Treasury Interim & Project Manager
"I make sure that you will reach your desired targets in corporate treasury."
Interim Management Mandates and Projects in Corporate Treasury
I support companies in corporate treasury especially in difficult times when:
- for an interim period a Head of Treasury is needed
- resources are missing to perform urgently necessary projects
- the new owner of the company is a private equity company
- a carve-out has to be performed
- a merger with a newly acquired company has to be completed.
With more than 18 years of experience as Head of Corporate Treasury in industrial companies and 2 years as Senior Manager at Accenture I can support your company as Interim Manager in your organisation e.g. as Head of Treasury when you need to bridge a gap. Additionally I perform project management in the following areas:
- Financial planning
- Cash management (e.g. cash pooling, netting)
- Working capital management
- Treasury carve-out and post-merger integration
- Financing, e.g. handling of high-leverage financing, private placements, financing on capital markets
- Implementation and optimization of treasury IT-systems with emphasis on SAP Treasury
- FX exposure and FX hedging strategies
- Relationship management of rating-agencies and lenders
About me
Annemarie Decking – Treasury Interim & Project Manager
I’m a Switzerland based self-employed Treasury Interim & Project Manager and Managing Partner of AD Interim Treasury GmbH. As qualified banking professional and master of business administration I worked for more than 20 years in corporate treasury of industrial companies before I became self-employed in 2018.
From 2016 until 2018 I was Head of Group Treasury at Kuoni Group in Zurich, which was taken over by the private equity company EQT, and after Kuoni was separated I was Head of Group Treasury at the separated GTA Group. My main task in this function beside the responsibility for the group wide treasury operations was the steering of a high leverage financing as well as the adaption of cash forecast and cash management to this high leverage environment. After the decision was taken to separate the Group into three standalone companies, I was as well responsible for the separation of the treasury function into three new stand-alone set ups.
From 2011 until 2016 I was Head of Group Treasury and Corporate Finance at Dräger Group in Lübeck. During this time I optimized processes and structures in treasury and changed the existing treasury IT landscape completely to SAP treasury with a Swift for Corporates connection for payments through SAP BCM. Prior to that I was a Senior Manager at Accenture for 2 years. I worked in Management Consulting and advised industrial companies concerning treasury subjects and was head of treasury projects.
From 2000 until 2009 I was Head of Group Treasury and Corporate Finance at Jungheinrich Group in Hamburg. There I particularly implemented increases in efficiency and cost reductions in treasury processes, optimized the FX exposure steering for the group, was responsible for the commercial steering of a production joint venture in China and headed M&A projects. Prior to that I was for a year Deputy Head of Group Treasury at Jungheinrich and was project lead for the implementation of SAP Treasury.
From 1995 until 1998 I was working in the treasury departments of Jungheinrich AG and Axel Springer Verlag AG. In 1997 I gained first SAP experiences as a project team member at a SAP Treasury implementation at Axel Springer Verlag AG.
CV Annemarie Decking
| Time Period | Function | Company | Location |
| 07.2018 – today | Treasury Interim & Project Manager Managing Partner |
AD Interim Treasury GmbH | Tamins, Switzerland |
| 07.2024 – today | Interim Treasury Workstream Lead Carve-out Project | IT company | Germany |
| 08.2023 – 04.2024 | Interim Workstream Lead SAP S/4 Treasury Implementation | Financial Service Provider | Switzerland |
| 04.2022 – 01.2024 | Interim Subject Matter Expert ION ITS Implementation | DAX-listed group | Germany |
| 02.2021 – 02.2022 | Interim Project Manager Treasury IT Carve Out | Company in the energy sector | Germany |
| 09.2020 – 01.2021 | Interim Project Lead Treasury Optimisation | Roland Berger Middle East (strategy consulting) | Dubai, UAE |
| 11.2019 – 04.2020 | Interim Head of Group Treasury | SGL Carbon SE (production of carbon-based solutions) | Wiesbaden, Germany |
| 09.2018 – 09.2019 | Interim Head of Group Treasury | Fritz Meyer Holding AG (car trade and mineral oil whole sale) | Basel, Switzerland |
| 07.2018 – 08.2018 | Interim Project Lead for Draft Design Implementation of SAP Treasury | MV Werften Wismar GmbH (shipbuilding) | Wismar, Germany |
| 2017 – 2018 | Head Group Treasury | GTA Group, former division of Kuoni Group (tourism) | Zürich, Switzerland |
| 2016 – 2017 | Head Corporate Treasury | Kuoni Group (tourism) | Zürich, Switzerland |
| 2011 – 2016 | Head Group-Treasury and Corporate Finance |
Drägerwerk (medical and safety technology) | Lübeck, Germany |
| 2009 – 2010 | Senior Manager, Head Treasury-Consulting for Germany, Austria and Switzerland | Accenture (consulting) | Kronberg, Germany |
| 2000 – 2009 | Head Group-Treasury and Corporate Finance |
Jungheinrich (engineering) | Hamburg, Germany |
| 1998 – 2000 | Deputy Head Group-Treasury | Jungheinrich (engineering) | Hamburg, Germany |
| 1997 – 1998 | Senior Manager Financial Planning | Axel Springer Verlag (newspaper publishing) | Hamburg, Germany |
| 1995 – 1997 | Management Trainee und Referentin Konzern-Treasury |
Jungheinrich (engineering) | Hamburg, Germany |
| 1993 – 1993 | Intern International Banking Department | Bank One (bank) | Indianapolis, USA |
| 1988 – 1991 | Trainee Qualified Banking Department | Kreissparkasse in Siegburg (bank) | Siegburg, Germany |
Exemplary Project Experience
Cash Management, Working Capital and Financial Planning
- Cash Centralization: Improvement of cash upstreaming to headquarters and transformation of cash management in a transition from a cash rich to high leveraged company, e.g. notional and zero balance cash pools, multi currency overlay cash pools, manual methods (Kuoni, Switzerland)
- Optimization Financial Planning: Quality enhancement of cash flow forecast in context of leveraged financing and information requirements of private equity owner (Kuoni, Switzerland)
- Working Capital Optimization: Development of a concept and implementation of measures for reduction of working capital (global telecommunication company, Finland)
- Cash Flow Analysis: Set-up of a cash flow and working capital analysis including IT design and implementation as well as communication and change management (global energy supplier, Germany)
Financing
- Handling High-Leverage Financing: Successful management of complex syndicated loan contract in a high leveraged environment after take-over by private equity company (compliance with covenants and undertakings, timely reporting to lenders, creditor relations etc.) (Kuoni, Switzerland)
Carve-out
- Treasury Carve-out: Preparation of an analysis of the initial situation and of a concept for the treasury functions and processes as part of a spin-off of a part of the group with following implementation of necessary software solutions (international commodity group, France and Switzerland)
- Carve-out of 3 divisions: separation of treasury department, treasury transactions, treasury processes and treasury IT systems of the Group into three fully independent stand-alone set ups for three new companies (Kuoni, Switzerland)
Post-Merger Integration
- Treasury Integration: Successful transition of operational treasury transactions, foreign currency trading lines, guarantee lines and cash pooling arrangements with banks at change of ownership of the company (GTA Group, Switzerland)
Foreign Currency (FX) Management
- Implementation FX Management: Set up of a systematic foreign exchange exposure steering and a hedging strategy (Drägerwerk, Germany)
- FX Management Optimization: Optimization of foreign exchange hedging strategy and foreign exchange exposure steering (Kuoni, Switzerland)
Treasury IT-Systems
- SAP Treasury Implementation: Implementation of a new treasury system landscape based on SAP treasury with a Swift for Corporates connection on time and on budget within 8 months (Drägerwerk, Germany)