Finance Controller

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Role Purpose

The Poland Controller serves as a senior finance leader in Warsaw, acting as the primary finance point of contact for local country leadership. It is accountable for the accuracy, completeness, and timeliness of Poland's internal and external financial reporting and compliance, governs controllership services delivered by outsourced accounting providers across Czech Republic, Romania, Slovakia, and Hungary, and leads a small Controllership team in Poland.

Key Responsibilities

Month-End Close & General Ledger Integrity

• Own the close calendar and delivery for Poland, and coordinate close activities with outsourced providers across covered CEE markets
• Review and approve judgmental and complex journal entries, topside adjustments, accruals, and payroll entries
• Perform review controls over the balance sheet and P&L (month-over-month actuals) with variance commentary

Balance Sheet Quality & Reconciliations

• Prepare and approve high-risk reconciliations; monitor reconciliation dashboards and drive resolution and clearing of aged items, in line with global reconciliation policy
• Resolve intercompany disputes and approve fixed asset transactions, including additions, retirements, disposals, and transfers

Statutory Reporting & External Audit

• Prepare and file local statutory financial statements for Poland and covered CEE markets; serve as primary contact for the external auditor, including PBC lists, planning meetings, cadence calls, and audit findings
• Post and approve audit adjustments, and review and approve final statutory statements
• Own non-SEC regulatory filings, including VAT

Internal Control, Risk & Local Compliance

• Run risk assessments, execute and document SOX and control testing, and remediate control weaknesses and audit findings
• Complete required certifications and disclosures, and ensure compliance with local statutory and regulatory requirements across Poland and covered CEE markets

Technical Accounting & Policy Application

• Apply and interpret global accounting policy locally, with particular focus on revenue recognition, and approve booking models for non-standard transactions
• Own local judgments, including AR write-off approvals, specific AR reserves, and commissions review and approval
• Own transfer pricing documentation and intercompany cost-recharge oversight across Poland and covered CEE markets, including recharges from the Poland shared-service entity, in coordination with the tax team
• Cooperate with the tax team to fulfil all tax obligations, supported by internal and third-party tax advisors

Business Partnering, Governance & Team Leadership

• Serve as the primary finance point of contact and advisor to the local CEO and management team
• Manage and develop two Controllership team members in Poland, including workload prioritization, performance management, and career development
• Serve as the governance and escalation point for outsourced controllership service providers across covered CEE markets, including SLA/KPI monitoring, quality review of deliverables, and issue resolution
• Manage the interface with FinOps/shared services on service quality and escalations
• Proactively identify and escalate accounting, reporting, or control risks emerging across covered markets to the EMEA Controller
• Own the Poland chart of accounts and reporting/data governance
• Support Global Tax information requests and acquisition integration from a controls and process perspective
• Identify opportunities to standardize and improve accounting processes across Poland and outsourced-provider markets
• Support the EMEA Controllership and FP&A teams on regional management reporting and analysis, and accounting/consolidation systems

Qualifications

• 5-7 years of relevant accounting/controllership experience, including audit experience
• ACCA or 'biegły rewident' required, or actively pursuing final-level certification
• Proven experience managing and developing team members
• Experience overseeing outsourced service providers (BPO/shared service arrangements), with the ability to hold third parties accountable to SLA and quality standards
• Strong stakeholder relationship management skills, with the credibility to influence both local business leaders and outsourced providers
• Strong organizational skills, with the discipline to manage competing deadlines and priorities across multiple markets
• Proactive communicator, with a track record of surfacing risks and challenges to leadership before they escalate
• Excellent Excel skills
• Strong sense of accountability
• Experience working in an international environment
• Fluent in English
• Ability to work independently

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