Markus Huber Interim Manager Finance Munich

Welcome!

My name is Mar­kus Huber. I am living in Munich and I have more than 23 years of pro­fes­sio­nal expe­ri­ence as Finan­ce Mana­ger in the estab­lish­ment of Accoun­ting and Con­trol­ling struc­tures for medi­um-sized com­pa­nies and inter­na­tio­nal cor­po­ra­ti­ons all over Europe.

I have spe­cia­li­zed in the are­as natio­nal and inter­na­tio­nal Accoun­ting and Controlling.

As Inte­rim Mana­ger I am an entre­pre­neur, a Mana­ger, a con­sul­tant, a pro­ject mana­ger, and an ope­ra­ti­ve doer in one per­son. I have long-stan­ding and com­pre­hen­si­ve manage­ment and lea­der­ship expe­ri­ence, as well as ope­ra­ti­ve expe­ri­ence in the area Accoun­ting and Con­trol­ling (from stra­te­gic decis­i­ons to Accounting).

You can find more detail­ed infor­ma­ti­on con­cer­ning my com­pe­ten­ces and my care­er in my Vita.

I real­ly would like to con­vin­ce you and your com­pa­ny of my performances.

Many thanks and have a nice day.

Mar­kus Huber

Inte­rim Mana­ger Finan­ce & Controlling
Munich, [Ger­ma­ny]

QUALIFICATION

  • Degree in Busi­ness Eco­no­mics and addi­tio­nal qua­li­fi­ca­ti­on as Inter­na­tio­nal Accoun­tant (CINA for US GAAP and IFRS)
  • More than 23 years of pro­fes­sio­nal expe­ri­ence (HGB/US GAAP/IFRS) with regard to the estab­lish­ment, coor­di­na­ti­on, and super­vi­si­on of the Controlling/Accounting/ownership struc­tures for inter­na­tio­nal stock cor­po­ra­ti­ons, as well as for medi­um-sized com­pa­nies in Germany/Europe
  • Controlling/Accounting/consolidation expe­ri­ence in Ger­ma­ny, Aus­tria, Switz­er­land, France, Ita­ly, Gre­at Bri­tain, Ire­land, the Net­her­lands, and Romania
  • More than 18 years of respon­si­bi­li­ty for staff (1 to 16 direct reports)
  • Pro­fes­sio­nal expe­ri­ence in the fol­lo­wing are­as: Pro­fes­sio­nal expe­ri­ence in the fol­lo­wing are­as: occu­pa­tio­nal pen­si­ons, con­sul­ting, Faci­li­ty Manage­ment, semi­con­duc­tors, iden­ti­fy solu­ti­ons, indus­tri­al gases and pro­cess plants, real estate, cos­me­tics, food, luxury
    goods indus­try, mecha­ni­cal engi­nee­ring, net­work tech­no­lo­gy, phar­ma­cy, indus­tri­al engi­nee­ring and pro­ject manage­ment, tele­com­mu­ni­ca­ti­on and insu­rance broking
  • Spin-off expe­ri­ence (Bris­tol Myers — Convatec)
  • Merger/integration expe­ri­ence (Aon Cor­po­ra­ti­on with Hewitt Associates)
  • Expe­ri­ence with regard to the deve­lo­p­ment of inter­nal con­trol sys­tems and key pro­ces­ses incl. docu­men­ta­ti­on, as well as SOPs (Shared Ser­vice Cen­ters, SOX, and inter­nal ISO audi­tor)
  • Set-up, super­vi­si­on, and coor­di­na­ti­on of new pro­jects, e.g. fur­ther opti­miza­ti­on of the Reporting/Controlling/Accounting instru­ments of the companies/countries
  • Edu­ca­ti­on to be a SAP user/consultant (FI/CO modu­le) — degree level 1
  • Good know­ledge of PC stan­dard soft­ware, expe­ri­en­ced user of Excel, MS Office, Lotus Notes,
    SAP (FI/CO/BCS/S4 HANA), Luca­Net, Ora­cle, J. D. Edwards, Micro­soft Dyna­mics-Navi­si­on, Tage­tik, GLOVIA, S Base, Infor MOVEX M3,
    Impromp­tu, Hype­ri­on, Cog­nos and Cor­po­ra­te Planner
  • Ger­man (mother ton­gue), Eng­lish (busi­ness fluent)

Interim Manager Finance — Accounting

Interim Manager Controlling
  • Crea­ti­on of the month­ly, quar­ter­ly, and annu­al finan­cial state­ments accor­ding to the natio­nal prin­ci­ples (HGB/local GAAP) and inter­na­tio­nal prin­ci­ples (US GAAP and IFRS), as well as con­nec­ted addi­tio­nal Report­ing for national/international stock exchanges.
  • Eva­lua­ti­on of the key indi­ca­tors with regard to the finan­cial state­ments, and of the con­nec­ted calculation/posting of the provisions
  • Eva­lua­ti­on and review of the reve­nues, as well as cal­cu­la­ti­on of the accruals/deferrals
  • Super­vi­si­on, coor­di­na­ti­on, and deve­lo­p­ment of the natio­nal and inter­na­tio­nal taxes in Euro­pe, as well as cor­re­spon­ding consolidation
  • Comparison/adjustment of the order, invoice, trans­fer, and manu­fac­tu­ring pri­ces in the dif­fe­rent data bases
  • Estab­lish­ment of a uni­form stan­dard chart of accounts with descrip­ti­on and account matching (dif­fe­rent companies/countries/languages/currencies)
  • Defi­ni­ti­on of coun­try codes/company codes/account numbers/departments/cost cen­ters
  • Super­vi­si­on, con­trol, and pro­ces­sing of the audit accor­ding to HGB/US GAAP/IFRS/local GAAP, incl. pre­pa­ra­ti­on of the Manage­ment Report and of the Notes
  • Coor­di­na­ti­on and pro­ces­sing of com­pa­ny audits by the finan­cial authorities
  • Inter­nal audi­tor for HGB/US GAAP/IFRS/local GAAP in the dif­fe­rent Euro­pean countries
  • Con­trol of the finan­ci­al­ly rele­vant Cus­to­mer Ser­vice func­tions, as well as appr­oval of cre­dit lines
  • Super­vi­si­on, con­trol, and pro­ces­sing of inter­nal mat­ters (audi­ting of accounts, finan­cial state­ment accor­ding to HGB/US GAAP, inter­nal finan­cial audit, obser­van­ce of the SOX prin­ci­ples/revenue reco­gni­ti­on)
  • Orga­niza­ti­on, con­trol, and deve­lo­p­ment of the pro­ces­ses with regard to Finan­ce and Accoun­ting, as well as gua­ran­tee of the obser­van­ce of the inter­nal poli­ci­es (finan­cial policy)
  • Con­so­li­da­ti­on of the indi­vi­du­al count­ries in the parent com­pa­ny (Accoun­ting and Controlling)
  • Pre­pa­ra­ti­on of con­so­li­da­ted finan­cial statements
  • Coor­di­na­ti­on of and respon­si­bi­li­ty for the trans­fer of the Accoun­ting to the Shared Ser­vice Centre
  • In the cour­se of mer­ger/­spin-off acti­vi­ties: con­sul­tant and part­ner for the inter­na­tio­nal pro­ject mana­gers who accom­pa­ny the mer­ger, as well as calculating/commenting/posting the syn­er­gies in the dif­fe­rent departments
  • Estab­lish­ment and con­trol of the cash poo­ling of the con­tract coordination
    Con­trol of the cash management/finan­cial part­ner for the Tre­asu­ry Depart­ment International
  • Trai­ning of new­ly employ­ed Mana­gers, as well as deve­lo­p­ment and coor­di­na­ti­on of the cor­re­spon­ding roadmap/milestones
  • com­ple­te and com­pre­hen­si­ve docu­men­ta­ti­on of all work pro­ces­ses (Accoun­ting)
  • Coor­di­na­ti­on, pre­pa­ra­ti­on, pro­ces­sing, and docu­men­ta­ti­on of com­pa­ny spin-offs
  • Con­sul­ta­ti­on, coor­di­na­ti­on, and imple­men­ta­ti­on of res­truc­tu­ring measures

Interim Manager Controlling (FP&A)

  • Pre­pa­ra­ti­on of the month­ly, quar­ter­ly, and annu­al finan­cial state­ments, as well as of the cor­re­spon­ding Report­ing accor­ding to HGB/US GAAP/IFRS/local GAAP
  • Estab­lish­ment and con­ti­nua­tion of the month­ly Manage­ment Report/President‘s Let­ter, sub­se­quent presentation
  • Eva­lua­ti­on of the sales figu­res as Busi­ness Part­ner for the heads of depart­ment (dai­ly, month­ly, and quar­ter­ly eva­lua­tions), as well as eva­lua­ti­on of the key indi­ca­tors (top customers/brand sales/Business Unit Sales)
  • Eva­lua­ti­on of the key indi­ca­tors for the month­ly reve­nue cal­cu­la­ti­on (work in progress/percentage of com­ple­ti­on), and the con­nec­ted cal­cu­la­ti­on of the provisions
  • Estab­lish­ment, super­vi­si­on, and coor­di­na­ti­on of pro­vi­si­on plans for the sales organization
  • Estab­lish­ment and con­ti­nua­tion of report­ing struc­tures for the cal­cu­la­ti­on of devia­ti­ons – Cur­rent vs. Plan vs. FCST vs. pre­vious year — as well as cor­re­spon­ding commenting
  • Estab­lish­ment, super­vi­si­on, and coor­di­na­ti­on of the month­ly rol­ling forecast
  • Pre­pa­ra­ti­on of the rol­ling intra-year plan­ning, as well as of the bud­gets and of the stra­te­gic long-term plans (Top-down/­Bot­tom-up)
  • Estab­lish­ment, super­vi­si­on, and coor­di­na­ti­on of the annu­al plan pro­cess (busi­ness plan) of the Plan balan­ces and pro­fit and loss state­ments for dif­fe­rent Euro­pean countries
  • Pre­pa­ra­ti­on of and respon­si­bi­li­ty for the quar­ter­ly pro­gno­ses (fore­cast 2 und 3) in the turnover/cost area
  • Con­so­li­da­ti­on of the invest­ments (count­ries) accor­ding to HGB/US GAAP/IFRS
  • Pre­pa­ra­ti­on of and respon­si­bi­li­ty for the bud­get pro­ces­ses in the area sala­ry and cost plan­ning, inclu­ding the Shared Ser­vice cost centers
  • Estab­lish­ment of a mas­ter file for the sala­ry and cost plan­ning as future com­pa­ri­son portal
  • Res­truc­tu­ring of the mas­ter data­ba­se on SKU level (Stock Kee­ping Unit)
  • Comparison/adjustment of the order, invoice, trans­fer, and manu­fac­tu­ring pri­ces in the dif­fe­rent data­ba­ses
  • Estab­lish­ment of a uni­form stan­dard chart of accounts with descrip­ti­on and account matching (dif­fe­rent companies/countries/languages/currencies)
  • Defi­ni­ti­on of coun­try codes/company codes/account numbers/departments/cost cen­ters
  • Establishment/coordination of an Inter­nal Audit in the OTC area (Order to Cash), inclu­ding the accoun­ting for, i.e. the clo­sing of all irre­gu­la­ri­ties through a chan­ge of the pro­ces­ses (among other things with regard to the finan­cial state­ments, the invoi­cing, and the ente­ring of hours)
  • Docu­men­ta­ti­on of the pro­ces­ses, as well as inte­gra­ti­on of the respon­si­ble heads of department
  • Estab­lish­ment and con­trol of the Cash Poo­ling of the con­tract coordination/control of the Cash Management/financial part­ner for the Tre­asu­ry Depart­ment International
  • Cont­act for audi­tors and tax con­sul­tants, as well as for inter­nal mat­ters (audi­ting of accounts, finan­cial state­ment accor­ding to HGB/US GAAP/IFRS, finan­cial audit, obser­van­ce of the SOX prin­ci­ples/turnover reco­gni­ti­on)
  • Coor­di­na­ti­on of and con­sul­tancy with regard to res­truc­tu­ring measures
  • Estab­lish­ment and con­trol of key pro­ces­ses with cor­re­spon­ding docu­men­ta­ti­on (ISO stan­dards, inter­nal poli­ci­es, etc.)
  • Estab­lish­ment, super­vi­si­on, and coor­di­na­ti­on of new pro­jects, e.g. fur­ther opti­miza­ti­on of the Reporting/Controlling instru­ments of the companies/countries
  • Sup­port of the Foun­da­ti­on Team with regard to the imple­men­ta­ti­on of new ERP sys­tems
  • Inter­nal audi­tor for HGB/US GAAP/IFRS/local GAAP in the dif­fe­rent Euro­pean countries
  • Deve­lo­p­ment and coor­di­na­ti­on of com­pli­ance guidelines
  • Orga­niza­ti­on, con­trol, and deve­lo­p­ment of the pro­ces­ses of Finan­ce and Accoun­ting, as well as gua­ran­tee of the obser­van­ce of the inter­nal poli­ci­es (finan­cial policy)
  • Trai­ning of the new­ly employ­ed Mana­gers, as well as deve­lo­p­ment and coor­di­na­ti­on of the cor­re­spon­ding roadmap/milestones
  • com­ple­te and com­pre­hen­si­ve docu­men­ta­ti­on of the work pro­ces­ses in the Con­trol­ling area
  • Coor­di­na­ti­on, pre­pa­ra­ti­on, pro­ces­sing, and docu­men­ta­ti­on of com­pa­ny spin-offs
  • Con­sul­ta­ti­on, coor­di­na­ti­on, and imple­men­ta­ti­on of res­truc­tu­ring measures
Interim Manager Accounting

Outsourcing Accounting

Small com­pa­nies, medi­um-sized com­pa­nies, and start-up com­pa­nies often only have a limi­t­ed num­ber of accoun­tants for their dai­ly busi­ness. Due to bud­get reasons, it is also for inter­na­tio­nal cor­po­ra­ti­ons often not pos­si­ble to employ an expe­ri­en­ced accoun­tant at each location/in each coun­try. The hig­hest time expen­dit­u­re of an accoun­tant is most­ly during/around the monthly/quarterly/annual finan­cial state­ment, as well as during the eco­no­mic audit and com­pa­ny audit. In this com­bi­na­ti­on, it is a good pos­si­bi­li­ty to par­ti­al­ly out­sour­ce the Accoun­ting (fix agreements).

  • Through fix agree­ments and con­fi­den­tia­li­ty agree­ments, safe­ty is gua­ran­teed for both sides.
  • Estab­lish­ment and rea­lignment of the Accoun­ting accor­ding to the needs of the decis­i­on maker(s)
  • Expan­si­on of the Accoun­ting as nee­ded — HGB/US GAAP/lFRS/local GAAP — addi­tio­nal cur­ren­ci­es etc.

I will be rea­di­ly available for you with my com­pre­hen­si­ve expe­ri­ence in this area.

Outsourcing Controlling (FP&A)

Small com­pa­nies, medi­um-sized com­pa­nies, and start­up com­pa­nies often have no Controller/no Con­trol­ling depart­ment. Due to bud­get reasons, it is also for inter­na­tio­nal cor­po­ra­ti­ons often not pos­si­ble to employ a Con­trol­ler at each location/in each coun­try. The hig­hest time expen­dit­u­re of a Con­trol­ler is most­ly during/around the monthly/quarterly/annual finan­cial state­ment, as well as during the plan crea­ti­on for the fol­lo­wing year. A good pos­si­bi­li­ty is the out­sour­cing of the Con­trol­ling (fix agreements).

  • Through fix agree­ments and con­fi­den­tia­li­ty agree­ments, safe­ty is gua­ran­teed for both sides.
  • Estab­lish­ment and rea­lignment of the Reporting/Controlling accor­ding to the needs of the decis­i­on maker(s)
  • Expan­si­on of the Report­ing as nee­ded — HGB/US GAAP/IFRS/local GAAP — Manage­ment Report­ing — addi­tio­nal cur­ren­ci­es, etc.

I will be rea­di­ly available for you with my com­pre­hen­si­ve expe­ri­ence in this area.

Markus Huber Interim Manager

Corporate Controlling

Markus Huber Interim Management Finance & Controlling

Through growth, take­overs, or inter­na­tio­nal ori­en­ta­ti­on, a new Accounting/ Con­trol­ling struc­tu­re would be neces­sa­ry which builds on the cur­rent Accoun­ting sys­tems. A com­plex soft­ware solu­ti­on is often very expen­si­ve and needs a lot of lead time.

My pro­ven method for a quick estab­lish­ment of a company’s Controlling:

  • Estab­lish­ment of a uni­form stan­dard chart of accounts with descrip­ti­on (dif­fe­rent companies/countries/languages/currencies)
  • Defi­ni­ti­on of coun­try codes/company codes/account numbers/departments/cost centers
  • Estab­lish­ment of the Accounting/Controlling/Reporting accor­ding to the needs of the decis­i­on maker(s)
  • Expan­si­on of the report­ing accor­ding to US GAAP/IFRS/local GAAP

I will be rea­di­ly available for you with my com­pre­hen­si­ve expe­ri­ence in this area.

Project Controlling

Most pro­jects have a fix time and cost plan which is often only dif­fi­cult to adhe­re to with the help of the inter­nal employees. You need sup­port for a cer­tain pro­ject in the Accounting/ Controlling/Financial area?

Take­over of pro­jects in the Controlling/Financial area (fix agreements):

  • Through fix agree­ments and con­fi­den­tia­li­ty agree­ments, safe­ty is gua­ran­teed for both sides.
  • Establishment/coordination/control of the pro­ject accor­ding to spe­ci­fi­ca­ti­on or independently

I will be rea­di­ly available for you with my com­pre­hen­si­ve expe­ri­ence in this area.

Markus Huber Interim Management Finance & Controlling

Advantages Interim Management

Even if each indi­vi­du­al sta­tus quo of a cli­ent is dif­fe­rent, the main advan­ta­ges for employ­ing an Inte­rim Mana­ger remain the same:

  • Short-term avai­la­bi­li­ty
  • Fle­xi­bi­li­ty
  • Expe­ri­ence in deal­ing with dif­fi­cult situations
  • Long-stan­ding manage­ment knowhow
  • Tem­po­ra­ry work
  • Neu­tra­li­ty
  • Prag­ma­tic solu­ti­on approaches
  • Take­over of respon­si­bi­li­ty for its actions

Thus, the approach of the Inte­rim Mana­ger signi­fi­cant­ly exceeds the approach of the com­pa­ny consultant.

One fur­ther important ele­ment for the accep­tance in the team of the cli­ent is that none of its employees has to fear that “the new one” wants to have her/his job, becau­se the Inte­rim Mana­ger only wants to per­form its tem­po­ra­ry work.

Accor­ding to task and indus­try, the may­be miss­ing spe­ci­fic com­pa­ny know­how may be a dis­ad­van­ta­ge. On the other hand, this sup­po­sed weak­ne­ss may turn out to be a pro­no­un­ced advantage.

What is Interim Management?

Inte­rim Manage­ment is sim­ply for­mu­la­ted “Tem­po­ra­ry Manage­ment”. The work of the Inte­rim Mana­ger is a tem­po­ra­ry work (as a rule 6 — 12 months) to streng­then, i.e. sup­port your Management/your ope­ra­ti­ve are­as. Reasons may be the tem­po­ra­ry fil­ling of a vacant posi­ti­on or a spe­cial situa­ti­on in which your com­pa­ny may curr­ent­ly be in and for the solu­ti­on of which spe­cial know­how is nee­ded. The need may in each pha­se of life of a com­pa­ny ari­se from the most dif­fe­rent reasons.

The Inte­rim Mana­ger is an entre­pre­neur, a Mana­ger, a con­sul­tant, and a pro­ject mana­ger in one person.

Reasons for Interim Management

The reasons for my work as your Inte­rim Mana­ger may be of the most dif­fe­rent kind. Examples:

You have to tem­po­r­a­ri­ly fill a vacant Manage­ment posi­ti­on, e.g. becau­se fil­ling this posi­ti­on on a short term is curr­ent­ly not possible.

You have to tem­po­r­a­ri­ly streng­then your inter­nal staff resour­ces, e.g. for the per­for­mance of pro­jects or the intro­duc­tion of new pro­ducts (bes­i­des, mixed teams — internally/externally — are often espe­ci­al­ly suc­cessful and also quicker with regard to the implementation).

Your com­pa­ny needs spe­cial know­how which is not or only limi­t­ed available, and which is eit­her only nee­ded for a short time, or which shall be trans­fer­red by the Inte­rim Mana­ger internally.

You are plan­ning a com­pa­ny take­over or a com­pa­ny sale, a relo­ca­ti­on of ope­ra­ti­ons, an out­sour­cing, an inte­gra­ti­on, or a joint ven­ture for which you are loo­king for support.

You are a young or quick­ly gro­wing com­pa­ny and need start-up sup­port or sup­port with regard to the estab­lish­ment or pro­cess orga­niza­ti­on, or sim­ply tem­po­ra­ry sup­port with regard to the tack­ling of dai­ly manage­ment challenges.

Is the­re a total­ly other spe­cial situa­ti­on in your com­pa­ny which was not men­tio­ned here and which needs a solu­ti­on? Plea­se do not hesi­ta­te to cont­act me.

Expe­ri­ence shows that an indi­vi­du­al solu­ti­on approach is nee­ded for each sta­tus quo. I will be hap­py to offer you a non-bin­ding first consultation.

Contact

Mar­kus Huber
Inte­rim Mana­ger Finan­ce & Controlling

80639 Munich

Mobi­le: +49 (0)163 26 84 699

Email: mail@MarkusHuber.com

Please don’t hesitate to send me a message.

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