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The big changes in finance sector in Poland over the last 10 years are technology related
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You work as a Senior RtR Process Manager for Heineken in Kraków. What are your duties at this position? Do you see any differences at this position and in the scope of duties at different industries?
Micheal Brett, FCCA, Senior RtR Process Manager at HEINEKEN in Kraków: The Senior Process Manager role in HEINEKEN Krakow is first and foremost a people leadership role. It’s not a cliché when we say that our people are our greatest asset. We are a people organization and our focus, as best we can, is on creating a win-win situation for both company and employees. We want and need to maximise our employees’ engagement with us and the company. We also have our duty to plan and organise ourselves in order to deliver on our commitments to continuously improve the quality, compliance and efficiency of HEINEKEN’s finance processes. As senior managers of processes, we also have the very exciting opportunity to shape the future design and organisation of those processes with our partners in Head Office in Amsterdam and in our local businesses across Europe, and sometimes globally as well.
I have worked in RtR management roles in other SSCs and while there are mainly similarities, I feel in HEINEKEN, more than others, we in Krakow are encouraged to think big, take risks, challenge the status quo and to shape and transform the future. There is huge appetite in HEINEKEN to change for the better, which keeps us very busy but it’s never boring!
You moved to Poland exactly 10 years ago. Which changes in finance and accountancy have affected local businesses the most significantly in the last 10 years?
Finance and accounting itself has not changed that much in the last 10 years, I think, except maybe the requirements for what a company needs to report to remain compliant in their financials usually increase.
The big changes I see over the last 10 years, and especially in the last 2 or 3 years, are technology related. How we work, how we organise ourselves, how we communicate, how we work together, the systems we have to perform our accounting and finance processes change and improve at a tremendous rate. It brings with it many opportunities, and some new challenges. I think the pace of change can be difficult for people, and therefore companies, to cope with. So sometimes we are not able to take advantage straight away, and sometimes we make mistakes adapting and have to re-adapt again.
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