Work Experience

Senior Financial Controller 📎

Ratepay GmbH | Berlin, Germany

September 2021 - July 2024

 

Europe’s leading white label payment solutions provider offering tailor-made solutions for major online retailers and marketplaces.

 

Main responsibilities:

  • Preparing monthly financial statement e.g. return and VAT refund accruals

  • Monthly financial reporting for internal and group purposes

  • Setting up dashboards in Tableau in cooperation with BI team

  • Ad-hoc analysis

Controller 📎

Thomas Henry GmbH & Co. KG | Berlin, Germany

June 2019 - August 2021

 

Thomas Henry is a worldwide operating premium lemonade producer.

 

Main responsibilities:

  • Reorganization of day to day tasks related to accounting

  • Reporting and monthly financial statements

  • Supporting the implementation a DMS (document management system) for electronic invoice and contract management from an accounting view

  • Contact person for tax audits and annual financial statements

Controller

German Red Cross | Güstrow, Germany

January 2019 - June 2019

 

The German Red Cross (DRK) is the german branch of the world's largest humanitarian organisation, the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement (IFRC). Beyond rescue services and first aid, they operate hospitals, nursing homes and kindergardens.

 

Main responsibilities:

  • profitability calculation for kindergardens and nursing homes

  • preparation of price negotiations between DRK and relevant authorities

Financial Business Analyst 📎

Allmed Medical Industries GmbH | Teterow, Germany

2015 - 2018

 

Allmed Medical Industries is a medical technology company producing hollow fibres for dialysis. It is part of the international Allmed Group based in London, which offers services and products around dialysis.

 

Main responsibilities:

  • Monthly financial reporting based on group financial statements respecting both German statutory requirements (HGB) as well as group-wide directives (UK GAAP)

  • Establishing a cost center accounting in close cooperation with technical and administrative departments

  • Responsibility for audit and annual financial statements

  • Correspondence with and preparing reports for head quarters in London

Intern Search Engine Marketing 📎

Affinitas GmbH (eDarling) | Berlin, Germany

July - September 2011

 

Affinitas was one of the world's leading companies in online dating with global brands like EliteSingles, Attractive World and eDarling. They operated in more than 25 countries worldwide. Affinitas has now become Spark Networks SE.

 

Main responsibilities:

  • Tracking and optimizing Google Ads campaigns 

  • Setting up a cost reporting system

Sales & Marketing Controller 📎

Bertelsmann SE & Co. KGaA | Berlin, Germany

2009 - 2011

 

Bertelsmann is a major international media group which also operates in the service and education sectors. Direct Group Germany is responsible for retail business (shops and online) and a publisher and distributor of e-books.
 

Main responsibilities:

  • Budgeting, monitoring and evaluation of “RTL Club” as stand-alone business unit

  • profitability and efficiency analysis of sales material

  • monthly financial reporting for all branches

Industrial Management Assistant (Apprenticeship) 📎

Bertelsmann SE & Co. KGaA | Berlin, Germany

2006 - 2009

 

Bertelsmann is a major international media group which also operates in the service and education sectors. Their different business units are the RTL Group, Penguin Random House, BMG, the Arvato Group, Bertelsmann Marketing Services, the Bertelsmann Education Group and Bertelsmann Investments.

Academic Background

B.Sc. International Business Administration 📎

European University Viadrina | Frankfurt/Oder, Germany

2011 - 2015

 

  • Bachelors degree with focus on finance, accounting, controlling and taxation

  • Integrated foreign language training in English (C1) and Polish (B1/B2)

International Business

Warsaw School of Economics | Warsaw, Poland

2013 - 2014

 

  • Semester abroad

  • Courses including International Accounting, History of International Relations and Controlling in Project Management

Skills

Language Proficiency

German   Native speaker

Englisch   Fluent (C1)

Polish       Advanced (B2)

French     Good (B1)

Finnish     Elementary (A1/A2)

Software and IT

Microsoft Office

Excel, VBA, Word, PowerPoint, Outlook

ERP

SAP, SAP BW, Datev, abas, Microsoft Dynamics

Programming Languages

Programming languages

Python (Pandas, NumPy, Seaborn, matplotlib), SQL, R

Data Visualization

Tableau, Streamlit

Other

Machine Learning (Scikit-learn), git, Scrum, Docker

Certificates

Data and Process Analysis - Data Science Bootcamp 📎

at Data Science Institute, Berlin

(August 2024 - Febuary 2025)

 

This course is about mastering all the important skills for a perfect entry into the world of data. From data analysis and visualization to Python programming and machine learning.

 

Statistics and Mathmatics for Data Science & Data Analytics 📎

This course provides an insight into the most important fundamentals of statistics and probability theory for data analysts and data scientists.

 

Google Data Analytics Certificate 📎

Introduction to the world of data analytics through hands-on curriculum developed by Google (in-demand data analytics skills using spreadsheets, SQL, Tableau, R, and more)

 

IFRS for Controllers 📎

Interpretation of KPIs according to IFRS and their application in reporting systems

 

Preparing annual financial statements 📎

Workshop about the audit process and closing entries based on commercial laws

Other

Scholarships

Aufstiegsstipendium 📎

This scholarship, sponsored by Federal Ministry of Education and Research, supports specialists with extensive practical experience in achieving their first academic degree.

Stays abroad

Uniwersytet Marii Curie-Skłodowskiej (UMCS) 📎

Erasmus Intensive Language Course | Lublin, Poland

September 2013

4-week course on intermediate level combined with cultural acitivities and excursions  

London School of Economics (LSE)

Excursion and language course | London, UK

March 2012

1-week visiting student

Bertelsmann Liaison Office

Public Relations | Brussels, Belgium

2008

3-month stay at Liaison Office which is responsible for representation and political communications for all of Bertelsmann's EU-related matters

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