Prof. Dr. Christian Hebeler

- Global responsibility for Henkel's (20bn sales) Internal Audit function, directly reporting to the CEO - Member of Henkel's Finance Executive Committee, headed by the Group CFO - Managing a global team of 40 FTE

Finanzchef (Business Development/M&A, Strategie, Controlling, IT/Prozesse) des Henkel Unternehmensbereichs Laundry & Home Care (>5 Mrd. EUR Umsatz) sowie verantwortlich für Media&Marktforschung - rd 130 Mitarbeiterr

Areas of responsibility: - Group Strategy Unit Henkel - CEO & Board Office - Corporate Financial Analysis and Peer Group Analysis - Leadership of 15 employees

Areas of responsibility: - M&A Henkel Group - Group Investment Controlling - Corporate Planning & Analysis - Subsidiary Controlling - Controlling Global Functions - Controlling Purchasing - Leadership of 55 employees

Areas of responsibility: - Corporate Planning & Special Analysis (3 business divisions, 16 bn€ sales) - Subsidiary Controlling (control accounting & financing of 180 affiliates, support M&A process) - Controlling Global Functions (IT, HR, Finance, Legal, Purchasing - 850 Mio€ budget) - Global Supply Controlling (9 bn€ spend for direct/indirect materials, business intelligence of price forecasting) - leading a team of 51 employees

Global controlling responsibility within the Adhesive Technologies Division (~7,0 bn€ sales, 5 globally operating SBUs); areas of controlling responsibility: supply chain & operations (150 plants), investments/CAPEX (~150 m€), R&D/innovations (12 centres) and special projects; further responsibilities: net working capital reduction programs, transfer pricing, complexity reduction; leading a team of 10 direct reports and 11 dotted-line reports

CFO Australia / New Zealand and legal director of 5 Henkel affiliates and ANZ business (180 m€) based in Melbourne; responsibility for finance & accounting, production and business controlling (adhesives, cosmetics); team of 20 employees with high degree of diversity (14 nationalities); finance costs reduced by 25%; experienced in turnaround management, business process transfers to shared service centers and restructuring & integration management (local integration of Henkel's acquisition ICI/NSC)

Responsible for the monthly closing and management reporting of Henkel’s parent company Henkel KGaA and additional German and Swiss affiliates (team of 16 employees); project owner of restructuring the Swiss finance organisation and integration of Swiss finance processes into Henkel KGaA, managed several German legal merges and SAP integrations – finance costs reduced by 15%

Within Corporate Finance, Department of Corporate Planning / Strategic Controlling, head of internal competence center and advisor for controlling and account-ing topics (2 direct reports); responsible for the Corporate Standards Accounting, Planning and Risk Reporting, i.e. central counterpart for all affiliated companies and divisions; managing cross-divisional projects: e.g. new product costing, redesign of management reporting, review of net working capital KPIs, cash-flow statement per division

01-07/2004: Project manager "New Planning Process 2005“, cross-divisional project redesigning and successfully implementing Henkel’s new lean planning process together with The Hackett Group; process owner of Henkel’s global annual risk reporting, counterpart of affiliated companies regarding management accounting; supporting the SAP-SEM implementation harmonizing the internal and external group accounting systems, international trainer on SAP-BW

Worked at the Department of Accounting and Controlling; teaching and lecturing at university level, organizing conferences, recruiting and leading of university student assistants; managing industry consultancy projects

Leadership Program

Executive program on Strategy: Building and sustaining competitive advantage

Visiting Scholar at the Department of Accounting and Information Faculty sponsored by DAAD: guest lecturing and conducted survey on US American accounting practice

- Managerial Accounting / Controlling - Strategic Planning - IFRS / US-GAAP / Tax - Electrical engineering