For one of our Scandinavian Clients, a global and fast-growing Shared Service Center located in Gdańsk, we are looking for candidates who have experience in managing a team and RTR/GL processes and want to develop their skills in an international environment.

• Hybrid work and location in the centre of Gdańsk

Main purpose of the position:

For our Global Finance Service Centre based in Gdańsk, we are looking for an experienced RTR Team Lead who will provide front office transactional RTR services, focusing on recording costs, analyzing cashbook entries and reconciling key control accounts.

Facilitating delivery of month end close activity, with subsequent query handling.

Maintaining the integrity of the general ledger through the promotion of best practice.

What you’ll do:

• Ensure the completeness, accuracy and relevance of financial data/information for decision making purposes

• To ensure that costs are correctly allocated to business units, calculating and posting accruals, as appropriate

• To ensure that cashbook entries are posted, investigating and resolving unknown items

• To prepare month end reconciliations, ensuring resolution of reconciling items

• To provide front office query handling to business finance colleagues

• To prepare analysis of cost/balance sheet data to support business units

• Provide financial reporting and analysis to relevant finance and business stakeholders

• To reconcile, review and monitor volumes of open transactions in core systems (e.g. Coupa, Navision/SAP)

• To prepare, update and review operating procedure documentation

• Assist management to facilitate continuous process improvement and ensure tight cost control, supporting Lean initiatives and maintaining integrity of systems and data

• To perform root cause analysis of items where issues are found within existing processes

• To adhere to group accounting policies and procedures

• Assist, where required, on various projects relating to analysis, reporting, and process improvement

• Participate as required as a team member in other special projects

• To manage, mentor, support, oversee and performance-manage team members

• To carry out any other ad hoc duties, as and when required

Professional skills you possess:

• University Degree is desirable

• Experience in Record to Report/GL experience is essential

• Part Qualified Accounting Qualification: ACCA, ACA, CIMA is preferable

• Experience in a similar role within a multi-site business or Finance Shared Service Centre

• Experience/knowledge of Navision is preferable

• Customer focused and target driven

• Forward thinking, with a ‘can do’ attitude

• Strong analytical and communication skills

• Ability to work independently and as part of a team, to tight deadlines

• Ability to understand the detail behind processes

• Ability to build relationships with key stakeholders

• Good level of IT skills, including intermediate/advanced MS Excel

Personal skills you excel in:

• A high level of focus on the achievement of targeted results

• A high level of flexibility and a positive attitude to innovation and change

• Proven track in managing a team including motivation and development

What we offer:

• Opportunity for professional development in the finance department

• The real opportunity for advancement

• Scandinavian work culture and positive working atmosphere

• Impact on the development of the office and the growing team

• Work-life-balance, numerous events and initiatives for employees

• Benefits: health care package, multisport, insurance, Easter and Christmas bonus, numerous events in the office, my benefit points, barista station in the office

• Hybrid work and location in the center of Gdańsk