Carsten Paris

Carsten Paris

Interim Management Focus

  • CFO, CEO & CRO mandates in PE portfolio companies, corporate subsidiaries and family-owned businesses
  • Special situations: restructuring, turnaround, transformation & insolvency procceedings
  • Refinancing, recapitalisation and bank / stakeholder negotiations
  • Liquidity planning & working capital management
  • Reporting, controlling & consolidation systems (IFRS / HGB)
  • Restructuring opinions (IDW S6) | exit preparation & M&A
  • Digitalisation and AI transformation

Carsten Paris is an Interim CFO, CEO and CRO with more than 29 years of experience in auditing, private equity and operational interim management. He supports mid-market companies in special situations – from operational restructurings and complex refinancings through to company sales and IPOs.

Recent mandates include the financial and operational restructuring of the international B2B/B2C retail company Hauck Gruppe including IFRS consolidation, integration of group entities, and refinancing, as well as serving as CFO of the German automotive supplier Gebrüder Wielpütz.

As Managing Director, CRO and shareholder, he led the continuation of operations and  sale of the automotive supplier Küpper Gruppe in self-administration insolvency proceedings to an international investor. Earlier in his career, he built the group consolidation at Honsel International Technologies, laying the financial foundation for its sale and subsequent IPO in Brussels and Tokyo.

In addition, he advised Anglo-Saxon private equity firms with German portfolio companies on financial implementation topics, including reporting transparency, liquidity management and M&A readiness, predominantly in the automotive industry.

Mr Paris began his career in the German Air Force and last served as First Lieutenant in international operations. He subsequently worked as Audit Manager at Ernst & Young and as Investment Director at Alchemy Partners (London). He holds a Diplom-Kaufmann degree from the Universität der Bundeswehr München, is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA, USA), a certified restructuring advisor (ifus), and a Member of TMA Deutschland e.V.

Selected Management References

  • CEO & CFO, international B2B/B2C retail group (ca. 100 Mio. EUR, 300 employees, 6 locations worldwide). IFRS consolidation, integration of group subsidiaries, efficiency improvements, refinancing (EUR 136m debt haircut) and full shareholder reorganisation.
  • CFO, German automotive supplier (approx. EUR 100m, 1,250 employees, 2 plants). Operational restructuring, achievement of 6% EBITDA, digitalisation of administrative processes and management of the sale process to a strategic investor.
  • Managing Director / CRO, automotive supplier group in self-administration (approx. EUR 160m, 1,200 employees, 5 plants). Business continuity management, full mandate control and sale of all locations to an international investor.
  • CFO, international call centre service provider (approx. EUR 130m, 4,500 employees, DE/AT/CH/PL/RO). Introduction of 13-week rolling liquidity planning, bottom-up planning across 17 entities, achievement of 8% price increases.
  • Managing Director, international automotive supplier (approx. EUR 170m, 1,200 employees, DE/CZ/ES). Restructuring mandate, IDW S6 opinion, CIP implementation and successful company sale.
  • Head of Finance & Controlling, Honsel International Technologies (approx. EUR 890m, 5,000 employees). Build-up of group consolidation (COGNOS), preparation of 60 outstanding annual accounts – enabling the sale and IPO on the Brussels and Tokyo stock exchanges.

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