Andreas Matje.

COMPETENCE.

Sustainable economic success fundamentally depends on recognizing required changes in time and implementing those effectively and efficiently.

I support owners, CEOs & CFOs as well as finance executives in identifying and dealing with changes related to business models, strategies and steering concepts enabling benefiting from business opportunities and mitigating risks.

In my professional career I initiated, managed and successfully completed a number of change projects creating value and resolving business challenges.
Therefore, I know how important it is to structure projects well and to appropriately involve top leadership, management and employees in change efforts.

Combining professional excellence with organizational and staff development enables your teams and your organization to increase effectiveness of your change projects which translates into achieving and ensuring sustainable financial and business success.

Depending on the task, I’m happy to support you as:

  • Sparring partner for diagnosing, validating and developing needs and measures for change, mainly in the fields of strategy & organization (incl. process management), performance management / enhancement, steering & control as well as finance transformation in general
  • Project steering to ensure successful implementation of change projects

In the fields of strategy, finance, project management, change management, leadership

Manage businesses as well as Finance/Admin temporarily

Represent owners’ and shareholders’ interests as non-executive director in (supervisory) boards, audit and advisory committees based on best-practice principles

Work

Work.

PROJECTS.

  • Profitable Growth
  • Implementing Balanced Scorecards
  • Post-merger production and marketing strategy
  • Technology & growth strategy as basis for capital investment decisions
  • Strategy to prepare for market liberalization

  • Implementing Value Management
  • Cost of Capital and Capital Management to support growth strategies
  • Capital Efficiency

  • Organizational structure as well as production and order management processes for two European locations
  • Organizational development in the context of leadership change
  • Re-organizing corporate functions
  • Restructuring Procurement
  • Establishing separate Shared Service Organizations
  • Post-Merger-Integration

  • Improving the return of capital employed (RoaCE) by increasing revenues, cost savings and divestments
  • Ensuring liquidity & efficient cash management
  • Working Capital Management
  • Improving efficiency of administrative functions

  • Simplifying / reducing complexity of planning & budgeting
  • Implementing target-oriented, comprehensive investment controlling
  • Simplifying / reducing complexity in reporting
  • Redesigning (financial and non-financial) steering KPIs
  • Implementing KPI systems (e.g. return on net assets, RoNA) to enable strategy implementation
  • Redesigning (annual and mid-term) bonus systems as additional incentive for performance improvements and strategy implementation

  • Redesigning risk management
  • Internal Audit & Compliance
  • Procurement
  • M&A: acquisitions and divestments of companies and businesses units / assets
  • Capital market: roadshows, secondary public offering, issuing corporate bonds

  • Since 2019, MCE Management Center Europe
  • Since 2019, University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria, Campus
  • Steyr: Management Accounting, Finance and Capital Budgeting
  • 2004 – 2013, LIMAK Austrian Business School: Finance Tutorial
  • 1990 – 2006, University of Economics and Business, Vienna: Industrial Financial Management (Budgeting), Advanced Management Accounting, Industrial Marketing (Price management), Finance and Capital Budgeting
  • 2000 – 2004, Österreichisches Controller Institut: Controller Curriculum
  • 1997 – 2003, EUROFORUM: Business Economics for Managers, Corporate Management KPIs, Planning & Budgeting
  • Since 1995 Speaker and Facilitator at congresses
Career

Career.

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT.

Since 2022

LIMAK Faculty Member

Since 2019

Senior Associate, MCE Management Center Europe
Lecturer, University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria, Campus Steyr

Since 2018

Member of the Supervisory Board and Head of the Audit Committee of JSC Ukrazliznytsia (Ukrainian Railways)
Consultant, Trainer, Interim Manager

2017

Senior Advisor, OMV AG, Wien

2013 – 2017

CFO, OMV Petrom SA, Bukarest

  • 2009 – 2012: SVP Group Controlling (and Group Accounting, until 2010), OMV AG, Vienna
  • 2003 – 2008 Managing Director Polyfelt GmbH / TenCate Geosynthetics Austria GmbH, Linz
  • 1999 – 2003: VP Finance & Administration, Polyfelt GmbH, Linz
  • 1995 – 1999: Group Controller Upstream, OMV AG, Vienna
  • 1990 – 1995: Assistant Professor at the Institute for Industrial Management, University of Economics and Business, Vienna
  • Until 1990: numerous domestic and foreign internships
Education

Education.

1984 – 2002.

  • 2001 – 2002: Global Executive MBA, Rotman School of Management (Toronto)

  • 2000 – 2001: General Management Program, LIMAK Austrian Business School (Linz)

  • 1997 Leadership for Young Talents, Danube University Krems

  • 1990 – 1994: PhD studies University of Economics and Business, Vienna; thesis on vertical integration

  • 1984 – 1989: Master studies University of Economics and Business, Vienna (specializing in Industrial Management, Marketing); thesis on stock options

Partner
CONTACT

Contact.

Dr. Andreas Matje

Michlbauernweg 12
A-4040 Linz
matje[at]ambc.at
+43 660 86 03 995