Juergen Olbrich

• Positioned the SAP S/4HANA pre-study as a strategic decision foundation for a greenfield renewal of the finance and reporting landscape.

• Assessed structural, regulatory and architectural constraints of the existing finance landscape to frame decision-relevant implications for a greenfield S/4HANA transformation.

• Defined the target scope and high-level finance architecture, including reporting, integration and data-flow principles, to support executive decision-making.

• Developed the formal pre-study used to evaluate feasibility, sequencing and organisational readiness for the S/4HANA transformation.

• Aligned senior stakeholders across finance, IT and compliance on a common target picture and transformation trajectory.

• Delivered a €3.3m finance transformation programme, restructuring finance governance, processes and operating model across corporate lending and treasury.

• Accelerated monthly close from day 10 to day 4 for unconsolidated B/S and P&L across head office, Austrian subsidiaries and ~50 subsidiary banks under IFRS and UGB.

• Defined the finance architecture for corporate banking and treasury, aligning sub-ledger logic, accounting engines and consolidation to create a scalable and audit-proof reporting backbone.

• Established the finance target operating model as an integrated end-to-end architecture across front, middle and back office, enabling faster close, clearer ownership and reduced operational friction.

• Stabilised finance decision logic across lending, treasury and derivatives by harmonising lifecycle handling and valuation principles, improving consistency and management confidence in reported numbers.

• Strengthened finance control through architectural data quality and reconciliation frameworks, ensuring reliable postings across static, market and risk data domains.

• Upgraded regulatory and statutory reporting capabilities by embedding IFRS derivatives and UGB year-end requirements into the finance architecture, enabling consistent single-entity and group reporting.

• Key member of the group-level programme leadership team, shaping decisions and execution for the >€100m IFRS 9 transformation from design to holding-level go-live across Austria and CEE.

• Accountable for core workstreams within the programme, covering IFRS 9 impairments, classification & measurement and disclosures, aligning lifetime PD/LGD models, staging logic and reporting requirements with SSM and ECB expectations.

• Integrated IFRS 9 into the group’s finance architecture, aligning core banking, treasury, sub-ledgers, general ledger and group DWH to ensure audit-ready day-1 processing and daily ECL capability.

• Coordinated critical business and IT dependencies across parallel initiatives (core system replacements, treasury migration, impairment tooling), ensuring controlled cutover and operational readiness.

• Structured and executed group-wide UAT and validation cycles together with business, IT and risk stakeholders, securing regulatory sign-off and stable production readiness for holding and savings banks.

• Acted as a central interface to supervisors and auditors, contributing data tapes, documentation and management explanations for Joint Supervisory Team (ECB/FMA) reviews under the SSM framework.