OLIVER BECK
CFO
Oliver Beck CFO
INTERNATIONAL FINANCE EXECUTIVE
EXPERIENCED FINANCE EXECUTIVE
Entrepreneurial minded and results driven finance executive. With a strong track record of achievements and more than 20 years proven experience in finance and operations.
Broad finance and controlling experience in International companies and sectors like Retail, E-Commerce, FMCG, Travel and Healthcare and Dental Industry.
Worked in Private-Equity and Listed-Company environments. Raised and managed credit facilities with banks and syndicates. Experience in Investor relations and implementing liquidity, working capital and cash management processes. Skilled at building new strategies and processes, professional teams and scaling businesses to grow through organic growth and M&A.
Experienced in working closely with all business stakeholders: Investors, Banks, Private Equity, Auditors, Workers-Council, Tax-Advisors and others. Professional leadership and people management experience. Familiar with driving change management scenarios and managing transitions with a mentality to work hands on.
IT AND E-COMMERCE EXPERT
Strong background in Systems, Digitalisation-Projects, Automation, E-Commerce and New Technologies. Founded own IT-business (consulting and software programming) and co-founded new-technology start-up with Blockchain technology. IMD Business School stay in Lausanne on “Leading and implementing digital business transformation projects in organisations”. Responsible for IT, Systems and Digitalization function in several industries. Experience in Finance– and ERP-Systems (SAP, Navision, Diamant), BI Systems (Power-BI, Infor, Cognos), Digitalisation of finance processes and workflow automation.
FINANCE AND M&A SKILLS
More than 20 years of finance executive experience working for national and international businesses in all areas of Finance: Accounting, Consolidation, Planning, Forecasting, Business-Analysis, Treasury, Liquidity and Cash Planning, M&A, Risk&Controls, HR, Legal and IT. Setting up professional finance organisations, implemented efficiencies and improved processes to achieve financial business targets. Implemented new financial systems, ERPs and Business Analytics. Strategic and global thinking with strong analytical skills and hands-on mentality. Experienced in driving growth and business value. Strong track record in Mergers&Acquisitions process from market research, lead generation, contract negotiations, EV-Valuations, DD process towards deal signing and deal closing.
CFO 2 .0 – Value Creator and Strategic Partner
For me the role as a CFO has moved from pure accounting and reporting role towards strategic leadership and forward looking analysis. As a value creator and strategic partner to the CEO, shareholder and the business, I have to put my focus not only on business management but also on permanent transformation and digitalizaion of processes. Today’s quick changing and highly competitive business environment demands timely access to all information and a timely reporting. But this requires digital tools e.g. Business-Intelligence, that need to be integrated in all aspects of the business. Requiring changes in technology, culture, operations and value delivery. New digital tools improve the accuracy of plans, forecasts and the quality of decision making.
Professional Experience
Oliver Beck CFO
2023 – today
Managing Director / CFO DELABO.GROUP
DELABO.GROUP – The Future of Dental Technology and Dentistry
DELABO.GROUP is a nationwide association of dental laboratories and one of the leading providers of dental technology products and solutions in Germany.
The company, headquartered in Düsseldorf, was founded in September 2019. Since then, DELABO has been joined by more and more innovative, digital and highly successful laboratories. Today, DELABO.GROUP already has a turnover of over 100 million euros, laboratories at 35 locations and over 1400 employees.
DELABO.GROUP works with owners in the dental labs to form a leading group in this industry within Germany. Please view more details @ DELABO.COM
2019-2022 Chief Financial Officer / Dorea GmbH
DOREA is the fastest growing German operator of healthcare facilities, DOREA ranks under the top 10 companies in the sector.
DOREA operates more than 70 healthcare facilities, assisted living and ambulant services with more than 7000 beds and employs over 5000 employees. DOREA was aquired by the Private-Equity investment arm of “Maison-de-famille” which belongs to the French Mulliez family. Maison-de-famille also operates nursing homes in France, Italy and Spain and intends to further grow and expand to other countries.
2010 – 2018 Chief Financial Officer
Director Distribution Strategy and Business Development
TUI Leisure Travel LLC / TUI Deutschland GmbH Travel / Retail / Franchise
Market leader with € 2 billion in sales that operates a chain of more than 1.500 retail stores with own e-commerce business. TUI Leisure Travel is a 100% subsidiary of TUI Group which is the world’s leading international leisure travel group with 17bn in turnover.
2008 – 2010 Chief Financial Officer
SCHLECKER, Ehingen (Southern Germany), FMCG / Retail
Market leading privately owned Retailer with €6 billion in sales that operates about 13.000 retail outlets in 12 European countries with subsidiaries and 6 distribution centres across Europe. Product lines: beauty, health products, skincare, hair care, households, etc.
2005 – 2008
Chief Financial Officer
Hein Gericke/POLO Motorrad, Duesseldorf (Germany), Retail / Lifestyle / Franchise
Hein Gericke and Polo Motorrad are subsidiaries of the NYSE listed Fairchild Group headquartered in US. The Hein Gericke business designs and sells fashion and lifestyle products and operates 150 retail stores (Franchise and Own) in 5 European Countries with a distribution centre in Duesseldorf and an online shop.
2003 – 2005
Head of Group Finance Controlling & Business Development
Kingfisher Electricals PLC, Paris & London (FMCG / Retail)
Kingfisher Electricals plc (Holding) is a leading European consumer electronics and household appliance retailing group with € 5 billion in sales. It is the third largest electrical group in Europe with 650 retail stores in 6 countries. It is dual-listed on the London Stock Exchange and Euronext and is a member of the FTSE 250 index.
2002 – 2003
Head of Retail and Finance Controlling
ProMarkt LLC, Berlin (Germany), FMCG / Retail
ProMarkt is a leading consumer electronics Retailer and is a 100% subsidiary of Kingfisher Electricals plc. ProMarkt operates 186 Retail stores in 3 countries with sales of €1,1 billion and sells all kind of electrical products (TV & Audio, PC Hard- and Software, etc.)
1994 – 2002
Director / Head of Controlling
Woolworth LLC, Frankfurt (Germany), Retail
Woolworth Germany is a subsidiary of the NYSE listed F.W. Woolworth Corporation in New York. The chain has 358 department stores up to 4000 square metres in size and generated sales of approximately €1,5 billion. Woolworth sells cosmetics, lingerie, clothing, jewellery, household products, consumer electronics, accessories and toys.
1991 – 1994
Consultant & System Engineer Retail & Banking sector
IBM, Frankfurt (Germany) , Retail & Banking Sector
International Experience
New York
I have worked in the Woolworth Building right at Broadway for about 1 year during my time at Woolworth.
London - Paris
Living 2 years in Paris, working in the Head office and commuting regularly to our businesses in London during my time at Kingfisher.
Bangkok - Taipeh - India - HongKong
Regular travels to Asia in order to build and manage our new sourcing offices.
Hard Skills
- Leadership and Management
- Business Strategy
- Digital Transformation
- IT Systems and processes
- E-Commerce
- Controlling & Accounting
- M&A, International Expansion
- Cash Flow planning & management
- Working Capital Management
- Planning, Forecasting
- Investments, Business Cases
- Multi-Channel & Online
- Real-Estate (Store Portfolio)
- Accounting (HGB,IFRS)
- Risk Management, Audit, Internal Control
- Sales, HR, Customer Service
- SAP (FI,CO), Navision, Diamant
- Logistics, Supply Chain, Warehouse
Soft Skills
- Excellent communicator – all levels
- Team oriented and Team-Player
- Hands-on
- Pragmatic and results focused
- Strong analytical skills
- Collaboration
- Sense of urgency & ownership
- Mentality to drive change
- Reliable and Trustful
- Positive attitude
- Strategic, Visionary
- good at managing complexity
- open to input
- Emphatic and Teambuilding
- talent spotting
- coaching oriented
LEADERSHIP EXECUTIVE ASSESSMENTS
Hogan personality assessment HDS, HPI, MVPI
Heidrick & Struggles Leasership Signature
BIP– 6F Personality Assessment
Saville Swift Executive Assessment
open to NEW opportunities
I am open to new opportunities across various industries. Please contact me.
Experience makes the difference…..
“Everyone can write, but not everyone is a writer”
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