Robert Wilcke
Mr. Wilcke has worked with clients across a range of industries, including industrial products, automotive, retail, and airlines.
He is currently supporting an automotive supplier to design and implement a portfolio analysis process to enhance product profitability and improving fundamental sales processes. He is also in charge of group-wide purchase and capital expenditure request approvals and heads the cash tower efforts.
Previously, Mr. Wilcke worked with a listed Swiss equipment manufacturer, focusing on day-to-day liquidity management, implementation of improvement measures, and coordination of a complex restructuring, including an M&A process.
In addition, he designed and implemented a 13-week liquidity forecasting and reporting process for an international plastics manufacturer. He worked with the group’s treasury and management to derive and execute cash measures to boost group liquidity. He also supported an international airline by designing and implementing a liquidity forecasting and reporting process to enable continuous C-level transparency during self-administered insolvency proceedings and worked with the Chief Financial Officer to secure refinancing. He analyzed and challenged the airline’s business plan to assess going concern according to IDW Standard 11 of the Institute of Public Auditors in Germany (IDW).
Further, Mr. Wilcke conducted a liquidity and business plan analysis and applied advanced data analysis to generate transparency on single-project profitability for the supervisory and management boards of a large nonprofit with more than 12,000 full-time equivalent employees. Subsequently, he developed restructuring measures to mitigate the identified liquidity gap.