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Jonas Brauns

Co-Founder / CFO as a Service at Popcornmates GmbH

Dornbirn, Austria

CFO as a service | Growth & Transformation | Strategic & Operational Finance | ex wefox

Domain experience

Relevant Total Experience: 10 years

Seniority Level: Senior

Sector Experience: 

Communication Services Consumer Discretionary Consumer Staples Energy Financials FinTech Health Care Industrials Information Technology Materials Real Estate Utilities

Skills

Skilled in: Corporate Development, Due Diligence, Legal, Portfolio Services & Add-on M&A, Private Equity & Growth Capital, Sell-side M&A

Languages: German, English

Work Experience

Popcornmates GmbH

Co-Founder

1/8/2024

 

- Now

Role: CFO as a Service - Provide strategic & operational financial leadership and advisory services to medium-sized enterprises in regulated markets (Insurance) and multi-national company structures - Develop and implement financial strategies, budgets and forecasts to drive business growth and profitability - Oversee financial operations, including accounting, financial reporting, cash flow management, and risk management - Conduct financial analysis and modeling to support business decision-making and strategic planning Advise on capital structure, financing options, and investment opportunities - Ensure compliance with financial regulations and standards

J.B. Consulting

Owner

1/4/2024

 

- Now

Role: CFO as a Service - Provide strategic & operational financial leadership and advisory services to medium-sized enterprises in regulated markets (Insurance) and multi-national company structures - Develop and implement financial strategies, budgets and forecasts to drive business growth and profitability - Oversee financial operations, including accounting, financial reporting, cash flow management, and risk management - Conduct financial analysis and modeling to support business decision-making and strategic planning Advise on capital structure, financing options, and investment opportunities - Ensure compliance with financial regulations and standards

wefox Insurance AG

Chief Financial Officer

1/3/2023

 

- 29/2/2024

- Led the Finance & Data function of wefox Insurance AG including all of its international branches (12 FTE team) under local GAAP (VersAV, PGR, OR) and supporting the consolidated IFRS-Reporting of wefox Group (e.g. IFRS 4/17) - Leading external Audits (PwC) and the regulatory reporting to FMA - Initiated a restructuring project and defined key measures to enable a transformation from a topline driven enterprise to break-even - Strengthened the Risk Management (e.g. capital & cashflow planning process) to facilitate the transformation process and identify potential risks - Improved the adequacy of budgeting & forecasting process together with the Actuarial department - Identification of key drivers for the success of the transformation by modeling scenarios in different business areas and product portfolios - Implementation of an optimized capital structure under Solvency II to optimize the capital efficiency as well as the overall financial performance of the company - Development of an investment strategy to balance the interest rate risk

wefox Insurance AG

Head of Accounting

1/9/2020

 

- 31/3/2023

- Leading the Accounting, Finops & Treasury (partially) function of wefox Insurance AG including all of its international branches, wefox Holding AG & other entities of the wefox Group (9 FTE team) under local GAAP (VersAV, PGR, OR) and supporting the consolidated IFRS-Reporting of wefox Group (e.g. IFRS 4/17) - Leading external Audits (PwC) and the local statutory regulatory reporting to FMA - Strengthened the ICS within the Accounting function and supporting the Risk function during the implementation in other functions - Supporting the global budgeting & forecasting process and the portfolio & OPEX controlling - Further development of the closing of all technical accounts to an entirely SQL-driven and highly automated process, enabling a monthly closing within 1-4 working days - Implementation of Agile as operating principle within the team (KANBAN) reduced errors by having standardized and well-documented processes and increased overall productivity of team (less communication through standardized alignment meetings)

wefox Insurance AG

Accountant

1/1/2018

 

- 30/9/2020

- Supported the kick-start of wefox Insurance AG (initially ONE Insurance AG), designed the Accounting function in a newly founded Insurance risk-carrier (systems, processes, ICS, etc.) and built-up a team of 4 FTE - Leading monthly & quarterly closings, supporting the CFO on the external Audit under local GAAP (VersAV & PGR) - Development of a highly automated and scalable payment process (premium, claims, etc.) by integrating a payment gateway into the first domain of the newly created wefox insurance platform - Development of partially automated monthly closing process - Development of an SQL-based reporting data model with MGA´s enabling seamless reporting

advago ag

Business Development Manager

1/7/2016

 

- 31/10/2017

Responsible for 10 associates; Start-Up consulting in Accounting & Start-Up Financing, legal & taxes

INNOVA Automotive AG

Project Manager

1/7/2013

 

- 30/6/2016

- Lead of Global Spare Part Management (Procurement & Sales Engineer) - Establishment of Global Standards in Constructions of Principal Components and Spare Parts

Doppelmayr Cable Car

Marketing Trainee

1/4/2011

 

- 30/4/2011

Doppelmayr Cable Car

Quality Management Trainee

1/10/2010

 

- 31/10/2010

Education

European University Cyprus

1/1/2014

 

- 31/12/2015

Semester Abroad

FHV - Vorarlberg University of Applied Sciences

1/1/2012

 

- 31/12/2015

University of Liechtenstein

Licenses / Certificates

Fachhochschule Vorarlberg

Bachelor of Arts in Business

1/10/2012

 

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