Deputy Head of Finance & Accounting Services, Łódź

It’s an exciting time for you to join us. We’re a changing company with big ambitions and together we’ll create the future of banking.

Working with us, you will play a part in building a better bank that fulfils a meaningful role in society. We aim to help our 11 million customers around the world improve their lives and reach their goals. To do that, meeting our customers’ changing needs and offering them the best possible service is central to everything we do. Interested in coming on the journey with us?

Nordea is transforming to become more adaptive, innovative and resilient, creating value for our customers, society and our shareholders and giving all of us the opportunity to contribute, grow and enjoy throughout the journey.

In Finance & Treasury Reporting in Group Finance and Treasury our unit Finance & Accounting Services, FAS, continuously aiming at common operations and establishing an efficient delivery model. Finance and accounting services is part of the journey towards One Finance, leveraging the consolidated strength of Nordea’s financial expertise and competencies to meet future demands.

As Deputy Head of Finance & Accounting Services, you’ll will be responsible for performing accounting and closing activities to enable Nordea to deliver legal, management and regulatory financial reporting to relevant stakeholders in Nordea. You will ensure delivery of world class finance and accounting services as part of the newly formed GF&T Operations unit. You be leader of 8 team leaders with approx. 80 employees in total.

In the role as deputy Head of Finance & Accounting Services you will also participate and take ownership in all strategic and tactical issues and stakeholder management on behalf of the whole FAS organization.

What you’ll be doing:

• Ensure prudent accounting and closing of Nordea books in accordance with frameworks and policies to enable high quality financial information for internal and external stakeholders
• Deliver a strong business result and drive lean implementation and business transformation
• Engage and motivate people you work with, in order to strengthen leadership and team deliveries
• Drive efficiencies and improvements across Nordea accounting and financial reporting processes
• Communicate clearly and effectively to the entire organisation about strategy and business plans

You will be reporting to Head of Finance & Accounting Services and become a member of the FAS management team.

The role is based in Lodz, Poland.

Who you are

Collaboration. Ownership. Passion. Courage. These are the values that guide us in being at our best – and that we imagine you share with us.

In order to enjoy and succeed in the role, we believe that you have:

• Excellent understanding of banking and finance processes
• Strategic ability to see what needs to be done, both in the short and long term, with a solution-oriented mind-set
• Proven manager with excellent track record, who is motivated by developing colleagues and their capabilities
• Excellent stakeholder management
• Broad accounting and finance background
• Attention to details
• Agile mindset and professional knowledge of how to apply agile ways of working

If this sounds like you, we look forward to welcoming you to the team!

Next steps

Please submit your application no later than 29 November 2019.

At Nordea, we know that an inclusive workplace is a sustainable workplace. We deeply believe that our diverse backgrounds, experiences, characteristics and traits make us better at serving customers and communities. So please come as you are.