Annemarie Decking – Treasury Interim & Project Manager

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

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.

Time Period	Function	Company	Location
07.2018 – today	Treasury Interim & Project Manager Managing Partner	AD Interim Treasury GmbH	Tamins, Switzerland
08.2023 – today	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

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)

Interim Management Mandates and Projects in Corporate Treasury

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