Job Description

In this role you have the opportunity to shape the business and create value of the company by being a crucial stakeholder in driving profitable growth, creating new business models, with a particular oversight to CEE. The role is challenging, exciting, and rewarding. The ideal candidate will have leadership capabilities, passion for finance and commercial acumen, a track record of great result delivery and continues eager to improve.

You are a part of CEE Finance team reporting to Head of Finance and covering CEE/19 countries. Our focus is to be engaged in a finance team which drives the company performance, growth, and environment of financial compliance.

You will work closely with sales, business, and supply chain departments as well as internal control and accounting operations teams.

Your role:

• Provide quality financial support to the business, proactively advising Management Teams to achieve financial and business goals.
• Shape Profit and Loss (P&L) and all financial KPIs, overall cost management.
• Maintain ROI mindset in organization.
• Oversee the financial forecasting processes for multiple districts, ensuring that financial plans are robust, data-driven, and aligned with the company’s strategic objectives.
• Drive the financial performance of the CEE Zone by monitoring the key financial metrics, identifying trends, and working with senior sales leaders to develop and implement corrective actions when needed to meet or exceed financial targets.
• Lead initiatives to improve financial processes, systems, and tools across the organization, fostering a culture of continuous improvement and leveraging technology to enhance financial planning and reporting.
• Actively participate in the weekly performance review meetings.
• Provide variance analysis and articulate business financial results and plans.
• Manage customers’ credit limits in cooperation with credit experts. Supporting cash collectors in critical cases.
• Perform and prepare ad hoc business analysis.
• Close the books at the end of the month in cooperation with Philips Accounting Operations.
• Be a single point of contact for District leaders and to act as Business Partner in the leadership team to bring a different perspective, a financial, data-based decision process.
• Highlight and mitigate risks in the district through conscientious consideration and practice of policies, and procedures, supervising and executing internal control standards.

You're the right fit if:

• Master Degree in Business or Finance, Economics, Business Administration, Accounting or equivalent.
• Minimum 5 years of relevant experience in Finance, in areas such as Business Partnering, Corporate Finance, Financial Planning and Analysis or equivalent in multinational companies.
• Ability to understand and explain impact of developments on business results and ability to translate into financial consequences.
• Strong customer-facing communication skills with the ability to manage stakeholder expectations, navigate challenging conversations with resilience, and maintain a solution-oriented approach while delivering high levels of customer satisfaction.
• Results oriented: take personal accountability to deliver results.
• Deep understanding of the global business environment and end-user insight.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills, able to build bridges between people and influence business decisions.
• Solid analytical, Accounting and Internal Controls knowledge.
• Hands on, pro-active, solution driven attitude.
• Experience with management accounting, business acumen.
• Experience with month-end/year end close process and financial reporting.
• Strong analytic and Microsoft office skills; Experience with SAP, Power Bi; ACCA certification would be an asset.
• Fluent in Polish and English both oral and written form (minimum C1 level)

Compensation & benefits

Doing meaningful work should come with fair, transparent rewards. The base annual salary range for this role is PLN 234,500 – PLN 388,500. 

We determine pay within the range using objective factors, like the skills the role requires, your relevant experience and the responsibility you'll have in this role, alongside internal equity and local market considerations. 

This role is eligible for sales incentive, with your rewards linked to your commercial KPI’s. We’ll share the full approach with you during the interview process, so you can make a clear, informed decision. Benefits include flexible/hybrid working, paid time-off, health and wellbeing benefits, diversity & inclusion initiatives and learning and development opportunities. 

How we work together

We believe that we are better together than apart. For our office-based teams, this means working in-person at least 3 days per week. Onsite roles require full-time presence in the company’s facilities. Field roles are most effectively done outside of the company’s main facilities, generally at the customers’ or suppliers’ locations.

This is an office-based role.