Remediation of fund tax errors
Correction postings in SimCorp, reconciling carry-forward accounts with tax declarations, documentation for auditors and tax office.
Consultant & interim manager for management companies and depositaries
Fund accounting, fund migration and fund taxation – backed by more than 20 years of practice.
I support German management companies (KVGs) with fund transfers, system migrations, tax projects and capacity gaps in fund administration – from functional specification to go-live.
20+years in asset management
200+funds migrated, up to 22 segments each
~400funds recalculated for German tax reform (InvStRefG)
2,500transactions per day automated via interface
Services
Short ramp-up, hands-on in daily operations and clean documentation for internal audit and external auditors.
Fund migration, in- & outsourcing
Fund transfers between management companies, changes of service KVG or depositary. NAV and share-class reconciliation, outsourcing controls.
Fund taxation & FlexTax
German Investment Tax Act, tax assessment declarations, correction of tax errors, FlexTax support including the cloud rollout.
Specification & test management
Requirements analysis, interface specification, parameterisation, integration, parallel and release testing through to go-live.
Interim management
Interim head of fund administration, covering peak workloads and backlogs, quality controls in daily operations.
Selected references
Clients anonymised. Detailed project profile available on request.
Takeover of funds from two management companies
Migration of 80 funds with up to 22 segments, own reconciliation tools for NAV and swap data, outsourcing controls with the transferring company.
German investment tax reform follow-up
Recalculation of the short fiscal year for around 400 retail and special funds in FlexTax, tax filings and investor statements.
Migration of all funds to SimCorp
115 funds in six waves, specification of the Avaloq interface with around 2,500 automated transactions per day.
Interim head of fund administration
Leading a team of eight, quality controls, release testing, launch of ETF funds of funds and share-class funds.
Systems
- SimCorp Dimension
- Profidata Xentis
- Temenos MultiFonds
- Fact! FlexTax
- NeoXam Asset Arena
- Temenos DataSource
- Avaloq
- Murex
- Bloomberg · WM Datenservice
- SAP Business Objects
- Jira · Quality Center
- Excel tooling for reconciliations
AI & automation · Own project 2026
The AI proposes. A human approves.
With “KI-Standalone” I designed, built and now operate a fully on-premise AI platform: receipt processing through to booking, content search across thousands of PDFs and email triage. No document ever leaves the local network.
For management companies this means automating reconciliations, controls and document research – without sending sensitive fund data to the cloud.
- Approval, not autopilotCritical steps only run after an explicit “ok” – just like the four-eyes principle in fund accounting.
- AuditableEvery booking is reconciled back; monthly plausibility checks with VAT return preview.
- Privacy by designLanguage model on own hardware, every outbound connection is logged.
- Self-monitoringAn AI-written daily report flags errors, stalls and missed runs across all services.
Profile
I come from the operational side: fund accountant, team lead and deputy head of department at management companies and a major bank, before becoming an independent consultant in 2008.
That is why I know both perspectives – daily fund administration and the project view. It shortens onboarding and makes me effective quickly, even when joining a project late.
Education: Business economist (VWA), finance and investment economist (VWA), Professional Scrum Master.
A project that needs fund expertise?
Send me a short note on what it is about. I am happy to share my project profile and CV.
Email
Phoneon request
EngagementsGermany-wide · on-site and remote