Gisela Schulz

- Maternity leave - Mandarin Studies - Volunteer work (Translation German-English meeting minutes at Preschool) - Volunteer at daughters primary school for various activities (library service, facilitator at field trips, etc.) - Family Management - Volunteer Admin for Wechat Networking Group: "Moving to/Living in Germany - Relocation with family from China to Germany

Translation of Minutes for School Management Meetings from German to English to be shared with Expat Families whose children attend Benteler Preschool.

Supporting the business onsite and offshore in improving profitability and enhancing operating efficiency and effectiveness by spotting trends, analyzing data and giving fact based recommendations. Prepare and analyze financial reporting packages for running business on monthly basis. Assisting business leaders in budget and forecast process. Variance analysis of revenue and expenses. Assist business leaders during bid process with pricing and costing strategies for outsourcing transactions.

Prepared monthly cost reporting, bi-monthly forecasting and annual budgeting and presented to central controlling department in Sweden. Assisted and coordinated delivery teams with effort and capacity estimation, planning of personal, consultant, software and hardware costs. Supported project managers with total cost calculation for investments in hardware and software. Coordination and implementation of reporting quality improvement and organization of training for project managers on efforts reporting.

Central controller for Poland, Netherlands, Denmark, Belgium, Switzerland and Austria. Supported markets in monthly reporting, budgeting and forecasting process and supervised implementation of central guidelines. Conducted trend and variance analysis on monthly reporting for profit and loss statement and balance sheet. Coordinated implementation of restructuring plan goals in budgets and forecasts making effective recommendations to upper management.

INTERNATIONAL GRADUATE DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME AT FIAT S.P.A. First step of trainee programme (12 months): IVECO S.P.A., TURIN, ITALY Human Resource Assistant within Business Unit Trucks - People Development Second step of trainee programme (12 months): FIAT AUTO / FIDIS S.P.A., TURIN, ITALY Junior Controller within central controlling department of Fiat Auto's Financial Services Company Fidis.

Responsible for customer care of individual clients, assisted in recruiting process, contributed to projects with internet/market research, prepared presentations and mailings, organized appointments and made travel arrangements, assisted in implementing a POS-Marketing-Workshop for clients and potential customers, organised daily administrative duties.

Analysed current price structure for world-wide sales as basis for decision making on a new price model, created an excel sheet to test and develop the new price model, processed data in preparation for competitor analysis within the European market, assisted with construction of new company homepage layout, created promotional leaflet in corporation with GF business partners, translated incoming German correspondence to English as well as simultaneous translation during meetings with German visitors.

Apprenticeship to qualify as a customer service representative Training on the job in the different departments and areas of insurance, learned about the organizational structure of an insurance company, contributed with day-to-day handling of clients and amended contracts Diploma: Versicherungskauffrau – IHK (German GPA: 2.0)

Thesis: Monitoring the Turnaround of Fiat owned car dealers with the support of Balanced Scorecard Diploma with Italian GPA: 103/110

Passed exams in: Marketing in the Service Industry, Economics of Developing Countries, Auditing, Management of Family Businesses

Thesis: Legal market entry requirements for German automobile manufacturers wishing to invest in China, Indonesia and South Korea Diplom-Betriebswirtin (FH) – Diploma with German GPA: 1.7 Controlling Marketing Finance International Economics