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Anna Kowalczyk

Bishop's Stortford

Summary

Finance professional experienced in financial accounting and reporting, internal controls assessment and advisory, audit, processes and systems migration, process improvements, change management, project management. Many years' experience in multinational organizations.

Experienced team manager, with strong interpersonal and people management skills, with the ability to work in an inclusive way providing suggestions that lead to ensure future growth of the organization.

Overview

20
20
years of professional experience
4018
4018
years of post-secondary education
1
1
Certification

Work History

Accounting Manager

DISPLAYLINK UK Ltd, Synaptics Inc
Cambridge
11.2021 - Current
  • Project work:
  • Migrating Banking operations
  • Conducting review for reclaim of corporate income taxes (R&D tax credit claims preparation)
  • Audits
  • Migrating payroll (from local systems to ADP) and accounting system and ERP (from Sage to Oracle)
  • Daily job:
  • Managing UK, Poland, Germany, France and Switzerland accounts and team
  • Maintenance of primary and secondary ledgers under US GAAP and Local GAAP
  • Ensuring Group processes are consistently implemented and applied
  • Ownership of monthly close process for both ledgers including provision of reconciliation files in a timely manner
  • Ensuring timely statutory and tax filings including payroll related filings, VAT returns
  • Oversight of payroll and related tasks
  • Coordinating relations with external and internal auditors and providing support
  • Managing employees including recruitment, performance management and career development

General Ledger Accountant

ARROW Electronics UK Ltd
Harlow
03.2019 - 10.2021
  • Controlling and managing the accuracy of the General Ledger for the UK legal entity
  • Completing all relevant month end financial close procedures including necessary accruals and prepayments activities
  • Preparing and being responsible for all necessary internal reporting required within Europe and to US head office
  • Carrying out balance sheet reconciliations
  • Carrying out relevant Sarbanes Oxley controls
  • Statutory accounting
  • VAT monitoring and submitting VAT returns, Intrastat and EC Sales lists
  • Managing fixed assets register
  • Preparing any necessary variance analysis for all the above
  • Assisting with audits and liaising with auditors
  • Ensuring compliance with applicable Corporate Policies and Procedures
  • Liaising with all necessary finance departments and teams to resolve any items requiring resolution
  • Involvement in developing new/efficient processes/procedures within the accounting team

Supplier Accounting Team Leader

ARROW Services Sp. z o.o
Gdansk, Poland
11.2017 - 03.2019
  • Working in a multicultural environment and providing a service to European internal customers and worldwide suppliers
  • Supporting SC Manager in reporting statistics to suppliers and asset/marketing /finance
  • Resolving inventory queries and adjust average unit cost
  • Managing a team of ten and overlook ageing for supplier claims and supplier returns
  • Dealing with staff issues (sickness leave, holiday leave, performance issues, lateness, motivation
  • Raising debit memos
  • Investigating margin and pricing issues
  • GL reconciliation
  • Investigating of bill backs for goods returned and pricing
  • Sending ship & debit and price protection claims to the suppliers (excel, EDI or other means, weekly or monthly)
  • Handling rejected claims
  • Recording credit notes related to claims including ensuring all credit notes are correctly accounted for in relation to VAT
  • Communication with relevant departments in case of expired or incorrect quotes and discrepancies between claims in our system and the credit notes received from the supplier
  • Chasing suppliers for missing credit notes
  • Supporting the supplier and asset/marketing teams in case of audit

Team Leader Accounts Payable

DNV GL Poland Sp z.o.o
Gdynia, Poland
01.2017 - 10.2017
  • Managing transitions of AP and Travel & Expenses processes from Norway and Germany, stabilization afterwards
  • Leading team of 12 accountants
  • Motivating, coaching, assessing team members, leading by example
  • Scheduling daily tasks for the team, prioritizing
  • Positive drive sharing
  • Stakeholders management
  • Resolving issues escalated from the team members
  • Sharing proactive, continuous improvement approach
  • Quality assurance in accordance to KPI's

Accounting Controller

JYSK NORDIC Shared Finance Centre
Gdansk
03.2016 - 12.2016
  • Responsible for transition of all accounting processes for JYSK AB (Sweden) from SFC Denmark to SFC Poland
  • Monitoring progress during transition, risk and change assessment
  • Stabilization and improvement coordinator after transition
  • Responsibility for accounting team after transition (Chief Accountant role for JYSK AB)
  • Preparing monthly financial statements for JYSK AB
  • Controlling and explaining deviations between the budgeted and the actual costs
  • VAT reconciliation and reporting, including payments
  • Responsible for fixed assets journal, review of P&L accounts for investments that should be activated
  • Balance sheet reconciliation
  • Intrastat reporting and statistical reporting
  • Corporate tax calculating
  • Intercompany reconciliation and payments

Junior to Senior Accountant

Arla Global Financial Services Centre Sp. z o.o
Gdansk, Poland
12.2008 - 02.2016
  • Department
  • Single Point of Contact for Internal Control Department and external auditors
  • Identifying and controlling risks in the whole process
  • Verifying and posting invoices from vendors
  • Processing payment runs to vendors
  • Handling rejected and returned payments -providing trainings for AP
  • Posting AP journals
  • Handling manual payments and postings
  • Preparing data to INTRASTAT
  • Coordinating reconciliation process with Arla's critical vendors (also providing trainings for team
  • Members)
  • Preparing Intercompany Reconciliation
  • Participating in projects concerning financial processes, process optimization and standardization
  • Creating and improving tools in MS Excel searching for double postings/payments, posting mistakes, VAT control
  • Improving quality and work efficiency by providing trainings, etc
  • Generating various reports for AP Department
  • Creating and updating documentation

Service Manager Assistant

Kurt König Polska Sp. z o.o
Gdansk, Poland
02.2008 - 11.2008

Sales Service Administration Specialist

General Logistics Systems Poland Sp. z o.o
Gdansk, Poland
11.2006 - 01.2008

Sales Service

Monte -Visto Export Import
Koszalin, Poland
02.2005 - 10.2006

Education

Advanced Diploma in Management Accounting -

CIMA

Master of Business and Administration - Strategic Management, Program and Project Management

Gdansk University of Technology
Gdansk, Poland
11.2009 - 11.2011

Postgraduate Diploma - Finance and Accounting

University of Gdansk
Gdansk, Poland

Master's Degree - Economics

University of Gdansk
Gdansk, Poland

Skills

  • SOFTWARE AX Dynamics
  • Sage, Oracle, SAP FI/CO, Navision, Lotus Notes, BI
  • CITRIX Neighbourhood, MS SharePoint, MS Project, advanced MS Excel, basic VBA
  • Financial auditing
  • VAT returns
  • Quarterly reviews
  • Account reconciliation
  • Financial analysis
  • Corporate finance
  • Employee management
  • ERP software
  • Year-end accounts preparation
  • General ledger accounting expertise
  • Bank account reconciliations
  • Generally Accepted Accounting Principles

Certification

Stepping into Leadership training - DNV GL 07.2017

Change Management Course - CRM S.A. 06.2011

Leadership -Practical Leadership and Managerial Efficiency Course ICAN Institute 04.2010

VBA Basics course - Arla 05.2011

Interests

INTERESTS , CrossFit, long-distance running, horse riding, baking

Languages

Polish
Native
English
Fluent
German
Beginner
Spanish
Beginner

Timeline

Accounting Manager

DISPLAYLINK UK Ltd, Synaptics Inc
11.2021 - Current

General Ledger Accountant

ARROW Electronics UK Ltd
03.2019 - 10.2021

Supplier Accounting Team Leader

ARROW Services Sp. z o.o
11.2017 - 03.2019

Team Leader Accounts Payable

DNV GL Poland Sp z.o.o
01.2017 - 10.2017

Accounting Controller

JYSK NORDIC Shared Finance Centre
03.2016 - 12.2016

Master of Business and Administration - Strategic Management, Program and Project Management

Gdansk University of Technology
11.2009 - 11.2011

Junior to Senior Accountant

Arla Global Financial Services Centre Sp. z o.o
12.2008 - 02.2016

Service Manager Assistant

Kurt König Polska Sp. z o.o
02.2008 - 11.2008

Sales Service Administration Specialist

General Logistics Systems Poland Sp. z o.o
11.2006 - 01.2008

Sales Service

Monte -Visto Export Import
02.2005 - 10.2006

Advanced Diploma in Management Accounting -

CIMA

Postgraduate Diploma - Finance and Accounting

University of Gdansk

Master's Degree - Economics

University of Gdansk

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