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Michael Glaser

Finance Manager / Director / CFO with focus on AI-transformation (MBAI®) in the automotive supply, mechanical engineering and construction industry

from now
Interim Manager since: 03/2014
Update: 04.05.2026

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  • DDIM.fachgruppe // Finance

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Michael Glaser, München

D-81825 München
zbp.ybn@erfnytyrnupvztz

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+4915736425134

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Intro
Dear Sir or Madam,
AI-agents, set up with Langdock und process automation, created with make.com, will bring your productivity on a new level.
With AI and 6 successful restructuring projects under my belt—two in the automotive supply industry, one in the food industry, and three in construction—I can bring extensive restructuring and transformation experience to your projects as a finance manager / director/CFO. I see your company in numbers and I see every measure taken in numbers to get your company back on track for profitability.
Experience overview
  • Setting up of AI agents with Langdock, process automation with make.com
  • Restructuring, M+A, Poster Merger Integration, IDW S 6 opinion
  • Cash management; Cash planning, Working Capital Management close to insolvency
  • Controlling: Financial-, production-, sales controlling, due diligence
  • Group Consolidated Accounting: Year end closing German GAAP + IFRS (LucaNet)
  • IT: ERP implementation (SAP), IT processing, process improvements
  • Branches: Automotive, mechanical engineering, plant engineering, construction
Tasks
  • Restructuring / Reorganization, close to insolvency
  • Cost Reduction
  • Turnaround
  • Merger & Acquisition
  • Digitization
  • Group accounting with LucaNet (IFRS, German GAAP)
  • Creating AI-agents with Langdock
  • Automation of processes with make.com
Functions
  • Accounting & Controlling
  • Finance
  • Management / General Management / Board
  • Human Resources
  • Information Technology
Head of Group Accounting and Tax
Commercial Director, CFO
CRO
Role in the company
  • 2nd Level / Division Management / Department Management
  • 1st Level / Executive Board / Management
  • Projekt Manager (Leitung)
Industry experience
  • Construction Industry (incl. Suppliers)
  • Automotive, Supplier
  • Mechanical Engineering
  • Plant Engineering
  • Food Industry
Electroinfrastructure of overland grid and local substations
Type of company
  • Corporation / Group
  • Medium-sized Enterprise
Regions (Regions where you have proven experience)
  • Europe (EU)
Languages
  • German (Mother tongue)
  • English (Business fluent)
  • French (Fluent)
Special certificates and awards
2026: MASTER BUSINESS WITH AI (MBAI®) at LAI Leaders of AI GmbH, Fresenius University of Applied Sciences, Microsoft
Special skills
  • AI (AI-agents with Langdock and MS 365 Copilot Studio; automation with make.com and power automate)
  • Restructuring (2 in automotive, 1 in food, 3 in construction)
  • Group Accounting in German GAAP and IFRS, up to 25 entities
  • Group consolidation with LucaNet, up to 25 entities
  • Controlling of subsidiaries, production controlling, sales controlling
  • Post-Merger-Integration
  • M + A (2 entities sold, 1 aquired + PMI)

IM projects (self employed)


Company description

The parent company is a small, highly specialized logistics company operating between Asia and Germany. The start-up develops, assembles, and sells small, state-of-the-art electric vehicles.

Company turnover in Mio $
30 Mio USD
Number of employees in company
50
City / place
Southern Germany

Initial situation at the client

The logistics group was experiencing liquidity problems because its main customer was allegedly paying late, causing suppliers to threaten to stop deliveries.
To solve the liquidity problems, additional debt capital was to be raised from banks against collateral.
To this end, a profit and loss statement and balance sheet plan for the years 2026–2028 had to be prepared for the operating companies. In addition, an action plan had to be drawn up to secure liquidity.

Area of responsibility (sales and employees)
30 M€, 50 employees
Mission
  • Analysis of the payment behavior of the largest customer.
  • Preparation of a balance sheet plan for the group for 2026 - 2028.
  • Action plan to improve liquidity.
  • Establishment of measures to improve commercial management.
Measures taken
  • Analysis of the business in terms of earnings and payment behavior of the main customer.
  • Analysis and presentation of the economic situation of the entire group.
  • Preparation of a balance sheet plan for 2026 - 2028 in the form of a bank presentation to persuade banks to provide debt capital against collateral.
  • Preparation of an action plan for the coming months to reduce overdue items to zero.
Achieved Achievements
  • Bank grants additional debt capital.
  • The group's current financial situation was reviewed and accepted.
  • Action plan to eliminate overdue items was accepted and is to be implemented.
Special challenges
  • The owners of the group ignore their own financial situation.
  • High time pressure.
  • Very short project, as not financial resources are available for longer-term support.

Company description

International group, quoted at the stock exchange.

Company turnover in Mio $
30 Mio USD
Number of employees in company
150
City / place
NRW
Mission
Restore the trust of employees and top management in the branch management.
Increase the level of invoicing and financing of construction sites. Develop reliable planning data about construction sites together with the project managers and improve the quality of the forecasts.
Improve the margins of the framework agreements with customers. Stabilization of cash flow.
Measures taken
Open and friendly communication with all colleagues in the branch. Together with the project managers, determination of the next invoicing dates for the construction sites.
Assisting project managers in discussions with customers about outstanding payments.
Joint preparation of the earnings and working capital forecast with the project managers of the construction sites.
Renegotiation of framework agreements with customers.
Monitoring of the agreed receipt of payment of orders.
Achieved Achievements
Problems on the construction sites are openly addressed by the project managers.
Correct booking and allocation of costs to the construction sites. Improved cash flow on the construction sites.
Improvement of the margins of the framework agreements.
EBITA more than doubled year-on-year.
Reduction of open items with customers to almost zero.
Special challenges
Strong mistrust of the colleagues towards the former branch management.
Lack of cash flow orientation of the project managers for the construction sites.
Unwillingness of project managers to update site forecasts and make them sufficiently accurate.

Company description

Production and sales of windows, all over Europe. International Group with production and sales in Germany (1.400 FTE) and abroad (18.000 FTE).

Company turnover in Mio $
150 Mio USD
Number of employees in company
1400
City / place
Süddeutschland
Initial situation at the client

Unpräzises Reporting;
kein Teamleiter Accounting, der den Konzernabschluss in Deutschland vorbereitet und durchführt und an die Konzernmutter im Ausland berichtet.
Verunsichertes Accounting team, dass anteilig das Unternehmen verlassen wollte.

Man hat einen Interim Manager gesucht, um das Reporting an die ausländische Konzernmutter zu verbessern in Bezug auf Genauigkeit und Umfang.
Das Accounting Team musste stabilisiert werden und der deutsche Konzernabschluss sichergestellt werden.

Area of responsibility (sales and employees)
Group Accounting (150 Mio.€, 6 reports)
Mission
  • Structuring of reporting and improvement of accuracy.
  • Prevent accounting team from leaving the company.
  • Prepare consolidated financial statements and complete it in time in accordance with the requirements of the foreign parent company by end of January 2023 (reporting package).
  • The German consolidated financial statements should be prepared by end of March 2023.
Measures taken
  • Reporting analyzed, supplemented and refined.
  • Team motivated through privat events outside the company.
  • Wishes of the team to improve working conditions fulfilled.
  • 2 employees hired.
Achieved Achievements
  • Reporting improved to the satisfaction of the parent company.
  • Employees prevented from leaving the company.
  • Two new employees hired and motived the team to manage the existing workload on time.
  • Reporting package for the consolidated financial statements prepared on time.
  • German consolidated financial statements prepared on time.
Special challenges
  • Insecure and overburdened accounting team after company takeover.
  • International environment with short deadlines for monthly and year-end closing.
  • Few employees and difficult market environment for accountants.
  • New web-based SAP reporting system.
  • Group consolidation.
  • High time pressure.
City / place
Aicha vorm Wald, Deutschland
Initial situation at the client

• Vertriebsunterstützung gegenüber VW und Daimler Benz für die Akquisition von Neuaufträgen
• Unterstützung des Insolvenzverwalters in Vertriebsangelegenheiten
Umsatz: 80 Mio. €

Number of employees in company
8
City / place
Ueckermünde, Deutschland
Initial situation at the client

• Monatsinventuren
• Klärung Kundenabzüge
• Abrechnung Kundenwerkzeuge
• Ermittlung Produktionsausschuß
• Kontenklärung
• Cash Planung
• Verbesserung SAP
• Ansprechpartner des Betriebsrates
• Personalabbau
• Weiterentwicklung Personalwesen, Buchhaltung, Controlling
• Energiesubventionen vom BAFA

Übernahme in ein festes Anstellungsverhältnis ab 01.01.2020
Mitarbeiter: 8
Umsatz: 60 Mio. €

City / place
Stuttgart-Fellbach, Deutschland
Initial situation at the client

• Umstellung und Vereinheitlichung des Monatsreportings von drei Produktionswerken in Deutschland und einem in der Slowakei (330 Mio.€ Umsatz) gemäß den Vorgaben des englischen Mutterkonzerns
• Darstellung der monatlichen Kostenabweichungen gegenüber der Kalkulation
• Begründung der Abweichungen, Empfehlung von Gegenmaßnahmen
Umsatz: 330 Mio. €

Work history (permanent employment)


25 entities spread all over Europe, thereof 8 production entities

City / place
Südlich von München
Remarks
Monthly preparation of the consolidated financial statements at the company headquarters for 25 subsidiaries.
Preparation of the consolidated annual financial statements.
Management of a project to convert the accounting system from HBG to IFRS, for the consolidated group accounts 2023 and 2024.
Position: Head of accounting and tax
Employees: Around 1500
Revenues: 300 Mio. €

Construction Group

City / place
Rotthalmünster
Remarks
• Accounting, group accounting and controlling of a construction group with around
23 legal entities
• Monthly consolidated group accounting with LucaNet
• Evaluation of unfinished construction projects
• Annual group budgeting
• Cash planning and monitoring
• Financial reporting to the banks
• Leading 14 employees in 3 groups
Employees: 400
Revenue: 80 Mio. €

Iron foundry in the automotive supply sector

City / place
Ueckermünde, Deutschland
Remarks
• monthly stock take
• check of customer deductions
• invoicing of toolings
• set up of accounting, controlling, HR team
• clearification of accounts
• check of production scrap
• cash planning
• union and works council
• downsizing of staff
• SAP improvements
• BAFA energy subsidies
Employees: 8
Sales volume: 60 Mio. €
City / place
Aicha vorm Wald, Deutschland
Remarks
• set up of a finance organisation
• set up of a sales organisation
• set up of purchase and supply chain organisation
• set up of industrial engineering
• set up of product costing
• set up of a profit center analysis
• set up of monthly budget comparison
• cost control meetings with production managers
• IATF 16949 quality certification
• sale of the entity
Employees: 650
Sales volume: 111 Mio. €
City / place
Memmingen, Deutschland
Remarks
Commercial Managing Director of Metzeler Schaum GmbH for procurement, accounting, con-trolling, IT and Managing Director of British Vita (Germany) GmbH, the finance hold-ing of Vita in Germany with in total €180M of revenues (German group cash management, German consolidated accounting).
Employees: 350
Sales volume: 78 Mio. €
City / place
München-Eching
Remarks
• IFRS accounting
• simultaneous costing for machine engineering projects
• staff development (individual targets)
• improvement of the ERP system
• risk management
• claim management
• process improvements in project management
• negotiations with banks
• communication to the stock exchange
Employees: 9
Sales volume: 40 Mio. €
City / place
München-Taufkirchen, Deutschland
Remarks
• merger of two entities after acquisition
- IT integration
- integration of accounting and controlling
- harmonisation of the rebate system towards the German retailers
- negotiation of social plan with the works council and the trade union
- integration of staff
• yearend financial statement 2002 and 2003
• communication oral and written in French language
Employees: 20
Sales volume: 220 Mio. €
City / place
München, Deutschland
Remarks
• creation of a centralized accounting and controlling office for the business unit
• creation of a centralized payroll office
• project manager of SAP implementation in four production sites
• instructor for construction law (VOB, BGB)
• implementation of risk management
• shut down of two factories (redundancy plan)
• disposal of the business unit (international M+A project)
Employees: 8
Sales volume: 120 Mio. €
City / place
München, Deutschland
Remarks
• creation of a finance organisation (accounting, project controlling, treasury)
• yearend financial statement
• costing and legal support when placing offers to customers
• placement of work packages to subcontractors (construction work, engineering
services)
Employees: 4
Sales volume: 15 Mio. €

Road construction company in the new German federal states (DM 300 million turnover, 1000 employees; Dresden DM 15 million turnover, 60 employees)

City / place
Dresden
Remarks
• Project liquidity planning at the company headquarter in Berlin
• Cost controlling of construction sites
• Verification of the earnings situation
• Staff reduction, shut down of the subsidiary
City / place
Mannheim, Deutschland
Remarks
• Project manager for evaluation of potential M+A targets on international level
• ROI calculations for major investment projects (BOT; build, operate and transfer)

Education

Notes / specifics
The training took place partly alongside work as an interim finance manager and therefore took from Dec 2025 to April 2026 (MBAI®, Master Business with AI) by completing 4 case studies in communication, marketing, sales and finance (setting up a dashboard with AI).
The training was focused on creating agents and agent groups with Langdock and Microsoft 365 Copilot Studio
as well as setting up automated processes with make.com and power automate.

Documents and files

MASTER BUSINESS WITH AI (MBAI®)pdf

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MASTER BUSINESS with AI; training in artificial intelligence to set up agents, agent groups with Langdock and MS 365 Copilot Studio as well as power automate and make.com to automate processes.

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