Finance Specialist Poland
tesa
If you are passionate about finance governance and enjoy working across functions, countries, and cultures, we would love to hear from you. Join our European Finance team and become a trusted partner in ensuring compliance, managing audits, and strengthening financial processes. **Key responsibilities &**Position content**: Ensure end-to-end finance compliance for assigned affiliates by coordinating statutory, tax, audit, and internal control activities in close collaboration with SSC, external providers, and internal stakeholders. **Finance Compliance & Statutory Oversight** - Provide input and coordinate with the external service provider to ensure finance compliance for assigned affiliates and the delivery of financial statements, while ensuring accuracy and adherence to regulations and internal guidelines **Audit Management** - Lead internal and external audits for assigned affiliates, including planning audit activities, coordinating SSC, external auditors, and internal stakeholders, and ensuring complete and timely audit evidence - Track audit findings, drive remediation actions, and escalate unresolved issues as needed **Tax Compliance** - Coordinate tax compliance activities for assigned affiliates with external providers, ensuring timely and accurate submissions across applicable tax areas (e.g. VAT, CIT, deferred tax, withholding tax, and local statutory reporting obligations) and supporting tax audits **Internal Controls, Service Quality & Continuous Improvement** - Collaborate closely with SSC in order to ensure proper accounting - Monitor SSC service delivery quality (STP, RTR) for assigned affiliates and resolve or escalate issues as needed - Monitor assigned KPIs, identify issues or bottlenecks, and drive improvement actions to strengthen finance compliance - Execute internal compliance activities for assigned affiliates, including Local Risk Assessments, Risk Control Matrixes, ensure Annual Compliance Reporting - Serve as the first point of contact for Group compliance policies (e.g. Anti-corruption, Antitrust), and participating in corporate compliance calls **Stakeholder Collaboration** - Collaborate with regional finance teams (e.g. Finance Excellence, Controlling, Credit Management) and business stakeholders to ensure end-to-end finance compliance across assigned affiliates. Scope: multi-country We offer a 6‑month fixed-term contract. We are looking for a proactive colleague open to work in a hybrid model: 60% office presence at our Poznań office and 40% home office. Capabilities (education, years of experience, specific soft & hard skills): - University degree in Finance, Accounting, Business, Economics, or equivalent - 5+ years relevant experience in Finance and Accounting, preferably in compliance, tax, governance, or audit - Strong understanding of finance processes and internal controls (STP, RTR) - Strong knowledge of tax compliance requirements (e.g. VAT, CIT, deferred tax, withholding tax, etc.) and local statutory reporting obligations - Experience with leading internal and external audits (planning, evidence preparation, remediation follow-up) - Strong finance background with ability to understand process interdependencies and implications for tax, reporting, and controls. - Self-confident and proactive, with strong communication and influencing skills to lead audit activities and coordinate compliance delivery across multiple stakeholders - Strong ability to influence stakeholders remotely and drive compliance execution across multiple affiliates, countries, and stakeholder groups; experienced in working in a fully remote environment - Strong stakeholder management, collaboration, problem-solving, and remote coordination skills - Continuous improvement mindset — monitor KPIs, identify issues/bottlenecks, and initiate improvement actions - Experience with SSC (Service Share Center) and external providers (tax/audit) is an advantage - Analytical, structured, high attention to detail - Knowledge of SAP FI - Native or fluent Polish and fluent written and spoken English - Willingness to occasionally travel
