Description

With 17+ years of experience in FP&A, Commercial Finance, Controlling, and Business Partnering, I help businesses improve financial visibility, forecasting accuracy, and commercial decision-making.

My experience spans high-growth consumer brands, FMCG, Retail, Marketplace, and D2C environments, including Air Up, Foodspring (Mars), UCB Pharma, and Mars Global Services. I have partnered closely with Sales, Operations, Logistics, Warehouse, and Marketing teams to translate business performance into actionable financial insights.

I support clients with:

• Budgeting, Forecasting & Financial Planning

• Management Reporting & KPI Dashboards

• Variance Analysis & Performance Management

• Commercial Finance & Business Partnering

• Profitability Analysis (Customer, Product & Channel)

• Retail, Marketplace & D2C Finance

• Cost Optimization & Margin Improvement

• Financial Modelling & Scenario Analysis

• Power BI Reporting & Finance Automation

• Interim Controlling & FP&A Support

Throughout my career, I have managed annual budgets, rolling forecasts, month-end reporting, cost center management, profitability analysis, and finance transformation initiatives. I combine strong financial expertise with a practical business mindset, helping leadership teams make informed decisions and drive sustainable growth.

Whether you need support during budgeting cycles, management reporting, business performance reviews, or a dedicated finance partner for a strategic project, I bring a hands-on, results-oriented approach focused on delivering clear business value.

Industry field of expertise

Languages

English
Native or bilingual

Workplace preferences

Can work on-site

Munich (up to 50km), Berlin (up to 20km)

Airup
Retailer Profitability & Contribution Margin Model
January 2026 - March 2026 (2 months)
Designed and implemented a retailer-level profitability model providing end-to-end visibility from Gross Revenue through Contribution Margin 2 across key retail customers.

Key deliverables:
• Built retailer-level P&Ls incorporating trade spend, discounts, rebates, logistics costs, marketing investments, and operational expenses.
• Improved transparency into customer profitability and commercial performance drivers.
• Enabled Sales and Retail leadership to evaluate pricing, promotional investments, and customer-specific profitability.
• Supported business partnering discussions through data-driven insights and profitability analysis.
• Established a scalable framework for retailer performance monitoring and decision-making.
AIRUP GMBH
FINANCE BUSINESS PARTNER
November 2025 - Today (7 months)
• • Business Partner for the Retail Channel. Partnering with Retail Sales Head and Key Account Managers on topics related to "Retailer Conditions" both On and Off Invoice, other Trade Expenditure
• • Built the entire Market and Retailer P&L to bring in clarity and transparency at a Retailer level profitability
• • Finance Point of Contact for the Marketing Spent, including Influencer, Digital Marketing, Retail Marketing
• • Working on Budget, Rolling Forecast, Month End Closing and other related topics
• • Initiated topics on Inventory Management, Overstock and initiatives to effectively plan for overstocks
FOODSPRING GMBH
FINANCE CONTROLLER
September 2023 - September 2025 (2 years)
• • Working as FP&A Lead-Controller for the one of the prominent Nutrition & Health Care segment of a Mars Inc. based out of Germany
• • Responsible for P&L with 70MN€ of Revenue. Omnichannel Revenue model (D2C, Marketplace and Retail)
• • Responsible for Annual Budgeting, quarterly forecast cycles. Working with Sales & Operations planning teams on Revenue, expected COGS inflation and potential logistics and warehousing cost saving initiatives
• • Built driver-based forecasting and profitability models to support commercial decision-making across Retail and Marketplace channels
• • Business Partnering with Operations, tracking KPI, periodic Overhead Cost Centre management
• • Lead & completed multiple Transformation projects like Overheads Report on BI, RPA for Periodic Submission, BI Inventory Analysis
• • Competitor Analysis on Gross Margin 1, Gross Margin 2, Salaries & benefits and Advertising costs as percentage of Net Sales. Setting benchmarks for internal performance
• • Conducted a financial analysis of current operations that identified cost-saving opportunities and improved profitability by 3%.
• • Developed and maintained internal controls to ensure compliance with financial regulations and standards
• • Adhering to Monthly/Quarterly and Annual Closing calendar, Group guidelines on budgeting cycle in Anaplan. Reporting dashboards to Group Controller