Senior Berater für globale Finance Transformation, SAP S/4HANA, Product Costing, Zwischengewinn-Eliminierung, Konsolidierung & Logistikintegration.
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SAP S/4HANA Finance Transformation
Projektmanagement & Leadership
IFRS Compliant Production Accounting & Intercompany Profit Elimination
Universal Parallel Accounting (UPA)
Finance & Logistics Integration
Global Operating Model Design
SAP CO / Material Ledger
Group Reporting & Consolidation Support
Shared Service Organizations
Process Standardization & Harmonization (Group Standards)
Audit & ICS Compliance
Cost of Goods Sold (CoGS) Transparency
SAP Finance Architecture
Data & BI Integration
Stakeholder & Executive Management
International Transformation Programs
Snowflake / Databricks / Power BI
German
native
English
fluent (business proficiency)
Japanese
Basic knowledge

Einsatzorte

Einsatzorte

Deutschland
möglich

Projekte

Projekte

3 Jahre 7 Monate
2022-11 - heute

S/4HANA Design & Implementation

Product Owner
Product Owner
Design and implementation production accounting- and inventory valua-tio processes aligned with logistic integration and master data as well as Data Lake and BI-Warehouse integration.
Bayer CORE
1 Jahr
2021-06 - 2022-05

Brazil Business Consortium

Project Lead Inventory Traceability
Project Lead Inventory Traceability
Conceptual design, implementation and transfer into business opera-tions of a traceability and reporting function for inventory ownership shares of a multinational business consortium.
INTEGRA
1 Jahr 9 Monate
2019-10 - 2021-06

Group Production and Reporting Activities

Project Lead
Project Lead
Setting up a team for Group Production and Reporting activities in Barcelona to take care for consolidated production costs from a Management Reporting Perspective as well as for Inventory and Profit & Loss statement consolidation for Group Reporting purposes including positions on tariff and managerial level in order to allow for personal developments/ career paths for the new team.
GPAR Ramp-Up
Barcelona
1 Jahr
2019-04 - 2020-03

SAP S/4HANA Design / KISS4/RISE

Project Manager
Project Manager
Development of R/3 to S/4HANA transformation for core inventory valu-ation and product accounting processes, aligning business processes, logistic integration and master data for optimized results.
3 Jahre
2016-04 - 2019-03

Pre-Merger Planning Project (PrMP)

Project Manager
Project Manager
Leading consolidated inventory and CoGS for carved-out and divested Bayer businesses to comply with anti-trust authority requirements dur-ing the Monsanto integration..
Monsanto
1 Jahr 5 Monate
2016-01 - 2017-05

Update & PC/IV Reorganisation

Developing a unique COSMOS tool for all divisions and transforming the Bayer HealthCare and Bayer CropScience teams into dedicated teams for local production accounting on one hand and a team with global responsibility for eliminating margins from Bayers Balance Sheet and Profit & Loss statement from a Group Reporting perspective.
COSMOS
10 Monate
2016-04 - 2017-01

Establishing a New Organizational Structure

Project Manager
Project Manager
Setting up a new organizational structure of Bayer legal entities forming a unique Bayer AG consisting of Pharma, CropScience and Consumer Health business into a unified legal entity.
New Bayer
2 Jahre
2015-01 - 2016-12

Service Centre Ramp-Up Barcelona

Ramping up Production Accounting as a shared service in Barcelona to enhance Bayers global shared service center network. Introduce and train on new concepts, value flows and tools. Developing a risk mitigation strategy (disaster recovery option) to keep processes stable running even in case a center is affected and down.
11 Monate
2016-01 - 2016-11

Divestment Project SIT

Ensuring the support of the divestment of Bayer CropScience consumer business by assigning caretaker capable to adopt local and global processes and related inventory as well as profit and loss statement values.
5 Monate
2016-06 - 2016-10

SAP Project OPIS

Designing business processes in line with Bayer BRIDGE concepts to be implemented for seeds production from Grower Management up to Seeds treatment.

Aus- und Weiterbildung

Aus- und Weiterbildung

3 Jahre 6 Monate
1997-09 - 2001-02

Studie

Bachelor of Economics and Business Administration, Verwaltungs- und Wirtschaftsakademie (VWA) Köln e.V.
Bachelor of Economics and Business Administration
Verwaltungs- und Wirtschaftsakademie (VWA) Köln e.V.

Kompetenzen

Kompetenzen

Top-Skills

SAP S/4HANA Finance Transformation Projektmanagement & Leadership IFRS Compliant Production Accounting & Intercompany Profit Elimination Universal Parallel Accounting (UPA) Finance & Logistics Integration Global Operating Model Design SAP CO / Material Ledger Group Reporting & Consolidation Support Shared Service Organizations Process Standardization & Harmonization (Group Standards) Audit & ICS Compliance Cost of Goods Sold (CoGS) Transparency SAP Finance Architecture Data & BI Integration Stakeholder & Executive Management International Transformation Programs Snowflake / Databricks / Power BI

Produkte / Standards / Erfahrungen / Methoden

Profile
Experienced finance transformation leader with more than 30 years of experience in production ac-counting, inventory valuation and financial reporting within a global industrial environment. His focus is on IFRS-compliant inventory valuation, intercompany profit elimination and the design and implemen-tation of integrated SAP S/4HANA-based financial and management processes to ensure transparency, consistency and auditability of global value flows.

EXPERIENCE
01/2026 ? today
Companyname on request
Founder and CEO
  • Providing executive consulting and advisory services in finance transfor-mation, SAP S/4HANA, global production accounting, intercompany profit elimination, and finance-logistics integration. Specialized in IFRS-compliant operating models, audit readiness, and global process standardization.

01/2023 ? 12/2025
Bayer CORE Project / S/4HANA
Product Owner Production Accounting & BI Integration
  • Leading and setting up a S/4HANA-System, ready for Production Accounting (Management Accounting/CO) with integration of logistical processes while re-designing custom processes to fit to SAP standard deliveries, free of own developments and programming. Ensure data extraction into Bayers Report-ing BI-System for legal reporting and as a basis for Bayer own developed profit elmination program, called COSMOS.

06/2017 ? 12/2022
Head of Group Production Accounting & Reporting
Bayer Group, Leverkusen
  • Leading and managing global teams responsible for intercompany profit elimination in inventories and related profit & loss statement positions in Bayer reporting system for actual reporting and management reporting re-lated planning activities.

01/2013 ? 05/2017
Head of Product Costing/ Inventory Valuation CropScience
Bayer Group, Leverkusen
  • Building up and leading a team centrally responsible for global production accounting functions of Bayer CropScience. Establish career paths and ensure people development across the shared service center network organization involved.

05/2011 ? 12/2012
ICS Manager 
Bayer Material Science AG
  • Represent Bayer MaterialScience AG Leverkusen as ICS Manager in all ar-eas of the SOX conform ICS framework.

05/2010 ? 04/2011
ICS Global Guidance Inventory Valuation, Procurement, Prodcution
Bayer Group, Leverkusen
  • Leading the global Bayer MaterialScience ICS community on all aspects related to Inventory Valuation, Procurement and Production. Consult and support globally on audits, respective findings, track on correction measures and process enhancements/adoptions.

02/2007 ? 04/2010
Project Manager für SAP Management Accounting
Bayer Group, Leverkusen
  • Design, implementation and support on SAP projects for Bayer MaterialScience subsidiaries around the globe in the area of SAP CO, FI and Logistics Integration

10/2004 ? 01/2007
Office Executive Product Costing/Inventory Valuation
Bayer Group, Leverkusen
  • Central responsibility for raw material and supplies valuation of Bayer Material Science AG Leverkusen. Analyses on intercompany purchases and stocks (BZO) to provide inventory percentages for intercompany profit elimination on group level. Coordination and consultancy on annual stock taking activities, measures and processes.

01/2000 ? 09/2004
Head of Department Production Controlling Office
Bayer Group, Leverkusen
  • Lead the production related office activities regarding BOM, recipe creation, income statement controlling and correction postings as well as the organization and conduction of the annual stock taking activities

08/1996 ? 12/1999
Procurement Dispatcher
Bayer Group, Leverkusen
  • Aligning on material requisitions to ensure raw material supply for different pilot productions under consideration of optimal working capital and warehouse utilisation

10/1995 ? 07/1996
Basic Military Service
3. & 4. Transportbataillon 370 Diez an der Lahn

07/1995 ? 09/1995
Production Controller
Bayer Group, Leverkusen
  • Production controlling at Bayers Central Organics Pilot Plant (Zentrales Technikum Organisch, ZeTO)

09/1992 ? 06/1995
Apprenticeship to an office executive (CCI)
Bayer Group, Leverkusen
  • Three years apprenticeship to a chamber of commerce and industry accredited office executive (Bürokaufmann IHK)

08/1991 ? 08/1992
Office employee
Bayer Group, Leverkusen
  • Providing postal and office services to Lawyers and assistants of Bayers
  • License and Patents department.

Einsatzorte

Einsatzorte

Deutschland
möglich

Projekte

Projekte

3 Jahre 7 Monate
2022-11 - heute

S/4HANA Design & Implementation

Product Owner
Product Owner
Design and implementation production accounting- and inventory valua-tio processes aligned with logistic integration and master data as well as Data Lake and BI-Warehouse integration.
Bayer CORE
1 Jahr
2021-06 - 2022-05

Brazil Business Consortium

Project Lead Inventory Traceability
Project Lead Inventory Traceability
Conceptual design, implementation and transfer into business opera-tions of a traceability and reporting function for inventory ownership shares of a multinational business consortium.
INTEGRA
1 Jahr 9 Monate
2019-10 - 2021-06

Group Production and Reporting Activities

Project Lead
Project Lead
Setting up a team for Group Production and Reporting activities in Barcelona to take care for consolidated production costs from a Management Reporting Perspective as well as for Inventory and Profit & Loss statement consolidation for Group Reporting purposes including positions on tariff and managerial level in order to allow for personal developments/ career paths for the new team.
GPAR Ramp-Up
Barcelona
1 Jahr
2019-04 - 2020-03

SAP S/4HANA Design / KISS4/RISE

Project Manager
Project Manager
Development of R/3 to S/4HANA transformation for core inventory valu-ation and product accounting processes, aligning business processes, logistic integration and master data for optimized results.
3 Jahre
2016-04 - 2019-03

Pre-Merger Planning Project (PrMP)

Project Manager
Project Manager
Leading consolidated inventory and CoGS for carved-out and divested Bayer businesses to comply with anti-trust authority requirements dur-ing the Monsanto integration..
Monsanto
1 Jahr 5 Monate
2016-01 - 2017-05

Update & PC/IV Reorganisation

Developing a unique COSMOS tool for all divisions and transforming the Bayer HealthCare and Bayer CropScience teams into dedicated teams for local production accounting on one hand and a team with global responsibility for eliminating margins from Bayers Balance Sheet and Profit & Loss statement from a Group Reporting perspective.
COSMOS
10 Monate
2016-04 - 2017-01

Establishing a New Organizational Structure

Project Manager
Project Manager
Setting up a new organizational structure of Bayer legal entities forming a unique Bayer AG consisting of Pharma, CropScience and Consumer Health business into a unified legal entity.
New Bayer
2 Jahre
2015-01 - 2016-12

Service Centre Ramp-Up Barcelona

Ramping up Production Accounting as a shared service in Barcelona to enhance Bayers global shared service center network. Introduce and train on new concepts, value flows and tools. Developing a risk mitigation strategy (disaster recovery option) to keep processes stable running even in case a center is affected and down.
11 Monate
2016-01 - 2016-11

Divestment Project SIT

Ensuring the support of the divestment of Bayer CropScience consumer business by assigning caretaker capable to adopt local and global processes and related inventory as well as profit and loss statement values.
5 Monate
2016-06 - 2016-10

SAP Project OPIS

Designing business processes in line with Bayer BRIDGE concepts to be implemented for seeds production from Grower Management up to Seeds treatment.

Aus- und Weiterbildung

Aus- und Weiterbildung

3 Jahre 6 Monate
1997-09 - 2001-02

Studie

Bachelor of Economics and Business Administration, Verwaltungs- und Wirtschaftsakademie (VWA) Köln e.V.
Bachelor of Economics and Business Administration
Verwaltungs- und Wirtschaftsakademie (VWA) Köln e.V.

Kompetenzen

Kompetenzen

Top-Skills

SAP S/4HANA Finance Transformation Projektmanagement & Leadership IFRS Compliant Production Accounting & Intercompany Profit Elimination Universal Parallel Accounting (UPA) Finance & Logistics Integration Global Operating Model Design SAP CO / Material Ledger Group Reporting & Consolidation Support Shared Service Organizations Process Standardization & Harmonization (Group Standards) Audit & ICS Compliance Cost of Goods Sold (CoGS) Transparency SAP Finance Architecture Data & BI Integration Stakeholder & Executive Management International Transformation Programs Snowflake / Databricks / Power BI

Produkte / Standards / Erfahrungen / Methoden

Profile
Experienced finance transformation leader with more than 30 years of experience in production ac-counting, inventory valuation and financial reporting within a global industrial environment. His focus is on IFRS-compliant inventory valuation, intercompany profit elimination and the design and implemen-tation of integrated SAP S/4HANA-based financial and management processes to ensure transparency, consistency and auditability of global value flows.

EXPERIENCE
01/2026 ? today
Companyname on request
Founder and CEO
  • Providing executive consulting and advisory services in finance transfor-mation, SAP S/4HANA, global production accounting, intercompany profit elimination, and finance-logistics integration. Specialized in IFRS-compliant operating models, audit readiness, and global process standardization.

01/2023 ? 12/2025
Bayer CORE Project / S/4HANA
Product Owner Production Accounting & BI Integration
  • Leading and setting up a S/4HANA-System, ready for Production Accounting (Management Accounting/CO) with integration of logistical processes while re-designing custom processes to fit to SAP standard deliveries, free of own developments and programming. Ensure data extraction into Bayers Report-ing BI-System for legal reporting and as a basis for Bayer own developed profit elmination program, called COSMOS.

06/2017 ? 12/2022
Head of Group Production Accounting & Reporting
Bayer Group, Leverkusen
  • Leading and managing global teams responsible for intercompany profit elimination in inventories and related profit & loss statement positions in Bayer reporting system for actual reporting and management reporting re-lated planning activities.

01/2013 ? 05/2017
Head of Product Costing/ Inventory Valuation CropScience
Bayer Group, Leverkusen
  • Building up and leading a team centrally responsible for global production accounting functions of Bayer CropScience. Establish career paths and ensure people development across the shared service center network organization involved.

05/2011 ? 12/2012
ICS Manager 
Bayer Material Science AG
  • Represent Bayer MaterialScience AG Leverkusen as ICS Manager in all ar-eas of the SOX conform ICS framework.

05/2010 ? 04/2011
ICS Global Guidance Inventory Valuation, Procurement, Prodcution
Bayer Group, Leverkusen
  • Leading the global Bayer MaterialScience ICS community on all aspects related to Inventory Valuation, Procurement and Production. Consult and support globally on audits, respective findings, track on correction measures and process enhancements/adoptions.

02/2007 ? 04/2010
Project Manager für SAP Management Accounting
Bayer Group, Leverkusen
  • Design, implementation and support on SAP projects for Bayer MaterialScience subsidiaries around the globe in the area of SAP CO, FI and Logistics Integration

10/2004 ? 01/2007
Office Executive Product Costing/Inventory Valuation
Bayer Group, Leverkusen
  • Central responsibility for raw material and supplies valuation of Bayer Material Science AG Leverkusen. Analyses on intercompany purchases and stocks (BZO) to provide inventory percentages for intercompany profit elimination on group level. Coordination and consultancy on annual stock taking activities, measures and processes.

01/2000 ? 09/2004
Head of Department Production Controlling Office
Bayer Group, Leverkusen
  • Lead the production related office activities regarding BOM, recipe creation, income statement controlling and correction postings as well as the organization and conduction of the annual stock taking activities

08/1996 ? 12/1999
Procurement Dispatcher
Bayer Group, Leverkusen
  • Aligning on material requisitions to ensure raw material supply for different pilot productions under consideration of optimal working capital and warehouse utilisation

10/1995 ? 07/1996
Basic Military Service
3. & 4. Transportbataillon 370 Diez an der Lahn

07/1995 ? 09/1995
Production Controller
Bayer Group, Leverkusen
  • Production controlling at Bayers Central Organics Pilot Plant (Zentrales Technikum Organisch, ZeTO)

09/1992 ? 06/1995
Apprenticeship to an office executive (CCI)
Bayer Group, Leverkusen
  • Three years apprenticeship to a chamber of commerce and industry accredited office executive (Bürokaufmann IHK)

08/1991 ? 08/1992
Office employee
Bayer Group, Leverkusen
  • Providing postal and office services to Lawyers and assistants of Bayers
  • License and Patents department.

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