PENTALINK
Digital Finance Consultant

SaschaLübow-Westendorf

Founder of Pentalink

At the interface between finance and IT:
digitalisation, business intelligence, financial controlling, and holding and group structures — planned and operationally implemented.

Sascha Lübow-Westendorf

Role & topics

Interim Manager
Management Consultant

Digitalisation
Business Intelligence
Financial Controlling
Holding and Group Structures

About me

Finance and IT — thought through as one.

As a manager and both internal and external consultant, I play to my strengths at the interface between finance and IT. Expertise in corporate management, controlling, accounting and consolidation, combined with deep IT knowledge in business intelligence, data analysis, databases, ERP and cloud technologies, enables me to comprehensively plan a company's digitalisation and implement it operationally.

Sascha Lübow-Westendorf
Areas of expertise

Five perspectives. One goal.

Data, people, processes, strategies and the enterprise — digitalisation only works when all five come together.

01

Data

In-depth data analysis, design of data warehouse and business intelligence, data preparation and report readiness.

02

People

Change management — bringing people and IT together and making them work as one. Trainings and key-user coaching, management consulting and decision support.

03

Processes

Automation of data pipelines, digitalisation of manual processes, review of existing processes based on lean principles, and design of new processes and systems.

04

Strategies

Developing digital, finance and data strategies and breaking them down into concrete goals. Building steering and KPI systems, budget and forecast processes.

05

Enterprise

Mapping and supporting the entire value chain through reports, automation and digitalisation. Integration of holding and mixed groups, post-merger integration, consolidation, accounting automation.

CV

Dedication. Expertise. Passion.

Throughout my career I have held various positions in mid-sized companies and corporate groups — with digitalisation, especially of the finance function, always at the centre.

Sascha Lübow-Westendorf
2022 – today

Pentalink Consulting GmbH

Managing Director & Partner

Interim management and project leadership in BI, accounting and controlling as well as at C-level. Strategic advisory, enterprise architecture planning and building service units — from concept through implementation to company building.

2022 – 2024

Treuenfels Projects

Interim BI Manager

Developing functional reports in Power BI, combined with project management, stakeholder management, functional planning and team leadership.

2020 – 2022

Körber AG

Digital Finance Manager

As Digital Finance Manager I was responsible for all digital processes of the finance function at Körber AG.

2018 – 2020

Poseidon Verwaltungs AG

Investment Controller

Comprehensive steering and advisory of the mid-sized holding, driving digitalisation and financial management.

2018

Sparkasse Berlin

Consultant Software Testing

Mapping regulatory reporting processes and testing them in Abacus 360.

2014 – 2018

Robert Müller Gruppe

Assistant to the Management Board

My responsibilities covered all elements of foreign trade and logistics as well as controlling, accounting and ERP implementation.

2014 – 2017

Studies @ HSBA

Business Administration

Financial management, financial markets, management. Thesis: cartels and mergers in the cement market, using the merger of Lafarge and Holcim as an example.

Projects

Selected projects.

Restructuring of a software company, business case modelling
Acquisition of an agricultural machinery business
SAP S/4HANA Group Reporting implementation
Abacus 360 rollout
Sage Office Line implementation
Power BI implementation in sales, production, HR and SCM reporting
Integrated group reporting in Tableau
Product information management software implementation
BI strategy project “BI Roadmap”
Tableau reporting implementation
Building a budget planning process
Webshop optimisation

These are selected examples from a wider range of projects. I always welcome a professional exchange about your challenges and possible solutions.

Connect now

Let's talk about your project.

Whether an interim mandate, a BI project or digitalising the finance function — I look forward to the exchange.