Commercial expertise

Diplom-Oekonom Detlev Weber (*1956) has a broad range of experience in all commercial areas, gained in multinational corporations and in German medium-sized businesses.

He started his career as a client relationship manager at a Düsseldorf bank for corporate clients. After holding financial positions in the mechanical and plant engineering industry as well as in the utility/waste sector, he took over commercial responsibility as CFO for the European group of a Japanese mechanical engineering company. As CFO of a German trade fair company he was significantly involved in the fundamental restructuring of the company. 

He has been working as an Interim Manager since 2008.

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Range of experience

Intensive knowledge of all essential commercial functions

Controlling

Integrated cost accounting

Costing

Planning and reporting

Business Intelligence

CAPEX controlling

Subsidiary controlling

IT

SAP ERP, Soft-M, FibuNet, UNIT4

Monkey Office

 

IBM TM1, SAP BO/BW, LucaNet,

Corporate Planner, MIS

 

Microsoft, Apple

CAD/CAM

CMS (Joomla) 

HR

Negotiations with workers’ council and units

redundancy programs

improvement of employment contracts

payroll

Management of up to 40 employees.

Accounting

HBG (German GAAP), IFRS

Total cost and cost of sales method

Group consolidation

Transfer pricing

 

 

Business improvement

Umsetzung Sanierungsgutachten (IDW S6)

Optimierung Aufbauorganisation

Geschäftsprozessoptimierung

Kostenreduktion

Liquiditätsverbesserung

Digitalisierung

Interessenausgleich, Sozialplan

Zertifizierter Sanierungsberater (IFUS) 

 

M&A

Acquisition and sale of companies

Due Diligence

Merger

Post-merger integration

Change Management

Finance

Project, ship, export, corporate financing

Equipment & real estate leasing

Foreign exchange, interest rate hedging

Liquidity planning, cash pool, treasury

Central cash settlement

Factoring

Project management

National and international IT projects

Business improvements projects

Restructuring projects

PRINCE2 certification

 

 

 

 

 

Risk management

Set-up and management of RM systems

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Areas of activity

Mandates so far in ...

Regions

Germany

Europe

Asia

South Africa 

 

 

 

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Industries

Plant construction/project business

Shipyard

Mechanical engineering

Fittings manufacturer (sanitary industry)

Packaging

Wholesale and retail trade

Utility and waste management

Energy

Trade fairs & congresses

Catering & Hotel

Facility Management

Real estate management

Range of business

Multinational trusts

German mid-sized businesses

Owner-managed companies

Stock listed companies

 

SME with turnover of 20 to 500 mill EUR

and 100 to 1,000 employees

 

Management of up to 40 employees