In HEINEKEN Kraków (HEINEKEN Global Shared Services) our success absolutely depends on the great people who work with us. We are looking for Finance & Accounting professionals, ready to „WOW” the world by 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, Support functions.

HEINEKEN is a proud independent global brewer, committed to surprise and excite consumers with its brands and products everywhere. The brand that bears the founder's family name - Heineken® - is available in almost every country around the globe and is the world's most valuable international premium beer brand. Our company is present in over 70 countries, operates more than 160 breweries and markets more than 250 brands.

HEINEKEN Krakow is the most Vibrant Workplace – Poland in the Central and Eastern Europe Business Services Awards 2020!

Your responsibilities would include:

As ​Business Leader: 

• Understands and be able to communicate company strategy to team and individuals
• Monitors and reviews high level PtP main KPI’s driving action-based proposals to PMs & OpCos on improvements with purpose to continuously align as-is processes to the standard and best practices collaborating with Process Analysts, Process Specialists and GPO Process Experts
• Takes ownership for Supplier Channel digitalization (analysis, top opportunities and implementation) together with GPO team as well as Supplier Finance program in HEINEKEN
• Ensures complete and up to date process documentation and standards for analysis produced
• Actively drives operational meetings to discuss performance, issues & collaboration between HGSS and OpCo stakeholders – predominantly focused on area of Maintenance & Reporting, as well as supports meeting on end to end improvements
• Prepares and participates in business visits as per the agreed plan with SM
• Fosters business partnership with OpCos (mainly Finance and Procurement)
• Owns and effectively manage your team’s budget (over-time, travels, rewards & recognition, unused holidays, band mix)
• Acts as the escalation point for the most complex queries and the OpCo stakeholders (A&RMs, PSMs)
• Being familiar with new processes and solutions for finance in order to ember in the team’s work

As People Leader 

• Is a role model and ensures people leadership standards 
• Plans resources for the team, recruit right people
• Plans individual’s and team tasks over time
• Maintains both the team climate and motivation of your team members at a high level
• Provides ongoing, regular 1-2-1 feedback to team members on their performance and development
• Handles underperformance timely and effectively and recognize good performance and reward best people
• Plans succession, develop best people in the pipeline for leaders or experts
• Sets SMART individual objectives linked to the HEINEKEN Global and HEINEKEN Krakow strategy
• Breaks the communication silos and foster team collaboration
• Effectively manages changes in the team and creates flexible mindset across whole team

You are a good Candidate if:

• You have at least 5 years of experience in process and 2-3 years of leadership experience
• You have strong leadership skills and working with experienced individuals
• You have proven record of managing improvement projects
• You have: Theoretical and practical knowledge of project methodology (LSS), nice to have (P3M, Agile)
• You have strong improvement, analytical and digital skills, certifications (LSS green belt is a strong asset)
• You have ability to manage challenging stakeholders’ relationships in dynamic and complex process environment
• You have excellent communication and presentation skills
• You have experience with digital and analytical competencies e.g RPA, Data Warehouses – which process can be automated, benchmark, reporting – e.g. experience with automation or data warehouse tools