Chief Accountant / Główna(y) Księgowa(y)

Chief Accountant / Główna(y) Księgowa(y) Miejsce pracy: Gliwice Your responsibilities Lead the Finance department in Poland. Recruit, develop, and manage a regional finance and accounting team. Providing training, support, and development opportunities. Collaborate with cross-functional teams (e.g. sales, operations) to ensure alignment on information sharing, financial processes, on financial objectives, and strategies. Act as the financial liaison between region and corporate headquarters, providing regular updates on financial performance, investments, and strategic initiatives. Audit Coordination and Management. Coordinate with external auditors, providing necessary documentation and insights during audits. Address any compliance or reporting issues and implement recommendations to mitigate risks. Ensure that all financial records and processes are prepared for audit, always maintain a high standard of accuracy and compliance. Tax and Regulation Oversight. Ensure regional compliance with local tax regulations, overseeing tax returns, payments, and any other tax-related obligations. Ensure compliance with all other regulatory bodies ensuring on time submission of reports. Develop, document, implement and maintain processes to insure correct inventory valuation across all manufacturing entities. Ensure raw materials are valued at cost for all manufacturing entities. Develop policy for inventory valuation for parts which are sourced from multiple suppliers. Ensure finished goods are valued at lower of cost or market. Inventory absorption testing by process area, ensure that absorption tests are completed for all manufacturing entities. Analyze and determine the entries required to eliminate intercompany profit between entities. Work to refine costs by department and the correct coding of expenses between COGS, Processing, SG&A and R&D. Establish a method for the periodic and systematic review of standard costs. Provide support for standards changes for audit review. Represent accounting by assisting product managers and product engineers to ensure the proper setup of new products for all manufacturing entities (BOM and routing assistance). Manage daily Oracle product costing alerts. Be the single point accountable for Oracle costing support and questions (scrap, job close variations, usage variances, how to handle exceptional items, etc). Support monthly close process ensuring all Oracle generated transactions are posted, opening and closing accounting periods and execute intercompany reclass entries. Ensure JSOX testing completeness (control environment self-assessment). Validate, monitor and track standard cost changes by reason. Our requirements Degree in Finance, Accounting or related field required, Master’s degree preferred. 5-7 years’ experience with strong standard costing and General Ledger knowledge. 5-7 years’ experience in a manufacturing environment. 2-3 years' leading cross functional teams. Candidate should have excellent verbal and writing English skills (b2/c1 level). Excellent computer skills with Microsoft Office products. Detail oriented, independent, analytical, results focused, interpersonal skills. Optional Oracle experience would be a plus. CPA – preferred. What we offer Stable employment conditions based on an employment contract. Opportunity for development in the newly opened factory in Poland. Pre-paid Lunch Pass Card. Extensive private health care package paid for by AFL (employee share: 1 PLN, over 3657 medical facilities throughout Poland). Life insurance policy (paid by AFL). Group insurance - if you are interested. Subsidised sports cards (90% subsidy). Events. Practical and quality gifts. Opportunity to have a real impact on the creation and improvement of processes. Benefits sharing the costs of sports activities private medical care sharing the costs of professional training & courses life insurance integration events coffee / tea parking space for employees pre-paid cards christmas gifts employee referral program charity initiatives Employee Welcome Package This position will work under the general direction of the EMEA Finance Controller. Working collaboratively and strategically, incumbent will help to broaden and deepen the strength of the department. This new role will expand the reach of the Accounting and Finance Department to improve its processes, raise the control environment and expand its abilities to report in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles. The position will add a key voice to all policy, accounting theory and application and process improvements for the department. Application only in English Whole recruitment process is conducted in English. AFL TELECOMMUNICATIONS POLAND SPÓŁKA Z OGRANICZONĄ ODPOWIEDZIALNOŚCIĄ AFL dostarcza wiodące w branży rozwiązania, produkty i usługi światłowodowe dla energetyki, dostawców usług, przedsiębiorstw i rynków przemysłowych, a także wielu rynków wschodzących na całym świecie. Nasza firma została założona w 1984 roku z jednym kablem światłowodowym, a obecnie produkujemy ponad dwa tysiące produktów i zatrudniamy ponad 5000 pracowników. Misją AFL jest łączenie naszych klientów na całym świecie za pomocą innowacyjnych technologii, wyjątkowych produktów i wysokiej jakości usług. Wszystkie informacje o przetwarzaniu danych osobowych w tej rekrutacji znajdziesz w formularzu aplikacyjnym, po kliknięciu w przycisk "Aplikuj Teraz".

Location: Gliwice, PL

Posted Date: 3/5/2025