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Wolfgang Werner
Curriculum Vitae

Wolfgang Werner – Am Hofgarten 10 – 53113 Bonn – info@cfo‐consulting.info ‐ +49(171)6971610
Curriculum Vitae
Name Wolfgang Werner
Address CFO‐Consulting, Am Hofgarten 10,
53113
Bonn, Germany
Telephone
+49(228)85409830; +49(171)6971610
Date of birth 12.6.1957 / Dortmund, Germany
Email, website info@cfo‐consulting.info;
www.cfo‐consulting.info
Nationality German
Marital status Married, three children
Core competencies I’m the highly experienced manager, who poses twenty years of leadership
experience gained in medium‐sized companies and in huge international
corporations in Germany and Central Eastern Europe. You can see me as the
successful chief financial officer with huge knowledge in controlling,
accounting, M&A, project management, procurement, and audit. My main
responsibility is permanent profit improvement – customer‐oriented, strong
in execution, team‐oriented. Always seeking challenges in creating new
value.
I know how to create, develop, and lead high performance teams.
Languages
English:
negotiating level; French: advanced level; Croatian: working
knowledge;
German: mother tongue
Career history
06/2012 – today CFO­Consulting, Unternehmensberatung & Finance, Bonn, Germany
self‐employed
as consultant and interim manager; national projects as well
as
projects in Bosnia & Herzegovina
02/2011 –05/2012 Deutsche Telekom Accounting Ltd., Bonn, Germany
Head of the SAP­project “One.Finance Internationalization”
Heading the SAP‐project in ERP (=enterprise resource planning) at the
European subsidiaries in Hungary, Netherlands,
Greece, Romania, Montenegro,
and United Kingdom.
Personnel responsibility: 14 staff
Activities: coordination between the finance departments in Germany and the
projects in the subsidiaries; execution of 30 workshops in the subsidiaries;
heading intercultural project groups
Significant achievements: developed standardization of financial processes,
established and implemented a new handbook for management of projects
09/2009 – 01/2011 Deutsche Telekom AG, (Headquarters), Bonn, Germany
Manager of finance and administration in the cooperation “Outplacement ‐
Interim Management and Consulting” with IMC InLine Ltd., Berlin, Germany.
Deutsche Telekom planned to establish new outplacement of top managers.
Function: commercial management of the company; direct report to the
owner of the company; by procure.
Personnel responsibility: 4 staff
Significant achievements: implementation and management of finance and
administration; company placed on relevant markets; financial results
optimized in view of reduction of taxes by 50%
09/2005 – 08/2009 Deutsche Telekom Group
Croatian Telecom Inc., (Headquarters), Zagreb, Croatia
Executive Director Subsidiary Controlling
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Curriculum
Vitae
Function: optimizing shareholding portfolio (acquisitions, mergers, sales),
direct report to the chief financial officer,
supervisory board member in
shareholding companies in Croatia and Bosnia & Herzegovina
Personnel responsibility: 4 staff
Significant successes: Merger of the company Mobile Telecommunications
Ltd. Grude to the company Hrvatska Telekomunikacija Ltd., Mostar; sale of
minority
shareholdings; change from the local brand to the brand of Deutsche
Telekom
06/2002 – 08/2005 Deutsche Telekom Group
Croatian Telecom Inc., (Headquarters), Zagreb, Croatia
Executive Director Corporate Internal Audit
Function: Implementation and heading the auditing function for the Croatian
Telecom Group; direct report to the chief executive officer; setup
and operation
of Audit Committee as a body of the supervisory
board
Special activities: hiring and developing teams of auditors
Personnel responsibility: 17 staff
Significant successes: establishing audit as a tool of the management board;
realized 13 certified auditors; implemented procedures to enable/ensure
SOX‐Compliance (internal control); solved several fraudulent cases with a
total volume of 125 m €
11/1996 – 01/2002 Deutsche Telekom AG (Headquarters), Bonn, Germany
Manager of controlling ‐ Controlling of the corporate division IT and Board
functions personnel, finance, international issues of the Group (power of
attorney)
Function: Head of controlling; direct report to board member IT; member of
the management team IT; direct report to 2 f the
nd management level finance o
group
Financial consultant to the IT board member, preparing decisions for the
Group Board, management for the integrated planning and management
processes for turnover, staff, investment and costs with a yearly cost volume of
2,100 m €
Personnel responsibility: Up to 48 staff directly, approx. 230 staff indirectly
Significant successes: heading cost saving projects with reduction of non‐
personnel cost by up to 120 m € ; management and reduction of group
consultancy cost (annual budget of 500 m €) by 30 m €; financial
management of group wide research and development with creating new
products
with yearly revenues of 20 m €; outsourcing of the company
functions
IT services for 65000 desktops with a cost saving of 8 m € per year
12/1995 – 10/1996 Deutsche Telekom
AG (Direktorate North Germany), Bremen
Manager of finance & controlling
Function: Member of the management of the directorate for North Germany,
for seven technology branches and two logistics centers (power of attorney)
Special activities: Managing planning, reporting, accounting, and controlling
logistic or the whole directorate;
Personnel responsibility: 35 direct reports; indirectly up to 240
Significant successes: Development and introduction of cost drivers;
reduction
of cost by 110 m €; preparing financial cooperation with France
Telecom
Bordeaux
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Curriculum Vitae
01/1995 – 11/1995
09/1992 – 12/1994
09/1989 – 08/1992
05/1985 – 08/1989
Deutsche Telekom
AG (Branch), Dortmund, Germany
Manager of finance & controlling
Function: Member of the management team of the branch, power of attorney
Special activities: Establishing investment controlling, creating new teams
Personnel responsibility: 68 staff members
Significant successes: Reduction in investment by 40 m €; establishing
financial
function for turn‐key projects in Eastern Germany, introduction of a
new
national budgeting process by the management of 121 branches
Deutsche Telekom AG, (Branch), Hagen, Germany
Manager of finance & controlling
Function: Member of the management team of the branch, power of attorney
Personnel responsibility: 110 staff
Special activities: Hiring SAP experts, developing teams of financial experts,
implementation of SAP at the branch
Significant successes: Change from old fiscal accounting system to state of
the art accounting with SAP, management of turnkey projects in new Federal
State
development program, reduction in investments and non‐personnel
cost
by 25 m €
Hoesch Stahl Inc., later Thyssen­Krupp, Dortmund, Germany
Assistant corporate planning – Senior Controller Function: Coordination of strategic & operational planning and management
Reporting to: Manager of corporate planning (2nd management level)
Significant
successes: established and implemented procedures of
integrated
planning/ reporting
Hoesch Stahl Inc., later Thyssen­Krupp, Dortmund, Germany
Commercial Assistant Senior Controller and Accountant for production
Function: Controlling of cost centers, pricing, costing, coordination of
reporting, preparing of business cases for investments
Significant
successes: established and implemented an IT‐tool for calculation
of business cases
10/1978 – 04/1985 University of Dortmund, Master’s Degree in Business Administration,
economics
Function specific
experience
Bonn, 25.10.2012
22 years planning & reporting, 19 business cases investments, 4 subsidiary
controlling (M&A), 9 SAP, 7 accounting, 4 project management, 3
procurement, 3 internal audit
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