Gerald Schickert

Head of GBS Controlling Services, Process Excellence Book-to-Report Bosch

Gerald is the worldwide GBS leader for the Bosch’ Controlling Services and also is leading the global transformation of Controlling Services within the GBS organization. Before he joined Bosch in 2016, he had worked for 13 years at IBM in different Controlling areas and led among others a Controlling Shared Services organization in Slovakia. Before that, he started his career in management consulting.

SSOWOMEN LEADERSHIP DAY: May 19th, 2025

10:30 AM GBS FP&A – How the Interaction of Centralization and Automation Potentials Enable Consistency and Value Creation

The scope of services offered by GBS has been consistently expanding with transformative capabilities to drive value creation. Our recent survey on The state of Global Business Services revealed that 49% of respondents is establishing FP&A capabilities in GBS to drive competitive advantage. During this workshop we will:

  • Discuss what is the value proposition of GBS Controlling and how does it align to wider Finance function vision
  • Share leading practices on what a compelling, self-speaking GBS FP&A capability and service catalog looks like
  • Analyze how centralization and automation efforts interact and enable consistency and value creation
  • Highlight how consistent role definitions enable building the right capabilities and help branding GBS as a talent pool and a career accelerator

Check out the incredible speaker line-up to see who will be joining Gerald.

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