Dennis Ziegler

- Supporting the development of a forum for high level research and policy analysis in the areas of competitiveness and productivity - Monitoring the budget for the network - Assisting the programming of the code in STATA - Website maintenance - Management and distribution of the output data - Supporting the organization of the CompNet annual conference in Brussels - Estimating conference related expenditures

- Implementing Travel Mngt. System (implementation, structure, reducing expenses, lead training sessions) - Implementing expense system for subsidiaries (workflows, structure, training) - improving expense reimbursements and SAP integration - Cost allocations using programmed macros - Budget and Forecast files - Documentation and calculation of the consolidation - Payment run process - Account and inter-company reconciliations, Board of Directors presentations and journal entries

- Work on scenarios of controlling and financial budgeting, forecasting and analyzing - Documentation and calculation of the consolidation (fiscal years 2014, 2015) - Implementation of Concur Professional (employee training, assistance as company administrator, connection to SAP, development of new approval and audit workflows, alternative ways of expense allocation) - Preparation of account and inter-company reconciliations, Board of Directors presentations and journal entries

- Provide pro bono consulting services to low-income and minority-owned small businesses - Actively working with business owners to implement changes

- capturing internal costs - conducting small analyses - capturing and processing documents

- Become acquainted with different processes in car manufacturing companies - Practice different ways of successful teamwork