Financial Accounting & Tax Manager

At HEINEKEN Kraków (HEINEKEN Global Shared Services) our success comes directly from our great people. We are a growing team of finance, accounting, data and technology professionals ready to „WOW” the world with our expertise, passion and pride to be GREEN. Our employees can develop in the following areas: Purchase to Pay, Order to Cash, Record to Report, Business Performance Management, Accounting, Reporting & Consolidation, Digital & Technology, Transformation Management, Global Audit, Global Process & Control Improvement, Global Process Expertise, and Support Functions like HR, Service Management, Global Master Data, Internal Finance, Change & Communications.

Your responsibilities

• 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
• responsible for team/function's budget planning and proactively controlling actual costs vs. budget including rightsizing of the team compared with business requirement
• 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, approaches, and training across all Financial Reporting activities in scope
• coordinating external audit for Group and local purposes for all OpCos in scope
• building CPI mind-set by challenging the status quo to look for most efficient ways of working
• driving own personal development in leadership, finance specific skills and business knowledge by implementing his / her development plan
• building and maintaining HEINEKEN and external networks to stimulate collaboration
• 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
• and any other task assigned by TL within the scope of functional responsibilities.

Our requirements

• bachelors or Master's degree in Finance or Accounting; Accounting Qualification recommended
• 8-10 years of experience in accounting and/or financial analysis & at least
• 5 years in managing people
• experience in multi-national environment and Shared Service Organisations
• fluent in English
• leadership expertise aligned with HEINEKEN leadership expectations
• mind-set and Behaviours aligned with HEINEKEN Finance Behaviours
• business Acumen, Analytical skills, decision-making skills, Change management skills.

What we offer

• Private Medical Healthcare
• performance bonus
• sodexo card
• life insurance
• referral program
• development opportunities
• local and global job opportunities within HEINEKEN
• ACCA Approved Employer
• Work from home flexibility (also after COVID)
• sharing the costs of sports activities
• integration events
• corporate sports team
• parking space for employees
• extra social benefits
• pre-paid cards
• christmas gifts
• charity initiatives
• open bar on Fridays