Stefan Rehkopf

Chief Financial Officer @ EUROPA-CENTER AG

About

• Experienced CFO/Managing Director/Finance VP with sustained success in medium-sized environments • Broad (international) financial expertise: commercial management, accounting, controlling, IT, shared services, investment controlling, compliance, and risk management • Extensive experience in transformation projects and in-depth digitalization expertise • International restructuring and change management projects: plant closures and relocations, cost and process optimization in sales and administration, establishment of shared service centers • Strategy development and implementation • Several years of experience abroad

Country

Germany

City

Greater Hamburg Area

Industry

Consumer Goods

Skill

Compliance, Shared Services, Poland, Process Digitalization, Internal Audits, Financial Statement Auditing, Financial Services, International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS), Finance Transformation, Accounting, Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A), FMCG, Strategic Planning, People Management, Development Strategy, Operations Controlling, Marketing Controlling, Sales Controlling, Process Optimization, Cost Accounting

Experience

Chief Financial Officer

EUROPA-CENTER AG

2025-11 - Present · 11 mos

VP Finance Corporate Real Estate and Managing Director Pension Fund

Beiersdorf

2023-7 - 2025-10 · 2 yrs 4 mos

Hamburg, Germany

Responsible for the financial matters and the controlling of large investment projects & the administration of the pension fund (subsidiary of Beiersdorf), including the management and optimization of the real estate portfolio.

VP Corporate Auditing & Business Continuity Management

Beiersdorf

2019-2 - 2023-6 · 4 yrs 5 mos

Hamburg, Germany

Chief Audit Executive of the group, responsible for all internal auditing activities of the group and global investigations. Responsible for the business part of the global Business Continuity Management.

VP Finance Processes & Transparency and Managing Director of Beiersdorf Shared Services

Beiersdorf

2014-7 - 2019-1 · 4 yrs 7 mos

Hamburg, Germany

Responsible for a comprehensive finance transformation process of the group, i.e. global planning and reporting processes, transition of accounting services outside Europe to a 3rd party service provider and set-up of the global governance function. Global roll-out of a unified SAP template. Leading global accounting services (R2R, P2P, O2C, Cost Accounting, global IFRS reporting and reporting according to HGB) of the group with 250 FTEs in 6 globally located Shared Service Centers (captive and BPO managed).

CFO Poland and Baltics

Beiersdorf Polska

2011-7 - 2014-6 · 3 yrs

Poznan, Greater Poland District, Poland

Responsible for Accounting (IFRS and local GAAP)/Tax/Financial Controlling, Marketing Controlling, Sales Controlling, Supply Chain Controlling and the IT department. Supporting the marketing, sales and supply chain operations in Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia with a total of 300 employees.

Regional Business Controller

Beiersdorf

2010-7 - 2011-6 · 1 yr

Hamburg Area, Germany

Regional Controller (Sales and Marketing Controlling) for the region AMERICAs. Financial Business Partner for the Regional Executive Board Member. Business Development for and within the Region.

Senior Supply Chain Controller

Beiersdorf

2006-11 - 2010-6 · 3 yrs 8 mos

Hamburg Area, Germany

Controller for the global producton center network. Supporting the financial planning process of the worldwide manufacturing organization. Designing an efficient and key figure based controlling approach to steer and judge the performance of Supply Chain entities und processes. Development of a decision oriented financial reporting. International footprint and restructuring projects.

Controlling Department of Salzgitter Flachstahl GmbH

Salzgitter AG

2002-8 - 2006-10 · 4 yrs 3 mos

Braunschweig Area, Germany

Production and investment Controlling. Profitability/margin controlling and sales decision support for single products and product divisions. Development of a multi-level order profitability calculation. Determination of decision oriented financial indicators for yearly business plans.