Join us at Wavin: Where purpose comes to life.

You’re purpose driven. Growth minded. Ready to stretch your potential. Welcome to Wavin – an Orbia business where our purpose to advance life around the world drives our entire global team.

 

Every day, we are thinking big and working smart to solve some of the toughest challenges impacting our world. Whether it’s facilitating clean drinking water for communities, creating climate resilient cities, or designing more comfortable living spaces, we never settle for “good enough” when there’s an opportunity to make life better.

Where purpose comes to life, it changes lives. This is what we live for. How about you?

 

At Wavin, we advance life around the world by building healthy, sustainable environments. And where is our help most needed? The very places we live in: our cities where drinking water is leaking away, greenery is disappearing, streets are flooding after heavy rain, and outdated sewer systems are polluting our groundwater. It’s time to join forces with us, join our team, and help build more sustainable environments! 

 

We want to build a team of people with purpose. That’s why Wavin is currently looking for a Global Manager Accounting & Reporting to join our team at Poznan, Poland. If you want to make a difference and work for a purpose-led company, please read on.

 

This role plays a crucial part in proactively identifying and mitigating risks, ensuring the safeguarding of the company's license to operate across all business operations. Global Manager Accounting & Reporting is essential to strengthen our ability to manage risks effectively and maintain compliance in a diverse operational environments.

 

This role has global scope.

 

Key responsibilities

• ​​​Deliver strong accounting expertise, including International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS).

• Oversight of global monthly closing process (within SAP and the group consolidation tool), provide guidelines relevant for all local teams (InterCompany / Company bonuses /etc.), and identify areas for improvement.

• Responsible for the adoption of the Accounting Manual and provide guidance to local territories on adoption.

• Drive quarterly certification process.

• Involved in complex business transactions and accounting treatment.

• Analytical review of the balance sheet and Income Statement, with focus on high-risk assets and liabilities and compliance to accounting principles

• Implement, drive, plan and animate the semi-annual balance sheet reviews process by local accounting teams.

• Monitor and prepare overview of Risk & Opportunities for closing process.

• Perform and co-lead purchase price allocations (PPA) and impairment testing.

• Support statutory process of territories where we operate.

• Liaison with Orbia Corporate Finance team.

• Support the global tax accounting activities and review of deferred taxes.

• Support implementation sustainability reporting in line with Europe Taxonomy / Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD).

• Manage external financial audit, audit fees, coordinate and oversee local statutory audits.

• Monitor and ensure mitigation of Internal & external audit findings with focus on reliable financial reporting and year-end procedures.

• Support effectiveness of internal controls around financial reporting

• Ad-hoc “Financial reviews” in local teams to understand financial controls and risks

Our requirement 

• Bachelor’s degree in business economics / Finance & Accounting or similar with 8+ years of experience obtained as an external auditor or similar type of role at a multinational company 

• Experience working in a global organisation with a Finance shared services is a preferred

• Certified public accountant (Register Accountant) qualification is a pre

 

Knowledge required

•  Expert knowlegde of IFRS (or US GAAP) accounting principles, ability to translate changes into accounting practices 

• Expert knowledge about consolidation & reporting and related topics

• Strong knowledge on financial control processes, record to report, tax, and other related matters 

• Strong knowledge about Internal controls especially on closing cycle/Reporting related controls

• Knowledge about transactional system SAP

• Good analytical skills and knowledge about Microsoft BI (Business Intelligence) & reporting solutions

• Experience with Purchase Price accounti