Claudia Soester

Management of Finance team of industrial operations, monthly reporting & analysis of KPIs of plant performance measurement, impact on production costs and stock management, set up and follow up of KPI targets. Projects of plant efficiency, plant concentration and improvements. Coordination and supervision of budgeting, forecasting and long term planning exercises. Member of the Industrial Operation Leadership Team reporting to Group Business Controller and Vicepresident Industrial Operations.

Responsible for Finance teams in R&D Spain and Germany. Direct report to CFO, operative report to CSO of R&D Area. Financial control of the R&D projects and activities, financial assessment of R&D projects (discovery, preclinical, clinical trials or alliances), overall strategy, reporting, budgeting, 5 year forecast analysis, portfolio reviews and prioritization. Paricipation in restructuring processes, sale of German company and respiratory franchise

Responsible for a team of 8 people as International Finance Manager. Direct report to the Deputy CFO, operative report to the COO. Financial control of the business with affiliates and partner business, financial assessment of international projects (new affiliates, JVs or alliance managements), launch requests of new products, reporting, budgeting, 5 year forecast analysis

Responsable of Controlling for affiliates in Germany and Belgium, Finance Manager of Dutch affiliate. Participation in the creation of new affiliate, evaluation of capital increase, fnancial strcuture, cash forecast, monthly reporting, coorindation of budget and forecasting exercises, coordination of legal matters (proxies, contracts, local shareholder meetings). Participation in projects (new reporting (commercial and financial), new systems, acquisitions).

Controlling and reporting, budgeting, accounting, scorecard, coordination with HQ Corporate Finance, coordination with external consultants, external auditors, accounting and closing, legal and fiscal closing, team of 3 people, projects as SAP and BAAN implementation, split of company into 2 legal entities

International Controller of the Division Pharma International. After restructuring the Pharma Business into geographical divisions, responsible for the Controlling and Customer Service of Central & Eastern Europe. Controlling, reporting, budgeting, coordination with Corporate Controlling, coordination with affiliates and partner business. Participation in the acquisition of Kabi business and different projects in Finance (e.g. JV creation In India).

Controller of the affiliates in UK/Ireland and Greece. Consolidation of affiliates P&Ls and reporting, Coordination of transfer price calculation, reporting and analysis. Participation in an intercompany consolidation IT project

1986-1988: Apprenticeship through ASET (Industriekauffrau). 1989-1994: Controller junior in Central Controlling to build up a new department for Controlling and the reporting to HQ together with the Director of Controlling, consolidating the reporting of the different divisions in Spain. Participation in different projects of Controlling in coordination with HQ.

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