Serkant Türemiş
Interim Manager for Finance and Controlling
I step into finance gaps, work hands-onand am productive within days.
- Month-end close
- IFRS group reporting
- Rolling forecast
- Liquidity planning
- Scenario planning
- Business case
- ERP migration
- Carve-out
- Post-merger integration
- Restructuring
- Royalties and licensing
- Interim leadership
- Budgeting
- AI automation
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- Years in finance and controlling
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- Industries, from manufacturing to non-profit
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- Interim and consulting mandates since 2020
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- Staff led, with signing authority at three companies
Industries
Sector-agnostic, not sector-blind
- Industry and manufacturing
- Retail and trade
- Renewable energy
- Business services
- Telecommunications
- Non-profit
- Live entertainment
- Music and publishing
The method stays the same. The sector takes a few days to learn.
Where you deploy me
Fields where I deliver from day one
Reporting and closing
Monthly, quarterly and annual closing, IFRS group reporting, management reporting with analysis and commentary.
Budget, forecast and liquidity
Annual budgets, rolling forecasts, liquidity and scenario planning, business cases and investment analysis.
ERP and transformation
ERP migrations and upgrades (SAP FI/CO as project lead, DCW to Dynamics, Sage 100), carve-outs, post-merger integration and restructuring.
Interim leadership
Leading finance teams and departments of up to 24 staff with signing authority, standing in for finance managers, advising management.
Licensing and royalties
Royalty settlements including minimum guarantees and recoupment, licence audits, collecting societies, automation SOPs.
AI and automation
AI agents and MCP workflows on live systems, advanced Excel tooling, automation that outlasts the mandate.
“I professionalise your controlling.Then you discuss decisionsinstead of numbers.”
Serkant Türemiş
Selected mandates since 2020
Track record
03/2026 to 08/2026
License Controlling
Tonies GmbH, Düsseldorf
Listed consumer audio company built on licensed children's IP.
Quarterly royalty settlements including minimum guarantees and recoupment, client-side project lead for a licence audit by a US studio, SOPs for an automation tool.
01/2025 to 06/2025
Financial Management and Controlling
CBS GmbH, Willich
Debtor-in-possession insolvency under private equity ownership.
Led a four-person finance team, stood in for the finance manager, central contact for the insolvency monitor and the auditors, owned the Sage 100 upgrade.
since 05/2022, ongoing
Financial Controlling and Consulting
innn.it e.V. (vormals Change.org e.V.), Berlin
Registered non-profit association.
Monthly reporting with budget-to-actual comparison, annual report and budgeting, process improvement, a continuous mandate for more than four years.
09/2022 to 12/2022
Financial Controlling and Consulting
Global Tech I Offshore Wind GmbH, Hamburg
Renewable energy, operator of an offshore wind farm.
Quarterly reviews and business plan, consolidation of departmental costs into a multi-year cost plan.
08/2020 to 04/2021
Financial Controlling
Ticketmaster GmbH, Berlin
Ticketing for live and sports events.
Improved reporting guidelines for management and the holding company, reconciled very large transaction datasets from a major production.
06/2020 to 02/2021
Operations Management
Oji Europe GmbH, Nauen
Health care and disinfection solutions.
Business development through network contacts, certification research, trade fair presence including cost planning and evaluation.
Further mandates on request.
What others say
References
“I worked with Serkant in an international environment. He proved to be a loyal professional with sound knowledge and expertise in management and controlling.”
Caspar Gerwe
CEO, Stage Entertainment Touring, Amsterdam
“I know Serkant Türemiş as a highly reliable, hard-working and consistently correct person, combined with great fairness and full commitment to the cause.”
Jürgen Schröder
Managing Director, Disney's The Lion King, Hamburg
“The way Mr Türemiş worked was extremely results-driven and cost-conscious. He impressed with the excellent quality of his output.”
Xiongxiong Lin
CFO, Apassionata World, Berlin
“Serkant is an extremely reliable manager. However large or complex it gets, he runs it without surprises.”
Dr. Thomas Bone-Winkel
CFO, Massine Group, Berlin
“Serkant Türemiş professionalised our controlling and gave our reporting a new face. He is solution-oriented, dependable and brings a great deal of experience.”
Nora Circosta
Board member, innn.it e.V., Berlin
“Serkant is a truly good professional, and working with him is easy and even enriching.”
Sylvie Lahuppe
MarCom Manager, Stage Entertainment Touring France, Paris
Career foundation
Three decades, always accountable
2017 to 2019
Commercial Director with signing authority, APASSIONATA World GmbH, 24 staff, finance function rebuilt after a licensing dispute.
2016 to 2017
Senior Manager Finance and Business Affairs with signing authority, Holiday on Ice, key role in the two-year carve-out following the sale to CTS Eventim.
2005 to 2016
Financial Controller with signing authority, Stage Entertainment Touring Productions, IFRS reporting to headquarters in Amsterdam.
2001 to 2005
Financial Controller, Stage Entertainment, en-suite musicals.
2000 to 2001
Financial Controller, Cable & Wireless GmbH, project lead for the SAP R/3 rollout in FI/CO, UK GAAP reporting.
1991 to 2000
Accounting and administration in musical theatre, textiles, automotive and tourism.
State-certified business administrator (1999), industrial business management assistant, German Chamber of Commerce (1995).
Systems and languages
Tools I am fluent in
ERP and finance systems
- SAP FI/CO
- MS Dynamics 365
- Sage 100
- DCW
- DATEV
- Workday Financials and Adaptive
- Oracle Hyperion
Analysis and reporting
- MS Excel
- Power Query
- Power BI
- Tableau
AI and automation
- Claude (Cowork/Code)
- MCP-Workflows
- ChatGPT
Collaboration and systems
- MS Office 365
- Google Workspace
- MS Teams
- Slack
- Jira
- Confluence
- Apple macOS
- German, native
- English, C1 business fluent
- Turkish, B2
For providers and recruitment consultants
Terms of engagement
Contract type
Services or works contract
Temporary agency work
Excluded
Geographic scope
Europe-wide, willing to travel
Remote share
By agreement
Time commitment
Two to five days per week
Availability
On request
Contact
Let's talk aboutyour mandate
I will send you the full profile with the complete project list on request.
Memberships and certification
Associations
DDIM, German Interim Management Association
ICV, International Association of Controllers
VGSD, German Association of Founders and Freelancers
Quality-assured interim manager