Task definition

  • Interim divisional management for the controlling, accounting and IT departments
  • Advising the management in the context of the “Carve Out / Unbundling”
  • Conceptualization of the restructuring of the German sales company

Industry / Function / Environment/ Expert

  • Refrigerated cabinets / cold rooms
  • Finance / IT (operational & strategic)
  • Reorganization / Change Management
  • Business graduate René Gottschalk
  • Sale of 90% of the Group business requires complete realignment of the remaining business units
  • Carve-out / unbundling of the IT infrastructure
  • Elimination of most shared service functions (accounting, treasury, legal, etc.) requires reorganization in the new business unit
  • Decline in orders and price-sensitive competition requires cost reduction and restructuring
  • Restructuring of the international finance organization for the newly created business unit
  • Successful outsourcing of accounting in the national companies in Spain, Portugal and the Netherlands to external service providers
  • Reorganization of the international sales companies
  • International company with 1,500 employees (Europe)