• Comprehensive project management experiences and methods
• Substantial process know-how regarding finance & business functions within the context of investment/asset management
• Expert for the functional implementation of accounting standards (e.g. IFRS)
• Intense knowledge of risk management processes (e.g. MaRisk)
• Implementation experiences regarding STP systems
• Languages: German (native), English (fluent), Italian (good knowledge)

Tasks:

• Advisor for investment firms and banks: operational, organizational, strategically, it-implementation (front2back) and process-related affairs
• Project management: conception, requirements-driven, approach-related, implementation and controlling
• Feasibility studies, risk management, compliance & regulations, business specification of business & finance functions
• Development of new industry services, decision-maker/-finder for clients, moderator, consultancy services for board & board-1

2006 Jan – 2008 Jun: PricewaterhouseCoopers WPG AG (Associate / Consultant)
www.pwc.com

Tasks:

• Near-audit advisory of banks with subjects in: closings, process-modeling of finance functions, fastClose implementation, balance-sheet and annual report (smartNotes), IFRS conversion projects
• Auditing: substantive audit procedure of financial assets and trading sub-ledgers, opening balances and year-end closings
• Regulations: compliance, risk management, MaRisk, Basel II
• Accounting: IFRS & IAS 39, HGB (German GAAP)

2003 Aug – 2004 Mar: Porsche Italia S.p.A. (Intern / Business Analyst)
www.porsche.it

Tasks:

• SAP Implementation: assistance at implementation procedures of MM, WM and SD modules. Alignment and documentation of supply-chain-management processes in FI/CO
• Administrations and assistance of the CFO
• Central rating methods: implementation and execution of rating procedures for the whole Italian distributor and supplier network. Key-ratio identification
• Responsible for documentation and approval process as well as quality assurance

Educational Background

2001 Apr - 2005 Sep: Berlin School of Economics and Law (Germany)
www.hwr-berlin.de

• Thesis: “Inflation Targeting as Monetary Policy Framework” / Grade: 1.0
• Major: Corporate Finance, Risk Management, Finance Law, Banking, Strategic Management, Entrepreneurship
• Minor: International Relations of currency trading & financial markets, Corporate Financing

2003 Feb - 2003 Sep: Università degli studi di Bergamo (Italy)
www.unibg.it

• Major: Economics, Strategic Management
• Minor: Italian

2000 Jan - 2000 Sep: Beloit College (USA)
www.beloit.edu

• Major: Economics, Philosophy
• Minor: English as a second language

Project Experiences

Project management role concerning optimization targets within the securities compliance and regulatory environment. Focus on employee and insider trading as well as market manipulation and conflict of interest. Austrian savings bank.

Tasks:

• Development of business cases and feasibility studies
• RFI & RFP development and evaluation
• Business Specifications of all relevant business functions and processes
• Review of current workflows and alignment and optimization in conjunction with operating departments
• Rework of information and presentation of consolidated findings towards division-manager and board of directors level

Task-Force: Project Management role for the introduction of the Austrian capital gain tax (Capital gains tax) along the draft law of the ministry of finance  (Bundesministeriums für Finanzen). Task force as ad hoc measure introduction for an impact analysis, project-/program-setup considerations along all business units. Austrian savings Bank.

Tasks:

• Impact Analysis: Consequences for sales, settlement and the whole IT-architecture
• Enforcement of project-funding (budgeting) under consideration of resource constraints and costs. Including FIT-GAP-enforcements
• Identification of acceptable workarounds in order to save implementation resources
• Rework of  decision memos for steering committees (development strategic decision plans on corporate group level)
• Enforcement of legal assumptions for alignment on Austrian bank industry level
• Moderation

Project management role: Development of a feasibility study regarding centralized reference data management platforms. Including business case for optimization, harmonization and transfer of static data maintenance towards a new operational business unit for reference data maintenance. Austrian bank.

Tasks:

• Analysis of current processes and license-agreement environment including costs
• Specification of business requirements (Business Functions) for a centralized system-independent tool
• Analysis data flows: data provider, purposes, and crossovers
• Modeling of target-architecture (Visio)
• Disclosure of license-agreement gaps
• Moderation and Mediation

Project manager operational risk: Business risk analysis and quantification methods in order to identify and measure operational business risks. Derivation of adequate countermeasures in order to mitigate risks between the investment management firm and the custodian bank. Austrian custodian bank & investment firm.

Tasks:

• Identification of operational risks
• Quantification of risks in line with expert meetings
• Rework of results and preparation of steering committees (CRO)
• Derivation of recommendations regarding decision memos
• Formulation of countermeasures
• Project reporting

Staff section test coordination: During the implementation of SimCorp Dimension as standard-software comprehensive test activities had to be defined, planed and coordinated. Austrian investment firm.

Tasks:

• Development of a concept for an integration test. Considerations regarding the  SCD-Workflows (Front to Back) had to be made (Status-Code-Concept for financial instruments)
• Conception for validation purposes regarding user profiles (authorization & authentication)
• Definition of business transaction tests (Front-Office- & Back-Office-Transactions) alignment with target values
• Differentiation between preliminary and final booked transaction including the validation of reversals and life-cycle processes
• Validation concept for default-rules (Settlement- & Cost-Defaults)
• Standardized key-ratios comparison of fund-figures and technical validation (Excel)
• Development of a technical sub-ledger reconciliation tool (VBA)
• Technical interface test concept including bulk tests.

Sub-project manager – Processes: Implementation of the standard software SimCorp Dimension for a fund investment firm. Modeling of all target processes including custodian bank processes. Austrian investment management firm.

Tasks:

• Development of a process-reference-model for the whole life-cycle including order- & transaction-based as well as business supportive process identification
• Development of a workflow-management concept based on life-cycle status groups for auxiliary job control
• Actual-state-analysis, workshops and review of modeled target-processes (ARIS)
• Optimization of day-to-day routines for the area  of wealth management / private banking and the whole investment management firm & custodian bank environment (Interfaces, technical and professional dependencies)
• Development of decision memos
• Coaching, Escalation, Organization / Administration

Senior Business Consultant: Coaching project anticipation within the equity finance area. European Bank

Tasks:

• Process documentation of SBL-Transactions (Stock Borrowing Lending) for the equity finance department (REPO, Sec Lend, Short-Sales)
• Execution of a feasibility study for a large European bank corporation regarding trading processes under the consideration of the AUKI-Statuses (Authorized UK Intermediary) approval by HMRC (Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs) for UK subsidiaries and their special purpose vehicles (SPVs)
• Conception for target-processes (Swing-Trading vs. Mirrored-Trading) and potential financial accounting methods
• Taking inventory of technical, regulatory and und taxable questionaries’ and derivation of a requirements matrix
• Project organization and fulfillment
• Rework and aggregation of professional assignment as well as coaching of bank personnel

Associate / Consultant: Multiple fastClose-Projects within the banking industry – Optimization of IFRS closing processes

Tasks:

• Optimization of subsidiaries’ processes
• Intercompany alignment
• Verification and re-design of consolidation processes (debit-consolidation, consolidation of investments and returns)
• elimination of intercompany profit and loss
• Atomization of Year-End-Closing-Processes (implementation of tools)

Project-Controlling/Management Office (Basel II): Implementation of Basel II approaches for a German state bank and their subsidiaries

Tasks:

• Development and introduction of a project reporting and escalation process
• Tracking of milestones and tasks including resources and time-constraints
• Management of clients’ issues including alignment with the specialist department

Transaction Services – Due Diligence: Execution and preparation of a None-Performing-Loan-Transaction for a German mortgage bank

Tasks:

• Entry of static data
• Maintenance of NPL-Database
• Coaching
• Review tasks and quality assurance
• Advisory of seller-side

IAS audit: Participation at a fast close audit for a Swedish bank

Tasks:

• Audit of trading processes and sub-ledgers (financial instruments and derivatives)
• Financial assets (afs-positions)
• Audit on trading results and interest income
• Sub-audit on MaRisk and solvency
• Auditing of the balance sheet preparation processes

Audit of IAS opening balance: Participation at audit procedures for a germen state bank

Tasks:

• Audit of trading processes and sub-ledgers (financial instruments and derivatives)
• Audit on trading results and interest income
• Audit of IFRS offsetting and reconciliation procedures

IFRS conversion: IFRS introduction at a German savings bank

Tasks:

• Advisory regarding the introduction of IAS accounting regulations and the offsetting and reconciliation procedures HGB (German GAAP)
• Conception of technical reporting procedures and data interfaces for „held for trading“ positions (sub-ledgers: SimCorp Dimension & MUREX) including teat case design and process analysis
• Design of IFRS offsetting and reconciliation procedures as well as manuals
• Near-audit advisory

Audit of year-end-closing HGB (German GAAP): Participation at audit procedures for a German mortgage bank

Tasks:

• Substantive audit procedure of financial assets
• Audit of the statement of affaires

SAP implementation project: Participation and support of a large scale SAP implementation. German automotive manufacturer

Tasks:

• Documentation of target-processes for FI/CO and data-migration
• Redesign of finance and controlling processes. Deployment of tests
• Supply-chain-management optimization
• Assistance of the CFO
• Central rating of suppliers and distribution partners: Survey on key ratios and development of a ratio system in order to in place controlling principals for the distribution network