Mark Lüdemann

Member of Global Audit Leadership Team, member of EMEA Finance Leadership Team, member of EMEA Compliance & Ethics Committee, quarterly reporting to Audit Committee, large scope of audits (forensic audits, plant audits, controls audits, retail audits, procurement audits, rebate/pricing audits, IT audits, compliance audits, etc.), annual business risk assessment and preparation of audit plan, leveraging data analytics, shared services and 3rd party specialists, development of top talent (emerging leaders)

Assistant Controller EMEA, Controller of Northern Cluster (Nordic Countries, Russia, UK) and EMEA Consolidation, Global BPO for Financial Statement close process, Member of the EMEA Controlling Leadership Team, Director on various boards of GY entities, 30-60 reports, 2016-2017 Controller of West Cluster (France, UK, Ireland, Spain, Portugal, Italy, Greece)

Managed General Accounting, Credit, Treasury and AP teams at the Nordic headquarters, successful implementation of new factoring program, implementation of account reconciliation software (pilot for Nordics, then EMEA wide roll-out), very successful transition to shared service center

Coordination of EMEA accounting and reporting processes at EMEA headquarters, manage preparation of consolidated US GAAP Financial Statements, maintain EMEA accounting expert knowledge network by coordinating a pool of 28 process experts, regularly provide analysis on EMEA's balance sheet to Corporate headquarters; discuss EMEA related SEC reporting with Global VP & Controller and Corporate external audit team, support of the APAC team during first-time IFRS consolidation

Management of general accounting team (covering three manufacturing plants, a sales entity and the EMEA R&D facilities), management of T&E for more than 3,000 employees, significant improvement of quality of local Financial Statements, reduction of monthly closing time

Financial and process audits in Dubai, Luxemburg, Antwerp, Zurich and Hanau

SOX implementation and improvement projects for a rail transportation manufacturer as team lead at various sites in Spain, Italy, UK, Sweden, and Germany; J-SOX implementation in Denmark and Germany for a Japanese electronic tooling supplier

Financial statement audits (German GAAP, US-GAAP, IFRS), primarily in the areas of automotive and IT

Strategy consulting in the area of e-business, CRM