Holger Kupsch
Waghäusel
Summary
Highly motivated Leader with broad expertise across the Global Finance processes in High-Tech Industry. Knowledgeable about regulatory requirements and successful strategies for maintaining optimal controls. Well-organized, proactive and adaptable to changing environments.
Collaborates closely with clients to optimize operational efficiency and drive profitable outcomes. Organized and dependable candidate successful at managing multiple priorities with a positive attitude. Willingness to take on added responsibilities to meet team goals.
Seeking for challenging opportunities to continuously develop individually and improve the company's operations to enable others to achieve their objectives faster and with less effort.
Constantly broadens and deepens the knowledge of the entire Corporate Value-Streams, its lifecycle management to gain valuable experience to gratefully share it with customers, partners, stakeholders and subordinates.
Overview
16
16
years of professional experience
Work History
Head of Finance Operations, Corporate Process & IT
SAP SE
Walldorf, Germany
04.2024 - Current
- Managed transformation and continues improvement portfolio of €80m within 50 person department for Global Finance Organization with over 4.000 employees.
- Implemented data-driven decision-making processes, leveraging analytics to optimize operations.
- Collaborated with executive leadership on strategic planning initiatives to drive business growth.
- Ensured compliance with industry regulations and company policies, mitigating potential risks.
- Built high-performance culture by recruiting top talents and promoting professional development opportunities for staff members.
Head of Operational Excellence, COO GFA
SAP SE
Walldorf, Germany
09.2021 - 03.2024
- Lead multi-year Global Finance Transformation Program, Simplifying, Standardizing and Automating Global Finance Processes. 1million hours of manual work across Global Finance Organization saved.
- Accountable for yearly budgets of EUR 5 million and performed financial forecasting to ensure fiscal responsibility and maintain profit margins.
- Facilitated quarterly executive leadership meetings to discuss progress on strategic goals, identify opportunities for improvement, and address challenges proactively.
- Developed high-performing organization of 50 employees through effective hiring, training, and performance management strategies.
- Negotiated key partnerships with IT, Development, and other stakeholders for improved collaboration and resource allocation.
- Mentored employees at all levels inside and outside of organization to support their professional development goals.
- Navigated complex regulatory environments to ensure compliance across all aspects of operations.
Head of Process Management Core Finance
SAP SE
Walldorf, Germany
08.2020 - 08.2021
- Developed multiple process management teams towards Agile ways of working, improving collaboration, accountability and tangible output for business units. Simplification Score increased by 5pp.
- Self-motivated, with strong sense of personal responsibility.
- Worked effectively in fast-paced environments.
- Skilled at working independently and collaboratively within diverse environment.
- Proven ability to learn quickly and adapt to new situations.
- Consistently providing support and guidance to achieve team objectives.
Business Process Manager Procure-to-Pay
SAP SE
Walldorf, Germany
06.2016 - 07.2020
- Led transformation initiatives to successful deploy three new solutions (SAP Concur, SAP Ariba, SAP Fieldglass), across 60 countries for 100k employees.
- Developed metrics-driven approach to evaluate effectiveness of implemented business processes, leading to continuous improvement.
- Provided expert guidance to executive leadership on process excellence strategies, contributing to overall organizational success.
- Conducted periodic audits of existing processes to identify areas requiring further refinement or optimization efforts.
Finance Expert
SAP SE
Walldorf, Germany
08.2009 - 05.2016
- Strategy and Organizational Development for GFI (Global Finance Infrastructure) with over 1.700 employees world wide
- Managing and supporting over 20 strategic projects
- Prepare over 100 external and internal customer presentations for Executive Vice President and Head of GFI Peter Rasper
- Manage ad-hoc requests from board and executive management (root-cause analysis, de-escalation, problem solving, conflict management, decision making)
- Manage financial and headcount planning on behalf of Head of GFI
- Design and implementation of global business warehouse reports and excel tools
- Managing regular GFI Leadership strategy meetings
- Create / review business cases for GFA, GFI, GFM
- Achievements: Implemented SAP Credit Card Payment Hub in Germany for SAP Digital to obtain payments in 15 countries (examples are Australia, Korea, Israel)
- Rolled-out two Cloud Travel and Expense tools globally in dual role work stream lead and assistant to Executive Steering Committee head
- Increased People Survey Index EEI (employee engagement index) and BHCI (business health culture index) in three consecutive years to EEI 82% and BHCI 72% by leading global initiatives for GFI
- Create and presented Global F&A Strategy Paper
- Managed global cross board area de-duplication initiative with 360 cases successfully closed.
- Facilitated presentation and recommendation of services by optimizing client relationships.
Controlling Manager
SAP AG
Walldorf, Germany
06.2008 - 07.2009
- Strategic Projects and Analytics
- Subject Matter Expert for Global Reorganizations
- Achievements: Design and global roll-out of SAP BI Purchasing Analytics Platform with over 10 global standard reports, enabling full transparency of Shopping Carts, Purchase Orders, actual posting and plan data (FC,BUD)
- Established first Controlling Process Map as basis for investments and continues improvements
- Design and global roll-out of SAP BI Travel Analytics Platform to enable traveler and trip data analysis across all company codes for all budget responsible.
Education
Graduate of Business Administration (VWA) - Business Administration And Management
VWA Mannheim
Mannheim01.2004
Community Service - Medicine (Pre-Medicine)
Red Cross, Control Centre, Heidelberg
Heidelberg04.2000
Associate of Science - Business Administration
Vocational Training, SAP AG
Walldorf01.1999
Finished 12th Grade -
Commercial High School
Schwetzingen07.1995
Finished 11th Grade -
Commercial High School
Wiesloch04.1994
Junior High School Diploma -
Karl-Theodor-Heuss Junior High School
Walldorf05.1992
Primary School -
Waldschule
Walldorf07.1985
Skills
- SAP ERP Module (CO, AM, FI, MM)
- SAP Spend Solutions (Ariba, Concur, Fieldglass)
- SAP Analytics Cloud and Business Warehouse
- SAP Signavio
- Jira
- MS-Office Products (Outlook, PPT, XLS, Teams)
- Analytical and Critical Thinking
- Attention to detail and accuracy
- Performance Metrics Monitoring
- Financial reporting mastery
- Strategic Planning
- Business process improvement
Languages
Germany (Native)
Bilingual or Proficient (C2)
English
Advanced (C1)
Italian
Elementary (A2)
Additional Education
- 02/2015 - 06/2016, Certificate of Finance Global Leadership Development Program
- 01/2007 - 03/2007, Six Sigma Yellow and Green Belt certification, SAP AG
- 11/2006, Men in Leadership@SAP, SAP AG
- 09/2006, Management Fundamental 1: HR Services, SAP AG
- 09/2006, KFM 108 Success Coaching in professional sports
- 04/2006 - 08/2006, Tomorrow's manager development program, SAP AG
- 06/2006, TZBI7R Delta NetWeaver 2004s – EP Report, SAP AG
- 04/2004 - 06/2004, F&A curriculum
- 08/2003, ZA5507 Project Management in ISP, SAP AG
- 04/2001, Cash-Flow, Management Circle
- 10/2000, AC215 Cash-Flow Management, SAP AG
- 10/2000, AC805 Cash Management, SAP AG
- 07/2000, AC410 Cost Center Accounting, SAP AG
- 06/1998, Z6.7.2 SAPNet Publishing + Administration, SAP AG
Staying Abroad
- 06/2005, 04/2006, Bangalore, India, working for SAP Labs India
- 08/1995, 11/1995, Bahamas, Culture and Language excursion
Personal Information
Date of Birth: 12/04/1975
Hobbies and Interests
- Culinary Art
- Travelling
- Hiking
- Climbing
- Yoga
Culinary Art, Travelling, Hiking, Play Drums
Speaks to my interest of creativity, learning mindset and tangible outcomes
Timeline
Head of Finance Operations, Corporate Process & IT
SAP SE
04.2024 - Current
Head of Operational Excellence, COO GFA
SAP SE
09.2021 - 03.2024
Head of Process Management Core Finance
SAP SE
08.2020 - 08.2021
Business Process Manager Procure-to-Pay
SAP SE
06.2016 - 07.2020
Finance Expert
SAP SE
08.2009 - 05.2016
Controlling Manager
SAP AG
06.2008 - 07.2009
Graduate of Business Administration (VWA) - Business Administration And Management
VWA Mannheim
Community Service - Medicine (Pre-Medicine)
Red Cross, Control Centre, Heidelberg
Associate of Science - Business Administration
Vocational Training, SAP AG
Finished 12th Grade -
Commercial High School
Finished 11th Grade -
Commercial High School
Junior High School Diploma -
Karl-Theodor-Heuss Junior High School
Primary School -
Waldschule