Christopher Tesch

Support sales in various financial needs and added-value initiatives with deep finance and controlling know-how / Understand business drivers and build business plans to identify growth opportunities

Secure continuous cost and working capital improvement / Maintain and develop idea generation and idea management processes & tools (incl. trainings & data quality improvement) / Analyze cost & working capital developments and ensure sense of urgency of this topics via active communication / Locate, visualize and assist in performance variances & benchmarking within sourcing, operations and between mills / Share and implement best practices throughout the group, also utilizing external benchmarking

Manager Business Control Wood Sourcing Central Europe, since 02/2016 also for Recycled Paper Procurement / Direct financial plans and develop objectives of the organizations in financial matters / Team leader of a department with 3 employees / Provide accurate and value-adding financial information and expertise to enable business decisions / Create proactive, forward looking financial analysis / Single point of contact for Finance & Controlling issues / Create and enforce financial processes and KPI's

Contact person for foreign subsidiaries regarding strategic and operative issues with focus to finance, controlling and tax / Setting up new entities and permanent establishments in CN, KR, and IN: Financing, HR, Legal & Tax, Organization / Developing and executing of an international expansion strategy, focus Asia / Supporting and monitoring all foreign subsidiaries: Reporting, Budgeting, Transfer pricing, HR & warehouse management, etc. / From 12/2011 team leader of the department with 3 employees

Supporting national and international daughter companies from headquarter (including site visits) related to reporting, budgeting and other commercial issues / Training of finance managers worldwide concerning the budgeting process and tools in SAP BPS

Controlling, Produktion & Logistik, Entrepreneurship