services while transitioning Siemens Corporate functions out and prepared for day 1 (Change of control).
• Implemented e-banking solution into current ERP environment and enhanced liquidity planning to manage daily cash flows.
• Developed standard costing and product centric structure to increase high margin products business leading to higher profitability, more stable cash flows and lower business risk profile

/ Dallas/Fort Worth Area

• Became manager during a time of both declining business volume and major financial transparency challenges. Driving role in streamlining processes, standardizing tool landscape and monthly reporting, which led to.
• Enabled separated groups to become one high-performance team by providing clear guidance, managing performance, developing an efficient tool landscape (SAP, Hyperion), and optimizing workflow.
• Led negotiation of major customer and supplier claims, leading to significant bottom line improvement and settlement of 10 year old legacy program with $200+M value.
• Main contributor to business reorganization and financial modeling, leading to successful restructuring with business overhead savings of 53%.
• Supported and organized “Accounting & Finance Ambassador Program” to foster external and internal talent acquisition and development. The program was expanded to all Siemens US hubs and received Siemens US Top+.

/ Dallas/Fort Worth Area

• Assigned as the project financial lead after a profit decrease of $10M due to schedule delays, on site inefficiencies, and intransparent scope changes driven by the customer.
• Optimized project setup and staffing levels with clear role responsibilities. Weekly project site controlling of work performed vs. cost spent (Earned Value).
• Established clear change order process with the customer to capture daily scope changes and field directives to recover costs and time for 100+ change requests.
• Played key role during preparation and negotiation for a 2 year project delay and inefficiency claim with settlement through mediation, leading to a significant bottom line improvement. Led financial modelling for a.

/ Nuremberg, Germany

• Responsible for the transparent and timely reporting and controlling of the world wide business segment with business volume of $600M p.a. Supported CEO and CFO with business reviews, performance improvement programs.
• Established monthly forecasts of all financial data by consolidating program, country, absorption, and intercompany business data.
• Main contributor to strategic 5 year financial planning.
• Led month end activities with focus on worldwide performance and external audits for quarter- / year-end close.

/ Nuremberg, Germany

- Controlling of project cost development - Pricing support for customer change orders - Permormed monthly closing and forecasting

Master Of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Business Administration And Management, General

Activities and Societies: Beta Gamma Sigma, Alpha ChiCompleted my MBA and graduated with Honors in May 2016, being inducted into the Beta.

Finance Apprenticeship, Business Administration & Finance