• Financial Planning & Reporting: o preparing and monitoring forecasts and budget for all subsidiaries, monthly preparation of management information including the review and analysis of P&L, balance sheet, and cash flow statements (UGB and IFRS), as well as strategic KPI’s, identifying and communicating opportunities and risks impacting business performance, effectively communicating financial results and recommending actions to the board of directors o cash-flow forecasting for the group • hands-on support of annual close & engaging with external auditors • Financial Analysis: o providing business analysis to support operations, and provide business plan development for strategic initiatives o project evaluation, cost control, • Business Partnering o Providing both financial expertise and business leadership to ensure excellent decision making, the maximization of long-term profits, cash-flows and shareholder value and the delivery of sustainable financial results o Providing financial leadership by actively participating in business strategy planning and necessary support to accomplish plans o Partnering closely with the Board of Directors and the cross-business/functional managers to play an active role in enhancing connectivity and communication o Able to drive the behaviour, results or agenda needed for the business having a point of view and communicating it effectively this influencing colleagues by supporting and challenging them, providing unique perspective and delivering value • Leadership: o functional supervision of five commercial controllers

Monthly reporting: analysing of results and preparing of comments for the board of directors and investors Managing and coordination of forecasts and budget figures, supervising the budget process in the regions Ongoing support of the international subsidiaries by monthly and annual financial statements Preparing of diverse financial internal and external reports Ad hoc analysing Leadership: supervising local controllers in Germany

Collecting, revising and analyzing monthly reporting figures (profit & loss, balance sheets, order intake, cash flow reports) Monitoring and analyzing of monthly results against budget and rolling forecast per company Providing and monitoring of budgeting and forecasting Analyzing key figures and ad-hoc reports for the board of directors (e.g. cost analysis, input on budget preparation) Development of the company KPIs and controlling tools Realization and monitoring of finance project within the group: Working Capital Management, Chances & Risks Reporting

Divisional monthly reporting and presentation of business results Analyses and monitoring of performance figures Preparation of divisional budgets, budget control and providing detailed analysis of variances Working out and analyzing of production and finance KPIs Initiating and monitoring of measures for the saving projects Forecasts and target-performance comparison Investment management Ad-hoc analysis Monitoring, costs analysis and business forecasts of fibre purchasing for the divisional mills Managing of savings projects in production and fibre purchasing Coordinating and monitoring of budget procedures of the affiliated companies Optimization of work procedures Building of a new company structure Implementation of the company group guidelines Leadership: • disciplinary responsibility for a team of four persons as well as the staff recruitment • functional responsibility for eight mills

Managing of the complete internal and external order flow for all the products, including advertising material; Supervisor for the local Order Processing Desks in CEE; Order preparation and registration; Information about availability, prices and delivery time, supply planning; Control over deliveries execution to the customer; Implementing actions in case of delivery or achievement problems, invoicing, claims working up.

Purchasing the whole equipment, spare parts, raw materials and packaging materials; Negotiations with Western suppliers; contact person for the transport companies arranging the goods deliveries, optimization of transport processes; preparing and conclusion of the international import and export contracts, arrangement of the outline agreements; leading of various projects inside the supply chain management, controlling over ordering process and contracts execution, price negotiations, preparing and translation of finance and progress report

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Finance Academy WIFI Vienna, certified European Management Accountant

Austrian Controller Academy, Certified Controller

Finance Academy WIFI Vienna, Management College / intensive economic course