Patrick Seitz

Leading DACH Professional/ Transforming Europe into a fast growing organisation!

Leading Diversey Professional in Germany, Austria and Switzeralnd

- Create and implement global business & reporting planning processes across the division (post merger integration) - Develop and continuously improve management reporting and business analytics - Business partnering with Global Divisional Management team - Support the german business in channel mgmt, pension agreements etc.

- Implementation of the European Finance Reorganization (Business process outsourcing) - Business partnering, lead high skilled Controlling organization (40+ people) in Western Europe - Improved Global / European reporting systems e.g. Implementation of Global Price monitoring tool

Finance Director Switzerland / Austria (550 Employees; 200m USD turnover); Leading the Finance and several admin functions; Local Board Member and Member of the European Finance Leadership team; achieve significant growth and profit improvements; restructure finance organisation to allow the demarkation of Finance and Business controlling to be organised separately in a european functions (and remove the necessity of the FD Position); ensure proper internal control process (SOX)

Leiter Finanz und Rechnungswesen, 13 Mitarbeiter, Verantwortlich für das Outsourcing der Abteilung, SOX Prozesse..

Leiter Controlling Deutschland / 5 Mitarbeiter

Director Business controlling Western Europe / 11 Direct Reports (Country Business controllers) in the Western european countries (approx 40 Indirect Reports). - Member of the European Finance Leadership team - Drive Business results; be a Business Partner for the European Leadership - Developing the group to a high performing Finance & Business support function - Drive harmonisation in Finance Process across Europe - Set the Strategy for valuable reporting systems and implement across Europe