Financial Compliance Specialist - Gdańsk

Are you motivated to ensure financial compliance across all areas of a 10bn euro organization?  Are you perhaps looking at making a move away from operational work and apply your process knowledge and strong moral compass to a growing and ambitious global business?  If so, this could be your opportunity to join our Risk, Controls and Compliance (part of Arla Corporate Finance) as a Financial Compliance Specialist in our Gdansk office.

About the job
As our new Financial Compliance Specialist, you will work closely with and support other members of the team in a variety of tasks and activities to ensure the functioning and improvement of robust risk, controls and compliance systems. You can expect this position will give you a fantastic opportunity to grow, taking on more complex responsibilities as your experience develops. 

Specifically, you will:
• Support more senior members of the team in:
- Driving risk assessments of financial processes across countries with the objective of identifying risks, currently mitigating actions and need for change in our risk response.
- Ensuring risk awareness and risk mitigation is considered when processes or business models are changed or new are developed.
- Review of control activities design within specific financial processes across countries
- Partnering with process owner and other stakeholders in implementing agreed procedures and controls
- Conducting reviews / internal audits of financial processes
• Be involved in preparation of annual reports to Finance Executive Team on open observations / audit findings
• Drive continuous monitoring and follow up of the performance of minimum controls across countries

Who are you? You have:
• 2-4 years of experience from a similar position in a complex international organisation, or from big-4 consulting / auditing
• Strong knowledge within accounting, auditing, internal controls & financial compliance
• Ability and appetite for influencing overall development of global internal control framework
• Systematic approach to problem solving
• Ability to engage and influence stakeholders
• Strong interpersonal skills and strong personal impact
• Ability to navigate in a complex organisation
• Willing to travel 5-10 days/year

What do we offer ?
• Flexible working time (start your day of work between 7-9) and home office work possibility
• Relocation allowance
• Financial support of your education  
• Medical care & life insurance 
• Additional benefits like gym card, vouchers, travel points or cinema tickets, etc. 
• Scandinavian working style & no dress code 
• Home kit – monitor, laptop, keyboard, mouse, headsets, webcam
• Referral program for employees 
• Employee Assistance Program (legal, psychological, health, financial consulting, etc. ) 
• Support for your healthy lifestyle (fruit day, facility for sportsmen, sport challenges and activities, Arla active teams / sport groups) 
• Additional holiday depending on length of employment (up to 4 days) 

… while in the office you can also use some of below:  
• Modern office space with beautiful view and high standard furniture (i.e. adjustable desks) 
• Chill-out rooms with X-box, pool table, board games, football table and swing

Welcome to Global Shared Services in Gdansk

Arla is a global farmer-owned organisation behind many well-known and well-loved brands.

You will become a part of our Global Shared Services in Gdansk. You will join over 580 colleagues dedicated to supporting all of Arla. We currently have an IT Operations department and an IT Solutions department dedicated to SAP as well as a variety of app development and implementation projects. Our Procurement, Finance and Logistics departments support a wide range of processes such as purchasing, distribution and sales worldwide.

We have a dedicated HR operations department that ensures the attraction, development and retention of the best talent around the world.

Our newest department Member Relations supports our farmers in their everyday work.

With over 14 years of existence in Gdansk, we offer you a wealth of knowledge and the opportunity to participate in challenging and exciting innovation projects. As a part of the Arla organisation, you will also enjoy a Scandinavian, collaborative work culture.

We have a purpose for Good
At Arla, we strive to unlock the highest potential in each other while working together to create a sustainable future of dairy. We call it Stronger People Stronger Planet and it is deeply anchored in our organisation and founded on our commitment to respecting human rights, increasing access to healthy dairy nutrition, inspiring good food habits, and improving the environment for future generations. In order to succeed we need to hire people with a sustainable mindset. Could this be you?

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