Lucilius Interim
Dr Dietmar Scheja
Financial Leadership in Special Situations
» I head restructuring initiatives and guide your finance & admin teams through challenging projects, transitions and transformations. I deliver ambitious improvements and help you achieve sustainable cost reductions, while ensuring robust day-to-day operations. «
Lucilius Interim
Dr Dietmar Scheja
Financial Leadership in Special Situations
» I head restructuring initiatives and guide your finance & admin teams through challenging projects, transitions and transformations. I deliver ambitious improvements and help you achieve sustainable cost reductions, while ensuring robust day-to-day operations. «
Services
Financial Leadership – Restructuring – Finance Upgrade & Transformation: In these areas of expertise, I assume temporary management responsibility to ensure your return on change. I can access a network of strong partners if this is in the interest of the customer. For example, I work in the following roles:
Typical roles include:
Interim CFO or Interim Division Manager
Program or project manager, including as counterpart to your consultants
Management of restructuring projects
Management of post-merger integration projects
Co-pilot for a newly appointed manager
Sparring Partner and Advisory Board Member
Securing Return on Change:
Cost reduction strengthens your result directly immediately, but how do you prevent yo-yo effects: Is your finance department set-up for this? Does it have the mandate? - I lead your restructuring projects and safeguard the results from relapses.
Lots of figures, but no message? Slow planning and outdated roles? Manual and error-prone procedures? – Through transformation and upgrade projects I implement improvements in financial and commercial processes in a profitable and sustainable way.
You 'only' need to bridge a vacancy? - To maintain momentum, even short transitional phases can be used for value-adding upgrades and improvements. Please get in touch!
Project Highlights
»Project work is the most important means of pushing boundaries, whether in terms of efficiency, effectiveness, new capabilities, M&A or growth.« Focal points of my project work:
Restructuring and Turnaround
Finance & Controlling Upgrade / Transformation
Admin Upgrade / Transformation
Business Partnering
M&A
IT / Digital
Please see the slider for a selection of my projects.
Finance & Systems Transformation Program
Group-wide IFRS conversion program including Smart Close, ERP consolidation, process standardization and SAP S/4 HANA roll-out. Not yet completed.
Plant Relocation
Financial leadership of an extensive plant relocation including staff reductions at the old site.
Setting up a multifunctional business service organization
Overall responsibility for the go-live and ramp-up of a multifunctional business service organization including employee transfer, handover projects and workforce restructuring.
Finance outsourcing and offshoring
Transfer of accounting and controlling tasks of five countries to two Shared Service Centers in Slovakia and India, including staff reductions in the ceding organizations.
Acquisition of a B2B Analytics Company
Responsibility for valuation and due diligence, supporting contract negotiations and post-merger integration including takeover of accounting and controlling.
Post-insolvency hardening of a network of sales companies
Securing the financial viability of sales companies through financing and capitalization and profitability drives.
Leadership Principles
»Six principles inform my work as a senior manager. They help to clarify expectations and roles and promote the collaborative and focused work that is crucial for success.«
Complete achievement of goals
On time, on budget and in full.
Radical Positivity
Focus on the greatest change for the better.
Clarity and consistency
Determined, consistent action based on clear goals and tasks.
To lead is to serve
All work, including leadership, is service. Leadership promotes the successful work of the team.
Be respectful
We treat each other with personal respect.
Openness, honesty and trust
Form the basis of strong, effective and resilient collaboration.
To lead is to serve
All work, including leadership, is service. Leadership promotes the successful work of the team.
Be respectful
We treat each other with personal respect.
Complete achievement of goals
On time, on budget and in full.
Clarity and consistency
Determined, consistent action based on clear goals and tasks.
Radical Positivity
Focus on the greatest change for the better.
Openness, honesty and trust
Form the basis of strong, effective and resilient collaboration.
Complete achievement of goals
On time, on budget and in full.
Make a decisive difference
For the company and for the team.
Focus on essentials
Focus on the levers that produce the greatest effect.
Clarity and consistency
Determined, consistent action based on clear goals and tasks.
To lead is to serve
All work, including leadership, is service. Leadership promotes the successful work of the team.
Be respectful
We treat each other with personal respect.
Openness, honesty and trust
Form the basis of strong, effective and resilient collaboration.
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All the best for 2024!
All the best to you, your families, your friends and neighbours. And a happy, healthy and prosperous 2024!
Value Creation for PE investors
taskforce practice focuses on helping PE investors to drive value in their portfolio companies.
Critical Thinking
Back to online school with The Economist Executive Education for their "Critical Thinking" course.
All the best for 2024!
All the best to you, your families, your friends and neighbours. And a happy, healthy and prosperous 2024!
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Contact
»I would be happy to talk to you about any of the topics that are of concern to you. Feel free to contact me at any time - I look forward to hearing from you.«
About me
Assessing tasks holistically, breaking them down and working through them in a goal-oriented manner until done. In doing so, I rely on my core expertise - financial management / restructuring / finance upgrade & transformation - and on my work with business processes & IT/Digital, in particular with ERP & management systems. My experience in HR, legal, compliance and purchasing covers important interfaces.
I have acquired this experience in a variety of environments: Listed companies, family-run Mittelstand, start-ups and PE; consumer goods, fashion, technology and professional services; domestic and international.
Being able to start-up Lucilius Interim in the middle of the first COVID year was a huge privilege. With interim management, I have found the role in which I can use my experience most effectively and best develop it further. My first interim assignment, under CEO Mark Daley at Esprit, was a great stroke of luck in both respects.
I gained my formative professional experience at Procter & Gamble. Business acumen, quality and absolute integrity are principles to which I have been committed ever since. When I joined Wella AG's corporate controlling department, I was fortunate in becoming leader of a team whose vitality and energy was virtually unstoppable, even during the many night shifts while implementing HFM; rock on, UCP! My work as Regional CFO for Nielsen DACH & BENE and then as CFO for Cofresco was characterized by tough but essential - and successful - restructuring.
Setting up the Business Service organization for Melitta gave me a particularly steep learning curve; I wouldn't want to miss any part of this journey. Above all, it was a pleasure and an honor for me to lead a management team that lived and breathed the best qualities of Mittelstand corporate culture with determination, no fuss and a love of their work.
I earned my Dipl.-Kfm. and Dr. rer. pol. at the University of Paderborn with a period at St. Olaf College in Northfield, Minnesota, and my M.A. at the University of Hagen.
My wife and I live in Frankfurt am Main. Literature keeps me mentally agile, fitness training and marathon keep me physically fit.
My motto remains: Let the deed show.
About me
Assess tasks holistically, break them down and work through them in a goal-oriented manner. In doing so, I rely on my core expertise - financial management / restructuring / finance upgrade & transformation - and on my work with business processes & IT/Digital, in particular with ERP & management systems. My experience in HR, legal and purchasing covers important interfaces to these core areas.
I have acquired this experience in a variety of environments: Listed companies, family-run Mittelstand, start-ups and PE; consumer goods, technology and professional services; domestic and international.
I gained my formative professional experience at Procter & Gamble. Business acumen, quality and absolute integrity are principles to which I have been committed ever since. When I joined Wella AG's corporate controlling department, I took over the management of a team whose vitality and energy was unstoppable, even during the many night shifts while implementing HFM. Rock on, UCP!
My work as Regional CFO for Nielsen DACH & BENE and then as CFO for Cofresco was characterized by tough but essential - and successful - restructuring.
Setting up the Business Service organization for Melitta gave me a particularly steep learning curve; I wouldn't want to miss any part of this journey. Above all, it was a pleasure and an honor for me to lead a management team that lived and breathed the best qualities of Mittelstand corporate culture with determination, no fuss and a love of their work.
I earned my Dipl.-Kfm. and Dr. rer. pol. at the University of Paderborn with a period at St. Olaf College in Northfield, Minnesota, and my M.A. at the University of Hagen.
My wife and I live in Frankfurt am Main. Literature keeps me mentally agile, fitness training and marathon keep me physically fit.
My motto remains: Let the deed show.