Accounting & Reporting Manager

At HEINEKEN Kraków (HEINEKEN Global Shared Services) our success comes directly from our great people. We are a growing team of business experts in finance, accounting, data and technology ready to „WOW” the world with our expertise, passion and pride to be GREEN.We act on our values of Passion for consumers & customers, Courage to dream & pioneer, Care for people & planet, Enjoyment of Life, always focused on being ourselves: inclusive, diverse, and open for new challenges.

Your daily tasks may include:

• implementing the functional strategic plan by setting operational strategy and team's objectives
• ensuring business partnership with stakeholders in a collaborative way and within agreed governance model to improve stakeholders' experience
• assessing and mitigating operational risk and acting as an escalation point to drive issue resolution
• driving E2E improvements agenda including reducing E2E cycle time and reduction of cost of finance
• building internal control mindset and embedding internal controls into processes so controls are designed and executed effectively and any deficiency is mitigated
• beeing responsible for team/function's budget planning and proactively controlling actual costs vs. budget including rightsizing of the team compared with business requirement
• beeing responsible for financial reporting to be done in line with HEINEKEN's Global Finance Policies & Procedures and local legislation
• ensuring HEINEKEN's Balance Sheet data are fully in line with IFRS for all OpCos in scope
• working with the Group Reporting team to implement standardisation and best practice policies
• beeing responsible for the OpCos final OTIF reporting of financials each period end close
• coordinating external audit for Group and local purposes for all OpCos in scope
• reviewing and approving balance Sheet write offs including from Accounts Payable and Receivable
• approving non-PO invoices and customer credit notes and refunds when required
• facilitating and driving end-to-end process management & improvement
• recruiting talents for leadership roles and securing their effective onboarding
• reviewing performance regularly; providing ongoing feedback to teams and individuals addressing under performs and recognizing best people and teams
• planning succession, developing best people in the pipeline, providing coaching and mentoring.
   

You are a good match if you have:

• Bachelors or Master’s degree in Finance or Accounting
• Accounting Qualification recommended (ACCA, CIMA or equivalent)
• financial accounting expertise
• 8-10 years of experience in accounting and/or financial analysis
• at least 5 years in managing people (preferably expert teams)
• strong stakeholder and communication management skills
• experience in multi-national environment and Shared Service Organisations 
• business acumen, analytical skills, decision-making skills, change management skills
• excellent written and verbal English.

What we offer: