Welcome to Global Shared Services in Gdansk

Arla is a global farmer-owned organisation that is behind many well-known and loved brands, including Arla Apetina®, Castello®, Lurpak® and many, many more.

As a Trainee in Cash Management department you become a part of our Global Shared Services in Gdansk. Here, you won’t find factory machines or farmers. Instead, you will join over 400 colleagues dedicated to supporting all of Arla with IT, HR, financial and procurement operations. Joining us, you will take part in our mission to make a real difference for colleagues near and far.

With over 10 years of existence in Gdansk, we offer you a lot of knowledge and the opportunity to partake in challenging and exciting innovation projects. As a part of the Arla organisation, you will also enjoy a Scandinavian, collaborative work culture. We are all on first name terms with each other, and we truly appreciate diversity and individuality.

About the job

Join our Cash Management department to be a part of Payment & Allocation or Internal Bank Team specialising in executing and allocating payments, providing banking services to Arla entities world-wide, performing bookkeeping and reporting. As a trainee, you will have an opportunity to get acquainted with advanced banking solutions, accounting principles and  become a member of passionate and experienced team.

Specifically, you will:

• Instruct, verify and execute various payments
• Monitor and post internal and external bank statements
• Allocate incoming and outgoing payments
• Reconcile G/L, customer and vendor accounts
• Calculate KPIs and prepare monthly dashboards
• Reconcile and post financial transactions
• Secure Internal Controls compliance
• Co-operate with GSS operational teams and local business
• Other responsibilities as assigned by TL

Who are you?

You work in a structured way, delivering to a high quality and are always oriented towards finding the best solutions. You have strong analytical skills, attention to details, and it is natural for you to take responsibility. You are not afraid of working with high value transactions and have ability to work accurately within tight deadlines. Teamwork across borders comes naturally to you and you enjoy learning and developing skills while sharing your knowledge and experience with other team members.

Furthermore, you have:

• Academic background (or in progress) in Accounting/ Finance/Mathematics or similar area  
• Knowledge of MS Office
• Customer orientation
• High interpersonal and communication skills
• Flexibility and being open to change
• Fluency in English
• Positive attitude and engagement

What do we offer?

• Work in an international team & matrix structure
• Friendly atmosphere & comfortable work place (Neptun office in Gdańsk Wrzeszcz)
• Professional induction in a new position
• Chill out rooms with Xbox and the best coffee in the building

Application and contact

If you want to drive innovation and help your colleagues worldwide, then seize this exciting opportunity.

COVID-19 Notice:

We are busy producing dairy products so we can continue #fillingtheshelves and #feedingthenation. Recruiting talent to Arla thus stays one of our top priorities also during these difficult times. Necessity is the mother of invention, so we have moved to virtual hiring and onboarding processes so we enable candidates and our recruitment teams to get close while respecting social distancing. If at the final stages of a recruitment, a candidate would prefer to meet in person, we take all the necessary precautions to ensure everyone's safety.

Read more about Arla Global Shared Services

Global Shared Services consists of multiple functions that are all placed in the Neptun building in Gdansk – with colourful offices and a beautiful sea view.

As of now, we have an IT Operations and an IT Solutions division dedicated to SAP as well as a variety of app development and implementation projects. Our procurement and finance functions support a wide array of processes such as purchasing, distribution and sales globally.

We also have a dedicated HR operations division to ensure we attract, develop and retain the very best of talent around the world.

Together, we are all dedicated to one collective mission: ensuring an optimal global supply of fresh Arla products – every single day.