Independent Consultant (2025 - present)

Independent consultant for joint venture auditing, internal auditing, risk management, and finance

• Joint venture auditing: Analyzing financial data, transaction lists, vendor invoices, allocation spreadsheets as well as direct and indirect cost pools, and verifying compliance with relevant operating agreements and accounting principles.
• Internal auditing: Supporting organizations to establish and enhance their internal audit frameworks. Leading and performing in-depth internal audits to identify areas for improvement within the clients‘ governance structures, business processes, and compliance controls.
• Risk management: Designing and implementing fit-for-purpose risk management solutions to effectively identify, assess, and mitigate risks and opportunities across all operational levels.
• Controlling and business analysis: Supporting companies with planning, monitoring, and optimizing their expenditure and revenue streams with a focus on budgeting, cost monitoring, and data analyses.

Enterprise Risk Manager at Wintershall Dea AG (2020 – 2025)

Planned, coordinated and executed regular bottom-up enterprise risk management (ERM) cycles. Aligned risk registers of all company units; moderated risk dialogues with middle and senior management; reported and presented aggregated results to the management and supervisory boards.

• Set up and continuously developed a company-wide risk and opportunity management process after the company merger was verified as IPO-ready through an external assessment by PwC.
• Developed a comprehensive risk management framework including policy, process instruction, quality assurance measures, and interface integration.
• Introduced concepts to determine the company’s risk-bearing capacity and risk appetite through Monte Carlo simulation.
• Practiced aggregation and analyses of quantitatively and qualitatively assessed risks and opportunities.
• Planned, coordinated, and prepared the risk, opportunity, and outlook section of the company’s annual report.
• Implemented, maintained, and administrated “CRISAM” as risk management software with approx. 200 users.
   

Project Manager for Audits at DEA Deutsche Erdoel AG (2016 – 2020)

Planned, led, and conducted internal and joint venture audits at DEA, its affiliates, and operating joint venture partners worldwide. 

• Significantly contributed to the setup of an internal audit function and framework verified as “state-of-the-art” through an external review by PwC.
• Developed new regulations and guidance for audit processes, standardized work programs to document audit fieldworks, and created a continuous follow-up process for audit findings.
• Led and motivated small teams of functionally subordinated auditors within audit projects. Provided on-the-job training for new auditors.
• Supported the introduction of quality assurance and improvement programs, i.e., checklists, milestones, lessons learned, feedback documentation, KPIs.
• Negotiated and followed up on countermeasures and corrections.
• Prepared audit reports for the management board.
• Continuously exceeded expectations with an outstanding proven track record of audit findings.

Project Controller for the Business Unit Denmark at RWE Dea AG (2013 – 2016)

Supported the management of three Danish oil fields in the North Sea as part of the asset management team. Provided OpEx, CapEx, and results planning and cash forecasts. Monitored costs, prepared monthly closing and annual accounts as well as internal and external reporting; maintained production data.

• Prepared the internal business plan for the Danish asset and presented it to the senior management.
• Regularly assisted economic evaluations, tax calculations, risk management, oil sales, and settlement of commercial and legal disputes.
• Substantially contributed to the acquisition of additional Danish license shares.