Vesuvius is a leader in molten metal flow engineering and technology, serving process industries that operate in challenging high temperature conditions. With over 100 years of history, we have grown to reach the level of a world leader in the production of refractory materials, and our products are considered the best in the world.

Our teams are made up of people with many years of experience, often passed down from generation to generation, and young people who are just starting their careers. From this diversity we draw the strength that sets us apart from others, and that has allowed us to keep operating for years in more than 50 locations across the world.

Our Shared Service Center in Kraków has been growing steadily for the past three years and we are now proud to say that we have over 150 colleagues on board servicing such areas as RTR, PTP, ITC and supporting the processes globally for our organization.

Workplace

Kraków (this is a hybrid role, requiring presence at the offices during the week)

As part of the RTR area, we are now looking for a talented individual to join one of our country teams as a RTR Team Leader. In this role, you will be responsible for managing a team of accountants, providing them with regular mentoring and training. Furthermore, you will be expected to support team operational activities, so prior experience working in RTR is compulsory for the position, in addition to excellent knowledge of English.

Responsibilities

• Planning and monitoring the work of the team, recruiting people and on-boarding them in their new role
• Providing regular coaching and mentoring to team members, conducting regular 1-2-1 meetings and sharing feedback with team members on their performance and development
• Reviewing the team’s performance in terms of RTR accounting and reporting processes, setting up individual and team goals, and preparing development plans
• Preparing, monitoring and analysing SLA/KPI reports with root cause analyses, and ensuring compliance with internal controls (diligently and on time)
• Ensuring the timely and accurate posting of general ledger journal entries (reviewing and approving them as well) and other accounting activities
• Performing the more complex activities, reports, and analyses within the team, identifying mistakes and taking necessary actions to correct and avoid them. Identifying risks and preventing them, or proposing mitigation actions
• Providing operational support to team members, acting as the SME for the tasks of individual team members and stepping in if needed
• Acting as the escalation point for difficult queries, anticipating issues and proactively resolving the most complicated cases
• Proactively building relationships with Operations Finance and other external stakeholder (e.g. auditors)
• Creating a continuous improvement environment, leading and participating in complex saving and quality Improvement projects, cross-towers, cross-Operations Finance etc.

Requirements

• Prior experience in the RTR/GL area, ideally from an accountancy firm or a SSC/BPO environment
• Proven experience managing a team
• Experience in project and change management
• Experience working with large / complex datasets to run analyses and create reports
• Good organisational skills, ability to plan, set priorities and work under time pressure to meet deadlines while keeping ‘an eye’ for the details
• Good knowledge of English (min. C1 level)
• SAP knowledge - preferred

What we offer

• Attractive compensation
• Private medical health care
• Lunch card
• Home office possibilities
• Internal referral program
• International work environment
• Creative atmosphere and great people.

Seniority level

Mid-Senior level

Employment type

Full-time

Job function

Finance and Accounting/Auditing

Industries

Manufacturing