Florian Pass
Senior Finance Professional
About Me
I am a senior financial professional with over 25 years of successful global experience in all financial- and controlling-matters (incl. FP&A) at large multi-national companies like: Disney, Adidas and W. L. Gore & Associates Inc. Responsible for the complete global financial planning, budgeting (“Beyond Budgeting”/ZBB) and reporting for revenue, cost and assets (including trends, analysis, follow up and corrective actions). Proven leader of cross-functional projects to reduce net assets (resulting in increased EVA by 2 million USD), cost (resulting in increased profits by 10 million USD) and improving competitiveness. Specialist in employee and (internal) customer engagement. Team leader of up to 15 professionals. Fluent in English, German and Portuguese.
Finance as a service (contracted by the hour)
CFO
Giving Direction
Financial strategy in alliance with the overall business strategy
Business plans
ESG
Driving business results
Valuation of companies
Financial planning
Turn around
Audits
Compliance
Financial concepts
Presentation of business results
Internationalizing your business
Controller
Checking Direction
Budgeting
Zero-based budgeting
“Beyond Budgeting”
Forecasting
Reporting & Gap analysis
Actual vs prior year
Actual vs plan
Storytelling
Projects
Cash flow planning
Headcount planning
Internal controls
Business Controlling
Financial Controlling
Finding the best KPIs
Employee Engagement
Engaging your people
What is a talent?
What are the individual talents of your employees?
Can your employees use their talents at work most of the time?
The importance of great managers
What makes a great manager?
How to measure progress?
Personal Development
Developing your people
Who owns personal development?
What are the differences between skills, knowledge and talents?
What are your individual talents?
The steps to the “right” job?
What may cause poor performance?
What is the measurement stick
Performance routines
The role of your leader
Personal Finance
Taking care of your own destiny
Do you have a financial plan?
How to get out of debt?
Do you work for money, or do you have your money work for you?
Stock market investing
Great Companies
A selection of great companies I had the pleasure to work with
Disney
The finest in family entertainment
W. L. Gore & Associates Inc.
The makers of Gore-Tex
Sucandi - Cavalos do Brasil
Brazils' best known Lusitano exporter
Adidas
The world's best sportswear company
LinkedIN Recommendations
Please find more than 50 recommendations on my LinkedIN-profile