Date: 06.11.2025 (2025-11-06)
Niels Schneider (06.11.2025) • https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-niels-schneider/ • Ex-Cambrium • Fractional CFO now (since 1 month) • Pitch him AP and CoPilot workflow
Notes:
• General:
• AP Flow:
• Sanity check (e.g. Moss) is covered already
• Pre-accounting is quite good
• Moss does that and has mini AI to do that
• Kostenstellen -> important to have the tool flexible
• It changed a lot at Cambrium -> every 6 months it was changed
• The effort was adapting the backend in accounting
• Excel
• Spendesk (replaced by Moss), Moss, Datev -> update everywhere
• Datev:
• Steuerberater has to do it -> send email to them and double check
• They looked an Finhawk, Agicap etc.
• Agicap does not have the CF Zuordnung was not supported (see below)
• Feedback to slides?
• What about our product at Cambrium? What would have been his objections?
• What are best automation tools?
• What are the biggest challenges he sees in Accounting & Finance?
• More in controlling -> check who spent for what
• Finanzüberblick über Company
• A lot of manual work
• Reconciliation
• Datev is very inflexible -> Steuerbüro has to book stuff -> takes days
• They built scripts to run analysis
• Excel & GSheets has script language
• Scripts that were most valuable
• Cambrium is producing -> big difference between BWA and Cash management -> they built a script to transfer that
• Monthly Kostenarten und stellen Abbildung basierend auf Cash Flow
• Controlling is a lot of potential
• Controlling:
• Varianzanalyse: check Budget with IST
• Initially quarterly - then monthly
• If there was Abweichung:
• Put all info in a presentation for each team -> then discuss with them why -> visualisation
• E.g. Bewirtung -> reduce
• Kostenarten die nicht antizipiert wurden abgleichen -> stuff that is not standard -> aussergewöhnliche Ausgaben
• Agent that uses finance tools to change the configuration within tools - like the setup
• Abgrenzungen
• Process was rather bad
• If invoice is not here we ignore it - later they book it into Vormonat -> not nice but ok
• If they first pay and then active Abgrenzung -> Steuerbüro hat das gemacht
• Often supplier does not send invoice on time
• They use Moss
• Budget is per team
• Often Cost centers were incorrect -> manual correction
• Biggest value:
• Liquiditätsplanung und Kontrolle
• All tools work with Buchhaltung aber nicht wirklich Cash Flow - some tools have it but they always do it in indirekter Methode -> very high level -> CF basierend auf Geschäftsvorfälle (v.a. für early stage Startups)
• He looks for a new company
• Deep Tech & climate
• HoF or VP
• He is open to give feedback re the Cashflow topic
• What is he doing now?