AURELIUS’ Task Force is a close-knit team of advisors with deep functional expertise and long-standing management experience. They support value generation in portfolio companies through effective and hands-on project and change management in the areas of Procurement, Operations, Sales/Marketing, IT and Finance.
Responsibilities
- Perform specific due diligence tasks during the company acquisition process
- Perform quick-check-analysis for optimisation potential in portfolio companies after acquisition
- Optimisation of the finance organisation
- Optimisation of forecasting and budgeting processes
- Supporting the CFO / FD in the transition to the new ownership and setting the benchmark for internal reporting requirements
- Preparation of integrated budgets and forecasts including indirect cash flow planning
- Short-term liquidity planning and management
- Supporting the operational implementation of different financial products
- Contact person for different financing partners (banks, 2nd lien lenders, credit insurers)
- Building up controlling structures and KPI-systems supporting data-driven management and control
- Gap analysis, identification, and implementation of immediate countermeasures
Qualifications required
- University degree / suitable experience in business / economics and strong analytical skills
- At least three years relevant experience, preferably with a top management consulting firm or Big4
- Excellent negotiation and communication skills combined with a confident, convincing and entrepreneurial personality
- Analytical / strategical thinking, result-oriented personality, highly developed sense of responsibility and strong teamwork
- Practical, hands-on mentality
- Capability to lead teams through critical transformations with the required sensitiveness and speed
- Extensive travel required
- Fluent in English, further language skills welcome (German is helpful, but not required)