Strategic Accounting & Reporting Leader

The HEINEKEN Company; Kraków; On-site; PLN 230,000 - 370,000; Full time

Job summary

HEINEKEN Kraków is seeking an experienced finance leader to drive strategy, budgeting, and financial reporting for the OpCos within scope. You will partner with stakeholders, optimize processes, and lead a multi-disciplined finance team to ensure robust internal controls and continuous improvement.

The role requires extensive experience in accounting, strong English communication, and the ability to manage budgets and collaborate with Group Reporting on standardisation and policies.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s 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.
• 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; knowledge of additional european languages will be considered an asset.

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.
• 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.

Skills

Stakeholder management

Communication

Team leadership

Change management

Financial analysis

IFRS knowledge

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s in Finance/Accounting

ACCA/CIMA or equivalent

Job description

HEINEKEN Kraków is seeking an experienced finance leader to drive strategy, budgeting, and financial reporting for the OpCos within scope. You will partner with stakeholders, optimize processes, and lead a multi-disciplined finance team to ensure robust internal controls and continuous improvement.

The role requires extensive experience in accounting, strong English communication, and the ability to manage budgets and collaborate with Group Reporting on standardisation and policies.